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Secretary and joins me now. great to see you. thank you very much. thanks for taking this on. this is not great news. tell me why its a step in the right direction, as the president says. >> you know, when you look back, when the president started, we lost 8.5 million jobs. now were up to in a 28-month period, 4.4 million private sector jobs. even though this number could have been better, we know we are working every single day and just look at what we have accomplished in the last few weeks, e...

Pay for it by cutting education spending and cutting job training programs. and raising middle class taxes. and i sure dont agree with his plan to keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. >> the obama campaign hopes its hard to shake for mitt romney. drew a contrast between his job creation and his own. >> governor romneys experience has been in owning companies that were called pioneers of outsourcing. thats not my phrase. pioneers of outsourcing. my experience has been in s...

Thats a classical democrat versus republican argument. >> correct. the argument is, is the money going to people in need and who can best design these programs. there is an experience with states running these programs and you had similar levels of corruption and waste. but the states are on the ground and they can better target in the opinion of mitt romney, the likely gop nominee. president obama and the federal government, the democrats are saying we had that experience, we think the federal ...

Oklahoma look at job training programs and its the same problem there as well. we do have some programs that work but most of them are initiated by citizens and states and not the federal government. >> reporter: even there is many people who believe in job training programs say there is plenty of room for improvement. >> we need to take a look at what we know that is working in our job training programs. so places where we have community-based organizations and colleges partnering with employer...

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>> today, romney goes to ohio to give a speech on the economy. itis 20 miles where president obama spoke yesterday where he laid out his argument in his 20th visit to the state of ohio as president. >> by the time you retire, medicare would have been turned into a voucher system. job training programs like this are forced to cut back. when you ask the republicans what do you say about that, obama is making this up. we didnt specify which cuts we would make. well, the reason they didnt specify it...

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...

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...

Because after a decade of war, 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 t...

Invest in things like pell grants and infrastructure and job training programs. >> i want to reiterate this. so often the tax debate gets framed as class warfare. this young ladys mom whos been working in food services she doesnt have a lot of room to spare. those of us who have been fortunate, we do. >> mayor not a lot of people think face time with the president to raise my taxes. what is your take on the accusation that the president is conducting class warfare by asking millionaires and bill...