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challenged the president's birthplace after which president obama produced the birth certificate, and trump said that the president doesn't know what he is doing, end quote, and charged that the world has lost respect for america because we are not tough enough, and he said that he could end the gas problems with a single call to saudi arabia, but none of that is to be. gloria borger is standing by, our political analyst in washington. here is a question for you, did anybody in the race consider trump to be a factor, or like so many people i have been hearing from on twitter think it...

let's listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavour's" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark kelly and greg johnson. between and behind them, flight engineer -- >> to ato. rog roger. >> "endea...

The bush administration, this economy lost 779,000 jobs. let's fast forward, 2010, we gained 600,000 private sector jobs. first quarter of this year, gdp increased. >> gregg: lost 2.4 million jobs actually. >> we are in lot better shape than the last administration and the trend is in the right direction. i think democrats look at this. they say look, the numbers are very compelling and continuation of the policies that democrats put in place. tax cuts for small businesses. >> gregg: did the president promise that if you pass the stimulus bill unemployment will not get greater than 8%. what is...

We lost 779,000 jobs. the loss of 125,000 is really a major improvement since then. though we got to admit the recovery is slowing. this drop i mentioned we had in june, the 125,000, that was expected because jobs for more than 200,000 temporary census workers, those were phased out. now the more important number that everybody is latch on to is that private sector hiring number. we gained 83,000 jobs in the private sector. it is still weak, but it is better than last month. and finally, another headline number, kyra, we're watching is that unemployment rate you mentioned at the top. surprisin...

Is a giant graph. it shows job losses during the final year of the bush administration, during 2008. as you can see there, each month of 2008 was pretty much worse than the last. in september of 2008, when the meltdown was in full effect, the u.s. economy lost about 450,000 jobs. then in october, another 55,000 jobs. then in november, another 730,000 jobs. during president bush's final month in office, january of 2009, the u.s. economy lost a pretty staggering 779,000 jobs. one month, 779,000 jobs lost. that's what the current president was handed when he came into office. essentially freefall...