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Hasn't changed. we're $16 trillion in debt right now. people aren't talking about that. it's scary. so the debt factor is really no indication as to what's happening in the markets so there's this huge discrepancy so i think we're headed toward some very serious rough waters. >> how is wall street getting it wrong right now? >> i don't know. i think that's really scary. there's a lot of optimistic analysts that hope things will catch up but at the end of the day i think that the balloon is going to bust. >> if the analysts are optimistic, which is good, but they can't control the market just b...

Equipment, new equipment, might be beneficial to more effectively search in deep water? >> well, carol, you're sort of talking about the end result, if you like. where i would really like to go back to recorroborate and reanalyze the macrolevel data that we have from inmarsat, for example. or going back to the malaysians and really trying to get the malaysians to be open and honest about what information they have from when the aircraft last disappeared off radar in the south china sea all the way through what we think is its track from indonesia and banda aceh and itself. that to me is corrob...

Concern isn't that this causes people to go, i'm going to vote for the republicans who clearly ha are clean and scandal free. but rather that it makes people go man, i can't believe in anybody. this young kid gets elected in charlotte to be the mayor and this young man who is a gun control advocate. it turns people away all together. >> it chips away democracy. we don't trust anybody and it is a real problem. >> people have the scandals but on a macro level, democrats, who ever it is need to be campai campaigning and thinking about these issues from strength. they are running away from obama c...

Especially the payroll number will be revised up, today's report actually comes at a very critical time of course for this debate over whether we should extend unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed. a number in the report that i haven't heard anyone talk about yet today, 2.5% of the labor force is long-term unemployed. they've been out of work for at least six months. historically when we've had that many long-term unemployed people, congress has extended those benefits. it's bad on microlevel because there are job issues out there for people trying to get jobs and it hu...

Then a day or two later as people were talking about this, i heard some of them saying, why are we all so angry here? so, i brought in psychologist wendy walsh, and i went through a couple of stories from the past few weeks, past few months, and i asked her, why are we all so angry? >> there's a lot of tension in america right now. i think americans are hurting at the macrolevel, you know, more and more concentration of wealth is in a tinier portion of america. the average annual wage of people has not moved up. so, that looked to me like a clash of the haves and the have-nots, a big range rov...