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Their basic living van issued. hundreds of thousands of jobs van issued practically overnight in cities across america. we could have responded to this sudden crisis, this wave of joblessness with, you know, care, compassion, concern, economic stimulus packages, job creation programs, investing in education so folks could make the rough transition to a new service based economy. but instead of doing all of that, we declared a war on drugs and began to round people up en masse viewing them as largely disposable. >> jody has a question for you. >> michelle, we were just talking about the fact th...

Living vanished. hundreds of thousands of jobs vanished practically overnight in cities across america. and we could have responded to this sudden crisis, this wave of joblessness with you know care, compassion and concern, economic stimulus packages, job creation programs, investing in education so folks could make the transition to a new service-based economy. but instead of doing all of that we declared a war on drugs and began to round people up en masse. >> jody kantor had a question for you. >> president barack obama is so aware of the issues that you write about and is so is eric holder...

Now. people had expectations that it would be a faster climb to the surface, and i think there's a lot of people who were disappointed. i think that's what's reflected in those numbers. but if the president is out on the campaign trail next year and says i can't get anything through the republican congress and if you ask people in polls right now, they will say republicans have been blocking obama's job creation programs, and that is the way that you would go at the gop in the campaign speech. bill: to that point, then, we're going to see whether or not that argument flies. ford, does it? >> c...

Author of "how obama governed, the year of crisis and challenge." good to see you. >> good morning. >> we have mark moriale, president of the urban league calling on the president and lawmakers to fund targeted job creation programs in more than 400 communities. is that the solution? is it going to happen? >> we hope so. by the way, the state of black america which is a report that the national urban league issues every year for the last five years, even before the obama administration became the obama administration, they have been essentially calling for the same thing. they have been saying...

Time for any reason. also want him to start some job creation programs and also just start up this national dialogue with the people as they move toward the election in september. not saying he should go tonight, but signaling that it's the end of the line for him. >> and, elise, being the state department producer, you would know the answer to this question. the state department has been busy helping americans inside egypt. >> that's right. >> can you give us the latest on that? >> not only are they kind helping their families, they're going to help americans. they're going to get their fligh...