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Everyones priorities here in congress. he understands we have to do something about this economy and turn it around. people are desperate. the president gets it. hes worked on many, many initiatives. >> did the president make any specific promises to you, any specific promises to you? >> the president indicated hes supporting a comprehensive jobs paneling, supports summer youth jobs program. were trying to get $1.3 billion for that. he supports workforce training, apprenticeship training, expans...

About the uncertainty facing schools and possible solutions. jeannie is president of the center for education reform. good to see you. >> good morning, fredricka. >> well, is this appropriate or extreme when we talk about closing half of the public schools in a district? >> it is one of the best things we could be doing for kids in our country today. >> why? >> for far too long we have tolerated not just mediocrity but failure and the superintendent in kansas city like so many around the country...

Angeles school district spent ten years trying to fire seven teachers for poor performance, it was successful in only four of the cases. >> paul: wow, so if a teacher, if the school closes, bill. >> right. >> paul: the teacher is out of work and goes back into the pool of teachers, the principal at another school in a big system like l.a. or new york, has the ability to say, to hire them at the schools, but if the principals dont want them and some of these teachers have reputations for not bein...

Almost impossible to fire them. in los angeles they tried 10 years successful in only four cases. >> paul: the teacher out of work goes back into the pool of teachers, in another school like l.a. or new york has the ability to hire them. if the principals dont want them age some of these teachers have reputations for not being competent they sit there, but they still get paid. >> the public school system we have in the big cities not a schools system it is a lifetime jobs program. jason mentione...

Angeles school district spent ten years trying to fire seven teachers for poor performance, it was successful in only four of the cases. >> paul: wow, so if a teacher, if the school closes, bill. >> right. >> paul: the teacher is out of work and goes back into the pool of teachers, the principal at another school in a big system like l.a. or new york, has the ability to say, to hire them at the schools, but if the principals dont want them and some of these teachers have reputations for not bein...

Three million dollars, what do you think? >> greta, i was in appleton, a month ago where it sews hometown of greta van says. >> greta: it does not. >> appleton has big unemployment problems. the tragedy of this story is, look i dont smoke, ive never taken smokeless tobacco. theres no question that an anti-smoking program is not a jobs program thats the problem i have with this problem. -- with this program. they are going to spend three million to discourage youth from smoking probably a good id...

Three million dollars, what do you think? >> greta, i was in appleton, a month ago where it sews hometown of greta van says. >> greta: it does not. >> appleton has big unemployment problems. the tragedy of this story is, look i dont smoke, ive never taken smokeless tobacco. theres no question that an anti-smoking program is not a jobs program thats the problem i have with this problem. -- with this program. they are going to spend three million to discourage youth from smoking probably a good id...

Program for the union. >> so the fear of class warfare is very much alive. blame the rich guy. >> youre talking to an englishman about class warfare, thank you very much. we invented it, actually. and youre right, it is class warfare. this is a populist -- the slogan is jobs now, make wall street pay. thats the afl-cios slogan for this program of taxing stock trades to create a new jobs program. its going to be announced this week. the afl-cio has its winter meeting. as this week, announcement c...

And i put together, were reducing the tax rate on corporations to 24% by eliminating exemptions and deductions and say come to the united states. create jobs here. and if youre an american business, stay here and create jobs because your tax climate is going to be much more positive for you than to go to a european country or asian neighbors who have a tax rate below those countries. and so we create an incentive to create the jobs here. >> ron, is there any chance that other democrats will foll...

And the majority of views. whether its closing guantanamo bay and moving it to the heartland of america, whether its the folks in downtown new york, mirandizing terrorists who come to this country to attack us, the majority of americans do not believe that obama and his administration is right on these policies. >> you dont support the way the president is prosecuting the war on terror. >> no. >> i can appreciate the politics at play and were heading into a cycle and we just met, i think he is a...