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We democrats, this reflects what we concern ourselves with. >> you're concerning yourself with fantasy over practicality. >> what is fantasy about building highways, roads, and schools? >> it's suggesting the federal minimum wage, there's never any cost to anything. there's never any downside. no, it's all upside for you people. >> you believe -- >> unemployment is a leftist proposal. >> it's your position and our position is here. we don't agree. so let's agree to disagree. >> we caved last time and republicans don't trust the gop this time. >> let's take the agenda out. >> they're yelling at...

>> reporter: they would, don. they would say this is our reality, rockets fired in from gaza, controlled by hamas, a palestinian fraction that says israel has no right to exist. palestinians would say, you keep building settlements in the west bank, that's way beyond the borders. you keep building highways that go right through our communities so you connect jewish communities. the israelis point to rockets, palestinians point to construction. both sides have their reasons, but both sides have their objections to getting back to the bargaining table and making the concessions necessary for pea...

Race to get as far right as possible, even people who previously had been known as mainstream conservatives are moving far to the right. and my guess is that's why chris christie decided not to run, that as conservative as he is, he couldn't become the kind of extremist you would have to be. the american people as a whole say put people back to work, hire teachers, put people back to work building highways, let us do some things to clean up the river and let's pay for that, by the way, by taxing the wealthy, and the republicans say no, we can't do that because the people who dominate our prima...

Martha: once you make that decision to pull out or draw down troops, everybody who may lose their life from that moment on until the even of thaitd that mission runs the risk of being an unnecessary death. so if that's what's going to happen. if we are going to turn things over to the afghan police and secure systems built and trained in afghanistan, then maybe we should leave immediately. >> the reality is, i just got off the phone with a couple generals this morning who understand what needs to be done. absolutely understand that we need to redefine this mission if we are going stay much lon...

There are jobs out there across the board. as you know, the recovery act has given high-speed rail, building highways. the range not just for the highest end jobs here, it covers just about everything. >> what are the sectors of the economy doing well. >> the bureau of labor and stat ifbs came out with jobs report and payroll numbers friday. really interesting, david, temporary help spiked about 48,000. why is this important? a lot of people hire temp help before they hire people fulltime. you also want to cover health care and government. so much debate over the health care plan. well, they a...