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Pelosi and these folks just don't know what to do to turn this economy around. >> jamie: then how do you explain when ben bernanke on friday says that although the economy is still vulnerable, we will do what we need to do to keep it moving, to see more growth and the stock market rally? >> well, of course, anybody is looking for good news. and the one thing that the head of the federal reserve will never ever say, ever say is we are going down the tubes. but the fact is when you look at the factors that make an economy work -- you know, 70% of all the jobs come from small business, and they n...

Number one challenge facing this country. we've been working asiddously at it. there were 300,000 jobs lost in the month before the president took office, almost 800,000 jobs lost in the first month when he took over. the economy is growing. not nearly fast enough. we have to keep it moving, but the last thing we want to do is go back to the same policies that created the disaster in to the first place, and that's what this debate is about. we're not interested in relitigating the past, but we don't want to relive it either. and what the republicans are saying is we want to go back to doing ex...

I should enunciate more clearly. $1 million was not the right thing to do. this debate has a longways to go. we need to do two things in sequence. number one, air on the side of more stimulus for the economy, getting it moving. not raising tacks right now when it's very sluggish as you point out. then a real focus on deficit reduction starting with spending restraint. then if we have to rais revenue, which in all likelihood well, focus on the people in a position to do that best but not now. >> evan bayh from the senate. thank you very much. >> can i ask you one last thing, andrea? >> yes. >> ...

Terrorism come really from the border states themselves, where people are living with this untenable situation and have been for many years. the rest of the country t. sounds like they're more concerned about the economy. >> huh huh, yes, and with -- uh-huh, yes, and with the new jobs number, unemployment at nearly 10 percent. there is concern that the country is just starting to recover from the recession, and that these illegal immigrants could take jobs away from americans. so a lot of people also in the polls say mexico needs to shoulder some of the burden as far as the cost of doing the b...

It's also the fact that they're happening more often. in fact, short sales made up 17% of all home sales last month. next week the government will give banks new incentives to approve the short sales. >> so look, they aren't exactly new, but why are the short sales becoming so popular right now? >> because you've got to know when to just cut your losses and keep it moving. >> boy, isn't that the truth. keep it moving. >> keep it moving. because the thing is, it's better for the banks if they get something for these houses. so if a bank waits for a home to go into foreclosure, it's the bank's r...