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Thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> without talking about what is behind the stock market fluctuations this past week, let me ask you to characterize where we are in terms of the labor market right now. how would you characterize the jobs picture for americans today? >> with the nominal unemployment rate, it's decreasing certainly from the highs of four or five years ago but if you look at the fundamentals of the labor market, although it's improving it's still very troubling. number one, the labor participation rate remains at an all-time low, and tka labor partition rate from 2008 to ...

With that but it is such a smaller scale way to think about these problems than actually trying to change the workplace or change the society to make it fair to women and working mothers. >> that's exactly right. i think cheryl sandberg is very right to say there are cultural barriers and things that we women internalize, don't be good at math don't be smart. don't speak up, don't be aggressive. those things. really, for most women in the workplace, that's not really the issue. and if you're working a low-wage job and you go and ask for a raise, you might actually get fired. and i think that's...

Macarthur who insisted that the government not be able to force people to publish certain things or watch certain things. >> i think we're looking at photos now of the remnants of the bataan death march where so many americans died and were tortured by the japanese. how do they change their culture in our last 30 seconds and why is that important? >> well, it's going to take another generation. japan has one of the oldest populations on earth. oldest working population. it's going to take another generational change. number two, here is why it's important. the qualities of courage tenacity fai...

Floor back to you, chris. leslie, who signed the law? >> the president signed the law. >> megyn: right. both parties are to blame. >> we always knew in negotiation, there was going to be a compromise and the president wasn't going to get 100% of what he wanted. >> megyn: come on, stop that. both parties are to blame. the republicans wanted the tax to go up and the president signed it. can't be blaming the other. they both did it, both raised taxes on the rich and both raised taxes on people, 77% of the working population, that's a fact. now, you can argue about whether it's right because as le...

>> the truth matter is what we are doing is fiscally irresponsible and unsustainable. the on solution we have to our economy and future problems is a sustained economic growth. raising taxes during this economic downturn -- remember president obama just a couple years ago didn't want to raise taxes because he thought it would hurt the economy. well, the economy is worse now than it was then. frankly, if you look at the dynamic shift in demographics our entitlements are growing at a time when our working population is decreasing. the only answer to all these problems is sustained economic growt...