doesn t see a lot of safe places he could go at this point. national investigative corner, michael isikoff. great talking with you. good news and bad news on the economy that came out today. the month of march saw a net gain of 216,000 nonfarm jobs, good number. but 13.5 million folks across the country still don t have a job. more than 6 million have been out of work for more than 27 weeks. another major indicator is a labor force participation rate, that s holding right now at 64.2%, with 921,000 people just saying, i m going to leave the workforce, that s it. completely giving up on their job search. to explain it all, msnbc financial analyst, vera gibbonss. could we be in a good situation but not know it? i think you might not be feeling if you ve been out of work for six months or longer, that s for sure, but it is a
pan am 103 over lockerbie back in 1988. and there are some questions about the rebel links to al qaeda as well. michael isikoff with nbc news and investigations, national investigative corner for us. michael, let s start with this, how does defect of moussa koussa and others play into the possible defeat of gadhafi going forward? well, first of all, he s the most high level defector to date. he could provide insight into gadhafi s current state of mind, the state of the regime, how he thinks gadhafi could be forced to leave power, if it s at all possible. but as you point out, there s also this other wrinkle, the scottish prosecutors immediately asked the british foreign for permission to question him about the lockerbie bombing and the u.s. justice department is going to participate in that, or at least wants access to moussa koussa as well, and working closely with the scottish prosecutors. so there are a lot moussa