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And, three, a take charge agenda. so what's going on? let's start with jobs. >> for the last eight, nine months, this election has been headed to a bad place for democrats and they needed these three things to happen to change that trajectory. in the jobs front, they really desperately needed to get down towards 9% and instead we've had 9.7, 9.7, 9.7, and we even had bad unemployment claims hop up yesterday. so unemployment is simply not getting significantly better right now. >> and is that because people who are getting back to work are people that were halftime, part-time, are now working f...

What's going on? how would you rate all three? start with jobs. >> for the last eight, nine months this elected is headed to a bad place for democrats and they needed these three things to happen to change that trajectory. and in the jobs front, they really desperately needed to get down towards 9%. instd, we've had 97, 97, 99, 97 and had bad unemployment claims hop up yesterday. unemployment is simply not getting significantly better right now. >> is that because people who are getting back to work are people that were half-time, part timeç now working full-time bu not getting credit as new...

>> going to paint b.p. like wildcats. >> these other four, conoco, phillips, exxon mobil, shell and chevron, trust me, they'll be portraying b.p.'s methods of not representative of the industry when they testify tomorrow because let's face it, the public perception right now of oil drilling, we talked about this on your radio show not so great right now. and that has a lot to do. you saw what happened in florida during the elections last year, they voted down more off-shore drilling. so this perception issue is huge. >> coming up at 7:20 eastern time, robert gibbs joins us live to talk about w...

Do you think it sent a message in any way to anybody in law enforcement who was there or any of the other representatives, or do you think it was just kind of a perception issue? >> i think it is trying to throw their weight around. yes, i do think it is an effort to try to bully the department of justice. we've heard the president talk openly about bob mueller and rod rosenstein's jobs being on the line and that he has the power to get rid of them. anderson, i think the best way to stop this type of obstructive behavior would be to pass the bipartisan legislation that's come out of the senate...

Mueller, the source said. end. but it just does not -- none of joining us now to discuss how these conversations between the it smells like it is something president and these witnesses that is normal or on the up and ended up on the special up. counsel's radar and what that >> but also, if you look at, might mean for any investigation say, the obama administration, into potential obstruction of you could maybe understand if justice is the reporter who david axelrod did something like broke this news, michael that. you would never buy that tom schmidt. michael schmidt, it's a stunning accoun...