middle of a major controversy over its airing of the 911 call to police in the deadly shooting of trayvon martin. the today show aired a clip of the phone call which was placed by george zimmerman, the accused shooter, just minutes before he shot martin, but the call was edited by nbc in such a way that it could be interpreted as making zimmerman sound racist. a report says that an investigation by the network found the decision was a bad mistake, but not a deliberate one. judith miller is pulitzer prize winning investigator, kirsten power for the daily beast, both fox news contributors, so judy, what do we make of what this producer supposedly at nbc did? well, we don t know enough to make anything of it except that it was, as they say, a terrible mistake. we have to take them at their word that it was deliberate. you know, the passive tone of this statement is truly remarkable. mistakes were made. in the editing process.
you take a look at the recent report from the last month, the unemployment rate is lower for women than it is for men. why the focus on women and job creation? is this more political than really economically necessary? it s economically necessary because even though women are in the work force, they are not making the same comparable wages as men do, so even though we have more women getting degrees from universities, many are still underrepresented at the higher ranks in management and also at the ceo level, whether it be in the public or private sector. so we re looking at pay equity, we re looking at closing that wage gap, because women only other than 70 cents on the dollar, plus women who are working hard need to have more information about what their counterparts are making. so we re looking at new kinds of data that we can collect so women can make that comparison and learn how to negotiate with their employers, but also, discuss that and have more of an open transparent discu
do. of course republicans jumped all over this report as not good enough. a statement from house speaker john boehner red quote, today s report shows that families and small businesses are still struggling to get by because of president obama s failed economic policies. i want to also bet you know if you re looking for a job where you might be able to find one. manufacturing is still on fire right now in this country, up 37,000 jobs last month. leisure and hospitality was up 39,000. healthcare continues to grow up about 26,000. finance, mainly banking up 15,000. sectors that lost jobs, 34 jobs cut in retail. construction was down 7,000. and temp workers, a lot of folks have been going to temps to try to find jobs but they cut 7500 jobs last month. jenna. jenna: interesting break down for us, peter thanks so much. jon: new information now on a ship scuttled to the bottom of