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Sluggish as it was during the campaign and may still be. so before the election, i pledged i would wear a dress if 12 million jobs were created over the next four years, just for a week by the way, under any president and whether or not i plan to honor that pledge, i'm constantly reminded of it. as crazy as it sounds, i would like to lose my bet, not because i want to wear a dress, much, but i do want a lot of jobs to be created. you heard me say that presidents get all together too much credit and too much blame for creating jobs, but the president did make a promise. so let's see how it's go...

It's got to go over many, many months, but we're two months into president obama's second term. the economy should have added 500,000 jobs. the economy has added 356,000 jobs in february and march leaving a shortfall of 144,000 jobs. i want to bring in alan krueger, the chairman of the president's council on economic advisers. alan, welcome to the show. you said the automatic spends cuts that washington calls the sequester would slow economic growth and job creation. think back to the campaign when the president said clearly the sequester would not happen. given that it's happened, has he revi...

>> brian: you talk about where the crossings are. in the south, i couldn't believe it. say on average, 356,000 plus are illegal aliens are apprehended in the south. in the north 4,210 and those numbers seem like the north is no problem. you believe that we are very vulnerable there intentionally? >> it's virtually unpatrolled. in essence we have no idea what is coming across the northern border. right now the southern border, the agents are telling us, they are catching less than 3% of what they know crosses the border in the tucson sector. >> brian: so what has to be in the immigration debate...

>> if an unemployment extension is not included in the fiscal cliff deal, 2.1 million americans will face an immediate loss in federal unemployment insurance. it will result in a cut of $284 a week for the average beneficiary. and that's a lot of dough for the average american. it's important to keep in mind the unemployment cliff is really a cliff, urban a slope. tax increases and other spending cuts will fall into place over time. but not with unemployment insurance. unemployment americans who rely on federal aid will be cut off on january 1st, 2013. however, there is some good news on the u...

If congress does not act, it will mean that some 2 million people and their families will really be at a loss as to how to survive economically. >> if an unemployment extension is not included in the fiscal cliff deal, 2.1 million americans will face an immediate loss in federal unemployment insurance. it will result in a cut of $284 a week for the average beneficiary. and that's a lot of dough for the average american. it's important to keep in mind the unemployment cliff is really a cliff, urban a slope. tax increases and other spending cuts will fall into place over time. but not with unemp...