announcing is a continued effort they've been trying to make for sometime. the holy grail of national security, of homeland defense is how do we take all the bits and pieces of intelligence that come in from a variety of sources, our own intel community, liaison department, human sources, how do we take that information and make it actionable intelligence, real time information that gets out there as people are coming in to get a flight? that has been the, and continues to be the holy grail of what we're trying to do. what they're saying now, it's more of a surgical approach. rather than saying we have certain countries that we basically are always concerned about they're saying every flyer we're going to match up against real time assessment information and threat information we're getting so if we have information from a source overseas suddenly that says, individuals who have been traveling to country x. >> right. >> and fit a certain age profile, we're going to scrutinize everybody who fits that profile. >> also, okay, we're talking profiling though, government officials hate that word, because it screams criticism about putting people mostly by their religion or skin color into certain categories. but they say personal traits. aren't they supposed to be profiling based on your personal traits anyway? >> well yes. >> i thought that was already supposed to be in the works. >> i think a lot of people are going to feel that same way. they're going to look at what these supposed new procedures are and say, really? i thought this is what you've been doing all along. in a way, it is, but they're trying to get around again because i think there was some anger, some concern. we tend to, you're absolutely right, here in this country we tend to have this issue with profiling. >> yes. >> guess what? >> it takes time and it gums up the system when they're pulling my grandmother over making her take off her shoes because all of a sudden there is an alert on her but i snows this day and age, we just saw women bombers in moscow, you know, profiling doesn't even necessarily always work. >> well, it has its problems. but it also has its problems when we get so sensitive about the issue that at times it's more common sense than profiling. >> mike, i want to switch gears and get your take on a story we're telling our viewers about. there was a pirate attack yesterday in the indian ocean and today we're getting pictures of now a second attack. this is off the seychelles islanders in the indian ocean. you can see the smoke rising from what was a pirate ship. the crew had tried to take over a tanker but then an american warship came in to help, destroyed the pirates' skiff. they took into custody another ship. is our navy and the coalition out there fighting piracy getting the job done? >> well, we're getting better at getting the job done. it's pirate season again and so this problem won't go away until the people primarily of somalia understand it's not a beneficial, financial business for them. the coalition has been out there. it's been somewhat ineffective and what's happened now with certain shipping lines they've taken it upon themselves to provide armed security on their vessels. and we've had a couple recent incidents where that's become a high profile issue. you know, frankly one of the problems that we have is what do we do with these individuals once we capture them? that's been a problem that we can't really resolve. you can't turn them back to somalia because -- there is no infrastructure. they're just going to go back out into the mix. it's a serious problem. we are getting better at it. >> mike, thanks for coming in. >> sure. >> have a good weekend. new numbers from the labor department today, employers added 162,000 jobs in march. only the third time since the recession began in late 2007. but the national unemployment rate remains unchanged at 9.7%. president obama was in north carolina today talking about jobs and taking credit for helping dig america out of the economic ditch. >> just one year ago we were losing an average of more than 700,000 jobs each month. but the tough measures that we took, measures that were necessary even though sometimes they were unpopular, have broken this slide and are helping us to climb out of this recession. >> nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd is at the white house now. the president here for the last couple days has been on a roll when it comes to not only touting what the stimulus program has done for instance in terms of hiring people but also really putting the blame back on the republicans for the economy that he inherited, chuck. >> well, look. this is the jobs report that this white house has been waiting for to tout. the president also used a phrase today we're turning the corner. he's been trying to say that for six months and it's tough even though you can say well before it was we're losing less jobs each month than we did the month before. that's a tough thing to sell. to be able to finally have something that says we gained jobs, then it's a little more of a concrete example for him to resell the stimulus and you played a great bite there, contessa, because that's exactly what the president did today, saying, look, see, this is what this was all about. we did x, y, and z with the recovery thing and then health care and then clean energy and all of this goes together. that's what he's trying to -- that's the case he's making laying out to the public and that is, you're right, he feels this -- this white house feels as if it's on a roll. the question is is the public seeing the same roll these guys feel like they're on? >> i don't want to be a debbie downer but with a little good news still comes a lot of bad news. >> yes. >> the big picture is 15 million americans are still unemployed. when you break down which population segments are really struggling, african-americans, still facing an unemployment rate of more than 16%. teenagers ahead of their opportunities to go out and get summer jobs. >> right. >> which for many of them are a life line to a