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inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that's because we got -- usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what's happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we've known each other now through a lot of presidential races. >> a long time. >> no, i don't tell anybody how long we've known each other. also, got alex axis, he's a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we've got some of the dishes this morning. i'm going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. >> parse that one out. >> yeah. i can't keep working on that. let's get right to what our "starting point" is, which here at south by southwest is all about some of the stories coming off the festival here. but first i want to show you what it was like in a time-lapse of crews setting up right here in our makeshift studio. take a look. ♪ that looks like a lot of work. i'm glade i got to just traipse in this morning, hey, is there coffee here? this morning we're going to talk to a man who is launching his company, star of the documentary "black in america," we're going to talk to him about why he's launching his company here. it's done a lot before. certainly twitter launched here at south by southwest. one of the co-founders. we'll talk to us about what went behind the launching this festival. father and son team of deepak and gotham chopra is joining us. gotham is doing a documentary about his dad. i don't know if that would be easier or hard to do a documentary about your dad. and if there's something he doesn't like, we'll ask him about that. first, though, what's happening with the jobs numbers. let's get right to christine with the latest on that. good morning. >> good morning. i want to show you on the magic wall what we're expecting today. 210,000 jobs. 8.3% unemployment rate in is what jobs creation has looked like for the year. you can see it got a little weak in the summer but this is the year and this is the february estimate here. not as good as last month but still a solid 200,000. i want to show you the political part of this story. let's go back here to -- this is the end of the bush administration. we started that huge falling off the cliff of jobs. very big hole here. it's taken a very long time to get things back on track. have three good months here. tough go of it, negative job creation and this, this is the part where people are saying is the trend that shows jobs are slowly, slowly, slowly starting to come back. but not nearly as much as you would like. 210,000 jobs is the expectation for today. we'll know for sure what happens at 8:30. soledad? >> thank you very much. so as she's talking about the predictions we're going to bring in the panel to discuss it and simon constable with the "wall street journal" as well. i want to talk because we're talking -- sorry. mike problems. look, a mike has appeared and it seems to work. >> we all need to share this? >> someoning is going to tell me if this is the talking stick. implications, we're going to wait to see what those numbers are at 8:30 eastern time. implications for the presidency and for people who would like to be president are huge. >> it's gigantic. everything is jobs, jobs shs jobs in 2012. as your graph showed, president obama has been bringing the economy back. a lot of people are frustrated it's not fast enough. as long as the president can create a trend for himself, this one is a little unusual. you just -- it's a little bit of of dip from the last but you want to keep see that graph goes upwards. really though for the election it's all going to matter what that graph says in, say, september and october. we live in such a fast parsley due to south by southest west and twitter and, in fact, information overload all the time, people are going to be really making a decision come the early fall. so right now obama just can't have that number go too low. >> it doesn't have to go too low though. we could be in for our third month in a row where 200,000 jobs have been created. as of last month all that had to happen is there needed to be 130,000 jobs per month between now and tend of the year for president obama to push back on his critics who say jobs were lost in his tenure because if we get 130,000 jobs created a month from here on in, all the jobs lost since president obama took office will have been regained. >> that would be a very big -- i want to bring in simon constable from the "wall street journal" joining us and joining the panel. the estimations that we just heard were somewhere around 200,000. >> yeah. >> and but others have said, listen, the threshold though is really 3 to 400,000, right? 200,000 in the way is a false number. explain that. >> well, the threshold you need is to keep pace with population growth and, on top of that you need to dip into what was lost and then gain all that back because we didn't keep up with population growth throughout the great recession. we lost a ton of jobs. yes, it's great to get back those jobs. a little said, yes, one130,000 month and then you have to get back the population growth as well. that's how you get near that 300,000 number. any of that, these are good numbers and they're going to be good numbers for president obama. i saw him do his very long press conference on super tuesday and he wasn't focused on the economy. he knows the economy is getting better. he is sitting pretty at the moment unless things go terri y terribly, terribly wrong. i think we're going to get at 200,000 number. i think that will be great for him. i think he will coming out with a press conference later to crow about it. i'm sure he will feel great about it. >> unless good charts -- forgive me for interrupting there -- is the gas prices number, though, right? completely inverse. >> i'm sure he won't be raising that. but it's funny. someone asked me yesterday you know, do the republican goes out and say, look, gas prices are high, do they remind people gas prices are high? they don't need reminding every time they go to the gas pump and have to give the gas attendant a fist full of 50s to fill a tank. they're reminded. so the republicans don't really have to do anything here. the gas price thing is a problem