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of -- malaise is not the right word -- i think that the right word is just absence of confidence in the federal institutions to solve the problems that they live with every day. >> and tom, you have background here over the past 3 1/2 years as much or more than anybody because you spent the first couple of years of the president's term driving across the country. >> on main street. i'm still out there. >> on main street. well, you're always out there. you're always on main street. >> some people say i'm way out there. >> yeah. no. so anyway, but you've been hearing that for the past 3 1/2 years. and people don't really believe that all the solutions are going to come from washington, d.c. that it starts on main street. >> absolutely. they really are solving most of the problems on main street or in the states. i mean, that's where the action is now. governors and mayors and community leaders are taking it upon themselves to deal with the fund mental issues of their
economy, long term. >> it depends upon how you feel about it. a lot of people feel the fed has taken too much action and more stimulus is not what we need right now. but, you know, on main street, as you said, there really is the sense that the economy is in a recession, 2/3 of those in a recent poll think that we're in a recession right now, that this is not even a tepid recovery, as it is being sold. so, if people are thinking it is a recession, chances are they are not going to be spending and chances are businesses will not be hiring, and, there is so much uncertainty out there, it is very difficult, i think, for the economy to really get moving, get any traction, certainly, before the end of the year. >> patti ann: all right, brenda buttner, "bulls & bears." thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> kelly: a year after a devastating earthquake in new zealand it is finally time for the damaged building to come down, we'll show you the big moment, as it actually comes down.
spain goes down and portugal goes down and ireland goes down, american banks go down. it's terble. >> the contagion is nearly epidemic now. it's not even -- part of it is based on reality, but part of it is just the fear of what is happening in europe. the daily fear that is like an obstacle here in this country economically on wall street, on main street, i mean what is going to happen. spain just gets $125 billion. and now we find out, you know, they get the 125 -- >> that's not enough. >> it's not enough. >> exactly. they need a trillion. there's not enough money to save these banks that's going to impact us. the only good news, mika, the only good news for you, this is upsetting you all of these bad foods and everything like that, that the only good news right here, you know, this time it's personal. russia and poland, the polls, they drew yesterday against russia.
we have right to work law and limited union presence in our state. and a very good higher education system. and then we've been very positive about entrepreneurship and job creators, and the private sector's ability to do things. not more reliance on government. and finally, a lot of programs that targeted tax cuts and international trade offices. and just telling our story in a very positive way. i think in washington, you've got a tax on wall street, on main street. certainly on the energy industry that has hurt us badly in virginia by the epa in this administration. you can't do that. if you want to create jobs, don't attack the job creators. unfortunately, that's what this president has done. >> governor bob mcdonnell, thank you very much for coming on. >> thank you, mika. glad to be on. chuck todd, before we go, you mentioned the exit polls. and i think it's kind of interesting the way they came down. obviously, with obama an edge over romney. big one in some cases. but harold ford, at the top of the last hour, made the point
model white mustang, went north on main street, 610. i'm soledad o'brien at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. 40 years ago, dr. martin luther king jr. was shot down and murdered right here on this balcony where i'm standing. the greatest civil rights leader in our nation's history, killed before his dreams could be realized. the alleged assassin, a small-time criminal on the run. yet to this day questions still linger and fester, and even some of dr. king's closest aides believe the full story has yet to be told. we will try. ♪ he was an american martyr. a man who broke through the barriers of segregation with the philosophy of nonviolence.
call themselves police run around terrorizing people. this was a situation where the social order broke down. there was chaos. yet we as americans rely on our law enforcement officers to protect us and not to use that kind of a situation to just wreak mayhem and violence. i think it's fantastic that they finally had to face justice. >> "issues" airs every night at 7:00 p.m. i'm don lemon. i'll see you at 10:00 p.m. eastern. tonight i'm not worried about anything! i'm not fearing any man! >> and the shot rang out, kapow! >> martin luther king has been shot at the lorraine. >> report of a shooting. >> we have information that the shot came from a brick building directly west. >> on main street. >> the young white male, well dressed, possibly in a late
>> we made about 99 cents an hour. you could work a 40-hour week and will eligible for welfare. >> civil rights leader reverend billy kyles. >> if it rained, they didn't work. the white drivers got paid, but they didn't get paid. >> garbage piled up in the streets and backyards. talks broke down. police clash with strikers marching down main street. >> that's when they would use tear gas and night sticks. >> strike leader joe warren. >> you'd wipe your eyes, man, you couldn't see nothing then. >> reverend kyles was in miami with king that weekend. >> when you really get a movement going, it's time to call for warren. >> congressman john lewis. >> he got sidetracked. he didn't have any intention of going to memphis. that was not part of his plan. it was not on the map. >> dr. king was planning a poor people's march in washington,
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the government, and it does not work. we have a i here unemployment rate, and conversely when robert reagan faced this problem, he cut taxes, and we had a strong expansion. >> well, put it in perspective, when you were secretary of labor for the clinton administration, what was the unemployment rate? >> well, it started out quite high at 7%, but it cut down fairly fast, and the reason, wolf, is because the recession that started just before bill clinton's administration was mild recession. what we have is nothing like the previous recessions. it is not caused by the boards yanking up the interest rates, it is because of a asset bubble that exploded, the housing bubble. anybody who has been following the news and experienced what is going on, on main street knows that we cannot simply use the,
regulation. we need senators and congressmen that will back up pro-growth agenda. for example, my small business bill of rights, ten new policies to help out the number one employers in illinois and the united states, small business. half of all the jobs, 80% of the job losses in the great recession. they can't afford a washington lobbyist to go find stimulus money or a washington lawyer to wade through the latest 1,000-page bill that congressional leaders haven't even read. >> tax relief, tax cuts is the job creation? >> pro-growth agenda like making sure we don't pass legislation to take away your right to a secret ballot in a union election. my opponent wants to take that right away called the car check bill. i think that's a terrible idea. >> how do you answer the question to job creation? >> one of the problems is we have typical washington, d.c., politicians who have forgotten what it's like on main street. i'm the only candidate in this race who has worked in the private sector. congressman kirk has been in washington, d.c., for 20 years. if you're thrilled with out-of-control spending, out-of-control borrowing that