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With our panel, athena jones. there in west palm beach, florida. i want to bring in that panel. jewel, author of the fierce urgency of now, michael daley and lynn, the washington bureau chief for the chicago sun-times. yu julian, the swedish embassy has responded to president trump s clarification, tweeting we look forward to informing the u.s. administration about swedish immigration and immigration policies. do you think president trump understands the possible ramifications that can come from his statements particularly when he s talking about other countries? well, i don t know if he understands it or not. but he and his people surround ing him need to. presidential rhetoric matters and a few words can make a big difference and here, we see with one speech w a little part of that speech, he s now caused this diplomatic back and forth. and we ve seen historically how the words of presidents can have ....
Many who opposed the soviet union because of its atheism now view russia as christianity s front line against the new civilizational enemy, islam. joining us, the washington bureau chief for mother jones. what do you make of that, because vladimir putin has certain problems with islamic terrorism even within his realm, and because he s fighting that he is the friend of others who are fighting that. i think it s ingenious but way unnecessarily complicated. i think you can explain how most republicans are reacting to putin now is that when this hook gets into you, you are dragged to places you would never have gone. now the party is trapped. it s got this president-elect ....
Republican party doesn t see it that way. before trump, republican leaders generally described the united states as fighting an ideological struggle fwenls the enemies of freedom. now trump and his advisers describe fighting a struggle against the enemies of the west seen through the very different lens. muslims look more nefarious, and vladimir putin looks more benign. many who opposed the soviet union because of its atheism now view russia as christianity s front line against the new civilizational enemy, islam. joining us, the washington bureau chief for mother jones. what do you make of that, because vladimir putin has certain problems with islamic ....
Thank you. i would like to bring in a professor at the school of international service and university. she s author of the book, going to teheran. an independent journalist working on u.s. foreign policy and ron, the washington bureau chief at the jewish telegraphicic agency, thank you for being here. pleasure. are we at war? i heard martin say escalating military tensions. at what point do we call this war? i think you called it a war. you can call it a war as soon as israel started carrying out air strikes. more than 1,000 air strikes, the vernacular is many war or war, but it s a war just like the operation in 2012 was a war in the operation in 2009 is a war. whether it escalates into a ground operation, which would be much more open ended, is another question. i think that, you know, the way to view that, whether this goes into a ground operation is to ....
thank you so much. secretary hilda solis, thanks for being with us. joining me now to take a closer look at the economy and october jobs numbers, and our fiscal future, david, the washington bureau chief for the new york times thanks for joining us. of course. what is your impression from these numbers and the sort of positive jobs report but one that still shows some work needs to be done in terms of overall economic growth? i think that s a really nice summary of it. this is a good report. when you look at both the revisions normal revisions that the labor department made to its earlier estimates which are based on incomplete information, with the new data they gave us for last month, with a couple of the other surveys that are in this report what you see is this was significantly stronger than i expected and the consensus forecast of it was. when you dig into the details you see other nice little positive details like the decline in par time work, where the jobs that are ....