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Companies over ours and again this is why you see companies moving offshore. you see investment going offshore. you see movement of capital offshore. >> reporter: national federation of independent business says the president's plan doesn't really move the ball forward but big business groups are more supportive. heather? heather: wendell goler, live from washington for us. thank you. bill: we mentioned this a moment ago. president obama is heading to the hill in at mare of moments. that's a live look i believe on the hill or is that the white house? heather: it is a parking lot. i can tell th...

People being laid off is a big deal. it's not good for the economy. you look at the cuts and what happened to the defense department alone what it would do to the economy in terms of the unemployment rate is serious. i don't think that anybody laid forth any kind of serious plan. the president's plan doesn't talk about entitlement spending at all and continues to load everything on the defense department. looksh i'm all for, you know, cutting where there can be cutting. but you can't constantly go to defense department and ask them to do as much as they're doing and pretend to cut them and pre...

Unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn't happen again. let me bring in former pennsylvania governor and nbc news political analysts ed rendell and republican strategist and santorum senior strategist john braybender. >> the republican party has to understand it's been two months since the election and mourning period is over and it's time to stop the infighting. second of all, a lot of this is miscommunications, he is misrepresenting what karl rove actually said. what rove is saying, we no longer should pick a candidate because they can check off the box they believe...

The paycheck. that's a 2% cut to the paycheck of working people. now, as i mentioned, if you're someone who has been on long-term unemployment, that means you've been unemployed for a bunch of months already, half a year or more, and so i can't imagine you have got much savings. you're depending on your unemployment insurance. that's a hard cutoff. you're gone if they don't extend that. now, in the plan that the vice president and senator mcconnell have been working on, apparently they have agreed to extend unemployment benefits for a year, but, of course, that plan doesn't sound like it's goi...

Jenna: oh, but the finger pointing is fair and balanced. democrats complain that boehner's plan doesn't do enough to protect the middle class. >> we are calling on our colleagues to work together to achieve a tax system and fiscal compromise that protects america's middle class families and cares for all of our communities. the american people have been clear, they will not economic approach that places too large a burden on the middle class, on seniors, on students in the most vulnerable americans while asking too late of the wealthiest -- too little of the wealthiest americans. jenna: mike e...