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>> first of all, what an incredible honor and thank you for coming and thank our great president for being here. [cheers and applause] i've got to tell you a couple stories real quick. i've been to the oval office twice in the last two or three weeks. aye been there to present an idea on coal and an idea on manufacturing. i've had the great opportunity to be with our president. [boos] >> now, let me tell you just this. i have to be really serious with you just a moment. i have to tell you that the last session of our

Republicans next year. >> i don't want to get too far ahead of us, but since david brings it up, we've had these special elections. i think those are really germane to what is in the head of your colleagues. >> right. >> you guys follow this. you know what's happening. >> absolutely. and they're scared. i mean they see that someone in kansas came within seven points in a district that was 27 points. and they understand that the momentum is with people who are upset at trump's agenda. but here's the thing. do you remember, chris, when president obama led with health care, and everyone said, you...

I mean they see that someone in kansas came within seven points in a district that was 27 points. and they understand that the momentum is with people who are upset at trump's agenda. but here's the thing. do you remember, chris, when president obama led with health care, and everyone said, you know, the problem is he's not talking about jobs. the problem is no jobs. >> he did the recovery act first. >> he did the stimulus. >> $800 billion. >> after that it was -- here's trump saying, i'm going to bring jobs. i'm going to bring manufacturing. where has been a proposal on apprenticeships, on ma...

What gets it to keep coming down? what does it take for companies to go out there and get past their uncertainty and start hiring in 2014? >> i think that's the right question. we have economic momentum, as jim has said. what are we going to do with that momentum? i think there's three things. one, we have to provide more economic certainty. the era of threatening defaults has to be over, the era of shutdowns has to be over. secondly, it's time for the republicans to work with the president on the bipartisan opportunities we have for job creation in housing finance reform, in immigration, on m...

News. on manufacturing. on jobs and on spending and on confidence. bad news coming throughout the week. >> you said the economy is still contracting, it's not expanding and not happening as fast as people would like. it's happening in the right direction. >> moving in the right direction? we've gone from 5% to 3% to 1% growth. that's the wrong direction. that's spiralling down. this will be a very big and bad week for the economy. >> thank you for joining us. hopefully you'll be wrong but you haven't been wrong yet. >> that was uplifting. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, stu. coming up on...