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Jobs? joining me now is national radio talk show host and best selling author neil borst. good to see you on the curvy couch. does it create jobs to give people $1,000 more in their paychecks? >> no. no. to create jobs, you have to incentivize the employer. nobody is going to go out and say let's hire somebody for a two month tax break or a one year tax break. you need permanency in these tax breaks in order to encourage employers to say ok, now, we can talk about expanding. this is not about creating jobs. this is about creating political advantage. >> right. because republicans and democrats...

today, the young man accused of leaking nearly a half million government secrets to wikileaks will say it was the army's fault. bradley manning's attorneys about to launch their defense against the u.s. military. it wants manning court-martialed and sent to prison for orchestrating the biggest national security leak in united states history. their argument that manning was emotionally troubled during his time in iraq and afghanistan and the military should have provided better computer security. manning, a former programmer was his unit's go to guy for a computer project. earlier thi...

have been killed this year alone in that country. today, the young man accused of leaking nearly a half million government secrets to wikileaks will say it was the army's fault. bradley manning's attorneys about to launch their defense against the u.s. military. it wants manning court-martialed and sent to prison for orchestrating the biggest national security leak in united states history. their argument that manning was emotionally troubled during his time in iraq and afghanistan and the military should have provided better computer security. manning, a former programmer was his un...

It's designed to press republicans to implement president obama's calls for increased spending and to highlight what she calls democrats' top priority -- to create jobs. marianne marsh, democratic strategist and former advisor to john kerry and neil borst, talkshow host. she's calling hearings when the house is not in session to talk about the democrats' top priority of gaining jobs and rip on the republicans for things like healthcare appeal. >> smart move. it shows the country that the republicans are making the same mistakes that the democrats made. what are they focused on -- healthcare an...

folks are not just trying to dig out, but hundreds of thousands are struggling to get by without power and in the midst of wind chills of minus 20. trace gallagher is covering this all from our breaking news desk. trace? >> reporter: megyn, this storm was ever bit as bad as advertised. can you imagine, this was the third worst storm in chicago in the past 125 years? chicago gets beaten up every winter. this is lakeshore drive. we talked about this so much yesterday. it came true. this was frozen in time, megyn, for several hours. in fact, it's still shut down. for a time, they had to...