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State senate president of colorado senate, john morse. one of two senators being targeted in the recall. he joins us from denver now. senator, thanks for your time. let me ask you about that point, we have jennifer kerns right here, part of the effort, leading the effort to recall you. she's invoked mayor bloomberg. we see ads playing off, oh, this is the billionaire mayor from new york trying to meddle in colorado. is that something from your constituents, the people in your district, are they talking about that at all? is he a factor in this race at all? >> no, he hasn't been a factor in the...

Really what this bill does is really put them on sort of equal footing. i just think that's not right. what we need to do is focus on what makes america work. we're the party that stands by the rule of law. we're the party that says that we need to have, you know, a strong economy, have laws in place to make sure that our economy is growing to create opportunities, that we need to be the party that talks about strong families, strong communities, and reach out to all ethnic groups and embrace what the great vision of our country is, instead of playing off what the democrats are doing, being a ...

Deal, oops, we've got some empty beds now. this guy decides afterwards -- by the way, not related, i'm retiring. i've got to get going. he looks like he should retire. what's he? 30? >>alisyn: he is well preserved. this is what you constantly hear with sequester. it's either this or furlough. either this or laying off. we don't want to take money out of the pockets of workers. and that is a handy and know, you end up not cutting something that people think is expendable. >>steve: when you're talking about furloughing people, you are talking about until september furloughing people one day a mo...

All through the recession, we never gave up health care jobs. mining jobs. may not like mining. but they're good paying jobs. >> let me give you one more thing to look at, ali. here is private sector job creation. that's 36 months in a row in that. and you're feeling these. >> these are government jobs. the bottom line is we are building the jobs in the private sector. but the governments are laying off. >> this is likely school. see if it's not your job, you could be feeling it for the services you're getting in school. >> so it's an interesting jobs report. important for you to look at. part...

Topics panel in a couple of minutes. tim lister, thank you. appreciate it. now this, as we look at the big board here, the dow after some pretty huge news this morning, let's look at the big board. the dow, is it up? let me see. yes it is. 48 points up at 14,377. all of this reacting to a pretty positive jobs report out this morning. but, christine romans, the real headline is what is inside february's numbers. christine? >> brooke, this was a stronger than expected employment report. 236,000 jobs created, 7.7% unemployment rate. that jobless rate fell in part because 130,000 people dropped ...