college education, their unemployment rate is more than 26%. >> and it was an uptick among african-americans. that went up not down. the unemployment rate. there is another number out there that's also a very depressing number for a lot of people, long-term unemployment. those who have been unemployed for six months or longer. that also increased. that didn't decrease. so folks that have been out of the job market the longest are still struggling to find jobs. so, yes. there is -- this is a -- this is what you would call a green shoot. remember a year ago they used to talk about that? there's some green shoots. this jobs report are real green shoots because there were some private sector jobs created but most of them were in the, from what i understand, in the health sector and education so you're still not seeing a ton of new jobs in manufacturing, a ton sort of, you know, so the question is, where are they going to find the 8 million jobs that were lost? right? we lost 8 million jobs in this recession. that still is an unknown and nobody is quite sure where the next big chunk of jobs are coming from. >> all right, chuck. it's good to talk to you. thank you. >> nice to see you. time to go across the usa. we begin in detroit, michigan. a federal judge has ordered eight of nine michigan based militia members who were rounded up in a weekend raid to be held without bail. all are accused of plotting to kill police officers in an attempt to start an anti-government revolution. a ninth suspect is now held in indiana. three people are dead, four others critically injured in an explosion at an oil refinery north of seattle. the explosion and fire at the plant shook homes and shot flames into the sky. the cause is unknown. federal officials say the plant was fined for safety violations last year. and the national weather service says a wicked hailstorm destroyed homes and caused all kinds of damage near oklahoma city. look at those pictures. quarter-sized hail hit the region early this morning. wind gusts were as high as 70 miles an hour. some breaking news we're getting in from new jersey, a house exploded into flames and seriously hurt two people. you're seeing there the overhead shot from wnbc's chopper. it doesn't look like there's a whole lot left at this point from this explosion now in a house and two people hurt. we have not been alerted about their status and whether they're heading to the hospital or are already there. as you might imagine if there are people around when a house explodes it can be very damaging. when we learn more details we'll pass it along. apple's next big thing is here. reviews pouring in. we'll talk with someone who already got his hands on the i-pad. is this new tech tablet worth the money? 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didn't matter that sound quality was horrible. the tapes had a tendency to break. you could pop your walkman into your bag and just go. 350 million walkmans were sold and of course they paved the way for the ipod. the number one gadget we think most changed modern society? the cell phone. remember when they looked like this? >> two more great reasons to come to highland super stores by saturday. one, this nokia portable cellular phone is just $595. two, you can impress your friends by telling them it cost a lot more. >> yeah, those early cell phones were so high priced that i only had one through work and they looked and felt like a brick. in 1996 motorola changed that with the streamlined handset with the flip design but my bosses wouldn't buy that. it was also the first phone with a vibrate function but the only drawback, it had only 90 minutes of talk time. how far we've come. the cell phone, our pick for the gadget that most transformed our modern society. >> hey, guys. it's here. >> what? >> the new i-pad. >> thank you, apple. i cannot wait to use it. >> you're the man, daniel! >> good-bye. >> okay. so comedy central funny man daniel has his own take on the i-pad. while the new gadget has many uses, golf practice is not one of the obvious ones. starting tomorrow you can buy apple's newest wonder for less than 800 bucks. before you shop we're finding out exactly what the i-pad can do. joining us now from boston is a technology analyst. first of all, no golfing with it. i don't care about that. can you watch tv and movies on it? >> you can watch tv and movies. in fact, it's great for consuming media. for example i have one here. this is an interactive book that' about the elements but if you wanted to watch video, it's very easy to do. we can go to youtube or you can go into historic movies. it's got -- you can watch four movies in one battery charge so a little better than the star tac and the quality of the screen is fabulous. >> how much does that weigh? how does it feel? >> there you go. that's -- and i think you asked about the price? i'm just going to take that off baufs the audio. the entry level is about $500 and then they go up to over -- the models that come out saturday run about $500 to $800. >> omar, i was asking you about the feel of it. how does it feel in your hand in terms of weight? >> it's a little bit heavy but it's -- with two hands it's very easy. it's got a beautiful screen, very comfortable for sitting on a sofa or reading in bed. i found myself reading the news in the morning just in bed while surfing and it's the sort of thing where it's much more comfortable than a lap top in lots of those contexts so they've done a nice job of making it easy. you've got this virtual keyboard and lots and lots of applications for doing things like looking at the news or reading a book and all of that makes it just sort of a very pleasant experience for consuming. >> one question about reading a book. around here a lot of people are addicted to their kindles, these e-readers. will that replace an e-reader? i think it will -- i mean, it is definitely going to compete with amazon. for example if we go into a book you see it open. you can turn the page. and it's definitely competitive. but i think if you want to just read novels, then, you