Editor and radio talkshow host. Welcome. Great to have you here. Ill go to you first. You know, this in a tv interview we were listening to this afternoon, and the questions are unbelievable of softballs. Its like so, what was your first date with michele like . I mean, is this what passes for journalism with the president . I think so. A lot of journalists are on his side, so theyre giving him an easy shot, but the thing is hes ving a hard time with young voters. We have 12 percent unemployment for 1829 year olds. And if there were so enthusiastic back in 2008. Now eyre living in their parents home and they are upset and disenchanted. Gerri last time around the president 66 percent. His competitor at that time, john mccain, 32 percen among young voters. How hard is this at the end of the day when you look at this for people to up signon with the president when you cant get a job . Okay. Gerri sorry about that. Im asking both of you. Youngbear voters were an indispensable part of his Winning Coalition in 2008. 23 million Younger Voters went and cast their ballot. The vast majority of them went to barack obama. That is why he has these tail marys trying to get Bruce Springsteen and in ohio and iowa, trying t a kid young people up to vote for him. These are not college kids thousands are coming out on college campuses. The mtv was swayed. Nike said, you wont have any hardhitting journalistic questions. Will these tactics work . They do, but not to the same degree they did in 2008. Gerri the question is all about whether young people go and vote at the end of the day. Something that i think is really important. This new ad with a young girl. She is an actress and a hit series called girls. I want you to listen to this. Its pretty provocative. Your first time should not be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. Is to be with a guy with beautiful, someone who really cares about and understands women. My first time voting, it was gerri really . What do you make of this . Part of the problem with this for me is that it is yet more evidence that the president is not being president ial. The campaign has to go along with this. Its out there. It is kind of atrocious. It is creeping. If the president wanted to disassociate from and he can have a super back to it, but for the campaign to be involved with this baja shows the desperation. A 11 or 12 days before the election and the president is still trying to excite his base. Ads like this, what you should have done six months ago. Now you should be reaching to the independence, the centrists, the people you dont already have in camp. I think any time he does Something Like this, te profanity and all the attacks on mitt romney, i tink it backfired backfires among a different demographic. Older voters who might be inclined or who are undecided will look at this and say, thats not for me. Why would he do that. As you say, its on president ial and is [talking over each other] gerri you say this shld have been used earlier. I dont think it should have been used at all. Its kind of offensive. The only way they can reach out to young women, becuse this is the demographic theyre reaching out to come is to appeal to us through a cheap Birth Control, sandra fluke and now this at comparing. [talking over each other] gerri that is the only thing on your agenda. What is the president missing . Needs to understand that the economy is the numberone issue, does not matter if you are woman or man. The problem is we need jobs. But he has no plan. This is all about distracting, turning your attention to something that he thinks you will like instead of a job. Its let them eat cake. Gerri jason. The frivolity of his campaign. Its binders full of women, bayonets, big bird, and at the top of this message that we are comparing a sexual experience to voting for barack obama. I think the analogy is apropos because another four years of barack obama will be painful. Gerri we have a gallup tracking poll with from the leading obama 5146 . And yet in the desperation that we are talking about, you alluded to it, but we did not say it. The comment from the president about romney calling him of the answer. Now he used the word. The president used the word. The president of the united states. Gerri what does that tell you . What is interesting about all of these, what theyre showing is that the debates, a lot of independents like to present less having seen him in the three debates whereas a lot of independents like mitt romney much more. The washington postabc poll, 4710 for romney liking him more rather than less. For obama it was 1726 liking him less rather than more. So the debates did not serve the president well, and he continues down this path. Its kind of inexplicable. Gerri i want to play some sound from all right who i think some of the problem. Voters pased. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s and their child to bed rooms staring out at fading obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. Gerri doesnt that crystallize the problem for young voters . Sure when you have 15 percent unemployment in you have 50 percent of them who cannot find jobs once they graduate. Stayinon the counter. The problem is, though, you still have the recent poll, a harvard poll has obama leading men romney by 90 Percentage Points in tat age demographic and 1829. These are your classic case obamas zombies. Barack obama, is campaigning in his actual policies are going to make it a lot harder for young peopleo find jobs and pay up this enormous debt and is sitting on our doorstep. Yet there will still cast a vote by and large for barack obama in todays. Gerri you look at the way he campaigns. Here is money for you, money for you, student loans, free Birth Control demand for you, im going to give you, you know foods stamps or immigration documents. Had is that sense to