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Treadmills or whatever, right? the cancer drug story was first reported by sarah cliff who writes for the blog at the washington post. whether it is local news covering impact of the state by state of the sequester or wonkier than the usual blog of blogs, about cuts who aren't supposed to cut medicare patients hurt them anyway or the sinking in of the realization that if you cut head start by this much, that means that some places, like indiana, are going to start deciding whether or not american children can can go to preschool by lottery. that's their only chance at preschool in their whole ...

Hugo chavez frias passed away. >> in the hours after that announcement, the people of venezuela poured into the streets. some marking chavez's death with mourning. others cheers. just like the political split in the united states, support for chavez has divided venezuela. those who loved him say chavez put their country on the map, empowered the poor, made their country increasingly democratic. but others remember chavez as a tyrant, corrupt, even murderous, a man who supported fascist regimes in libya, iran, syria. shasta darlington is live today in caracas. and, shasta, this is a man relishe...

Joining me now is james peterson and jarrod burnstein. jarrod, these cuts seem bad no matter what party you're from. what's your analysis of this? >> obviously, bad. for the economy, as you mentioned, remember -- you don't hear this enough. we have an unemployment rate that's already way too highly elevated, stuck at 8% overall for african-americans, much higher. and what does this kind of policy do? it takes an economy that's already not growing quickly enough and subtracts $85 billion of spending in 2013. that shaves about half a percent off gdp growth. so whether we're talking about a macro...

He liked being able to mingle with the populous. he didn't want to attract attention of someone surrounded by guards. there's debate not just on this macro level but also on the micro level of how we'll conduct ourselves vis-a-vis stuff like syria but also diplomatically. >> diplomacy's clarifying. if you try, then it fails, it's something that's -- it shows you that these -- it tells you something about the people you're talking with. and then if you have to escalate, you've got a much better argument to your own people, to the congress in our case, to the rest of the world why you are forced...

To 5.2 percent right now. today we learned it is 7.9 percent. that is 9 until jobs short of what he promised. >> what is the truth behind these numbers? let's ask. thank you for joining us. good news or bad news? how did it all shake out? >> it is bad news with america with respect to what we can generate and what we have in the past. if you look at it more micro level 131,000 is an improvement. overall the whole jobs picture is really there. >> what we need is 250,000. >> at a minimum. you start to celebrate 171,000. you know the reaction was? the stock market. this number was better than exp...