about what was really in the budget. so they wasted time writing something and then voting on something that absolutely nobody ever wanted. so what are we, the people supposed to say? hey, at least they agree on something like not having a functioning government? no, no, this was a fail. it s fails like this that send the americans hurtling closer o instingz. we cling to hope about a very special lunch that happened today where something may have gotten done to help our country avoid it. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other men needed to get a deal done, house speaker john boehner. the president brought the hoagies home to the white house. i guess did they cut it in half? brought it back to the white house and the two met in private to talk debt. the debt crisis is worse every single day in this country, and the battle over raising the debt ceiling is in full swing. it s going to happen again this year. remember the last time, we lost our credit rating. fr
reporter: when you were asking me, telling me about college, i meant do you remember because you were probably like 21, i know what happens in las vegas, did not mean, imply that you were gregg: ouch. reporter: everyone in the control room thought i was making fun of your age. greg greg i am feeling it. reporter: you know i love you. i saw the movie version and when i see johnny depp i think of you. gregg: hunter thompson. suns and daughters are spending more on mom this year, the average family shelling out $152 for mother s day this year. that is following two years of cut backs in 2009 and 2010. mother s day historically is the 3rd highest-spending holiday of the year after the christmas season and back-to-school sales and drop in gas prices is
jobs as fast as george w. bush did, instead of cutting back, we would be a million and half more people working in the public sector. working 2.5 million or 3 million more. we would be out of depression if we hadn t had the government cut backs. you have written extensively, and i read you, every week. twice a week bp you write a lot about income and equality. and over the past 30 years, we have seen the top 1% grow their income by 275% while the bottom has seen much, much less growth. how much of the growing gap can be blamed on political organizations. it works both way possess. a lot of the political polarization comes from equaility. the 1% bought themselves a party and that why the parties are so far apart right new. the political stuff is part of it. we used to have strong unions. they were part after reasonable amount of equality.
all eyes were on the april jobs report this week. welcome to your $$$$$. fewer jobs than expected were created and the labor force participation rate dropped to its lowest level since 1981. hold organizati hold organization i ll tell you what that is. bottom line, this was not a good report. chris even romans is here to break it down for us. 115,000 jobs isn t enough to convince anyone there s robust hiring going on here. hiring actually slowing in 8.1% as you point out is a drop in the unemployment rate, but it s because so many people dropped sought of the workforce in the month. let s take a look at where there were jobs created. health care, we ve seen that z consistently. health care, 19,000 jobs there. also saw jobs in leisure and hospitality. again, many of these are low wage jobs and that s a big question about the durability of the american dream with the kinds of jobs we re creating. retail jobs, 29,000 jobs created there. reversal from last month when we didn t
for ashton kutcher to apologize, but so far nothing. the controversy rages on over that commercial. mountains of flowers and condolences for junior seau and his family will allow his brain to be studied for signs of concussions. it s the biggest full moon of the year and it s almost upon us. what makes this moon so super? and we begin this morning with breaking news out of china. the diplomatic quagmire may be over. according to the state department, quote, mr. chen has been offered a fellowship from an american university where he can be accompanied by his wife and two children. the chinese government has indicated that it will accept mr. chen s applications for appropriate travel documents. that means mr. chen will soon be on his way to the united states with his family, but then again, you never know with china. stan grant is live in beijing. stan, tell us what happens now. reporter: yeah, we ve seen a lot of movement, haven t we, carol, on this, twists and turns e