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You know that unless we create, what, 250,000 jobs in a month were actually lagging behind population growth. >> yeah, but the job growth continues to grow even though it may not be at the numbers that we need to be at and the president admits that, its a step in the right direction. when he took the presidency we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. as long as were moving forward, it may not be at the pace we want to be at, its better than moving backwards. >> myra? >> the president can try to spi...

For mitt romney this fall. >> when you look at unemployment, once again, is at 8.2%. but the u-6 number which is, as you know, unemployment plus the people have simply given up or are underemployed is 15%. that is a gigantic number. and i think when people go to the polls in november, theyre going to say should we give this guy another four years or try something new? right now, i dont know if its working. >> heres where the messaging matters. for 10 years in the rural south, i worked in a tire ...

Decide to hire people, wring them on board and to train them. to take the risk associated with expanding an enterprise. >> okay, now, just for a moment, joan, theres something important missing because i want you to take a listen to something he said just last month. >> of course hes out of touch. hes out of touch in part because he never had the experience in working in the private sector and seeing what it takes to start a small business, how a bz decides to grow, when they decide to send jobs...

Know romney. so you dont want to introduce somebody new that was going to step on that process. >> you know im staggered how many people really want it. you look how hard bobby jindal has worked and chris christie has worked. they said they call, im in. its amazing that -- >> i dont know if they even necessarily want the vice presidential job but what i thought was great and you had the chart earlier this morning that i saw in every state where there was a republican governor elected, the jobs n...

They have nothing to do with the serious crimes that we cant support everybody. we dont have the resources to chase everybody. >> isnt there an argument as well about how much illegal immigrants are cost in every state in every nation. couldnt you look at that as well? >> thats why the federal government put in initiative and the federal government should go more towards illegal immigration. >> doesnt do anything to prevent. >> goes against the federal, local and state authorities cooperating on...

Theyve doubled their nationwide average. for example, i could be going through and trying to get my regents diploma if its in new york at the same time to say i want to be hands on with something? >> absolutely. you know when you think of career paths going on to college, going on to medical school and going on to surgical, one of the things they found out is going out of medical school that half of the medical school students were washing out and the blunt truth is that if you cant sew and if y...

Experiment to ordinary people every day, all day long. >> its amazing stuff. >> unbelievable thing. and every hour is like a day. youre learning something, deciding something. so for me, when i left, you know, under fire, smeared, whatever, i still thought i had a responsibility to try to explain what i was seeing. and thats what this book is about. i saw -- i was a grass roots outsider. became a white house insider. and then i became a gross roots outsider again. and i saw the misfires, how the...

Studying and preparing for class. a third of full-time students and when we looked at their transcripts they had a 3.2 gpa. >> lets hook at this. pie chart. big yellow part, 51% socializing followed by sleeping, working, volunteering, student clubs, not so much. >> yeah, were not asking very much of our students today. were making it very easy for them to go through college and universities without having to read very much. without having to write very much and bout -- without having to study. y...

sergeant. his children were so glad to see him just a few months ago. hello, everyone. its the top of the hour. im don lemon. thank you for joining us. were going to begin tonight with the rescue of an international yacht racing team hundreds of miles off the california coast. the crew is competing in the clipper around the world race. its like the tv show "survivor" except on the high seas. everyday people, cab drivers, teachers, bankers, compete against other teams circling the glo...

Have to get paid now because they feel like theyre being used by big companies to get free experience. ill give you 15 seconds on that. >> no, no, exploitation is if i capture you in a net and bring you to my place and make you work for me, let me tell you something, i work hard and i created this business and im giving you a chance to learn from my experience. if theres exploitation, youre exploiting me. im charging you $10 which is deeper than a college education and youre learning something y...