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This demographic? >> theres no doubt about that. i hope the president and the d.c. democrats understand that taking young peoples vote for granted and not doing all we can, we should have had a jobs program. you got young people that are desperate to work. they are coming home from wars and graduating from college with a ton of debt. we should have done more. we have to do more now. on this issue you have to applaud this white house and you have to recognize that when obama is chasing obama down...

Were the only country making it harder for our kids to get educated. you either have good manufacturing jobs or you send a bunch of kids to college. we already lost the manufacturing jobs. you got to make it easier to go to college. this guy was saying how marvelous it was that we were going to take a big chunk out of pell grants. i dont know how he can pull this flip-flop off. >> youre convinced that president obama will dominate in this demographic? >> theres no doubt about that. i hope the pr...

Where do you think he goes, now that its clear the republicans are going to keep bringing this up over and over again? >> number one, broadly, the environmental debate has become a disconnected disbait. to what carol was talking about, when your water is poisoned, drinking poisoned water and more likely to get somebody, youre somebody less likely to have good health insurance. theres a cyclical nature in the way that we talk about some of these things weve allowed to become disconnected. republi...

On this. the documents compiled by the state department doing their due diligence on the environmental aspects this of. this had been in the works for years. in fact, we were told during the summer of this past year not to do anything of trying to push the approval of the keystone pipeline because the state department was already ready to approve it and it would not be necessary for us to pass any additional law to enhance it. this is all just fabrication on the part of the press secretary i thi...

On this. the documents compiled by the state department doing their due diligence on the environmental aspects this of. this had been in the works for years. in fact, we were told during the summer of this past year not to do anything of trying to push the approval of the keystone pipeline because the state department was already ready to approve it and it would not be necessary for us to pass any additional law to enhance it. this is all just fabrication on the part of the press secretary i thi...

Martha? martha: some of those folks are happy but not everybody is happy about this i would imagine, dan? >> reporter: well, you can imagine who. the city unions. workers who are the people who represent city workers are saying that it is actually taking work away from their members and costing them money. in red land, california, they laid off 20 police officers. while they filled it real quickly with volunteers. they have almost 300 volunteer officers compared to 75 paid cops. the volunteers m...

On the wrong side of the vast majority of women, republican, democrat, independent, doesnt matter. >> former pennsylvania representative who is a republican is quoted in this piece where youre featured and she says regarding his strong message on jobs that will win women voters back on track. things in there that can be of concern for working women and working mothers. she insists the economy and his message about the economy that will rule the day. hes being painted as a culture warrior and he ...

Yeah, it is always about daddy politics. youre absolutely right. >> as the mom of a 10-year-old, its not that i am not sympathetic to the master lock for emerging adolescent daughter moments. in fact, it actually doesnt feel oppressive or anger inspiring for me in the role of him as father. but, as dorian was talking about in the last segment, the idea of president as father of the nation is a different sort of story. its one thing to sort of tease about protection of the daughter. its another t...

Concerned about it. the proposal calls for an $8 billion community jobs trading program. the jobs program will be paid for by a tax increase on millionaires, which is a political one-two. take money from the rich. whats the problem with that? the problem is we let tens of trillions of debt from systems that are transferring risk to our government from private enterprises and no one is doing anything to stop it. they are looking to either reduce spending and/or tax people to poor money into a buc...

>> im fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. thats a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. lets get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? >> you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone r...