and it's a tax, like money being sucked out of your wallet. it's really not good. if that continues, that will be bad for the economy and then that will be bad for jobs and bad for the president. we're not there yet. >> simon constable from the "wall street journal." thank you, we appreciate it. let's get to the other stories. carlos difficult az is joining atlanta. >> police are investigating a deadly shooting at the university of pittsburgh. psychiatric clinic. they say a gunman walked in the front doors and opened fire with two semi automatic weapons. one person was killed and seven were wounded. the gunman was eventually shot dead by police. motive is still not known. the pardons of four convicted killers by former mississippi governor haley barbour will stand. the ruling by state supreme court upheld the pardons of more than 200 convicts in all. the court rejected a challenge by mississippi's attorney general randy walker who survived the shooting by one of the pardoned felons. of course, he will be a guest with soledad at 8:00 right here on "starting point.." israel is setting a time frame for an attack on iran as the country's supreme leader is now praising the u.s. prime minister benjamin netanyahu hopes there won't be a war and diplomatic pressure on iran works. when it comes to tehran's nuclear threat, he said time is running out. >> translator: i am not standing with the stopwatch in hand. it is not a matter of days of weeks, but also not a matter of years. everybody understands this. >> meantime, iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khomeni calling his words and actions wise. the advertising boycott of conservative radio show host rush limbaugh has taken its toll. yesterday there was more than five minutes of dead air during commercial breaks on the new york version of the show. dodds sevens of companies have pulled ads after the conservative talk show host called georgetown law student sandra fluke a slut for saying health care plans should cover her contraception. and this story is amazing. florida lawmakers battling in the state house over jay-z's lyrics. two state representatives invoking his hit song "99 problems" in a debate over a proposal to amend florida's evidence code. take a listen. >> i think jay-z said it best. and i'm going to quote it for you. i know my rights so you're going to need a warrant for that. even went further to say, aren't you sharp as a tack, you a lawyer or something? >> i disrespect simply disagree with the correction, williams, in the song it was the officer saying "aren't you sharp as a tack or something in you should try for lawyer or something. >> how about them apples? both half right. the actual lib r lyrics are cor but it's the cop who asks about searching the car. yes, soledad, we're breaking down jay-z's lyrics for "99 problems" and we're doing it in the government. back to you. >> i know. i know. there's something that's so very, very wrong about that. wow. on so many levels, carlos. all right. still ahead this morning on "starting point," some surviving details revealed in the tyler clemente case involving webcam spying. we'll update you in that case. i'm eating, so -- sorry. i'm having a hard time getting through our tease. here at southwest by southwest, not only a film festival, it's not only a musical festival, it's also about technology and one of the entrepreneurs hajj is going to join us. part of his goal is to bring more minorities into tech. we'll tell you about his idea. and, boy, it was a bad week for peyton manning. on wednesday, fired from the colts and now a good deed that he has done gets somebody else fired. we'll tell you what happened. we're going to go right play list, jay-z. but can you quote him accurately? 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[whispering] big dreams. ♪ this is off hajj's play list, lincoln brewster "the power of your name." you can see our play list on the web. many reasons to come to south by southwest, a music and film pest festival. this is where technology is launched. it started back in 1994, i believe, if i'm not mistaken. that's when they started to highlight it. aim right act that, lewis? >> it started in '94. >> see, when you have the guy who founded it right there, it's like, excellent research. so today hajj is going to be launching go kit, which is his deal. we profiled hajj in "black in america" and it was all about the challenges that african-americans face in getting into technology, breaking into technology as entrepreneurs. here's a little clip. >> you would think in silicon valley where you're supposedly judged based on talent alone and great ideas that you would be treated the same way, whether you're walking down the street or pitching an idea. it just truly re-enforces that that's not the reality that we as african-americans live in. >> hajj fleming joins us now because he is launching go kit. i heard this elevator pitch so go ahead. tell us about gokit. >> gokit is a visual address book. what we allow people to do is to be able to collect people and to be able to visually organize relationships. say, for instance, you come to south by southwest you have a big stack of business cards. >> yes. 12k3w4r and you leave with all of this information but how do you effectively visually organize the information. that's what we allow people to go with gokit. >> how did you come up with this idea? last year at south by southwest is when the idea came to you and a year later you're launching it. >> me and my cofounder andre bir rons came up with it last year. we thought it would be a great story to bring everything full circle. when you think about south by southwe southwest, it's truly a place of innovation. you will see companies like forest gray come and launch products, launch ideas here. so this becomes the perfect ground to be able to do that. >> why is that so powerful here to do that here? >> this is the geek spring break. i don't know if this was planned but very well done because every year you have geeks from all over the country and detroit. >> yes. >> coming down here to con grae gre gate, have a good time. when you've got such a high density of early adapter, it's a great way to launch new softw e software. >> the other side of gokit, because when we talked in the documentary your agenda was bringing more african-american, to study tech and be entrepreneurs like yourself. >> it's very important that we start to have more role models. we need to see people that are not just athletes, not just entertainers, and so this really became truly a platform to be able to make a more mainstream conversation because there was already people out there doing cool things and really to bring the conversation mainstream. >> if you're a millionaire or billionaire because of gokit, it help other people. >> absolutely. absolutely. it's not about me anymore. >> i'm being serious. you're from detroit. it's been a big push for you in detroit to get black kids in detroit to study tech and come into the industry. >> yes. and one of the cool things we do, we had one of the largest pre-screenings of high school students in the country. 