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It's also about immigration reform that's being debated in the congress. senator charles grassley of iowa offered a three-page let tore the secretary of homeland security asking questions about the visa issues in boston. we have lots of questions about how this policy actually is going to be implemented. >> joe johns, thank you. the spring forecast for america's economy is suddenly looking brighter after today's better than expected jobs report. payrolls grew by 165,000 jobs last month. still not enough to make up for all the jobs lost during the financial crisis but enough to ease the fears...

President is dining tonight with members of the senate, all women, isn't that nice? >> that's great. >> chuck todd, thank you. we'll see you at 9:00 on the "daily rundown." >> i'm surprised that didn't get ugly just then. >> right. >> that's great. >> we went to counseling. up next, steve rattner has charts on signs of a spring slowdown. more "morning joe" when we come back. but i wondered what a i tcustomer thought? is great, hi nia... nice to meet you nia, i'm mike. what do you drive? i have a ford explorer, i love my car. and you're treating it well? yes i am. there are a lot of places yo...

Starting to bite a little bit and that could be reflected in the retail jobs or sequester talk, all kinds of other things happening in the economy, europe. maybe people are feeling less confident and spending less and translating into fewer of the retail jobs. greg valliere, and rena brouhar, nice to see both you. maybe this is another spring slowdown. we've seen job gains in january and february and a pullback and beginning of the year, gains and a pullback. ben bernanke even said maybe there's that pattern. why the slowdown in job creation? >> well i think that you saw an unexpected strong f...

What i thought and i'd always tell you where i stood. >> anybody else getting w flashbacks on 2004 on that line? it is a familiar line. all right. back to the big story of the morning and the spring slowdown continues in the summer and the numbers of june caps off one of the weakest quarters of the year, and now joining us is mark zandi and given the slowdown from may to june, any wonder to have a slowdown in hiring again in june or worse than you expected? >> well, i was disappointed, because it is not enough and it is not enough to bring down the unemployment and when you have 8.2 unemployme...

though, new terror concerns as we approach the first anniversary of the daring raid that led to the death of osama bin laden. there is no credible information suggesting al qaeda or its allies are planning attacks tied to the anniversary. but the concerns are real enough that president obama reviewed the threat picture just this morning with this top national security advisers. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here with the details. what is the biggest threat intel officials are most worried about. >> they are very concerned right now about a renewed effort to target west...