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>> joining me is ben cardin of maryland. >> its a pleasure. >> you were with the president yesterday. do you think this is the best a, taking it out to the people and using his pen? >> i think the president has a responsibility to explain his program for the american people and hes doing just that. it started with the state of the union address, he came to maryland yesterday in pennsylvania, and today hes traveling to other places. i think this is the right thing for hem to do, to explain how hi...

Mr. obama called for restoring benefits for the long-term unemployed, expanding job training programs. and he directed the treasury to help american workers create retirement savings accounts. congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers, the highest ranking republican woman, gave her partys response. >> tonight the president made more promises that sound good. but wont actually solve the problems facing americans. >> reporter: president obama said last night he is committed to making washington work bet...

And that is why i firmly believe, its time to give america a raise. >> reporter: and the presidents campaign style swing through the american heartland does not stop today. hell be heading off to wisconsin tomorrow to talk about job training programs, a reforming of job training programs, that hes put vice president joe biden in charge of. then on to nashville, tennessee, after that to talk about upgrading schools. carol, he is very much in campaign style mode right now, trying to sell that stat...

Advancerely on expanding opportunities, making sure that hard work and responsibility is rewarded and opportunity is expanded. >> the white house signalled he is willing to go alone and take unilateral action on issues related to the economy, environment and healthcare if he cant get congress to go along. you see pictures of the president working on his speech in the oval office yesterday. some republican em ins of congress say this shows a degree of quote lawlessness by the president. >> it cer...

Uranium plants. he did propose spending less overall than john f. kennedy ever had as president. but, you know, the smallness of the size of his budget proposal that year was not for a lack of ambition for what lbj wanted to do. that war on poverty that he declared 50 years ago tomorrow was not just a declared war, it was actually a fought war. as part of the ambitious activist government of lbj and the great society era. that congress that he addressed 50 years ago this week and the next congre...

Hold for the vote. >> in a political season its a tricky thing because some constituents will say good, for you, others might say, im hungry. >> thats right, and theres no question about it. were entering this political season, were entering into an election year, and so some democrats are warning people that are against this, we are going to use this against you when you come up on the ballot this years. some runs said were in a recovery, may not be a great recovery, but when do we start scalin...

Emergency spending. its foolishness. we have people that are desperate. theyve been out of work for some as much as two years. we have reduced the debt by $3 trillion. lets start helping the middle class. >> lets take a live look at the senate floor, where they are just gaveling back into session after the holiday break. some argue against extending unemployment benefits because this is technically the 55th month of the economic recovery. they argue the emergency is over. others want to see job ...

Boon. instead, weve had stagnation. thats one reason why the reagan economy is different than the stagnation. >> instead of spending $25 billion a year for benefits, can that money be used to rehabilitate the labor market and create jobs? >> yes, in theory it can. the government has, i think, 169 different job training programs. but the government isnt necessarily a good job trainer. it cant duplicate the needs. the best jobs program is giving economies the incentive and the certainty in the eco...

And unless we start addressing this, unless we start changing the conversation and talk about how were going to invest in our future, invest in our children, send them to school with food in bellies so they can learn, and were talking about getting people job training programs so they can get back to work. >> how about more employment? theres a graph recovery and theres this little part of the graph where the recovery, the jobs recovery ticks up very dramatically and its the census hiring and it...

Who are food insecure, this is just a canary in the coal mine. this suggests that there are a lot of other problems right now and things that we need to address. and unless we start addressing this, unless we start changing the conversation and talk about how were going to invest in our future, invest in our children, send them to school with food in bellies so they can learn, and were talking about getting people job training programs so they can get back to work. >> how about more employment? ...