know, kindle is going to be great. if you want to do more than just read, though, if you want to look at maps or you want to watch movies or you want to have interactive books, then you really need something that's got a faster processor. >> of course it's quite a lot more expensive than a kindle too. but it does more. thanks, omar. >> thank you. on that note, is the island of guam really in danger of tipping over? that's what one georgia congressman said. but now he is trying to clear up the confusion. then flight attendants angry over pay are trying to bring attention to their issue in a rather revealing way. and breaking news here. actor john forsythe has died. he was best known for a role as a scheming oil tycoon in the primetime soap opera "dynasty." he was also the voice of charlie on "charlie's angels" and appeared in movies including "and justice for all." john forsythe was 92 years old. time for your entrepreneur of the week. the new jersey based imperial billiards made custom pool tables. a bad economy slowed demand. a customer looking at saw dust on the floor suggested they use it to make wood pellets which can be used as heating fuel. the pellets now account for 40% of their business. for more watch "your business" sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc. 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your screen. a year and a half after his historic election some are already asking president obama now what? health care reform, the trillion dollar stimulus, arms control with russia, the surge in afghanistan, and student loan reform? those issues all in president obama's rear view mirror. but the electorate remains deeply divided about his policies. republicans are vowing no cooperation. what's ahead? michael isikoff is senior investigative reporter with "newsweek" and msnbc contributor. matt lewis is a blogger and columnist with politics daily.com. matt, let me begin with you. do you see, for instance, health care reform as still being the primary issue that people want to talk about when they're going to the polls in november? >> i think it's going to be a big factor. in terms of motivating republicans to turn out, remember, this is a mid-term election so it's about turnout, about which base is the most motivated to show up. so health care will play a big role in terms of getting republicans to the polls. but i think in terms of persuading voters, sort of middle of the road voters it's going to be the economy, the economy, and the economy. >> what we saw in a couple recent appearances from president obama talking about health care even after it was passed is that he was getting up on his soap box and starting to sound either more like a politician campaigning or a revival preacher up in the podium. let me ask you, michael, today we saw him down in charlotte, north carolina, when he was asked about whether taxes would go up in response to the health care reform bill. he gave a long, professorial explanation of how health care would work. which approach works best for president obama? >> well, look. i certainly agree that the economy is what the white house is going to be focused on, but i do have to take a little issue with the introduction that some of these issues that you mentioned are in his rear view mirror. let's take the surge in afghanistan for example. you know, he made some very tough decisions a few months back to implement the surge but whether it's going to be a success or not and whether he's going to be able to stick to the plan, especially with some of the recent problems he's been having with the karzai government, this is going to be an agonizing issue for the administration on the foreign policy front for quite sometime. there are other big foreign policy issues that he's got to be confronting coming up. sanctions against iran. he had promised them by the end of the year. we haven't seen them yet. they're trying desperately to get this u.n. resolution. it's not clear whether they're going to get it. so a lot of these issues on the foreign policy front are still going to be confronting the obama presidency and even health care and some of the other accomplishments that they've had, you know, there's implementation and there's a lot of ferment to come on all these fronts. >> let's talk about the environment because we just saw a big turn around from president obama and the administration on drilling offshore. it's created a lot of controversy this week among obama's base and even some staunch conservatives aren't that happy because they say it doesn't go far enough. it really doesn't open up that much new territory to oil exploration. where are we when it comes to our nation's stand here, matt, on the environment, clean energy, and whether he gets any bipartisan cooperation from republicans on that front? >> well, look. i think part of the problem was the way they shoved health care through in the sense that no republicans supported it. they passed it, you know, through reconciliation. it sort of poisoned the well. you have republicans like lindsay graham for example who might have been willing and interested in working with democrats across the aisle to pass things are now hesitant and they may actually for personal reasons feeling like they've been slighted have a hard time working with democrats so although president obama has this accomplishment, as michael was saying, there are long-term implications so health care in a sense is not behind him but still impacts everything. >> well, that's true on jobs, too. >> correct. >> even when it comes to clean energy jesse jackson was pointing out to me this week, michael, that transit jobs which have been cut are actually green jobs. you have 60 people riding the bus, that's 60 cars that aren't on the road. where does the president go from here moving toward, for instance, saving those kinds of jobs? well look. they are going to be trying to get this climate change legislation through. that's one of the high items on the agenda. i think some of the pronouncements that we've seen like the oil drilling this week was designed to do that, to try to get republican support for climate change. but it's not clear that he's going to be able to do that. there are still bumpy waters ahead. if you look at the polls, by the way, you know, i think they were hoping for a bigger bounce from health care legislation than they got. some of the numbers are not very encouraging for the white house this week. so this is still a very choppy waters for the democrats going into this election. >> i have to leave it there. we'll expect to see president obama i guess more on the visits on the topics to come. