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>> nice. >> close but no cigar, zandi. >> mark, this is a question playing off of the clip we heard from ron paul earlier and our discussion of that. it is my impression and i wonder about yours as somebody who buys john mccain in 2008, the last thing that mitt romney wants to do apart from some yapping during the campaign, if he becomes president, is to kneecap the federal reserve or do anything approaching what ron paul was talking about. you agree with me? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. it makes no...

Firemen, policemen and teacher thes. did he not get t the message, wisconsin. >> joining us is nobel prize winning economist, princeton economics professor and the author of "t end this depression now, paul krugman. and he does mean depression. thank you for being here. >> hi. good to be on. >> government jobs are real jobs obviously. i do not think of them as a huge proportion of the overall american economy. how much of a difference could it make to the overall economy and overall employment p...

That does it for us for this addition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow on the show jackie sphere, obama deputy campaign manager stephanie can you teller and michael steele and joe kline. my colleague has a look at whats next on news nation. >> coming up in the next hour president obama had whats being described as a brief and cordial phone call with mitt romney to congratulate him on securing the gop nomination. tonight governor romney will fund raise with another controversial supporter, ...

point and "sunday night mystery." >> im don lemon. were going to begin tonight with vice president joe biden. he has managed to complicate the official white house line on same-sex marriage, and he did it with an outspoken defense of gay couples who want to get married, even though president barack obama says his view on the issue is, quote, evolving. it sounds like bidens evolution is complete. >> is that what you believe now? >> thats what i believe. >> and youre comfortable with sam...

point and "sunday mystery." aim don lemon. were going to begin tonight with vice president joe biden. he has managed to complicate the official white house line on same-sex marriage, and he did it with an outspoken defense of gay couples who want to get married. even though president barack obama says his view on the issue is, quote, evolving. it sounds like bidens evolution is complete. >> is what what you believe now? >> thats what i believe. >> and youre comfortable with same-sex ...

Fact, theyre laying off, yahoo! right now, j.c. penney and these are the jobs. >> brenda: okay, now what? you guys, you are the milquetoast gang, next time were going to have to get you going. all right? all right. the free market kicking back in. so, why is everyone freaking out? neils gang has the tough love answer we need to here at the bottom of the hour. first, paying more or getting less, the health care scare thats already here next. (siren sounding) for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "w...

Do? we have a congress that wont even talk to one another. in the meantime, we have people in the middle of the country who are seeing their jobs go overseas. whats the remedy? i mean, these people are in the streets protesting right now. whats the remedy. >> ed, number one, right now, we dont cut the federal budget. we create jobs and we get better wages. thats the number one objective. and anybody who says that we have to cut the budget before we get jobs and wages back doesnt really know thei...

And anybody who says that we have to cut the budget before we get jobs and wages back doesnt really know their economics. the only way we can begin to make progress is to get jobs and growth and wages back. number two, you know, a lot of people, long-term unemployed, were going to have to employ them directly at wpa, a civilian conservation corps. number three, if big corporations are basically sending jobs abroad, there ought to be severance payments to the people theyre laying off. that are pr...

Wages. thats the number one objective. and anybody who says that we have to cut the budget before we get jobs and wages back doesnt really know their economics. the only way we can begin to make progress is to get jobs and growth and wages back. number two, you know, a lot of people, long-term unemployed, were going to have to employ them directly at wpa, a civilian conservation corps. number three, if big corporations are basically sending jobs abroad, there ought to be severance payments to th...

Should never been allowed to have that mortgage to begin with. >> i think the government caused it. >> i dont disagree with you. now, my point is this, its not class warfare, its just bad economic policy. >> but theres also nothing wrong with people making money. theres nothing -- the problem right now in this country is people dont have jobs, so thats where we really need to focus. >> people should get off $2 trillion in cash and stop laying off 30,000 people and start hiring 30,000. >> unless ...