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white house press briefing since secret service agents found cocaine stashed in the west wing. reporters have a lot of questions. >> bill: gillian, hello. our white house team confirming that agents found the drug in a bag in a personal cubby area used by staffers and guests into the west wing. a secondary drug test confirmed it was in fact cocaine. the first family was at camp david when agents found it in a routine sweep. >> gillian: and begin there for hour two. >> bill: bill hemmer...

Gerald floor whip inflation now button. the cheer leading doesnt help inflation. the fed helps inflation. thats what -- volker proved that raising rates aggressively brought inflation under control for decades. along with a sensible monetary policy. so, you know, this is not something the countries and presidents had to deal with in recent decades. but its on the fed. the question is when are they going to raise rates? and what are they waiting for? but i will say, whats show surreal about the g...

Before the pandemic in february of 2020. the signs of recovery are almost everywhere you look and the president says he deserves some credit. >> the last time the question grew at this rate was 1984. and ronald reagan was telling us this morning in america. well, its getting close to afternoon here and the sun is coming out. were on the right track. our plan is working. and were not going to let up now. >> we have a chief economist with us. grateful for your time today. we look across the sector...

tech equipment supplied by iran. lets go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara also seeing reports of high-level defections including at least four generals. do u.s. officials think thats significant? >> reporter: right now, john, senior u.s. intelligence officials are telling us no. and thats the problem. they are seeing no cracking in the inner circle around because char bashar all assad. they are seeing no evidence his powerful inner circle is cracking. and ...

"superstition." you knew that, though. >> i know all that, soledad. >> he lives it, yes, he does. >> superstitious dude. >> we begin this northemorning iran. defense secretary leon panetta says there is a growing likelihood, quote, that israel will attack iran this spring and try to destroy its suspected nuclear program. israeli defense minister ehud barak said this, quoek, iran must be prevent fred becoming nuclear and no option should be taken off the table. lets get right to barbara...

A long period of time. well be there for some time. not in the numbers weve been in the past. >> thank you. weve seen big success in the war on terror this week but back at home the issue is about the job market. where we saw a rise in unemployment. some other numbers that may signal movement in the right direction and well talk about that now. we have the co-founder of the economic research council institute. the presidents political opponents will say that unemployment back up now to 9%. but w...

Appeared on "the daily rundown" and here is what he had to say. >> this three-month drop in the unemployment rate was the biggest in 27 years. were setting the stage and the conditions for the private sector to stand up. >> reporter: more good news. manufacturing up 33,000 jobs. construction up, 33,000 jobs. business services up 47,000 jobs. health care industry up 34,000 jobs. if there is a dark cloud for the silver lining, it is that retailers have trimmed jobs and state and local governments,...

He thought his wife was dead because he was watching the coverage and the erroneous news reports that came out, saying she had passed away. for a while he thought his wife had died. >> which really, come on. a lot of the networks made the mistake, not once but twice. >> yes. >> they kept going back to it. >> "washington post," "new york times" both declared her death in their online edition. >> npr did as well. a lot of bad information. >> thats chilling. >> i hope they wait next time. so dylan,...

Theyre solid. vehicle sales have been very strong. im suspicious of the number. these numbers dont go in a straight line, theyre affected by seasonal patterns and we had warm winter weather so that may be messing with the data. im not reading too much into the weakness particularly retail. that isnt consistent with everything else we know. >> when you look at everything else, everything else on the same track, manufacturing up, health care sector up, everything else up, and the other one that ca...

The u.s. bailing out europe? take a look at this? the european union, their economy is 16.2 trillion. the u.s. economy 14.5. they are bigger than we are. why we are saving their bacon, i dont know. >> shepard: if their bacon fries and burns up, so do we. we got more good news on our economy today too. >> we did. the beige book out from the federal reserve. this is good news. this is a regional report. they look at 12 regions, the feds studdie this closely. they found slow and steady growth. tour...