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>> i'm fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. that's a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. let's get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? >> you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone really thought. 243,000 jobs were created in january. the jobs growth, fredricka, was pretty wides...

>> 57. >> wait a minute. is it up to that already? >> i think it was two week ago, the president when he was in hawaii said he was in asia which is also kind of a headline. >> listen, we've asked you two questions in 40 minutes. sorry there's so much homework today. get going. stop complaining. that speech was president obama's first major economic speech since the beginning of the occupy wall street movement. and he argues that prosperity for all is more important than freedom? and he said that, we didn't need to hear it every single time. freedom doesn't work. let's see what stu varney has t...

and this is "state of the union." four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich's troubled presidential run -- he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the "sixth sense," everyone but him thinks he's dead. but at last week's washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. >> all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we're going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we're too stupid to balance t...

more funerals in syria today. opposition activists say that 31 people died when syrian troops opened fire on sunday. the attacks on anti-american -- rather anti-government protesters took place in several cities. president assad is warning countries not to recognize the syrian national council, which is set up in turkey last week. that council appears to be positioning itself as syria's next government. crisis talks are happening in egypt today to head off new violence. fighting between muslims and christians left at least 25 people dead over the weekend. christians say they were p...

>> tack take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. take it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we're going to press on, we've got work to do. . >> jon: president obama giving a fiery speech to the cbc, congressional black caucus at the awards dinner last weekend. congresswoman maxine waters, who has been critical of president obama's handling of unemployment had choice words of her own. >> i found the language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus, and certainly didn't tell them to stop complaining and he would he never say that to th...