information from employers on the establishment survey that fills in the gaps. and that s really important to do over time. and so we do see these revisions, these were benchmark revisions. we do see these revisions that people say, wait a minute, can we even read this data? don t put too much weight in the month to month numbers. the underlying trend, 100 months, wow. we you and i have talked about the idea that we may be coming into a slow down in 2019, 2020. some of that would just be about expected, but we ve been in an expansion for a long time. these are really, really good numbers. how does that work when we start looking at a slow down? do they suddenly slow down or are we at a good number? to be seeing 2, 2 plus 100,000 net new jobs a month is pretty good. it is extremely good. and it gives us a lot of confidence that the recession isn t tomorrow. it doesn t give us any confidence whether the recession is in 8 months or 12 months or 24 months. that s what the hard part i
i used to watch your dad every saturday morning on television in colorado. your dad was a great hero of mine. i looked forward to my saturdays with your pop. jon: thank you, karl rove. i m sure he is listening. thanks. melissa: new details in the killer clown murder case. the punishment prosecutors want for the woman accused of dressing in a costume and killing a romantic rival. plus 100,000 pages of documents and 100 witnesses later there is still no evidence of russian collusion. now the senate intelligence committee announcing the probe is expanding. the issue of collusion is still open. but we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses. and that we re not in a position where we will come to any type of temporary finding on this.
are we more likely to deter the future use of chemical weapons by acting or not acting? the syrian government vows to defend itself by using all means. the regime has hundreds of tons of mustard gas and large stock piles of sarin plus 100,000 missiles and rockets. john, diana, it s not clear what assad will do if attacked. syria has missiles capable of reaching israel. the israeli prime minister says his country is ready. john, diana. tahman bradley in washington, thank you. it appears syria may already be responding to the threat of a u.s. strike. syrian electronic army, group of pro-assad hackers says it has taken control over several major media web sites including twitter and the new york times. the new york times spokeswoman tells abc news their outage was affecting some users but the attack did appear to be malicious. worries over syria are taking the toll on wall street. the dow lost 170 points. the nasdaq closing off 70.
that happens to the track with the electoral college projection, the state by state race. a multi-million dollars campaign attacking mitt romney s record on the issue we all know will define the election. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself while raising them on the middle class and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. the new ad is airing in nine states including seven you see in yellow here. that s thes to-up yellow. here is the state of the race, the race to 270 electoral votes and 155 days out. it takes 270 to win. we have solid blue and light blue. that means solid bam or leading obama and only 23 shy of victory if the map doesn t change from here on out. governor romney, a bit of a steeper hill but
all right. 38 past hour. we ve been waiting for this news. the december jobs report was just released. let s get the latest from cnbc s brian schactman. brian, what are the numbers in. plus 100,000 jobs with an unemployment rate of 8.5%. okay. the expectation was 155 and a tick up in the unemployment rate to 8.7. wow. so it s a strong number, the lowest unemployment rate since february of 2009, so the trend is definitely towards a stronger jobs market here. do i want to point out a couple quick things. 5.6 million long-term unemployed. government shed 12,000 jobs last month. that s 280 government jobs lost last year and to what joe was talking about earlier there were 23,000 manufacturing jobs added. the estimate was for circumstances and can i tell you i ve done a lot of reporting across the country in the last year on manufacturing in the u.s., and a lot of people say it s more expensive overseas to