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Crisis. there's over a trillion in student loans outstanding, tough economic times, lots of de lin quence -- delinquencies, the president wants the money. bill: dead beat students? >> when you've got a trillion dollars worth of debt outstanding, and a rising delinquency rate, you've got yourself a debt crisis. you've got to go after that money and get it somehow. bill: department of education is a big part of this. thank you stuart, see you at 9:20fbn, okay? nice to see you. martha: always nice to see stuart. those are a few of the big stories we've got for you this morning in "america's newsr...

>> yes, we are. they are spending more on credit cards, visa's profits went up, retail sales in january were solid. you're seeing a tale of two economies here. overall, big picture, we're spending some money, the economy is growing, companies are profitable. go downstream a little bit and you'll see a housing crisis and jobs crisis. it's a tale of two economies, two economic realities, bill. bill: it is unique for all of us now. stuart, see you at 9:20fbn. martha: we want to show thaw president obama is at the national prayer breakfast right now, just making comments about egypt. we'll get tho...

Gas billionaire and rupert murdoch, parent of this company, in the media. bill: j.p. morgan employs 50,000 people around the world, newscorp, thousands of jobs around the world. are they going to thank them for those jobs? >> what do you think, bill? >> there's a vote later in the senate 4r5eu9er -- later today. will they pass? >> probably not. it is as you say a procedural bill on the jobs bill which contains that surtax on millionaires as a way of paying for the jobs bill. you need 60 votes in the senate to get this thing through, the votes probably are not there. when it's defeated, that ma...

The headline that disappoints everybody else, especially the economists and investors, is 103,000 new jobs only, a mixed bag. bill: yeah, the raw numbers are this. many had expected 150,000 jobs added, at the high end, 22 a -- 225,000, which you'd have pom poms in your hand had we gone that watt. not only did we not need the 150,000 threshold, we were under it 30 percent. >> that's correct, that's why it was a disappointment. especially if you saw what happened on wednesday, we came out and trumpeted the adp report on private hiring, nearly 300,000 new jobs was reported by adp. so we were expe...