you. I think it sounds awful. I personally would not be sucked into voting for him just because of that. I think the point is that young people arent enthusiastic about in. What matters is turnout. And i think romney does not have to when the end people, all of the and people. All he has to do is reduce the margin by which obama won them in 2008 which will be that big of a problem because of the fact that people are now enthusiastic, theyre not like the war in 2008 to 61 to see esther in the white house . Is that important for you . Re looking for someone to lead the free world . I want someone who can provide more Economic Freedom and provide a better life for americans. Obama is not even had to. Gerri jason and then you. We all want an adult. These are important issues facing the world from the economy and home to the threats abroad, and to have somebody in there who i pretending and playing in joking around, i dont think it cuts within months serious people. Gerri that is the way it feels. I dont even hink hes a hipster. I think he is a phony allaround. David stern, the nba commissioner saying he is described pretty much when he plays basketball, the guy wheres mom jeans. I dont even [talking over each other] gerri you made fun of my jeans. Is see a hipster are not . Gerri im sorry. That was just crew of me, but i could not make fun could not help myself. A quick round here. Who is going to win . We are close. Romney has the momentum. Obama has to break romneys momentum. I dont see how does that. Romney. Gerri jason. And going to have to go with romney. The momentum is on his side in every single swing state. Gerri all right. We will hold you to that, and if youre not right we will bring you back. Thank you so much for coming on tonight. Great job. Im sorry i make fun of you. I apologize. Its a cake. [laughter] gerri thanks a bunch. Now we want to know what you think. Here is our question. Are the democrats and presence getting desperate . Log on to gerriwillis. Com, on the righthand sidef the screen not share the results of the end of the show. More to come. Were not done, including the trip behind todays government members on the economy. Gdp, and mitt romney making his final pitch for this Closing Argument on the economy. Reaction from the former chief economic adviser to the president. This happy couple used capital one venture miles for their destination wedding. Double miles you can actually use. But with those single mile travel cards. [ bridesmaid ] blacked out. But im a bridesmaid. Oh x marks the spot shell never sit. But i bought a dress a toast. To the capital one venture card. Fly any airline, any flight, anytime. Double miles you can actually use. 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Gerri m rodney taking the president to task on the economy and a closing bids to voters in the battleground state of viola today. Romney slamming president obama armas added policies that have slowed our recovery while promising big change under of romneyright administration. With more on this, senior fellow for the Hoover Institute and former chief economic adviser to president george w. Bush. Welcome back to the show. Always great to have you here. Glad to be with you. Gerri i want to play a little bit of the sounds of our viewers can get a sense of the town. Short the jobs, where are the 9 million more jobs the president obama prised his stimulus would have created by. [speaking in native tongue] there in china, mexico, canada, countries that have made the sales more attractive for entrepreneurs and business and investment. Even as president obamas policies have made it less attrtive for them here. Thing. Gerri and we have one more jobs report to come. What do you expect . Is it going to help romney or the president . I dont think its going to make much difference at all. If you look at the picture that the economy has been traveling through for the past three years now, basically were in a situaaion where we have continued slow growth. We have growth at about 2 percent per year since the turnaround in june of 2009. I normal recovery should have doubled that, and unless we get to double that kind of growth are not going to have significant job growth. One of the things that go ahead. Im sorry. Gerri i was going to make the point that obama makes that it was bushs fault and we have some sound on that. Heres the president. What he did with what he inherited made the problem worse. [applause] in just four short years she borrowed 6 trillion nearly, adding almost as much debt held by the public as of prior american president s combined. Gerri clearly that was not president obama. That was mitt romney in the campaign trail today in his economic speech. He is laying out his argument that we are having to bar from the chinese for everything we buy. Is that a good enough answer for what is going on . Well, i think what the president , of course, wants to say is that we have hasome significant job growth. He uses a number 5 million because he ignores the government sector. Even if you use the actual number which is about 4 million jobs, most of that job growth is jobs that accommodate the growth in the population. So unfortunately the number is actually 87 percent of all jobs created have just accommodate the growth of population. So what we are getting is about 18,000 job per month since the turnaround in june of 2009. That means that it will take our entire lifetime just to get our jobs back that we lost back in 200 we are just not going anywhere near ft enough. We need a dramatic change in policy in order to get the economy owin again. The policies have not worked. Surely the president inherited its economy, but what we are experiencing right now is not inherited. These are the policies that he has instituted. Gerri the president did make the point this week that he wants a grand bargain. He