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That s not great. in fact, my view on the economy is a little bit less sunny than ron s. the unemployment rate has been stuck in a range between 7 and 8.2% now for almost a year. so we re kind of slogging along. growth is definitely better than that negative gdp report from the last quarter. that was anomalous. but it s not gang busters by a long shot. okay. so that s the big story we ve got this morning. perry, i want to talk to you about the big story that s been unfolding since yesterday and the headlines in the papers today, the reviews being in on chuck hagel s performance on the hill. skprael taking it on the nose from his former colleagues. want to remind everybody how that hearing went. take a look. the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunter in this country since vietnam. were you correct or incorrect? yes or no? my reference to the senator hagel well, if you would like me to explain, why well, i actually would like ....
you re in the situation room. it s part economics snapshot, part political football and there s only three more jobs reports coming out before the november election. the latest one released today has something for everybody. the labor didn t reports better than job gains in july. the unemployment rate still picked up a notch. dan, how does all this play out on the campaign trail? reporter: for mitt romney it allows him to say see, i told you so. unemployment still going up. it s still above 8%. what the president is doing is not working. the president was putting the spotlight on what he says is working even though he admitted there s still a lot of pain. thank you everybody. reporter: surrounded by a group of hand picked middle class and workers, president obama defended his policies and emphasized gained in a struggling economy. 163,000 jobs created in july. 1.1 million so far this year. 4.5 million over the last 29 months. those are our neighbors and family ....
gripping a huge part of the country right now. hot and hotter. that s what the national weather service says that we can expect for the next several days, and you need it know this. at least 16 states under heat advisories or warnings today. adding to the misery, nearly 2 million people without electricity in the d.c. area and surrounding states. deadly storms battered that area over the weekend killing at least 16 people. our brian todd is outside in that heat in the d.c. suburb of wheaton, maryland. brian, what s the biggest problems you re seeing right now? reporter: right now the rush hour is officially over, but really it s not over. one of the biggest problems in this area is traffic snarl. hundreds of traffic lights are out. there s one over here on randolph road just a couple hundred yards up from us now where they are trying to get people through that light. people say treat this like a four-way stop. every stop around here treat it like a four-way stop. this ....
Help. i know you don t think government does anything rightt on the show. but give the government credit. steve, steve, first of all chrysler is a foreign car company now. it is fiat that is managing it. unions were given the other 60 percent. fiat got 40 percent. and there s more to the industry than autos. thisthis is the weakest economy. and blow out on spending and that takes resources from the private sectors and gives it to politicians morgan. do you think we are better off. and it is a debt that came over. go ahead. do i think we are better off than a couple years ago? not necessarily. i think we are slogging on the bottom. i think in the private sector we need jobs. but wait a minute. we are ignoring those. ....
Cover because of news like that. this slow motion, seemingly endless economic crisis we have been slogging through for a few years now is not a beltway spat, t an election, it is not a fight. it is a really big american problem, and i m sorry to say that it is starting to get worse again, so break out the campaign bus. that is the response from the obama administration today, sending the president on a listening tour in campaign bus so we can hear about the pain in the heartland and try to reconnect with american voters on this issue for three days. that s the democratic response today. on the republican side, their plan is, of course, criticize the president s bus tour, that will make a difference and speaker john boehner broke from his august recess to tweet a blueprint for jobs. let me click on that for you. look, it s the same report from a few months ago, the one with enough type and clip art so it ....