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And they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? we'll help you get there. tonight in our first question, our question comes from let's see, doubting tom, why are people writing obama's political obituary today? you're asking me and i'm going to give you my opinion. because that's the depth of their insight and they got nothing better to say. stick around, rapid response panel is next. >> thank you. i'm hampton peerson, a fed inspired rally on wall street, the dow gains almost 100 points and s&p adds 15 and close to new

630,000 private sector jobs created. so far this year but the lion's share of those back in march and april. so as you said, economy in neutral. job growth stuck across the board. >> all right. hampton peerson for us in capitol hill, thank you. the president of course talking about the jobs numbers today. >> at a signs company. that apparently is adding jobs. >> yes. in the gulf, took 109 days but at last the news everyone's been waiting for. bp's broken oil well is sealed for good. anne thompson is nbc's chief environmental affairs correspondent live in venice, louisiana, this morning. anne...

Still at 9.5%. with us now cnbc's hampton peerson to explain. thanks to the census, there's a net loss. tell us the details. >> well first of all, a net loss of census workers, they dropped out as of last month and a private sector gain of 71,000. back to the headline number, chuck, 9.5% unemployment unchanged. the reason is, frankly, fewer people actively looking for work last month and we had this big decline overall in payroll jobs of 131,000. the other thing, too, to drill down a little more on the private sector jobs, we had revisions for two months of may and june showing that essentiall...

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