wants to get together with the other side of the aisle, find a way of fixing the fiscal cliff. So he does seem to be inching ever so slowly over the years and years and years to the right conclusion. Do you have any confidence in canada happen . I, you know, again, i think our best predictor of the future is the past, and the president has not been successful in putting together a coalition. Hehas not use the coalitions strategy of the past few years. His strategy has been anything but coalition. It has been strictly democrat must pleasant pushing policies through. Im not confident we will see any kind of coalition forming, although i sure hope we do because the fiscal cliff that you mentioned his a significant impediment to the economy. If we see very large increases in taxes, and by the way, never liked the work fiscal cliff because it tends to but still lower spending with higher taxes. Most of the problem is on the tax side, not the spending side. If we dont get that fixed were going to have the very significant drag on this economy , sufficiently significant that we could go into a recession. Gerri the National Association of manufacturers out with a study showing that if everything does stay in place we will get unemployment at 12 , lose 6 million jobs. The report even says that the threat of the fiscal cliff cut half a percent of the gdp this year. The impact is already there. It will mean fewer jobs, less robust economy. The you think they are talking up the story are too pessimistic , do you think theyre right on target . Well, i would not doubt for their numbers, but i certainly agree with the direction that theyre talking about. There is no question that it is not just uncertainty. It is the concern thatwe will have higher taxes and taxes on sectors of the economy that have been important in creating growth. Governor romney has talked a lot about small business. I think the president has proposed that, but there is an important point there, and that is that if you tax the top earners at 39 your hitting small businesses. When you talk about investment, when you talk about capital gains, you talk about dividends, taxation at ordinary income levels, youre talking about significant impediments to growth. That is how you create jobs in this country. We know it works. There is a historical record on the stuff. This is not Just Campaign rhetoric. If you look at the literature the studies this, and i looked at a party to marino that the policies it creates are low taxes, a good trade, cautious eye to regulation and a fiscal policy that is cautious in terms of creating a government structure that can grow the economy. Gerri we havent done that. Were not moving in that direction. Gerri quick last question. Gdp numbers. If you back out Government Spending it is a little over 1 . Is this fast enough . Are these numbers being cut . Well, i doubt they have been cut. Look. They are bad enough as is. You dont have to cook them. 2 percent is nowhere what we need. The longterm growth rate is3 . Recovery is 4 . If you have to cut numbers to get 2 youre in pretty bad shape. I would say even at 2 we are talking about an eternity before we get back to where we need to be. We are already at 12 percent below where this economy should be. It would take us six years at 5 percent growth to get back to that. We need to get going in a new direction in termsf economic structure. Gerri thank you for coming on. Its always a pleasure to talk to you. Comebacks in. A pleasure to be with ou. Thank you for having me. Gerri another one of his points, the president has a knack for picking losers when it comes to grain companies. You know the list. Solyndra, begin. Another art of the Program Green stimulus plan is the job Training Program. Today according to a new internal audit that too is a loser. The Energy DepartmentInspector General says the program was training workers who already had jobs and failed to place them in jobs after the trading was over. In fact, only 38 percent of those who went through the program got jobs, and 16 percent of those people kept the job for more than six six months. Imagine that. 52 percent were already working in the Energy Sector and did not need training to begin with. This Training Program that was only 16 percent success will cost taxpayers 328 nav Million Dollars and the price tag could go up to 400 million. This president does not have a record to stand down when it comes to his stimulus program. The big one failed, the little one failed, and they all costly too much. Still to come, forecasters say when Hurricane Sandy heads the east coast it will be harder and wider than last year sir can i read. The latest on what some are calling for frank and storm. Weak economic numbers. The white house cheering. What this white house and the president does not want you to year. Year. St 4g lte is the fastest. So, which supeast 4g lte service would yochoose, based on this chart . Dont rush into it, im not looking for the fastest answer. Obviously verizon. Okay, i have a different chart. Going that way, does that make a difference . Look at verizon. Its so much more than the other ones. So what if we just changed e format altogether . Isnt that the exact same thing . Its pretty clear. Still sticking with verizon. Verizon. More 4g lte coverage than all othther networks combined. Gerri is the white house once again messing with the economic numbers . Gerri sometimes i feel just a little bit like alice in wonderland. When i look at government data, for example, on the economy lately nothing is as it seems. Take todays gdp number, theig kahuna of economic numbers. The government says the economy expanded at 2 in the third quarter. Better than the zero expected number. Do you think thats good . Well, until you realize the improvement is largely due to Government Spending. Take a look. Thats federal spendin