latest victim -- i mean, his latest pick to head up the economic advisory council, allen kruger, former assistant treasury secretary and professor at princeton where i used to work. come to think of it, i used to work at the university of chicago too. joining us now, ezra klein, columnist for "the washington post" and bloomberg news. nice to see you tonight. >> nice to see you, melissa. >> you say allen kruger is the obvious pick for the president, what makes him so obvious? >> it is the entire history of how the president picks these economic positions, so the thing about allen kruger, he's a labor economist, a guy who studies the job market and he's good at it, one of the best labor economists in the country. he's breathed a lot of new life in the field when it fell a few years ago, but allen kruger is