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sharpton. tonight's lead, job number one for the american people. today the white house announced president obama will unveil a new jobs plan next month. and essentially dare republicans in congress to block it. but gop lawmakers are still talking about cuts instead of jobs. today john boehner and eric cantor wrote an up ad in usa today saying, quote, the american people elected the new house republican majority with orders to stop washington from spending money it doesn't have. wrong. the american people elected you to help create jobs you campaigned on this, mr. boehner. that's wha...

one in five american children living in poverty. a sober reminder it's time to work together. and will dog days of summer. a time for the beach. barbecues, and if you're the right wing, criticizing president obama's vacation. you won't believe who's piling on this time. welcome to the show, i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, job number one for the american people. today the white house announced president obama will unveil a new jobs plan next month. and essentially dare republicans in congress to block it. but gop lawmakers are still talking about cuts instead of jobs. today john bo...

plus, should president obama get tougher with political opponents? we'll debate that hot point. and fox news goes after the children. you folks should really pick a fight you can win. welcome to the show, i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, republicans meet your go -- tea party. one piece of last night's debate sums up how far the rank of tea party movement push id the republican base. >> well i'm going to ask a question to everyone here on the stage. say you had a deal. a real spending cuts deal. ten to one as said. spending cuts to tax increases. speaker, you are already shaking y...

thanks, gov. but we've been there, done that. plus, should president obama get tougher with political opponents? we'll debate that hot point. and fox news goes after the children. you folks should really pick a fight you can win. welcome to the show, i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, republicans meet your go -- tea party. one piece of last night's debate sums up how far the rank of tea party movement push id the republican base. >> well i'm going to ask a question to everyone here on the stage. say you had a deal. a real spending cuts deal. ten to one as said. spending cuts to tax...

Senior officials say expect a combination of tax cuts, construction projects and support for the unemployed. today, the president also said revenue will be part of the equation. >> we're going to have spending cuts. and we're going to have revenue. well have more spending cuts than we have revenue. but we're going to have to take a balanced approach and everything will be on the table. >> and if his proposals run into trouble in congress, the president wants to make sure we know who to blame. >> the only thing that'sing us back right now is our politics. traditionally that hasn't been a democr...