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Before obama took office had decided that essentially anything obama stands for they are going to have to fight. stimulus, you know, paul ryan supported the 2002 bush stimulus, he supported the 2008 bush stimulus. this was not a controversial topic. in 2008 every presidential candidate had a stimulus plan. $250 million, mitt romney stimulus plan. the largest of all of them. and, republicans, you know, the $780 billion obama stimulus which had tax cuts and spending which was tyrannical socialish but there was a republican substitute that was $715 billion of spending and tax cuts that was appare...

There are exceptions to that. there are a couple of issues that the ad, i think, missed, but overall, absolutely straight forwardly directly true. >> okay. how much stimulus money do you estimate has been pumped into the private economy to try to get things rolling? >> they put out $780 billion which is usually rounded up in public discussion to a trillion dollars. >> okay. >> but the reality is it's been diffused a lot of people. >> some of it has been tapped into and some of it has been paid back by the car companies in detroit. however, there's a lot of money that's gone out. do you think t...

There are exceptions to that. there are a couple of issues that the ad, i think, missed, but overall, absolutely straight forwardly directly true. >> okay. how much stimulus money do you estimate has been pumped into the private economy to try to get things rolling? >> they put out $780 billion which is usually rounded up in public discussion to a trillion dollars. >> okay. >> but the reality is it's been diffused a lot of people. >> some of it has been tapped into and some of it has been paid back by the car companies in detroit. however, there's a lot of money that's gone out. do you think t...

jury's hand. what they tell us about the deliberations. we begin this evening with what you might call the facebook hangover. after the hype and buildup after the initial offering of stock, trading started late, price didn't sky rock and facebook closed essentially flat, just $0.23 higher than the opening. at least facebook was up. dow industrials, nasdaq, s&p 500 closed out their worst week of the year. discuss with business correspondent ali velshi. let's start with facebook. what happened? >> generally you set a price for a stock, $38 in this case that is posed to create enough ...

Think, was being able to be united in opposition against obama's stimulus plan. when they realized that they could actually get unanimous votes against that, they realized that as long as we can keep our numbers together, keep our opposition pure, then we can start to develop a narrative, and start both with what the republicans stood for and what the democrats stood -- >> was it obama? was it the man? was it the first black president? was it his agenda? what was it? >> ed, i really think that the democrats walked right into the trap that was laid for them. it was, you know, after this $780 bi...