economy. lots of bumps in the road and today we are getting a new look at the out of a job picture and it s continuing to be ugly. look at this rollercoaster we have been on in the terms of the number of jobs. bill: break that down. reporter: 427,000 new phase on the unemployment line just last week. this confirms the economy is in very deep trouble. it confirms other news items of the past 10 days which show manufacturing is slowing. housing is i m going to use the word crashing again. confidence is down. retail sales down. confirmation that the economy is in deep if trouble, it s weakening and it s heading south. it s also confirmation this is probably not just a blip, not just a bump in the road it s a down trend. bill: we haven t seen a good number in two weeks. but ben bernanke,ed fed chief, said the economy will get better by the end of the year. reporter: how much better. he did not give a forecast of the robust expansion. he didn t put a number on it. what we need
afghanistan, i m told, just in the same way that bin laden s body was taken to afghanistan after the raid before taken onto the uss carl vincent. those hard drives are being looked at and transferred very quickly back to langley where hundreds of analysts are shifting through the information provided. we understand they are under a great deal of pressure to move kwaoeubg lee on the intelligence, analyze it. see if any of it is actionable. i have a quote from a u.s. official that is quite stunning in terms of how they want to use the information before, quote, the cockroaches scat he shall. you can expect a number of al-qaida types heading back over the border into al-qaida. martha: that is fascinating information especially that there were no guards at that compound. jennifer thank you very much. let s go to jay karen me at the white house as he begins thinkss
from islamabad, pakistan with new insight. reporter: there is a full scale blame game happening right now here ao phoupbg pakistani officials, this a short time after the capture and kill raid against usama bin laden, that happening just about 40 miles to the north of where i m standing right in islamabad, the capitol of pakistan. pakistani president started off this morning says, quote, he was not anywhere where we expected him to be. he was in that compound in that town north of where we are, and it s that compound that is very near a military base, a military academy, and intelligence headquarters. also coming from the president a little bit of distance between pakistan and the united states regarding the mission. it was not a joint operation he said, even though they helped with some information. late tonight the foreign ministry in pakistan backing that up with stronger words that pakistan had nothing to do with it and it didn t like anything that was going on with any
getting obama reelected and, they are inextricably linked and you are seeing all of these moves and it s all about getting barack obama reelected for a second term. martha: who is your money on between bill burton and jay carney? i think that is a tough call and the obama folks, the long time obama folks would love to see bill burton step up. i think there are some who may think he might be a little young for the role. and we haven t seen that much of jay karen, he has done a great job behind the scenes with joe biden. and obviously he has a lot of friends in college and the press corps who he served with and will be a very, very interesting decision no matter how it goes. martha: you don t want to pick one? i think i don t think anyone knows right now, that decision is not that close to being made, and if it were i think, gibbs would be leaving this week. martha: whoever takes over the job, it is a very high profile role and they they re ones who stand there and takes the ques
the day may be this one, folks, when outgoing speaker nancy pelosi hands that gavel over to john boehner. from start to finish you will see it right here in america s newsroom live. bill: then after that ceremony the new republican blood plans to get down to business. here is how some of those freshman members are talking about the new responsibilities. we want to come down here now and change the course the country is on. so with that in mind, it s easier to stick to your principles. it s not so much as we won as they lost, and if we don t do right by the american public, then two years from now, we re going to lose. i don t think they trust us bus i think they want to take a chance on us as opposed to the other people and now we ve got to prove to them that we are trustworthy. bill: get ready for a jam packed hour. shannon bream, the first big move is on health care in the house. what can we expect? reporter: bill, they re fighting over the logistics of the health