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to mark veterans day on "washington journal" we have a full lineup of guests. we begin with a question for you about america's connectedness with its military. is it are forgotten 1%? many people are looking at the consequences of an all-volunteer army and the closing of many military bases around the country and suggesting it has consequences for us from a policy perspective. we will talk about that and open up our phone lines on this veterans day morning. good friday morning to you, a day when lots of people who look at numbers are looking at today, 11-11-11. we are going to spend ...

start with the jobless numbers. our christine romans, once again, back with us there in new york. let's talk about is this really as bad as it sounds? >> reporter: look. as one economist said, ian sheped heardson said a big bucket of cold water. 18,000 jobs created overall. the estimates ranged from 80,000 to 125,000. market and economists expected more jobs creation than that. when you dig within the numbers you can see government jobs were shed. wow. thousands. 57,000 private sector jobs created but 39,000 government jobs lost. unemployment rate went up. so this tells you, kyra, bo...

Treated with respect by his interrogators. president obama has been getting plenty of criticism from those about how he's handling the crisis in egypt. now he's getting new criticism, some fresh criticism from a former house speaker, newt gingrich, who says the president isn't ready for the pro-s on this. he's taking aim at the white house with their envoy, saying they can't get on the same page. >> look, i think the fact that they appointed a very able diplomat, frank wisner flea markets -- frank wisner, and we're contradicting him. john bolden said it's inconceivable that they would be thi...

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egypt. charter flights now and moody's down grading the bond rating. it warns that political crisis could put egypt in dire financial straits. >> they are on pins and needles over there. for more of what's happening on the ground in egypt, we're joined by greg palkot live in cairo. greg? >> hey, how you doing, folks? we're into our first full week of the unrest here. there is no sign of any let-up. we just got back from the central square that's been the flash point for all the protests in the past seven days. and it's filling up with protesters and we got an earful of the folks, wha...