want this agency around, or they want it watered down, right? and this is something that consumer groups and democrats really, really want. this is a political fight. politically, the president stepped in, made the recess appointment. so, now these debt collection agencies and all that will fall under the purview of this agency. do libertarians want it at all? ron paul and libertarians want it at all? less government, less government, less government. that s where we stand. futures are ail little lower and later on, i ll have jobless claims coming up later this morning. jobless claims, let me be really clear the labor market has been slowly improving, so it s going to be important to see what happens with jobless claims. election year. i know. every one of those will be snapped up you re right! and the big jobs report, i know the press release is already written. both sides. talking about it yesterday. christine romans, thank you very much. good morning, you guy
saying, quite frankly, they re excited by this number and it shows what they have been seeing, which is a slow healing in the market and people are coming back on board and they think maybe in january we ll see more people come back onboard trying to find jobs because they re a little more encouraged. i will say one thing about jobs, though. what i m hearing from companies is the best way to get a job is a referral or network and that s how people are getting jobs. companies need to add and they re looking around for people they need to know or for their former clients or co-workers. a lot of people apply online and they say they get lost in the shuffle. helps to know somebody and have that in. a waste of time trying to find a job online unless you re reconnecting with linkedin with people you know. tomorrow we get the big job s report and that will tell us how things looked in december and then january is an important number. january and february to see if things are really kind o
we re bringing you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. six police officers were shot overnight while serving a search warrant in utah. that was drug-related. they are recovering in the hospital this morning. apparently, only one suspect there. also in the hospital, right? yes, also in the hospital. we ll continue to watch that. also, guess what? some huge announcements coming. pictures like this may not be as voluminous if the government gets its way. president obama is about to announce we re going to cut a lot of troops and change our war tragedy. we re not going to be so capable of fighting two wars at once if what he says is going to be the way of the future. so, you know the dallas teenager that was deported by mistake? well, her family says she was sent to colombia where she didn t speak the language, didn t know anyone. why? because apparently, she ran away from home, and when the police picked her up, she gave them a false name, which hap
none of this is illegal and all of these members of congress who were in that report said they have done nothing wrong. greatly appreciate your time. absolutely. two governors are leading a push to have marijuana reclassified so they can be selling marijuana at pharmacies instead of dispensaries. they are asking the da to downgrade the drug s rating. in case you didn t know marijuana is scheduled as schedule 1 that includes lsd and heroin. they want it dropped to schedule 2 that means pot would join the ranks of cocaine and meth, but legal and commonly predescribed drugs like morphine. marijuana never caused a leagual overdose and less addictive than alcohol and caffeine. the bureau chief for the huffington post and author of this is your country on drugs and getting high in america for
we were up 7 or 8% after yesterday s gain of nearly 500 points. it s not too surprising that the market would cool off particularly since tomorrow there is a big jobs report that will come out and tell us how basically the economy fared in terms of job creation in the month of november. one of the reasons the market was up so much yesterday is that an early report on payrolls was favorable, indicating that people in the private sector were out hiring in november. it s a little bit of a watch, wait, see, digest and rest. maybe rinse, repeat and lather again tomorrow. greatly appreciate it. still ahead, two governors are asking the dea to reclassify marijuana. why do they want the change? ryan grim from the huffing ton post will join me to talk about it and a new book said the man