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So good headline for the white house but this comes against the back drop of the rising inflation. give us your sense of the political moment for the jobs report and the economic picture as a whole? >> well, i find it inating. because you probably remember this too, but in the lead up to the 2010 midterms, where democrats were frankly about to take it on the chin, the big conversation item was could they get the unemployment rate down to below 10%. it was lingering at 9.5%. i just pulled up an article from october of 2010, where obama is fretting that he can't get unemployment below 9% and now...

Strongly at this juncture to a near term recession. and yet that being said, everything is being blotted out by inflation. the cost of goods, the cost of gasoline specifically as you know, jonathan, are preoccupying both the white house and dominating the political conversation. and so you have months where you create 390,000 jobs, unemployment stayed at 3.6% and wages tick up at a robust pace and yet none of that can overcome a narrative that frankly is crippling democrat and hurting biden and frustrating white house aides because they feel like they have very few tools at their disposal to d...

wide-ranging better view. and growing likelihood israel could attack iran's nuclear sites anytime in the next few months. that chilling prospect is only the latest stunning statement by leon panetta. why is she speaking so freely? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." it's been a long time since economists have sounded so giddy about jobs, but they're cheering, showing nearly a quarter of a million jobs, 243,000 were added in january, far more than expect ed the dow jones industrials just closed, up more than 150 points to reach its highest level in almost four years....