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the dow is up 217 points, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. as you can see, the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we haven't been able to clear that hurdle since march. it's been a really grim stretch. so there was a little bit of relief today. the bottom line is this. the american economy only has to add another 316,000 jobs to get back to where it...

These first-responders to act. they have a real challenging job. but when, in this situation where your lives are on the line, you have a, just this, wild, crazy ruthless killer spraying bullets and get out of there. take action. megyn: you also say there is no reason to put yourself in events more likely to have some sort of incident. for example, what? >> for, i take my kids to destiny world. so i purposely choose times of the year that there are going to be less of a crowd. you look at the world we live in unfortunately it is a dangerous place. you have, terrorism going on globally and thes...

Today, we will be taken the first big step toward creating jobs? america, and it will be time for the united states senate to act. >> nbc's luke russert is following the details for us. is speaker boehner even going to have the votes needed to get through today? >> that's a good question, thomas. the how gop met today as a conference. i spoke to a member who went in there who said the leadership informed him they may not have the votes to pass a republican bill. the reason being they have an ideological opposition to extending the tax cut holiday, because they see it as a temporary band-aid. t...

>> well, you know, i don't think that they will find somebody with quite the charisma and stature, quote unquote, of osama bin laden. you know, i think nic is in pakistan right now. i think an area that i think is concerning is the ability that al qaeda has had to kind of get other groups in south asia who don't necessarily call themselves al qaeda to act in an al qaeda-like manner. two good examples of this, lashkar el taiyba that carried out the attacks in 2008 was a group that selected indian targets but sought out american and jewish targets. sent suicide bombers to barcelona in 2008 and t...

Really keeping a very, very low profile and they know if they come out and publicly endorse what has happened here, the killing of bin laden on their soil, then they themselves could face a pretty big backlash. so far it's been relatively quiet, anderson. >> peter, when we talk about al qaeda now, it's not just al qaeda central, the bin laden, zawahiri. there's also al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al qaeda in iraq, which is greatly reduced. what happens to all the al qaedas now? >> well, you know, i don't think that they will find somebody with quite the charisma and stature, quote unquote,...