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. earlier this week during a congressional hearing on the military's budget congressman hank johnson, democrat in georgia, made it hard for admiral robert willard of the u.s. pacific command to keep a straight face being asked about moving troops from okinawa to the island of guam. >> my fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. >> we don't anticipate that. >> yeah. that exchange quickly became a youtube sensation on the front page of aol now. it led congressman johnson to issue a statement explaining he was just kidding. here's the statement. i wasn't suggesting that the island of guam would literally tip over. the subtle humor of this obviously metaphorical reference to a ship capsizing illustrated my concern about the impact of the planned military buildup on this small tropical island. president obama takes a stab at the press. you'll hear how the president challenges the media and his critics twwhen it comes to heal care reform. plus the pope is keeping quiet about the sex abuse scandal rocking the church but other priests are not so restrained. so, to turn those vegetables into campbell's condensed soup, we don't boil it down, our chefs just add less water from the start. ♪ so many, many reasons ♪ it's so m'm! m'm! good! ♪ how do we know how big our hospitals need to be?, the census helps us know exactly what we need, so everyone can get their fair share of funding. we can't move forward until you mail it back. 2010 census. want to make sure allergies don't always have to keep you cooped up inside. that's why we're 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responsibility was for them. >> nbc's jim maceda joins me from our london bureau. it seems mostly what we're getting from the vatican is a comparison to christ's suffering, to what he suffered in terms of what he went through before the crucifixion. they're not getting a lot of let's own up to this and deal with it. >> reporter: that's right, contessa. i mean, we're getting a lot of voices on a couple of sides, offense and defense, what we're not getting is anything from pope benedict and the whole world seems to be waiting for him to directly speak to the sex abuse scandal during this easter week. many vatican watchers are saying that's not likely going to happen. that given the fact that it would be extremely untoward for lack of a better term for the pontiff to address such a controversial issue during so solemn and holy a week. so instead, the ranks have closed and others are speaking for him. i can't guarantee it but i would guess that every single thing we have heard the past couple of days has been predigested and approved by the vatican in advance and it is a pretty good choreography. you mentioned that, you know, the self-critical statements, the mea culpas especially from german cardinal zolich. he went on to say, and i quote, that the church failed its own people because of falsely understood concerns about the church's image. he also said that wounds were open that can hardly be healed anymore. that is very strong offense and you can counter that with what the priest said today with the pope in attendance at that good friday service at st. peter's basilica, comparing the collective violence the jews have been victim to over the centuries to collective blame now being placed on the vatican and its leaders. you've got a kind of tale of two or three voices and again i suspect this is all being choreographed by the vatican. >> jim, thank you very much. the archbishop of new york defending the pontiff this week and the catholic league in fact sent out a spokesperson with me this week who said that the catholic church was taking action by keeping gay people out of the ministry. homosexuality has nothing to do with molestation and also the catholic league president said, the head, william donahue, says the molestation wasn't exactly abuse because the kids were post pubescent. that's the catholic response to all of this. we begin with the fastest three minutes in news now. we go down to the wire with pilots on prozac, news, and are you ready? hit the clock. first up the republican national committee is explaining why a recent fund raising mailer had a contact number that was actually the number of a sex chat line. here is what part of the callers heard. >> hot and you're talking voice personals for just 99 cents per minute. >> the rnc tells politico, quote, the number in question was a typographical error by a vendor used on this particular mailer using 1-800 instead of 202. whoops. pilots can now fly on prozac. starting monday the faa is lifting a ban on taking antidepressants and other doctor-prescribed drugs in the cockpit. the agency says possible side effects like drowsiness do not pose a safety risk. next, very riske photos drawing a lot of attention to a flight attendants' protest in spain. the group of women from grounded airline air comet are posing for a calendar nude. the company owes them nine months' back pay and the workers are fighting the airline in court for the money. they're using the calendar to bring publicity to their cause and help raise money for their legal bills. good luck to them. police in madrid say they may have solved a series of viagra robberies. spanish authorities say they believe they captured a man who robbed ten pharmacies. officers suspect the 43-year-old has been fueling the black market for the antiimpotence pills. if you get arrested and want to avoid publicity what should you do? a