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that an individual who voted 95% of the time for every budget that came before you, you ve raised the debt limit nine times in washington, d.c., and to stand here in front of the people in the state of texas and say, trust me, i m going to balance the budget, that s a little tough to understand. up first, though, breaking news tonight in libya. there are missing missiles, thousands of them, and mounting concerns here in washington they could fall into the hands of al qaeda or other terrorist groups. and as we speak tonight, the libyan rebels who forced moammar gadhafi from power claim to have their former dictator surrounded. they won t say where, but they insist he won t escape this time. cnn s ben wedeman live for us in tripoli. ben, the rebels have claimed to be on gadhafi s close trail before. do we view credibly these indications tonight from their spokesman that they have gadhafi surrounded? reporter: i m approaching these claims with a certain amount of skept ....
But, call it something. yes. i think when the president rolls out his job initiative, jobs plan on thursday he s going to try and put some kind of spending programs, i think republicans, and a lot of centrists will call it stimulus by another name as you said but he ll have to do it in part because he has to watch out for his democratic base and it is in some ways, some economists believe that it is a fast way to jump start the economy. really quickly. long term. it is very debatable whether or not it has benefits. but, if you want to fund jobs and get people on the road and shovel-ready projects you do it via stimulus. jamie: and, it will be a big and interesting speech and the analysis will be fascinating. of course, fox news will have it for everybody. thanks so much. great to see you, as always. thanks for having me. kelly: a lot of people will watch this on thursday and former vice president dick cheney sitting down for a one-on-one with fox news sunday. anchor chris walla ....
Where is the transformative idea. gregg: is it stimulus, too, more government spending? he just got was agreeing to cut spending so he can hardly go to congress and say spend more. no, but they can say and this is one area where they have some agreement. they all want to close tax loophole, they want tax code reform because they want to lower the tax rates on corporations that could potentially create more jobs, but the republicans want to use that money for decifit reduction, and as you point out, gregg, the president wants to use that money to invest in things like renovating schools, highways, more infrastructure spending, and the question is, are the american people, and will republicans, buy into more stimulative spending. the answer is it doesn t look that way. gregg: i m thinking not! good luck, buddy! gregg gregg: juan williams, great to see you. jenna: fox news alert o clock back out to california where we re watching brand new video of a rescue happening off of what ....
Progress. all this stuff is out there. it could be used, just add up the things that republicans have said will create jobs if the government would just spend money on it and just start there. you don t have to call it a jobs program, you don t have to call it stimulus if you don t want to, just start there. all their bridges and road building projects that would create jobs, approve it. yes, every program they lobby for that is a national program that would create jobs and help the economy, approve it, even if they are only asking for it for their own district, approve it for the country. that means it would work in other districts too. say yes, just start there. don t call it a stimulus, don t call it anything, if you call it anything they ll say they are against the thing. just start creating jobs and do what they asked for. if the republican opposition is the problem, this is the way around it. joining us now is the genius who ....
All this stuff is out there. it could be used, just add up the things that republicans have said will create jobs if the government would just spend money on it and just start there. you don t have to call it a jobs program, you don t have to call it stimulus if you don t want to, just start there. all their bridges and road building projects that would create jobs, approve it. yes, every program they lobby for that is a national program that would create jobs and help the economy, approve it, even if they are only asking for it for their own district, approve it for the country. that means it would work in other districts too. say yes, just start there. don t call it a stimulus, don t call it anything, if you call it anything they ll say they are against the thing. just start creating jobs and do what they asked for. if the republican opposition is the problem, this is the way around it. joining us now is the genius who came up to this plan, steve ....