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>> because of the stimulus which i believe really helped the economy. but the rate of increase in spending, the president i think is unfairly criticized for spending when his rate of increase is lens his predecessors. >> that just proves how easy it is to do. if hes doing what you said, it shows it could be possible all along and will a little bit more than that. >> shouldnt congress be with session to deal with this. though. >> frankly, yes. jon: rare agreement between these two guys. >> this i...

Says it is the most transparent in history. but those claims have been met new controversy these days by the very journalists who cover the president. the doug mckelway has a look at this for us. he is live from our bureau in washington. good morning. doug. >> reporter: the presss desire for transparency and white houses desire for effective messaging appeared to reach new heights as they denied press access to presidents golf match with tiger woods. abc correspondent ann compton told "politico"...

On congress that his predecessors did. bill clinton did, harry truman did it, ronald reagan did it. >> senator, im glad to hear you that think an immigration deal will happen by the end of the year. an area where they have more trouble finding common ground. chuck hagel has faced a really ugly confirmation battle. republicans have used an unprecedented filibuster to at least slow down that confirmation. you said on filibusters that filibusters abused terribly today, especially on nominations. fi...

You will see lots of quotes in the book about what our founding fathers and some of our predecessors thought about spending de spending -- sending debt to the next generation. >> the other thing is, we need to create a situation that has everybody involved. everybody has to have in the game and make it work. if everybody is paying according to their ability, which is what the tithing system was its proportional. you make a zillion dollars you pay a lot of taxes. you make less you pay little taxe...

Deteriorating. you will see lots of quotes in the book about what our founding fathers and some of our predecessors thought about sending debt to the next generation. that in fact it was immoral. we have completely foregotten about that now. >> sean: i think that is the defining issue of our time. >> it is. and the other thing is we need to create a situation that has everybody involved. everybody has to have skin in the game in order to make this work. we talk about a gal tarrian society. if ev...

Day. we will hear from wal-mart and nordstrom and aig. we will hear from dell. it is in the midst of a $24 billion takeover attempt. quarterly earnings are expected to drop. lots of data on the housing market this week. numbers on existing home sales and mortgage applications. in todays politics, best selling author jonathan alter. first, i asked him to share some of the insights he gathered into president obama while writing his book, "the promise." >> one difference between president obama a...

Our founding fathers and some of their predecessors thought about sending debt to the next generation. that, in fact, it was immoral. weve completely forgotten about that now >> i think thats the defining issue of our time. >> it is. you know, the other thing is we need to create a situation that has everybody involved. everybody has to have skin in the game in order to make this work. we talk about an egalitarian society. if everyone is paying according to their ability, which is what the tiein...

Quotes in the book about what our founding fathers and some of their predecessors thought about sending debt to the next generation. that, in fact, it was immoral. weve completely forgotten about that now >> i think thats the defining issue of our time. >> it is. you know, the other thing is we need to create a situation that has everybody involved. everybody has to have skin in the game in order to make this work. we talk about an egalitarian society. if everyone is paying according to their ab...

It and bobby jindal had it. do you think marco rubios sort of outcome will be more memorable than theirs were? >> well, thats a good question and i asked about that i joked with him, you know you had some of your predecessors who sort of stumbled in this speak. it is very hard to be on par with the president of the united states speaking to congress. theres a certain ceremonial aspect to that that is hard to replicate or hard to compete with. he said, look, i cant really be worried about that. i...

It means we need to do something like the presidents and my national network of the manufacturing innovation. the first one of those was located in youngstown a few months ago. we expect the president i hope tomorrow night to announce a series of them around the country. its not the only part of a jobs agenda. its infrastructure, its better job training, its working to in-source, if you will, some of the jobs that have gone offshore. senator levin from michigan has been a real leader in pointing...