oh, it definitely could be. there are a lot of people who want to finish the story when it comes to hillary clinton that thought it was going to happen in 2008, and it didn t. she has a lot of supporters out there, and so if she decides to run, i think she s going to have a lot of support. it will be very interesting. the biggest challenges for hillary clinton right now? making up her mind. i think that she looks really good. if she decides to get in. guys, thank you for being with us. quickly, we go around shameless plugs, if we can. if my son had been on the today show this morning he would have given david gregory a run for his money. he is quite a dancer. in the green room he was giving it a run. beth? i ll plug a story about my colleague, jim oliphant about whether prosecutors should be seeking the death penalty for the boston bomber. okay. future civic leaders, nonpartisan organization that engages high school students in underserved communities to get involve
the national goals when it comes to reading. a lot of different things. but there s no funding behind it. so that s going to be a large part of the conversation is that, you know, you can set all the goals that you want on teachers, on students, on when everybody reads, but if you can t fund it, for the people that you re holding back, for the extra work that has to be done, then it s not going to work. chuck todd, at education nation, around the cross country tour. today s stop in phoenix, arizona. chuck, we appreciate it. thanks for letting me fill in your shoes this day. see you on monday. we ll bring back michelle bernard, beth rinehart. as we are talking about some of the topics, i want to focus on 2016 in a second because some people are making stops in south carolina this friday, but beth, i want to ask you specifically, you focused a lot on the first district down there. we got a big race, it s only a couple days away. you got bush, you got sanford. what s going to be the d
0 april s jobs report not to mention critical revisions from february and march. but, first, the numbers from this past month. 165,000 jobs were added in april. lowering the unemployment rate to 7.5%. that is the lowest level in more than four years. on top of that, we saw significant revisions over the last two months, according to the labor department. employers added 332,000 jobs in february. and 138,000 in march. that is a lot more than last month s estimates of roughly 268,000 for february and just about 88,000 for the month of march. so, when you put it altogether, the revisions add up to an additional 114,000 jobs. we re going to check in with the folks at moody s analytics in just a moment. but also tell you about another story making headlines today and that is syria with al assad s rethinking the option of arm aing the syrian rebels but president obama said so far nothing has been decided. what i said is that we re going to look at all options and we know that there are cou
e-mails from her term as governor are being released today. it s friday, june 10, 2011, i m chuck todd. mitt romney says he ll skip the closely watched iowa straw poll in august. the escalating violence in syria and yemen. it s turning into a blistering hot summer. it s been a crazy 24 hours. we re going to start with what is left of newt gingrich s bid. he s insisting he s staying in the race despite the sudden and sweeping resignation of his entire campaign staff. rick tyler cited strategic differences. mark, it was the breadth of the resignations. it included the departures of rob johnson along with dave carney, as you mentioned long time spokesman rick tyler. it caught a lot of people by surprise that have been reported elsewhere that aides have grown unkind to the fact that gingrich took a long vacation with his wife to the greeki izsles. as you mentioned in the introduction, the summer speculation now turns to rick perry, because two of those aides, johnson and
year, perhaps they are not going through his three marriages and everything. it is one of the other reasons he is getting in early to get this personal story out of the way. but, of course, his personal life will remain an issue for some social conservative voters as long as he s in the race. moving to other candidates. not only is this a race in search of candidates but search of a front-runner. beth, you write in national journal piece about mitt romney. i want to quote from it. you say if romney can successfully navigate the mind field, his health care record, avoid getting drawn into social debates, he s down to just one giant overriding problem. keeping it real. you said had you traveled to boston and talked with some romney associates who weren t in a hurry to see a lot of coverage of mitt romney as the wron runner. not at all. they are keeping a curiously low profile for a front-runner campaign that, you know, typically front-runners want to display this might and clear the