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Months ago was it? 37 months ago, told us if he could borrow $787 billion, almost $1 trillion, he would keep unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. this president has not succeeded. this president has failed, and that's the reason we're going to get rid of him in 2012. >> so let's talk about that, david. is it enough that the economy is improving and is it enough that the president doesn't have it below 8%? >> my former boss, bill clinton, used to say elections are about tomorrow, they're not about yesterday, they're not even about today. they're about what people perceive to b...

caught on tape. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the politics of unemployment swirling today as president obama and the republicans try to spin the latest jobless numbers to their political advantage. while the president is highlighting new signs of economic strength, the republicans are spotlighting the unemployment level that remains unchanged despite solid job growth. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian has more in prince georges county in virginia. dan? >> reporter: wolf, the president came here today because he says rolls royce jet engines are helping to b...

tech equipment supplied by iran. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara also seeing reports of high-level defections including at least four generals. do u.s. officials think that's significant? >> reporter: right now, john, senior u.s. intelligence officials are telling us no. and that's the problem. they are seeing no cracking in the inner circle around because char bashar all assad. they are seeing no evidence his powerful inner circle is cracking. and that imagery that has now been declassified and released today is also critical. because what it'...

let's get straight to the news. we have a busy hour ahead. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the government says another 227,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in february and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. that's largely due to almost half a million discouraged job seekers returning to the search. is the third straight month of job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. he's in austin, texas, at the music -- oh, boy. he's at the music, movie, festival, technology, all that stuff, south by southwest, kind of th...

The $787 billion stimulus into law, the nation's experiencing its longest run of high unemployment since the great depression, and the congressional budget office is predicting unemployment will stay above 8-point until 2014. why florida republiccage congressman allen west it nose -- is not surprised. the president says that stimulus plan saved jobs and prevented a depression. you're not buying it? >> no i'm not buying that. and to dove tail off what you and charles just talk about, we continue to see unemployment at record levels since the depression. we still have millions of americans that ...