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Are certainly major focus of everybody's attention right now. we'll sort of wait and see how that turn out. for me it is a decision as to, you know whether i can be a net plus to the party in stepping forward and saying the things i have to say. and stand up for the things i fought for. >> greta: often times people who are thinking of running, there's a burning issue something that bugs them makes them step forward. anything that got you a little bit that you would like to fix? >> it is such a target rich environment in washington when it comes to things to fix. the national security is a big ...

Are certainly major focus of everybody's attention right now. we'll sort of wait and see how that turn out. for me it is a decision as to, you know whether i can be a net plus to the party in stepping forward and saying the things i have to say. and stand up for the things i fought for. >> greta: often times people who are thinking of running, there's a burning issue something that bugs them makes them step forward. anything that got you a little bit that you would like to fix? >> it is such a target rich environment in washington when it comes to things to fix. the national security is a big ...

The bill and that it won't matter much. >> and talk about reform as well? >> well, it seemed the democrats after financial reform were going to deal with energy and now suddenly they are talking about immigration and it does seem -- pardon me for being a little cynical in this but it is less that they really feel they can get something done and more that they think gee, we would like to energize those hispanic voters and it will be a net plus to us politically. senator mcconnell had a great comeback saying i don't think when we have 10% unemployment, we should be talking about immigration refo...

>> i'll take the first part first, which i think the deficit is going to be considerably smaller in fiscal 2010 than most people realize. if you go back to fiscal nine, we had federal tax receipts fall about 30%. that's not going to happen this year. as was reported in the march numbers, there was a $129 billion reduction in the deficit thanks to rising tax receipts and falling spending because the bailout's being paid off. right now, the price tag is only $89 billion. the fed may earn that back this year and give it to the treasury. there could be a net plus by the time this bailout is over. ...

Numbers 45,000 in the health and education sector. leisure and hospitality, 22,000, manufacturing showing some steady but shallow gains, 17,000. construction 15,000. also retail added 15,000 jobs. that's not on the board but that happened as well. what we're beginning to see and the president talked about this is not just one or two sectors but many, many sectors adding some jobs on a monthly bases. >> shepard: break down the report, the best news and the worst news. >> the best news is private sector job growth of whatever kind. this is the largest priority sector job growth since may have 20...