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Little more time to work out a budget deal. meantime, the president heads to texas to push his jobs bill this afternoon. and he made an admission that stunned a lot of people. >> i don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. they're not better off than they were before lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis. before this extraordinary recession we're going through. presidential hopeful herman cain is still in new york city meeting with ed koch and then yesterday he spent the afternoon with the donald. >> you've heard that old expression, we hit it off right away and ...

Any way let's look for big picture items and look for ways to solve this. we know we'll be sitting down and talking let's solve the problem not just extend it another year. jenna: you were a youth camp director, one of the things you did before running to congress. are you happy now? do you like the new job, the new gig you got. >> this is the right thing to do. for 22 years i've been in ministry, for before that i was counselor at the largest christian camps. jenna: there is a cross over between being a camp director, it's a big camp. >> there are a lot of congressmen that act pretty juvenile...

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Senator. >> sure. >> he says that mayors see up close the deferred maintenance that's going on in nation's cities. it's just a ticking time bomb. we also know that it puts people to work. we need to be working on all of these really big picture items that are generational. this is a republican mayor from oklahoma city, mayor mick kar y carney. you are big on infrastructure and a lot of these things he's talking about which these funds can get to. >> i'm the commissioner of the chairman that funds the highways and bridges and rodways. can i tell you happily that i'm working with my republican c...

>>reporter: there will be talk of fiscal responsibility. we learned the president will call for a five year freeze of nondefense discretionary spending and he is going to look for savings elsewhere, and, those are some of the pick picture items tonight in the speech. >>shepard: we will see odd couples, and it will not be the same exact partisan divide across the room. tell us. >>reporter: that is right much the mails has been buzzing about who nancy pelosi will it is with, and who kantor on the republican side will it is with. a couple of odd couples we thought to bring to your attention: sena...