host: first i would like to just talk about your own professional history. you are a lawyer, journalist. and not to buy newer and you have a nominee or goes over you wrote a book about the teamsters about the aftermath of 9/11. now you have written a book about education reform. i read the book and i thought this could well be the next chapter of waiting for superman, the book that the company you featured the same heroes. so i should say that being a historian guest: do i get to comment on the cherry-pick summer you have done? which reminds me you have cherry-picked a lot of your data. host: come on now. guest: i don t think that is a fair description of the book. i d venture that several of the teacher unions leaders who are pertaining the book such as for example the woman who runs the union in hillsborough county florida with not say that she is a villain and infectious one of the heroes. host: i didn t say they were villains. i said in a bookkeeper trade
launch pad 39-a. it was amazing. quite a suspense ful morning, though. we ll have that. also you re going to meet a woman as i was in the midst of thousands of spectators this morning. she was wiping away tears, talking to me about the patriotism and the poig in answer poignance of this last space shuttle launch. and who knows how they will next get into space. back to you. so this is exciting for you. 20 years ago. it was amazing. it was amazing. we ll rejoin you in just a couple minutes. thank you. the other news today not so great. job gains slowed to a crawl last month, and the rate of unemployment climbed for the third month in a row. now, the jobless rate is now at 9.2% up from 9.1%. nearly 40,000 government jobs went away and 57,000 private jobs. the government conceded this is indeed a setback. we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give people the security and opportunity they deserve. after hearing this morning s jobs report, i m sur