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Four of those five proposals do not add any jobs at all. now it doesnt matter whether you think corporations should pay more or less taxes. all im saying here is that changing the tax rate does not trigger any automatic hiring. you could of course provide a conditional tax cut for companies that hire workers. there are bills like that in congress but you cant just call an open ended tax cut a jobs program. cutting federal funding for job retraining programs and asking cash strapped states to pic...

Now the parent company ener 1 filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. republican lawmakers call it the latest example of the taxpayers losing on the administrations green energy experiment. >> this is a jobs program, you know, according to the president, that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and is wasted money. in a time when we have $16 trillion in debt, over 8% unemployment. weve got to have programs that make sense. >> a year ago, the vice president was highlighting ener dell as ...

Leadership. were going to be far worse off four years from now. >> congressman, your thoughts on that? >> its fantasy. newt gingrich, like all the republicans, have no answer for anything. i think that his jobs program is prayer. his health care program is prayer. his education program is prayer. it doesnt matter what he says at his website. the fact is they think that problems solve themselves and they just dont. the way were going to get to a better america is to fight for it, and often to fig...

Despite the fact we have high unemployment, there has been a continual addition of jobs that hes had to fight for the jobs program against the republican house that has stopped his jobs program. i think he wins that debate. >> all right. joe? >> and maybe -- maybe he does, mika, but my bigger point and really jeffrey, i think touched on a few other issues that will be front and center, medicare. the ryan plan, these sort of issues, this social safety net. will mitt romney tear it up? a tax plan ...

three children and their grandparents? a cop car out of control slamming into a packed restaurant stopping only inches from a firepit and tanks of propane on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. its wednesday, december 28th. welcome to "american morning." im alina cho along with ali velshi. so glad youre with us today. >> good morning, alina. up first, remember newt gingrichs pledge to keep his campaign positive? forget about it. with six d...

Million. we came out for a jobs program and we said, look, even if it doesnt pass, were going to put it on the floor of the senate over and over and over again. >> the blueprint he outlined is paying off for americans. president obama and the republicans in congress definitely arent going to get together on everything. but a recent poll shows that americans in this country have more confidence in the president than in republicans by a margin of 19%. if you think about what we went through a year...

And now youre saying i want a bigger one, it doesnt pass the laugh test. and again, the american people sort of saw through that. so what speaker boehner said isnt right. his party, if they had been resolute for this middle-class tax cut for the last six months, maybe theyd have a leg to stand on. but they didnt. they were against it, against it, against it. >> have you -- could you point to any other time where the democrats have held together so strong on an issue? >> no. >> there was no cavin...

And now youre saying i want a bigger one, it doesnt pass the laugh test. and again, the american people sort of saw through that. so what speaker boehner said isnt right. his party, if they had been resolute for this middle-class tax cut for the last six months, maybe theyd have a leg to stand on. but they didnt. they were against it, against it, against it. >> have you -- could you point to any other time where the democrats have held together so strong on an issue? >> no. >> there was no cavin...

Malawi. she set up every bit of this from the msnbc side and the amazing partnership between msnbc and unicef which has now raised close to $3.5 million now. its up to 3.3, alex, and whatever we raise -- and this is the last time well talk about it before christmas. and whatever we raise between now and tuesday when i come back to report on it, im going to credit as the alex wagner effect, okay? whatever we pick up. >> will school children in malawi with carving my name in the desks? im just kid...

Payroll tax cut because they thought that it would help the economy too much. and now of course they said two months isnt enough. well, if two weeks ago youre saying i dont want any of it and now youre saying i want a bigger one, it doesnt pass the laugh test. and again, the american people sort of saw through that. so what speaker boehner said isnt right. his party, if they had been resolute for this middle-class tax cut for the last six months, maybe theyd have a leg to stand on. but they didn...