stand. i said florida but it was actually in washington, dc and a nettable exception to the coalition conference, gingrich did not go sending a video and he is taking a two week vacation right now. but that was an interesting day, these are social conservative voters and what you heard was the economy and obamacare, even the social conservatives say we need people to lead with the economy, lead with jobs, and believe in the social conservative values but that is not what they need to be number one they need that to be jobs and maybe this helps romney. you can hear cheers fore bachmann popular with the tea party crowd. those are her people so she preparing to make the big announcement soon. we will ask the governor about all of this and more of the jobs numbers among the other politics of the week in a little bit here on the show. and now, up to four people in the united states could be
staff sergeant. the bank robber soiled himself from what i understand, correct? guest: i didn t foe that until later on but the deputies told me. he said what did you do to this guy, this guy was 6 3 , and 260, and the deputy said he soiled himself. don t mess with this guy. dave: staff sergeant, a great example, thank you for your service and thank you for the example you provide for your kids, too, how important. thank you for being here. the unemployment rate is higher than the white house promised it would be, so, where are the jobs? what the white house needs to do to turn the economy around ahead. yeah
the gulf are not happy with the drilling situation, and he opened up new land along the coastline to open up new drilling permits. are you satisfied with the moves in and, two, you want to meet with him in regard to the drill ing policy. do you fear your know show over the debt and jobs will mean he won t meet with you over drilling? guest: no i have asked numerous requests to meet, and one, including two weeks ago, and if he is too busy we could meet with a chief of staff and not even a no thank you, so he was not going to meet with us. the rhetoric of opening leases, that is not true, the permits are not being increases. there is a complaint that they still cannot get the permits they need to drill in the gulf of mexico.
conversation. i m looking forward to more serious conversations about how we reduce the deficit and the debt and get our economy going again in creating jobs. dave: does our guest regret the decision to decline? join us is louisiana congressman. good to see you. do you regret not showing up? guest: absolutely not. what did we accomplish here? we have had this crisis coming for quite some time now. republicans have put out plans. we have voted on bills. we understand we need to cut the deficit and the white house doesn t do anything. it is more rhetoric. dave: what message do you send by not showing up. guest: it is just lake, listen, we have more important things to do, to cut this deficit, and when you are serious, when you really understand that we need to cut spending over here, and we need to quit growing the size of the government i am willing to sit down at the table and work our
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