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Interest compounded by the fact that the doj appointed an obama political donor to head up the investigation? >> well, i mean, there -- yes, the conflict of interest is real. how much this entire investigation at the irs has been something that the administration has hoped would disappear, fast and furious benghazi and everything else and the crisis of the threat of isis would just be drowned out in the background. once you're talking about criminal activity, i do believe because you have a new attorney general coming in, loretta lynch will be under pressure, if she is, to oversee this investi...

>> reporter: after serving two tours in afghanistan, tahmooressi moved to san diego in the spring to seek help for post traumatic stress. he spent march 31st in neighboring tijuana, walked back across the border to his car, then he says he made a wrong turn driving back towards san diego. >> swept south on a blind curve. there is no turnaround point. it's a point of no return with you make that one wrong left turn and that is literally what he did. >> reporter: with three firearms in his truck and no way back, the sergeant was arrested. >> he was confiscated, held captive, nearly killed by the...

We saw significant revisions over the previous two months. january's numbers were revised up from 129,000 to 144,000. and february was revised up from 175,000 to 197,000. that makes the last few months look a little better. and it starts to make december's and january's numbers look a little bit more like an outlier. still, this is the acceleration that a lot of economists thought could kick in as for this economic recovery. as for business and professional services, up 57,000. food services up 30,000. both construction and health care sectors added 19,000 jobs each. and once again, it's the g...

No question, but look at this chart. it's the total number of jobs in the country. and you can see how close we are to getting back to the number of jobs we had in 2008. if more than 129,000 jobs are created in march, it means the private sector will have made up all of the lost jobs in the recession in the crash that followed. the key word here is private, private-sector jobs. uncle sam still lagging behind in job creation, but that could be -- today could mark the day where we're back to where we started. >> we could. that number coming live, 8:30 eastern. you'll see christine live with it o...

But i guess it's better they have a job to get into a role that could grow. the point is a good one. they are not probably getting what they would feel is the appropriate wage. >> okay, so what, we are march 8 i think so the first quarter almost over. how do you think the job market is going to look the rest of this year? >> it's a great point. next month when the march number comes out on april 4 we could actually see an all-time high in private employment. we only need 129,000 more jobs before we get to that. that will catch a lot of people's attention. that's going to actually get a lot of ...