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The nation that we need to build and the nation that we will build is our own, and an america that sees its economic strength restored, just as weve restored our leadership around the globe. >> well, patrick, i merely thought of you today, because you were one of the people heroic enough to make the right statement on iraq from the beginning. and youre, of course, an iraq veteran who then got elected to congress. and now, of course, i assume youre concerned about the unemployment rate in pennsyl...

believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. its southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, ...

im gloria borger. john king is off today. thanks for joining us on what turns out to be a very significant day on the campaign trail. mitt romney who has been taking a rather low-key approach to his republican opponents so far today decided to take some jabs at the man whos replaced him as the official frontrunner, texas governor rick perry. and he did it in perrys home state. >> thank you. >> during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to ...

So we think those are the things that congress needs to be focussing on now. >> you think lit help those groups. ezra, you have been right being this. republicans and democrats putting out competing jobs agenda last week. you are not a big fan of them, shall i say. >> no. the house democrats and center of republicans, note house democrats are in the minority. senate republicans in the minority. only people putting out jobs agendas are those that cant do anything about it. the jobs agenda is they...

Poverty. when you look at the ryan budget and what the republicans are doing in terms of their cuts, theyre cutting the most vulnerable and neediest. they want to make medicare into a voucher program. they want to require an eligibility for food stamps that you enroll in a job training program. yet they want to cut job training programs by $4 billion. i was on food stamps, so i know what thats about. people dont want to be. they have to be just to survive and get over the hump. so what were seei...

>> i was an english professor as was my ex-husband and we had a reading. >> how did you know he had autism and how have you treated him? >> he has come amazingly far. he is a great inspiration. great musician, he is a math whiz and beginning to have some friends and he inspires me every single day with his courage. >> as we talk about the numbers. it has increased. more kids growing up and living with autism. so, what is the future like for a kid like benjamin and others like him for a successfu...

Finally, we recognize that the best welfare program is ultimately a job. so we reformed our job training programs. we consolidated the current complex maze of dozens of federal job training programs into a single program. a program that we can hold accountable. its a targeted scholarship program that is going to truly prepare our workers for a 21st century globally competitive economy. these are bold program, bold reforms but reasonable reforms to sort of things many of us campaigned on before w...

So we reformed our job training programs. we consolidated the current complex maze of dozens of federal job training programs into a single program, a program that we can hold accountable. its a targeted scholarship program that is going to truly prepare our workers for a 21st century globally competitive economy. these are bold programs, bold reforms, but theyre reasonable reforms. the sort of thing many of us campaigned on before we came here to washington. i welcome a constructive dialogue wi...

I think were on a right track right now. the tax credits that the president passed in september were tremendous. that has helped to provide an uptick in some of the unemployment figure going down. we see growth in manufacturing, in the automobile industry. >> enough to offset these kinds of job losses? >> too soon to say. were not out of the woonds. thats why we have to be very careful in how we deliberate and where we put our funds. job training programs are important for people who have been o...

Decided to do something really different and revolutionary. they said to the voters, you do it. you do the federal budget. after all, its just basic math. the americans did a way better job of reducing the deficit than the politicians did. guess what else they found? americans are totally liberal. now, they might not identify as liberals, and they might even identify themselves as republican. but most americans are united in what they value. now, let me give you the numbers and examples. these a...