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Moments ago, when talking to bill the argument went past substance and now is about the presidency and the success of the obama presidency and that is where he's ashes peeling to people but if the cbo comes under and is troublesome, it could cause problems. is this a troublesome number. >> it is a good number, under a trillion dollars, roughly the same top line number on the senate bill before but the key will be in the details, are they double counting the social security pay payroll tax they so occurring as a result of people losing their coverage, and, their employers giving them additional...

We might give back to the states for the cuts they might experience in medicare, if we do it, we'll do it across the board and that begs the question, if it is built on $500 billion in cuts to medicare, and you give back some to every, single state so it doesn't hurt them so badly, how will you pay for it? >> well, you are right. bret never got a straight answer, it is not just louisiana which he said, oh, yeah, we'll have the special treatment for louisiana and special treatment for hawaii, and. martha: natural disaster -- >> and what about connecticut, and massachusetts and vermont? i mean, ...

What they're getting. they also have $500 million they're talking about for construction out of stimulus funds to build and modernize buildings and we do have a big picture on that. nationally, the education department has gotten basically $100 billion out of stimulus. by far, more than those road projects and you heard about shovel ready. >> by far the education department is grabbing $100 billion total, 98.3, 71 billion was awarded so far. the education department tells me 300,000 jobs have already been funded and we're hearing from folks right there at cnn.com/josh, facebook and twitter, jo...

Going to ask somebody who knows something about this, to support some 2 million jobs in doublening the double eni ing the jobs. it means money to support existing trade deals and a push to complete stalled trade deals. that's what the president wants to do. let's talk a little bit about china. because you have to understand china in order to understand why the u.s. is in the trade pickle that it's in. the u.s. exports to china -- we'll pull that up in a minute. but the u.s. exports to china totaled $71.5 billion, right? it sounds like a lot, right? we sold $71.5 billion worth of stuff to china...

Crisis at schools across the country. i think what i'm about to show you is really going to drill in how incredibly stark it is because the problems with all these budget cuts and teachers that can't be paid an kids that can't afford tuition is coming after a year with a whopping ginormous sum of money tossed into the nation's education system from that stimulus. way more intoed kaegs than transportation. you heard about shovel-ready projects, there's no comparison. education has gotten way, way, way more money from the stimulus. they have available to the department of education $71 billion. ...