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who i have known since 2007 when we were arguing against a troop increase in iraq and i can tell you on a personal level especially reading his book he cares what happens to the soldier or the marine on the ground embedded in combat and i think in afghanistan with green on blue killings, a question of projection of force and embedded with afghan troops, this is someone to say is this worth the sacrifice and there was a large debate in washington, d.c. prior to the increase of troops in afghanistan and hagel quietly was on the side that was against the president's plan of sending more...

Economist" and peter hart, half of the nbc news/"wall street journal" polling team, and chairman of hart research associates and politico's editor in chief, john harris, an all-star cast. greg, first to you. you're the economic expert. tell us about this jobs report and why you have a blog post saying more of the same unfortunately. >> it was a real disappointment relative to what wall street had expected this morning. the number is about just enough to keep, you know, the labor force steady, not enough to get the unemployment rate down by much, not enough to -- so that it keeps going up. it's...

start in service, because i worked with folks who had been laid off from steel plants that had closed when jobs started getting shipped overseas, and over the last ten years, we've seen that happen more and more. too many families struggling with costs that keep rising, even when paychecks don't. so people are having to use their credit cards or home equity loans just to try to make the mortgage or pay tuition or put gas in the car or food on the table. and that debt is why this house of cards collapsed in the great recession. millions of innocent americans losing their jobs and thei...

A thousand days in office. and with a weak jobs report last month and the new numbers coming on friday, a largely overlooked factor is that unemployment has fallen faster in key swing states than the country as a hole. greg ipp is here. this is a very little noticed fact but that's why we rely on people like you to dig through it, that in key states the economy's improving and there are states like ohio and michigan benefited from the auto bailout which is under attack today from a new romney campaign video. >> it's ohio, michigan, even florida for example where the unemployment rate has fal...

duckerburg end up in a chinese government police documentary. that screams photo shop, doesn't it? good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. mitt romney will likely go over the top when he wins the uncontested texas primary today. but speaking of going observe the top, donald trump, he just can't seem to give up on his birther obsession. even on the day hosting romney at a fund-raiser. chris cillizza an msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com. listen to trump on "squawk box." >> his mother was never in the hospital, they don't know which hospital it was. hi...