mainstream. i m certainly you saw that. do you agree with it? i can promise you this, that democrats will be absolutely united and willing to work with republicans on those three major issues, one, are we strengthening the middle class? two, are we supporting small business innovators and entrepreneurs, to grow jobs, and, three, are we tackling debt and deficit? and, on all three standards, you can call moderate, progressive and conservative, we want to make sure we are working with the other side in pursuing those three objectives in a fair way. bill: if you get that done, all americans win, agreed? agreed. it doesn t matter i don t know about other members of congress but my constituents don t wake up in the morning in deere park, new york thinking about left or right. they wake up in the morning concerned about their jobs, their paychecks and their home values and traffic and taxes. and as long as democrats and
that is jobs in america. moments ago a new report showing a slight jump in the number of people apply fog unemployment unemployment benefits, the first five weeks, the jobless claims rose to 409. that s where we start today. how you doing, i m bill hemmer. martha: thank you very much, good morning, everybody. it s interesting because today s numbers we re getting in, those come on the heels of the private sector jobs number we saw yesterday and what was fantastic, it blew away expectations, it was triple, 300,000 jobs added in the private sector, three times larger than economists predicted. bill: let s put it with stuart varney, varney & company. good morning, stuart, what does it mean? you ve got to remember the long term downtrend in the jobless claims is very much in place and the number of those new claims is still now way below the danger zone. i put the danger zone at 450 every week, you are around to 400,000 tpalg. that s a sign the trend is in place. tomorrow you