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The middle class. you can always go to our blog. we'll bring you results later on in the show. let's bring in bill pascrell of new jersey tonight. also robert riech. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. congressman, let's start with you first. what do you expect with paul ryan at the helm of these negotiations? >> it doesn't send -- i'm not frightened about that situation. in fact, one of the things that paul does bring to the table, and i think it's necessary here, ed, is urgency. this is an urgent situation we need to address. if we kick this can down the street, and i would contend...

It's not the american people. the republican demonization of public sector jobs is impending and impeding of overall job growth. let's turn to robert riech, former secretary of labor under president bill clinton. now a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. he's also the author of "beyond outrage". thank you so much for joining us here today. >> good evening. >> let's do a bush-obama comparison. under president obama the private sector jobs are up 35,000, under bush they failed 646,000 jobs. why did republicans start demonizing government jobs and what are the ...

The occupy wall street demonstrations have moved from the back page to the front page now and the question no longer is whether they will make an impact but what kind of an impact on the democratic party and 2012. joining me is former plash secretary robert riech. good afternoon to you. >> the occupy wall street protests movement won't take hold of the democrats like the tea party did the republicans. why not? >> basically because the democrats have been drinking at the same trough. that is wall street campaign donations as the republicans have been drinking. now the democrats might actually c...

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