>> let me give issue perspective. put aside the unemployment rate for a a while because there are lots of reasons why that's not the most effective way to look at this. the most effective way is job growth, the number of jobs lost or added in a given month. let's go back to january of 2011. you can see all through 2011, we gain jobs. off to a strong start and then we started talking about a double dip recession, issues in europe became more serious. our debt crisis became an issue, the debt ceiling debook kell that we had, the downgrade, all that happened in the late summer and companies were hesitant about hiring more people. but starting late summer and into the fall, we've had strong growth. from october through january, it's been a steady trend upward culminating in january where we added 243,000 job, the vast majority private sector jobs. how does it affect the political landscape? republicans have been using president obama's job creation record against him. and jobs are the intractable problem of our time. that's the most important thing that we have as to look at. so if you just take the number of jobs that were lost since president obama took office, you come out with 4.6 million jobs last in america since president obama took office. whether or not you want to hold him responsibility for that. how many jobs have been recovered since then? 3 1/2 million job, all ki accumulation of all of those months of job growth. 1.2 million jobs have not been recovered. if you dwhid by the number of months between now and election day, what you find is that you have to come up with 130,000 jobs a month for president obama to make the claim by election day that all the jobs lost on his watch have been recovered. we look at the strength of the job creation that we saw today, it makes it it entirely likely that you could see an average of 130,000 jobs or better created every month. so that is a political reality that republicans have to tackle over the next few months. there's no guarantee. it's entirely likely that europe could offset us or that's what could happen. but that's the reality as of today. >> chad myers is here and he'll tell us about the big winter storm. >> i was thinking how many jobs i'll be making for all those people shoveling snow in colorado. here's denver. about ten inches on the ground in denver proper. more up in evergreen, 36 inch snowfall totals. that's a lot of shoveling even though the snow is right something else that will happen, it's warm. as soon as the sun sets tonight, all those roads will refreeze again. so it will get slick. >> stay off the roads. is that what you're saying? 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that's the million dollar question. >> i think those questions remain and they will continue to be asked for days afternoon weeks to come. but from the perspective of capitol hill, republicans say that they had absolutely nothing to do with the decision. but aside from that, we know a couple things. working up here on capitol hill, we know republicans in the past have long tried to cut fund pog planned participants hood, federal funding for planned parenthood. this is aside from the komen foundation because many republicans don't want to see federal dollars going any organization that provides abortion services even though by law any federal money cannot be spent on abortion services. and we also know that still ongoing, there is a house committee investigation into planned parenthood led by a chairman of a house subcommittee, republican congressman cliff sterns, he's looking into how planned parenthood has used this money. he says reiterating the question that you had, he says i was not involved in either decision by the komen foundation but says he'll continue his investigation in to planned parenthood's use of taxpayer funds. so while maybe this komen issue may be going away, the question of planned parenthood still remains in the spotlight. >> and that was at least one catalyst behind this. if something is illegal going on, maybe we should stop our funding of this. so we have to move on now. thank you very much, kate. we appreciate it. coming up, the obama administration warns israel could attack iran in the spring. but what's behind the rhetoric? 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do you remember the president's lazy comment and the people said that was taken out of context, the other side. is this the case now with mitt romney? many people are say i understand what the president met by lazy, but not what romney meant by this. is this the same sort of thing that we're dealing with, is he right that everyone is looking for a gotcha moment? >> here i think is the problem with this particular gaffe or whatever you want to call it. it is out of context. he was trying to say what he just said. and it also relates to the president talking about lazy. and that is that it plays in on the caricature that people set up. so if you don't like president oba obama, you think that he is arrogant or that he doesn't care about blue collar workers or whatever it is, so when he talks about lazy americans, that plays into your preconceived notion of this president. when mitt romney says something that sounds complete thely distonic to caring about poor people, it feeds into that impression of him by critics that he in fact is too rich and too detached from real life to be able to be president. so it isn't so much that you make the gaffe. it's the gaffe that you make. >> very, very good. good analysis. it's a political year and you have to choose your words carefully i guess. >> you do. and mitt romney sort of said as much. but something else will happen. it will definitely come up again in the fall. >> let's talk about what we'll be covering this weekend, the nevada caucuses tomorrow. what should we expect there? >> if all the polling is correct, we should expect that mitt romney will win handedly. why? because he has kept up his ties there since the last time he ran in the nevada caucuses. he did very well the last time around and he's got momentum coming out of florida, although momentum hasn't meant a lot so far. but nonetheless, i think nevada we would all be thunder struck if mitt romney doesn't win them in some fairly handy fashion. >> i could talk with you all day. can we do that? >> go on. >> i will be watching you throughout the evening and all this weekend. don't forget to catch candy's state of the union 9:00 a.m. eastern sunday. and up next, israel could attack iran in the coming months. that strong comment from america's top defense chief and now iran's supreme leader has a stern warning for the u.s. rst it in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient... just look for the white check. forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and their families. now more than ever, it's important to get financial advice from people who share your military values. for our free usaa retirement guide, call 877-242-usaa. a story coming out of the middle east. lots of chatter on this one today. we reported yesterday that leon panetta thinks israel might attack iran's nuclear program maybe this string. and then iran's supreme leader said any attack on iran would be detrimental to america. then this from israel's defense minister. >> dealing with a nuclear ran would be far more expensive in blood and money than stopping it it today. in other words, hose who say in english later may find later is too late. >> let's bring in david mckenzie. question is, all this heated chat their we've been hearing, what is the mood in israel tonight? >> the mood it tense, but will isn't the first time we're hearing leaders make he's direct statements. ultimate it's arrest beha war of words. all the leaders saying we must not take a military response off the table. and you saw there's this immunity stage they feel that iran might have with a developed nuclear weapons to a certain point that israel cannot have an effect of strike against him. but the worry that analysts have is that all this talk by israel, which might just be a diplomatic talk to try to push sanctions against iran will actually ratchet it up to such a level that something might happen. so very dangerous times. >> so rhetoric or is there a sense action is going to have to be taken or will be taken? >> i don't think we're at that stage yet. the point is that this is rhetoric. we don't know very many facts about what israel is thinking about their nuclear program. we're saying they're willing to strike harks their time line is shorter than the united states. but when you at that time rhetoric of israel and in fact the supreme leader of iran, here's something he said today at a rally. >> translator: this is really the cancerous tumor and it needs to be removed and it will be removed. >> there he said basically that he wants to get rid of israel. a lot of analysts are saying that what israel is doing is trying to push its allies toward pushing sanctions against iran p. the most important sanctions is of course the u.s. and israel is very much paying attention what the secretary of defense said about when they might strike and there is this game going on, but it's a dangerous game. >> thank you very much. now to a murder mystery that has gotten very bizarre. a mother is found dead in an alley. and her husband is a person of interest. right some but the case now involves an alleged sex ddungeo and a possible paid hit. s sunny hostin on the case. 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