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Nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires, to boot. >>shepard: republicans rejected that quickly which they say will drag down the economy. and hurt small business. we are likely to see a political stand off in congress over this. and on the campaign trail. as the president seeks to draw contrast with his republican rival, governor romney. and ed henry has the news, live at white house. ed, what is the presidents strategy? >>reporter: part of i...

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60 days, defining romneys background at bain and business and who wins this mini skirmish, if you will, preconvention and before the fall, will tell us whether romney will have the personal connection, be able to sell his background as enough to go into the oval office. >> you know, mike, there is a halo effect for a lot of business people that are running for office on certain issues. but ceos usually dont make good candidates, and a lot of times dont make good governors or presidents. do you t...

Persuadable voters that theyre trying to win over in order to make it over the top and be reelected in the fall are turned off by this type of i dont know if you want to call it class warfare or this pop lichl. they are not so much resentful of rich people of a system they feel treats them unfairly, but i think going after rich people the way the vice president did today is actually a risk when thur trying to win over swing voters. >> it is interesting. it worked for senator santorum when he tal...

I want to bring in our panel again. julian epstein and here in new york, all of us watching and listening very carefully. ron, was that class warfare as you have previously described some of the presidents speeches about tax and the buffett rule? >> i think it was. lets look at what this was. this was a brilliant campaign speech. if youre looking at the president trying to rally his base and trying to rally progressives, i think this is the beginning of his campaign. if youre looking at this as ...

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Here are some of the facts in the budget. take a look. letting the bush cuts expire for those making more than $250,000 a year. gas and coal companies, the plan also imposes a $61 billion tax over ten years on big banks to recoup costs from the bailout. >> warren buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. thats not fair. it doesnt make sense at a time when weve got to pull together to get the country moving. im proposing some difficult cuts that frankly i wouldnt normally make if they w...

Least as much as his secretary in taxes? most americans would call that common sense. >> that was president obama delivering his third state of the union address tuesday night. whether you call it class warfare or common sense democrats call the speech a home run with swing voters. his approval rate climbing toward the 50% mark. is president obama back? so, kim, what did the speech tell but what obamas election strategy is going to be? >> class warfare, class warfare, the president tried to make...

May be the case, yet, how, maybe good politics the presidents main message on this trip, that the middle class deserves a better deal certainly seems to getting a lot more political support. republicans call it class warfare and the politics of envy and the president today announced that microsoft founder bill gates signed on and he doesnt think gates envies the wealthy. >>shepard: thank you, wendell. there are new detail about the reportedly "tense" exchange between rebound and the arizona gove...