new jobs this past quarter? >> tucker: it is so noticeable. if you go outside washington, new york, washington, dallas, big hubs, go to the middle of the country rural areas, it's hallowed out. the number of boarded up stores or closed car dealerships, restaurants with windows broken. i mean, parts of this country are really hurting. and you just dent get a sense of it at all. i don't watching television. >> alisyn: why were the numbers so much lower than expected and lower than the previous month? well, the administration has a theory, the chairman of the president's chief of economic council alan krueger says you know what? you have to realize these are the first numbers that have come out since sequester. let's listen. >> i step back whenever the jobs figures come out and look at it in the larger context over the last three months we have added half a million jobs. over the last 37 months the private sector has added jobs each month. we want to speed job creation, given how many