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axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen on the exit of afghanistan. and chewing over the week with jeff zeleny of "the new york times" and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while vice president biden questioned mitt romney's business credentials on the stump, the obama re-elect team pumped out a sm...

>> well, he's got a record that he knows he cannot run on. and so he's decided he'll run against the united states congress. the problem is that's going to be extremely difficult under these circumstances. in order to run against the congress, you've got to have the people on your side and you've got to be fairly politically adept. i think the story of the keystone pipeline proves kind of perfectly how he's not able to run against the congress or even around the congress. to be able to do that, you got to have the people on your side. on this issue, he continues to kind of push against the pop...

>> and now it's time to talk about jobs. >> all right. let talk about jobs. here's one, neil bowlen's job with the faa new on furlough. >> i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we're reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that's barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we're incredibly disappointed. >> he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day's work. here's why they failed to. it's a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running...

might be losing their paychecks. that's because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. that's 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done with that, all they could talk about was jobs and how are going to be focused on creating jobs. >> t...

To cut social security and your medicaid. when they ask you the american people, you say no, raise taxes on the rich. that's the other way to do it it. do we live in a democracy or don't we? why are politicians ignoring the clear popular will? unfortunately, there's an answer to that. it's because they're representing the rich don ors that got them elected and not you. all right. joining me now is former clinton labor secretary robert reich. he's a professor at uc berkeley. great to have you here, of course. >> hi there. >> i want to ask you, they'll say you can't do this, you can't raise taxe...