learned november s national unemployment rate went up to # .8%. bill: today s number might indicate employers are laying off employees at a slower rate perhaps but are certainly not in a rush to hire. stu varney, good morning, they tell you what? okay, the trend is positive. fewer claims, that s good news, however, the reality is somewhat grim because at 421,000 new claims in a single week, that s still way too high to make any dent in the unemployment situation. and you have to conclude, bill, that after 18 months, the stimulus program simply has not worked. bill: that s obama s plan. obamanomics. back to the point on jobs and we ll pick up your point about the stimulus money. this is a jobless recovery. yes. bill: in every sector of america. yes. this is a very anemic recovery. about 2 1/2 percentage points of growth for the overall economy at this moment in time. it should be a lot stronger than that. coming out of a severe recession, you should be into four, five,
martinez, a recent islamic convert for months. it s significant that there are four civilians who were contacted by the defendant. two of them turned him down. one of them tried to talk him out of it. and the third turned him in to the fbi. and the fbi then pursued this investigation with the use of an undercover agent. reporter: the affidavit quotes him in conversations that were recorded. quote, we will blow one recruiting center up. weem ain t going to be able to get recruited at that one. then we hit another one, then another one. there s no more recruiting centers in maryland. and then, each and every muslim in this country knows that america is at war with islam, and they re not doing anything about it. no one is doing anything. we have to be the ones to pull the trigger. the initiative of attacking u.s. personnel. the suspect took the initiative of targeting this center. but because of the danger of the operation because the fbi was controlling the weapons that w