drug suspect from the new jersey shore decided apparently to steal more than a thousand newspapers from all over town. seems he thought that would keep things quiet but the police caught him anyway. now he faces theft charges and his movie is moving from the police blotter to the front page. here's the lucky escape. watch closely as the chinese army recruit throws his first grenade and hits a wall making it bounce right back at him. the man fell to the ground but in the three and a half seconds before the blast the recruit's quick thinking trainer picked him up by the belt and got them both safely behind a wall. in russia security teams are already getting ready for the 2014 olympic games. today they tested an unmanned surveillance drone. the games will be held near the georgian border. liftoff, liftoff. >> liftoff from kazakhstan. an american astronaut and two russian cosmonauts are on the way to the international space station. they dock on sunday to begin a six-month supply mission. the countdown clock for the launch of space shuttle "discovery" is ticking. so far "discovery" is go to lift off monday 6:21 a.m. eastern time. the seven-member crew is in prep mode at kennedy space center and their mission includes an interview from space with us here at msnbc. salamanders in vermont are getting their own kind of love. right now they have to cross the road to get to their spring mating spots. this year a $150,000 state grant will go to an underpass for the amphibians. that brings us down to the wire. i can't understand why it takes everybody else three minutes to get there. president obama is ready to fight. all week he's been taking on republicans in the media over what he says is over heated, chicken little, doomsday predictions about his health care reform. it appears to be a showdown he welcomes. >> it turns out that the day after i signed the bill wasn't armageddon. no asteroids fell. the earth didn't crack open. nobody lost their doctor. nobody's been man kled and dragged into a government plan. we're going to be okay. we're going to be better than okay. >> is this smart politics or is it designed to distract from poll numbers suggesting at least half the country is against the president and his policies? bill press is a nationally syndicated liberal talk show host and mike slater is a conservative radio host. you know, fdr had his fireside chats. here is obama standing up, bill, and saying we're going to be okay. the sky is not falling. >> un, contessa, i have to laugh because every president since george washington has gone out and poked fun at the media. some of them pretty seriously like spiro agnew but in that clip you just played of course obama was poking fun at john boehner who stood up on the floor of the house and said, if you pass this bill the world is going to end. armageddon. clearly over the top. and the president had fun with that. on the media i think the point he's making innet ettin jest is one. that is we did a pretty good job covering the squabbles of health care. i think we did a lousy job of covering the substance. >> you want the real targets of the media, i was trying to avoid this since as a member of the media i take it very personally when we get criticized. >> so do i. >> whether it's by the administration or by republicans but you want it, you got it. here it is. we're playing it. >> can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on a farm? you planted some seeds and they came out the next day and they looked and, nothing's happened! there's no crop! we're going to starve! it's been a week, folks. >> but, mike, in this case maybe it puts reporters and republicans in the same boat waiting for things to happen really fast. >> yeah, i think it's a pretty funny line so we're getting credit for that but not really appropriate. i don't think he needs to be at that level. >> appropriate? >> why bother. i want a commander in chief not a politician in chief. why does he sink down to that? the rest of his speech was pretty good. it was the same old thing he normally does so why even poke fun at boehner, the gop, the media? why even do that? >> lighten up, mike. >> yeah. >> we poke fun at each other. i think it's effective and i think people like to see a president who's got a sense of humor and i wish more politicians did. but i think, again, he's making a point. we are impatient. we want everything right away and if we don't get it then that becomes the story. >> twle comes to mass hysteria we've seen a lot of it at these big gatherings. we saw it over the weekend in searchlight, nevada thousands of people descending on a small town in nevada, harry reid's hometown, and making their anger known. let me play what sean hannity said about republicans and tea partiers during a stop on his book tour tuesday. watch this. >> i think we won the debate. >> we did win the debate. >> when you think of the vast majorities that they have in congress and they had to bribe, back room deals, corruption, that's all because the tea party movement, all these people -- you know? >> timothy mcveigh wanna-bes? is that how conservatives see themselves now? >> no. i have no idea what the context was of that. that's the first time i heard that. the congressman from memphis called the tea party kkk without the hoods and robes. i'm not saying any of them are right. let's stop with those lame comparisons. we don't need them and it doesn't help anything. >> what's your reaction? >> first of all, i got to tell you i am shocked. i played that on the radio this morning and, look, i know sean hannity. i can't believe he was comparing the tea parties to timothy mcveigh. they may hate government but let's hope they don't hate it that much. >> yes. >> here is what disturbs me, contessa, is all of those people out there applauded. he might as well have called them unabombers and they applauded. >> thanks, guys. >> all right. what's the key to a successful small business? i'm going to talk with someone who says business owners could learn a thing or two from the achish 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