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Pep rally than a way to dig in and legislate but that probably isn't a big surprise, given as you mentioned the fact that congress's approval rate something just about at an all-time low. let's start with the positive, a recent burst of bipartisanship, a deal to make sure many student loan rates don't double, a rare meeting of all senators that led to confirmation of several obama nominees. >> the senate has functioned better over the last six weeks than in some time. >> reporter: perhaps but civics taught us the bill can't be law without the senate and house agreeing. >> the dysfunctionality ...

Of cell phones here and a lot of -- all kinds of stuff. i want you to send a message to congress. tell them, don't double my rate. don't double my rate. you should call them, you should e-mail them right on their facebook page, tweet them. tweet them. teach your parents how to tweet. and use the hashtag don't double my rate. don't double my rate. [ applause ] don't double it. i asked some students at the university of north carolina and university of colorado and university of iowa to do this last week and they got it trending worldwide for a while. so -- too that was president obama speaking ...

Years ago. so don't act shocked today. >> i'm not acting shocked. i'm just saying i haven't heard a better alternative. >> we gave that alternative three years ago, mika, and that was don't triple the number of troops on afghanistan, don't double down on a bad idea, start phasing the troops out. and so now we are extending this a decade. >> good. ok. let me take your point to jack jacobs and ask jack, what would be the ramifications of what joe just said and also walking away from a partnership with hamid karzai, if anything? >> i think everybody thinks that hamid karzai is there for the short...

The deficits are at the levels we showed a couple of seconds ago we're going to put ourselves deeper and deeper into a hole. what is the answer? >> i think the actual answer is what a lot of economists are saying, is spend now or spend later. if you spend now, you're going toward off deflation, because the economy is still very weak. you still have -- if it's not re -- recessionary, you have job unemployment above 10 percent, you still have growth at about 1 percent. if we get out of the economy with 1 percent growth at the end of the year, don't double-dip technically, we're still in a really...

Told them, no, you can't stop that drilling from happening. it is a decision that was met with massive celebration from politicians, including bone jindal of louisiana, who headlined with a "let's keep drilling" rally earlier today. >> we're there today to call on the federal government. saying don't double-down on a failed, arbitrary six-month moratorium. the fact that the bureaucrats couldn't do their job means that thousands of louisianans lose our jobs. the country needs the oil and gulf produced in the gulf every day to power this economy. >> hey, governor jindal, you've caught us right i...