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Through the pentagon that will work with logistics on deciding exactly how many troops and what exactly their operations will be. we know they will help with surveillance and help with operational support, fleet mechanics and maybe some air surveillance, which would be a big help as well. we know that customs and border protection is welcoming this assistance. we need it because arthel, you know, we all know, we have a porous border and it's a serious concern. >> arthel: i want to take a look at numbers, congressman. in 2004, border patrol agents arrested approximately 1.1 million illegal alie...

Politically, that we haven't actually started to look at the effectiveness of it and this is just adding, in my opinion, to the ineffectiveness of how you approach this problem. >> kevin barrett is with me. executive editor, defense one. you raised an interesting point. i want to call our viewer's attention to this statistic. the president has been focused on border skrut security. real and perceived to a certain exte extent. tweeting this morning, board of the truck administration action, border crossings are at a still unacceptable 46 year low. these statistics are from the department of hom...

Some encouraging news on the jobs front. jobless claims dropping to 304,000. but this could fuel inflation, and in that happens, this could cause stagflation. now, what does this mean to all of us? joining us now, mike mcqueen. thanks for joining us. we're talking about stagflation. is that actually going to happen? >> i don't think so. we're starting to see a little bit of wage increases. this jobs report that came out on friday, lots of new jobs created. and it doesn't always happen early. people that were expecting it to happen, they're not seeing it.

Little bit. that's good news. they dropped by 11,000 week over week. came in at 304,000. ultimately that's good news. you want less claims week after week. if it were under 300,000, that would be nice. that was not the case. it was 304,000. so you still have so many americans still out of work. that being said, the market this morning, these futures are point to go a lower open to the tune of about 140 points to the down side. you can go ahead and blame europe this morning, at least in part. there is news in portugal pertaining to a bank there and some missed debt payments and bonds. that's mo...

More than many economists predicted. the labor department calls the job gains widespread including some higher wage jobs, not just in the service sector. >> look at that unemployment rate fell to 6.1%. that's the lowest since before the recession. our chief business correspondent christine romans has been having a busy day as has alison kosick watching the markets from the new york stock exchange. i have to start with you, can we finally say that we have a strong economic recovery going on here? >> well, what we can say and saying on cnn money the economy has hit its stride. the jobs recovery ...