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Good evening. im chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, time for a jobs program. one day after a nerve rattling loss of more than 500 points on the dow, some encouraging news. the jobless rate dropped in june and more jobs were created than expected. the stock market lurched this way and that finishing mod deftly higher and president obama tried to reassure american voters were going get through this. that things are going get better. this much we know. his presidency depends on. is ...

Came up to this plan, steve benen, steve, its great to see you, thank you so much for doing this, my friend. >> good to see you, thank you, rachel. >> the idea here is that this could maybe work as long as -- slopgs you dont call it a jobs program, a second stimulus, or infrastructure investment. if the white house and democrats were going to do this and the idea was to avoid republican opposition, should they call it something else or do it in a way as if it isnt a program? >> i think at this p...

I think that what we had was, we managed this week to avoid a debt ceiling default, but i think the markets saw over the course of the last three months and month particularly the last three week as political default on the part of both parties, and theyre reacting to a lot of thing. obviously, a lot of economic data in europe. bad economic data here, but also to this notion, as you put it, a clinch, a political default, that there is no -- that the government and the united states now is incapa...

Adhering to the message they thought delivered them all these house seats in 2010 which is we cannot have any deficit spending, anything besides a few budget fights is not necessarily going to pass through this congress. i mean, republicans have put the line in the sand saying were not going to take on any deficits in any capacity almost, so youre having this interesting debate where president obama will presumably put forth things like some more jobs, energy, green jobs creation platforms, thin...

>> ill go back do what i said before, the president is working every day on his top priority which is the american economy. and there are a variety of ways that presidents can do that and american people expect them to. >> he is getting questions of whether to reflect the urgency of the situation the president as you have noted on the vacateses an the world being cut short whether he should demand congress come back to washington and get going on a jobs program, so far, carney and others are say...

>>guest: yes, good. >>neil: the markets leave you shell shocked. there is a criticism that the president should not be going off to vacation, and the same could be said of the republican house, and the senate, as well, but what do you do? >>guest: well, i dont begrudge them for taking a vacation with his kids, certainly entitled to do that but the problem is, he just starting to talk seriously about a jobs program after three years. that was the issue when he got elected, and, instead he talked ...

>> this is the way i talk about it. john, just to help you understand what im talking about, a jobs program that gets passed. because republicans have to turn and vote for it because they have to, youve waged a progressive campaign. waiting for the weather to change politically, which seems to be what this president is doing. look at the latest "new york times" cbs poll too. 62% of americans say the country should now give higher priority to job creation as opposed to 29% who say we should be cu...

Now is the time for president obama to announce a jobs program, i think. a lot of people do. take control, show the world what needs to be done and call on congress to get to it. the dangerous bridge, bad roads, the whole shebang. its time to lead. meanwhile, democratic defeat in wisconsin. the democrats managed to take back two seats, but they needed to take back three in order to win a majority. what does the wisconsin vote tell us about next years vote in 2012? plus, rick perry is the talk ...

It could be used, just add up the things that republicans have said will create jobs if the government would just spend money on it and just start there. you dont have to call it a jobs program, you dont have to call it stimulus if you dont want to, just start there. all their bridges and road building projects that would create jobs, approve it. yes, every program they lobby for that is a national program that would create jobs and help the economy, approve it, even if they are only asking for ...

Slower than expected, the dow plummeted. then surged sek pack letterly again. the dow ended the day up nearly 430 points, but the up-down day on wall street, how skittish the markets are about the economy 7 thats another reason i say president obama needs to come up with a jobs program. needs to highlight the bridges and roads that need fixing in this country and make republican sas, no, i dont want jobs in nigh district. the question isnt whether president obama should or how. im telling him ho...