in arlington, virginia, addressing the economy and his plans to subsidize students loans. joining me today liz marlantes, political commenter an lish yar menendez patricia murphy, citizen jane politics and buzzfeed editor in chief, the always buzzy ben smith. folks, we just heard the president talking a little bit about jobs numbers at the top. unfortunately, there was some sort of terrible storm going over the washington area. so we missed that. we apologize if you were watching at home but he was speaking at length about students loans. i want to talk about the jobs numbers first. we know that numbers are disappointing if the word only precedes them as in the u.s. economy only the created 115,000 jobs last month. liz, you re new to this rodeo. let s talk to you first. this is not necessarily what the white house wants although better that these numbers come out now than later on in the year. yes, economists have been talking to some extent it seems like there s a first quarter curs
ca playing elephant. in case it wasn t clear, we threw it in there twice. ben, i always like starting with you on the what just happened videos because you re here every fry. also because you have that intern joy of life and uncanny sense of what s funny and what isn t. what was the craziest thing to happen this week. a lot of crazy things happened. i thought that the clip of shep smith, this moment as you transition from the weirdness of the primary into the real unreality of a general election campaign where people will be repeating whatever it is they re repeating in the face of whatever the reality is, including that mitt romney what he was particularly weirded out by was that is mitt romney and newt gingrich are personally close. people say things that are evidently not true all the time. or the clip of mitt romney saying president obama wants to take from the poor and that just was sort of accepted as okay. patricia? this week, what was both inevitable and i thought it woul
it made it worse. there s nothing less funny than somebody repeatedly telling everybody how funny you are. i think she s pretty funny. that killed the entire video. i do think there is something about the fact she is really personable. i m sure she does think that he s great and it s so hard forler that other people can t see it. the problem for them is do you want a president who s likable or gets the job done. that s the only other direction to go in. equally disastrous. maybe that is a line they should choose because the funny wild and crazy thing doesn t seem to be sticking. thanks to alicia, liz, patricia and ben. i ll see you back here monday when i m joined by aere mel ber. until then you can find us at facebook.com/alex. andr andrea mitchell reports i next. have a great weekend. coming up, a deal to let a chinese dissent study abroad. will it prevent a diplomatic