the president s chairman of the council of economic advisers. just reporting on the jobs numbers. 200,000 new jobs. we ll talk about that. jon huntsman is joining us. also in the 5:00 p.m. eastern hour, a live interview, in the situation room, herman cain. coming back to talk to us about what s going on right now. one other thing you should know, don, ask me the question, what is it. what is it, blitz? this is the last show we re doing from this venue in the situation room. next week, i m going to be at the cnn election center monday, tuesday and wednesday, but when i come back to washington on thursday, we ve got a whole new situation room going on and we re building a whole new studio that s going to be ready later this year, but i feel sort of sad. you see these lovely walls and all the stuff, the video. this is the situation room we
alison, everyone is noting that this is just a part of the trend. right. well, first of all, don, it is an encouraging report, especially when you look at the trend here. when you look at the trend, 1.6 million jobs have been added in the last year. the unemployment rate is at 8.5%. so, yes, things are getting better. the dow is down and nasdaq is mixed. not so overly impressed. as things improve, the expectation is rising and the fact is these numbers just didn t blow away expectations. the economy at this point is kind of like an economy that s had its training wheels taken off but we still haven t moved into the fast lane and wall street wants to see if the economy is picking up steam. and when you break up these numbers, it s not equal among everyone. it s not. the unemployment rate didn t budge for african-americans. in fact, the black unemployment rate in december was 15.8%. compare that to the rate for whites at 7.5%. you know what, economists say, it s nothing k
the big guns in the democratic party will hit the road almost nonstop as they struggle to maintain control of the house and the senate. and the next two weeks, president obama had no fewer than an 18-campaign event scheduled. including a youth town hall in washington on thursday. vice president joe biden has a half dozen campaign event this is week. and bill clinton has about ten campaign stops scheduled in the next week and a half. now democrats are putting their brightest star to work. first lady michelle obama will hit the campaign trail tomorrow with events from coast to coast. joining me now, washington post reporter. thanks for joining me. good to see you. good to see you. so how will the first lady be used here? many don t expect her to get down and dirty and attack the other side. how does the party use her effectively, knowing how popular
in washington on thursday for the first time in two years and president obama is going to host at least the initial session. they have a timeline of just one year to get things done. what realistically can we expect. they shouldn t expect to get anything done in a year and the timeline is artificial and the president should let netanyahu and abbas negotiate and netanyahu said he wants to meet every two weeks and that is good and don t impose unrealistic expectation and it will blow up and will be worse than if there were no talks at all and if you don t have unrealistic expectations, the talks are good. chris: juan. the question is settlements and, if they go back into the settlements and, the last time the talks were cut off is because israel launched the offensive in gaza and now there is a break and the question is, can netanyahu hold together his forces in israel, in terms of israeli politics, to say, you know what? we are best served by some sort of peace, despite the pressu
in washington on thursday for the first time in two years and president obama is going to host at least the initial session. they have a timeline of just one year to get things done. what realistically can we expect. they shouldn t expect to get anything done in a year and the timeline is artificial and the president should let netanyahu and abbas negotiate and netanyahu said he wants to meet every two weeks and that is good and don t impose unrealistic expectation and it will blow up and will be worse than if there were no talks at all and if you don t have unrealistic expectations, the talks are good. chris: juan. the question is settlements and, if they go back into the settlements and, the last time the talks were cut off is because israel launched the offensive in gaza and now there is a break and the question is, can netanyahu hold together his forces in israel, in terms of israeli politics, to say, you know what? we are best served by some sort