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Just 148,000. originally they thought maybe 1 0,000, 190,000 might have been created in september. the report does reflect a job market thats healing from the recession, bus once again, very slowly. the obama administration is weighing in on the jobs report. and jason fur man at the white house is joining us right now. thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks for having me, wolf. >> its gone down from 7.3 to 7.2%, 148,000 jobs created, approximately how many jobs a month would we have to create...

Bureau. doug? >> were going to find out on december 13 when this budget conference committee reports back on what progress theyve made in addressing spending debt and deficit issues. one ace in the hole the g.o.p. wields in the talks is the sequester. the sequester, as you know, was originally crafted by the obama administration as part of a debt ceiling talks of 2011. it was designed to be so painful in the sledge hammer approach to cuts that it would force the g.o.p. to cave. the unthinkable h...

Jobs growth. they need to go. that is the if you front in the fight with congress now will be over jobs creation and the sequester, guys. >> so women then the fight begins again, there we go, to make sure we were clear on that christine, tanks so much. lets get a look at the forecast and it is starting to feel a lot like fall. >> the one time we are seeing that pattern we have been waiting for. now, look at these highs today around minneapolis and green bay. we are talking 30s for the high. >> t...

About ted and getting to know him and the conversation of his background, his family, likewise, he did with us. he happens to be my ranking republican on the committee i chair. the science and space subcommittee. im trying to get him to understand how important nasa is that you cant put the sequester in there, a billion and a half on nasa and do everything that little space agency wants to do. so i think its building confidence in personal relationships. >> right. >> and then lets get to the tou...

Barbara boxers comments, it seems to come away from the left and they get away with it. >> because the substance of the right may be couched with political correct language, the real question is what happens when a political party implodes and holds the rest of us hostage. >> the republican party -- >> the democrats are completely unable to sustain themselves, you just saw this in the conversation you had with adam, kind of an ironic name. >> adam smith was talking about this brinksmanship -- >>...

Barbara boxers comments, it seems to come away from the left and they get away with it. >> because the substance of the right may be couched with political correct language, the real question is what happens when a political party implodes and holds the rest of us hostage. >> the republican party -- >> the democrats are completely unable to sustain themselves, you just saw this in the conversation you had with adam, kind of an ironic name. >> adam smith was talking about this brinksmanship -- >>...

Handling the crisis and more than 75% of all independents disagree with the gops budget strategy. >> look, this is the divide we keep talking about. this is the divide over the tactic of shutting down the government. i want to pick up on something that matt said. i do believe the tea party is trying to create a revolution. i also believe the tea party wants to find out where the third rail is. it used to be we cant shut down the government, it used to be we cant go into the sequester. those thin...

Drawn a loin on this one, and one of the big so-called concessions that democrats have been making almost throughout the whole process is that they would agree to fund the government at lease temporarily along republican preferred levels. what republican preferred levels is coat for, actually, is the budget control act, which is the law. based on the sequester, the presidents idea and he signed it. so it wasnt really much of a concession all along. those levels will stay in place, but there will...

Able to make it before thursday and the deadline. >> the second question, i have no idea. this much i do know. i said before the democrats had moved the goal posts by breaking the sequester. thats not just moving the goal post. thats a pi son pill. if you want to bring republicans together, tell them they have to break the sequester. the sequester is what democrats care most about. its not obama care. its getting the spending rolling again. republican also never agree to that. >> let me just, ag...

The sequester, is the thing, bill, over time will get us to the table to do the right things we need to do with mandatory spending. the last thing we need to do is give up that terrain. i think senate democratic leaders have realized there is no way that senate republicans will agree to that and i think they are now backed into a place that may lead us to a conclusion to this in the senate anyway. then what happens in the house, bill, is anybodys guess. bill: rand paul, you may have just heard h...