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Had to come in and spend money on a stimulus program. hes done health care and people dont believe hes re-inventing government, they just believe hes putting the government into deficit spending. thats his problem buy the american public right now. >> certainly it will play out between now and november, mid-term elections. which issues will you be looking at? financial reform? immigration reform? a supreme court nominee supposedly coming sooner rather than later? >> well, financial reform people...

This harkens back to his predecessor governor jeb bush the brother of your form boss that his fingerprints are sort of all over this because he liked marco rubio better than charlie crist. >> no question about that. no love loss between jeb bush and governor crist and thats a split in the republican party there. but its split that governor crist could not win. and marco rubio was able to win hence governor crist leaving republican party. jon: and hugging president obama and endorsing the stimulu...

Struggling. and the numbers of as far as trust in government down to 22%. thats the lowest dating back to john f. kennedy, as far as the way that they have tracked the polls president by president throughout a term. we only have one year plus. but, still, thats a pretty i cant big -- thats a pretty big distinction i dont want to have if im the president. >> he is in a terrible spot here. in two wars. we thought the war in iraq was won. it doesnt now look like its quite as won. the one in afghani...

Struggling. and the numbers of as far as trust in government down to 22%. thats the lowest dating back to john f. kennedy, as far as the way that they have tracked the polls president by president throughout a term. we only have one year plus. but, still, thats a pretty i cant big -- thats a pretty big distinction i dont want to have if im the president. >> he is in a terrible spot here. in two wars. we thought the war in iraq was won. it doesnt now look like its quite as won. the one in afghani...

And what are the consequences if you if they dont? thank you so much for joining us here. i want to start off, we list and to the president today on wall street defending his economic policy. as we had mentioned, gop did not get on board when it came to the economic stimulus package, health care reform, they could be left behind when it comes to financial reform and the president says look, things are looking better. take a listen to what he said. >> one year ago, the economy was shrinking rapid...

Shrinking rapidly. today, the economy is growing. in fact, weve seen the fastest turnaround in growth in nearly three decades. >> is it time for republicans, your fellow republicans, to give this president his just due? >> well, they have, i think. i think republicans have agreed on things that made sense, where they could agree. its the president and nancy pelosi and harry reid who have shut the republicans out. and the reality is that the two things you mentioned, the stimulus program, republi...

Government unions supported the obama administration. the money was flowing back through the stimulus program, so republicans couldnt have possibly supported that. >> what about financial reform here? are you guys missing the boat? >> financial reform would be terrific if it were really financial reform. theyre doing nothing, as far as im concerned, to really deal with the core problem, the ina inadequacy of the banks. the president should half gone with a mea culpa as to what the government did...

People have not. people have seen houses drop in value and stocks -- we have a big -- a very high unemployment rate and a failed stimulus program. >> neil: you argue be careful who you bash because in this neck of the woods, theyre a cash cow for the city and state but beyond that, theyre an american leader, right? >> yes. its an important part of the american economy and the american role in the world. frankly, its easy to pick them out and started bashing them. to some extent they earned their...

Theres one texas pointed to. $693,000 for beef improvement research. this just came out within the hour. so, tony, what were looking at here, the merits, or not, of these projects, keep in mind. theyve create jobs often through this money and people can come up with various justifications. this group is confident this is pork. >> so earmarks and pork as one man stimulus program? how does this group decide -- and i took you right back to the stimulus desk. how does this group decide what counts a...

Thats a joke. megyn: you are an economic guy. you understand the economy. people are unhappy. its not a huge headline. they are not happy because we have high unemployment, a hi-def sit, the question is d a high deficit. and how much can he do about it? >> he cant do much about it. he put into place a big stimulus program that didnt do much good at all. thats a mark against him. he spent almost a trillion on a stimulus program that produced almost no results. the tarp program did a huge amount o...