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and mike wallace, even for those of us who didn't work with him as you did, mika, was just the legend. he was the man. >> and i would add to what you said about the reagan interview and how he would take on close family friends, close family friends as well as major superstars and world leaders expected nothing less from him. and sat there fully aware as to what was about to happen. moving on to other news, the u.s. economy. the jobs numbers that came out friday worth talking about. added just 120,000 jobs in march. that's the smallest increase in the past five months. according to the latest government numbers that were released last week. economists and market analysts expect the number of jobs created to be in the 200,000s. they expected that. the unemployment number dipped 8.2 p 8.3. but mainly because many people stopped looking for work, and that's one of the big issues is the long-term unemployed, which are extremely high numbers compared to other dips we've seen historically. >> really high numbers.
they have got two basic problems, and they kind of come down to george w. bush and his economic road map. if you look at the 1990s under bill clinton where we had more progressive taxation, certainly the regulatory regime was, if anything, more emphatic than it was during the 2,00000s, jobs t grew four times as fast, middle class incomes that actually grew by about 10% in those years as opposed to fell 5%, 6% even during the bush recovery, and people remember that, reverend sharpton. if you poll people to this very day and remind them about the bush economy and the policies that got us into this mess, they don't have amnesia on that stuff, and so the road map that these guys are touting. romney in some ways is the best exam. his big plan is to take the corporate rate down ten percentage points. >> right. >> you mentioned herman cane's extremely regressive tax ideas.