200 students. mostly african-american in the city of detroit. >> it would be nice to change some of those numbers. i know alexis has something you're doing with i guess for your panel you're going to be doing a panel today and talk about the power of the internet. i think a lot of times people focus on the bad things, porn, et cetera, et cetera. >> yes. >> which really get my lighted a lot. but you're talking about the good job. >> i wanted to talk about the benevolent web. >> for teachers? >> wey. it basically let's public schoolteachers in underfunded communities over the country go online and say i need $100 for basic school supplies. you as a donor can give specifically to that classroom project. see the teacher, hear their sto story, sometimes get their handwritten thank you notes. it's doing such a great job that fund-raising about a million dollars for them to get at the tension of stephen colbert who is on the board of donors choose. and as someone who was just proudly named to the advisory counsel, i thought, what better way to celebrate than to come on cnn and offer an opportunity for people to use some of mine. i know warren buffett but wif got 10,000 dollars that i've earmarked for anyone using the matching code breadpig, i don't ask. it's a company i started. using that matching code i'll matchup to ten grand, any donation up to any donors. >> i gave $1,000 today you would watch the $1,000. >> they're capping it so it will be more than ten donors, but, any one of you who makes a donation, because, and what gets me so fired up is that i come to these conferences and, yes, postst most open people who are there are like me. i've been using life on cheap codes as a white male. so much opportunity. one where we have so much need for programming talent that i need as many kids who would otherwise to get turned on to math, science, technology. >> hajj, good luck with your launch today. we have to go to commercial break and continue our conversation through the commercials because we put all of our commercial break conversations online at cnn.com/startingpoint. rick santorum's southern strategy. is it possible to go after the guy behind him in the polls? and when you thought starbucks wouldn't come up with a good idea they've got a big one that home coffee makers might love. and peyton manning shows a softer side with a few tears on the announcement and a generous side with a big tip. but the waiter, what he does next gets him fired. we're going leave you with douglas brinkley's play list "mr. bojangles." ah, welcome to hotels.com. i get it...guys weekend. yeah! if you're looking for a place to get together, you came to the right place. because here at hotels.com, we're only about hotels. yeah! yeah! noooo. yeah! finding you the perfect place is all we do. welcome to hotels.com welcome back. that's the shot inside the cnn grill. this is a cnn grill play list. it has to be a person, who is the person who picked it? anyway, go back down a little bit. who is this? can you scroll the prompter down. a little more. a little more. a little more. i need to see the name of who is performing. there you go. wildlife control. "logger digital." our "get real" this morning. a rough week for may on the manning. first, fired by the indianapolis colts. $28 million payday, which really has got to hurt. and then this, a waiter at the angus barn, which is in raleigh, north carolina, posted the bill from when he went to eat at that restaurant. he racked up a $625 bill, adding an extremely generous tip because the restaurant already tacks on the 18%. so manning then went and tipped him another $200 on top of that 18% tip which he paid. so it's unclear if manning was being super, super generous or if he saw it and was generous, whatever. in any case, it's the last tip that waitress is going to get because he's been fired after that photograph was posted. the person who owns the restaurant said it's horrible that in a way that was tipped off to and revealed about someone's perm tip which i have to say, i agree with. you know, if you want people to come back to your restaurant you probably don't want to give inside scoop, even for a good thing or bad thing, i would guess. >> i feel sort of responsible to this because i remember reading it and said, that's awesome of peyton, what a great guy. i'm also a skins fan. i'm quietly grateful it sounds like we passed at him and looking at rg3. >> so you're guilty? >> i am. >> peyton manning being fired from the colts. in the history they will be together, so many great years there. it happens in sports. the party has to end at some point. somebody to spend their whole career on one team. i remember being such a hank aaron fan, broke the record with the atlanta braves and suddenly last year, milwaukee brewer. >> the question is whether that should continue to happen if difficulty when you're so young, decision about retirement comes along should you just make the decision about retirement and go out big, or as big as you can. >> or draw it out like brett favre. >> that's the other options. >> also painful. democrats are sending president obama a message on the keystone pipeline vote in the senate. we'll tell you what happened there. and new calls for newt gingrich to drop out. we're talking about to one of the folks who is behind his

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