15,000 last week to 372,000. that is 11% lower this time last year. the national unemployment numbers for december come out tomorrow. u.s. service companies expanded at a faster pace last month thanks to holiday sales. the dow was off three today. s&p 500 gained four. nasdaq up 21.5. republicans are still smarting over wednesday s recess appointments by president obama. chief white house correspondent ed henry reports the recipient of the most noteworthy one hit the ground running. reporter: day one from richard codray, president obama s new consumer cop. straight out of central casting for the role of polite bookish guy who says all the right things about working with republicans. i tend to assume that people are always trying to do what they think is right. we may just disagree at times on what that is. the boy scout exterior masks the bare knuckles way
michele bachmann, all of them will focus on south carolina mostly for the expressed purpose of trying to take down mitt romney below the mason-dixon. all three of them believe they can compete much better in the south against what they call now a massachusetts moderate in mitt romney. jenna? jenna: all right, carl, stay around with us. jon, i believe we found another carl to bring into this conversation. jon: we ll have the karl twins with us. karl rove, former senior advisor to president george w. bush and a fox news contributor is with us now. mitt romney has in the words of one newspaper, dropped all pretense and said last night we re going to win this thing, meaning the iowa caucuses. do you see him positioned to do that? he could. he stepped back from the incident and said he was talking about the nomination. if you look at real clear politics average there have been six polls since christmas. mitt romney leads in five of the six. his lead though is very small. and the average
michele bachmann, all of them will focus on south carolina mostly for the expressed purpose of trying to take down mitt romney below the mason-dixon. all three of them believe they can compete much better in the south against what they call now a massachusetts moderate in mitt romney. jenna? jenna: all right, carl, stay around with us. jon, i believe we found another carl to bring into this conversation. jon: we ll have the karl twins with us. karl rove, former senior advisor to president george w. bush and a fox news contributor is with us now. mitt romney has in the words of one newspaper, dropped all pretense and said last night we re going to win this thing, meaning the iowa caucuses. do you see him positioned to do that? he could. he stepped back from the incident and said he was talking about the nomination. if you look at real clear politics average there have been six polls since christmas. mitt romney leads in five of the six. his lead though is very small. and the average
difficulties here. this has been meticulously planned. when you look at the time line that the rescue efforts set out or when they realized that these minute miners were alive on august 27th, they said that they wouldn t be home until much before christmas. so a few hours with the cables, to fine tune the communication system, it s a little the original time line that the government has set, larry. larry: karl, what is their biggest concern? what are they most worried about? the medics and the psychologists worry about the physical and mental conditions of the miners as they come up that rescue shaft. the phoenix capsule itself is 21.5 inches in diameter.
harder. the number of temp jobs on the private payrolls seen as precursor to full-time hiring fell. chris? chris: james rosen reporting from the white house. thanks for that. stocks dropped again today. the dow lost 21.5. the s&p 500 fell four. nasdaq was off 4 1/2. we begin america s election headquarters tonight in the show me state, where republicans are trying to show strength and unity with 88 days to go before the mid-term. correspondent steve brown reports from the g.o.p. summer retreat that the effort starts at the very top. sporting a big smile and later a new red hat, republican national committee chairman michael steele laid out a very short november to-do list. fire nancy pelosi. retire harry reid. at the close of the rnc summer meeting today, steele