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Listen to this. in 2010 his contract called for a base salary of almost $442,000 with an added allowance of om $80,000. no strings attached. he could spend it as he wishes. oh, and no taxes, either, by the way. first class airfare was covered for strauss-khan and his family whenever he was on "official business." hotel expenses as well. now to the middle east. as you may have heard live right here on cnn, president obama just reset the course of u.s. policy in the wake of the arab uprisings, of the death of osama bin laden, of the new palestinian alliance, of the nuclear standoff with iran, ...

educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america's interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don't like, the regimes we don't like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is...

Bottom line the american job market remains very tough. let's break the numbers down for you. last week we saw 484,000 americans file for unemployment benefits for first time. up 24,000 from the week before. week before that which ended march 27th saw 442,000 such claims. that had been a drop of 3,000. contrast all of this with one year ago at this time, these claims exceeded 600,000 at that time. the peak, which came in march of '09, had been over 650,000. so much for first-time claims. now look at something called continuing claims. these are more than 4.5 million people who collected at lea...

Out. bill: in the meantime, we have new job numbers from the labor department, not good news as it relates to those looking for work and this is an unexpected spike in jobless numbers, 484,000, and filing first time claims, last week the second week in a row, of increases. james rosen is live in d.c., and read deep in the numbers, where are the jobs? >> well, bill, they are hard to find and this was a real surprise, for economists, and an unwelcome one, the obama administration is citing and news alley complex set of what they call sees name adjustments. the government statisticians had to mak...

U.n. security council members are putting together a talk. hillary clinton says they're united in their talks. let's hope so. >> i think all the members, as well as every other member of the united nations is open to negotiated solutions. we happen to think that action of the security council is part of negotiation and diplomacy that perhaps can get the attention of the iranian leadership. >> gretchen: the obama administration hopes to get a u.n. resolution passed by the end of april. >> i think we're getting the jobless claims. here we are. initial jobs claims for the week ending march 27 are...