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>> andrew thanks for being with us tonight keep up the great work you are invaluable. >> thank you very much. >> next, jobs report is in. the government says 162,000 jobs were added in march. good news, right? not so fast. we'll tell what is really we'll tell what is really behind that number still haven't tried activia? listen to this story. my problem was occasional irregularity. my commercials didn't convince you? i'm definitely a skeptic. actually, my mom convinced me. and i have activia every morning for breakfast.

Jobs report as proof the economy is beginning to boom. numbers released this morning by labor department show 162,000 jobs were added in march. a closer look shows how deceiving that number is. first, we know the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.7%. we also know that of 162,000 jobs created, 48,000 of those were added by the u.s. census bureau. separately, according to the associated press, temporary help services reported 40,000 job -- sorry 40,000 job increase. the surge in temp jobs the answer to turning the economy around? joining me the author of the sellout. charles gasparino. f...

America's economy all the way back. but we are beginning to turn the corner. >> just one year ago we were losing more than 700,000 jobs each month. but the tough measures that we took, measures that were necessary, even though sometimes they were unpopular have broken this and are helping us to climb out of this recession. we've now added an average of more than 50,000 jobs each month over the first quarter of this year. and this month's increase of 162,000 jobs was the best news we've seen on the job front in more than two years. >> even before the numbers were out, republicans downplayed the...

>> good evening. >> clearly we here at the show love the bikini graph too much. >> i don't see it. >> you don't see the bikini part? >> i don't see the bikini part. i've looked at this graph many times, i've been trying to figure it out all day. i don't see the bikini. >> i don't see it either. i'm with you. the unemployment rate, john boehner's right when he says the unemployment rate is unacceptable, it still absolutely stinks. but in the big picture of what we can say about jobs in this country, we are getting good news, aren't we? >> absolutely. it's 162,000 jobs created. at one point, the...

Do. yeah! >> woo-hoo! >> thank you very much. in the month of march, 162,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy. that's the way i interact with the map. that marks the biggest one-month increase in jobs in three years. now, look. the economy is clearly still struggling. we've still got a long way to go for all the jobs lost over the last years. but when you look at where we were, when you look at the left hip of the bikini graph, when you realize we were losing about 700,000 jobs each month, this is a step in the right direction, right? >> the tough measures that we took, measures that were n...