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On elena kagan. now she is in there, and now what? >> well, you know, everything reverts back to what it has been in the last year and a half, and thats the economy. no matter where you go, we have had proposition 8 on gay marriage and the judge overturning that in california, and we have had the immigration debate, but in the end we always come back to the economy. this week, as you know, we had the latest unemployment figures and the economy lost jobs again, and it still stands at 9.5%. thats ...

Has had more than a half dozen multi-multi-hundred being stimulus programs and hasnt helped their economy out one bit. all it left them with, and all were left with is the deficit. >> jamie: well, its not very good news. i wanted to ask you what we can do about it. but i guess we have to just vote in the mid-terms. and hope that change of strategy comes. thank you so much, jonathan. >> free the economy. thank you, jamie. >> jamie: theyre telling me i have to wrap. good to have you on. >> sure th...

>> it sounds great, except for by my count weve been talking about this for a decade, since the last time we reformed illegal immigration, which was ronald reagan. so in the absence of that, dont states have a duty to do something to try to protect their citizens, in the absence of the federal government doing very little? >> well, certainly. yeah, theres no doubt thats what law enforcement in the states is for. obviously you want to protect your citizens from crime and clearly it is a crime if ...

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Sit a litmus test on how well he is performing. >> this was a state party chairman who came to meetings early and he left as the meetings were headed to an end and he left early because he wasnt interested in the chatter and he said he had to raise money and win races back at home. so, clearly there are state party chairman who are focused on other things other than the next national party chairman. >> that is clear today in kansas city. thank you, steve, as we count down to november. head to ou...

Follow a straight line. some sectors bounce back faster than others. so what we need to do is keep pushing forward. we cant go backwards. >> reporter: and thats going to be a theme youll hear from the the and his party as the fall mid-terms approach. we have to keep going forward on the democratic agenda, not backwards to the bush economic polices. as you noted, martha, the chair of the white house council of economic adviserrings -- advisers, dr. cristina romer, resigned today and is going to h...

You would expect they were meant. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> its the best call youll ever make. good evening from new york. a report today just as democrats ramp up their efforts to spotlight how similar the current republican agenda is to the policies of president bush. that mr. bush is trying to keep the wraps on something in his new book for fear it will hurt republicans at the poll in november. whats he hiding now? well get to that. we begin with another democrati...

There have been a number of things that have passed. none with any republican support of any consequence. the republicans have a problem. they have no platform and nothing to run on except theyre not president obama and theyre not the democrats. now well find out what they really do stand for. i think what senator reid is doing is highlighting that in the senate debate, just like he highlighted the fact that the republicans were not willing to extend unemployment benefits to a lot of hard-workin...

More normal tea party reminding them what its like to be in a republican administration and how bad their fiscal policy was. >> you mentioned mr. reid. its almost scheduling a boxing match in the late summer or beginning of the fall over this subject of tax cuts for the rich in the final weeks want mid-term campaign. what is he counting on happening there by scheduling it that way? >> i think what he wants -- the republicans have said no for two years. there have been a number of things that hav...

Highlighted the fact that the republicans were not willing to extend unemployment benefits to a lot of hard-working americans who through no fault of their own have lost their job. >> there are two goals in the mid-terms weve been able to identify so far on the part of the democrats. to equate the republicans to the tea party and to equate these republicans to the previous republicans who occupied the white house, which would be bush. >> exactly. >> does the transit of property apply here? if yo...