Good morning, i m thomas roberts. welcome to our live coverage as we re watching the president leave the stage from the press conference he just held at the g-8 conference. there s a lot to talk about it this morning. while the president is over there dealing with europe s debt crisis, he s responding to mixed number on the latest jobs report. he talked about how things could be happening here, especially just then about the american jobs act. we want to bring in mike viqueira, live from the white house, and jared bernstein, a former chief economist and economic policy adviser to vice president biden, as well as melissa francis. mike viqueira, i want to start with you, the president is being taken to task in that press conference in comparison to what he can bring to the table when a lot of the attention at the g20 summit is being paid to nick
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