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and this is what politicians fight about. this is the recovery here. you had a weak spot last summer, a weak spot this summer and now a job market that s doing just a little bit better. so what are the politicians saying about it? here s the spin. the white house focuses on this. 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. the economy has now added private sector jobs for 29 straight months for a total of 4 miion jobs during that period. and what about governor romney? they tend to focus on this. we ve now gone 42 months with the unemployment rate above 8%. both of them are right, by the way. i m joined by professor of economics and the director of the new documentary preliminary. if the economy can do this three more times, president obama will have gained back all the jobs lost at the beginning of his presidency. does that get him re-elected? well, historically or since world war ii, a president hasn t been re-elected with the unemployment rate over 7.4% but as you p
breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving their take on the jobs report. romney is on the campaign trail r he is in vegas. president obama had a meeting with middle class families at the white house. romney points to the 42 moments with unemployment above 8%. he said the jobs report is more proof that the president s policies are failed. well, we continue to have 23 million americans out of work or have stopped working for look or underemployed and see job numbers bounce around month to month to month butno question that we now have 42
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annan for this, and don t blame the man. it is kofi annan s name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the security council to come together to meet with consequences to the assad regime to quell the violence, but nothing worked. annan may have missed the glory days of the 1990s when he was the secretary-general and won the nobel peace prize, but things have changed in the post arab spring and he was not able the bring the magic to the situation. richard, i don t understand, why do they believe they will come up with anything that quite frankly is going to work to bring peace to syria? i mean, you have somebody here who clearly has diplomatic experience for decades, and you have got the plan here, and nobody really paid attenti