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Voters have rejected budget cutting austerity measures in france and greece. for the first time in nearly 20 years france has elected a socialist president with the challenger ousting nicklas sarkozy among anger over budget cuts. there are fresh worries about europe's debt crisis. yesterday's election resulted in a split party. one party wants to renegotiate the bail out deal and the other party wants to overturn it. joining us now a professor of economics at the university of california-berkeley and author of the new book "beyond outrage" what has gone wrong with our economy and dplox and how...

It's not the american people. the republican demonization of public sector jobs is impending and impeding of overall job growth. let's turn to robert riech, former secretary of labor under president bill clinton. now a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. he's also the author of "beyond outrage". thank you so much for joining us here today. >> good evening. >> let's do a bush-obama comparison. under president obama the private sector jobs are up 35,000, under bush they failed 646,000 jobs. why did republicans start demonizing government jobs and what are the ...

security to hamid karzai and the specific road map for troops to come home from the more than decade long war. >> last year, we removed 10,000 u.s. troops from afghanistan. another 23,000 will leave by the end of summer. after that, reductions will continue at a steady pace with more and more of our troops coming home. as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. >> the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the day that the president ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. >> over the last three ye...

as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. >> the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the day that the president ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. >> over the last three years, the tide has turned. we broke the taliban's momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaeda's leadership, taking out over 20 of the top 30 leaders. one year ago, from the base here in afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat a...

Author of the book beyond outrage. i love the title. i'll have to read the book. good to have you with us tonight. what do you make of these numbers? the numbers tell a story. private sector growth was 3.5% but overall was 2.5% because of the government spenting. >> the big news is that governmentç cut, that is cuts spending, budget cuts mostly at the state and local level but a slow down at the federal level, that is a drag on the economy. that should be no news. we know that's happened in the past. it's what's happening in europe. europe has embraced austerity economics and that has pushed...