about everybody. anybody that puts the fatigues on for this country is a hero.3ñ mr. trump doesn t come in with stump speeches. he is not reading off a teleprompter. he speaks from the heart. and when you speak from the heart, you say things the way you say it. now this isn t standard politics. so it s not scripted. and when it s scripted, it s perfect. it s done by real great writers. look at the president the other day talking about the v.a. what a great speech. it was eloquent. he is a great orator. but it s there is no substance. it s all fluff. everybody knows it. let me go back to the hill today he would open the door to third party if the republican national committee didn t treat him well. reince priebus. i said is there any truth to this? he said 1,050% absolutely positively not.
jobs last month. so it was private sector hiring. companies hiring that drove the jobs number. this is the last year, carol. 2011 i want to show you. last spring things are pretty strong. we were having 200,000 jobs gained every month. in the summer it got real slow. we were worried about a double dip recession. picked up again in the fall. now we have revisions. the bigger picture is a little bit better. you have better than expected january, february, now it s 8.3% the unemployment rate. there were jobs created in business and professional services. there were jobs created in mining. we see that every month. there were jobs created in health care, in social work. there were jobs created in computer systems design and technical consulting. you saw jobs last in retail, for example. so overall you re seeing a broad base of job creation. you want to see 200,000 plus again and again to show you that it is a trend, and what this tells us is that in an economy that was really real
massachusetts to help out a friend. i m talking duvall patrick. he s the governor and he faces a tough re-election this year. the president is on his way up there today. what about the republicans? they are busy as well. let s talk sarah palin. the former alaska governor and john mccain s running mate in 2008. she s teaming up with michael steele in anaheim, california. they are doing a fund raising rally to raise bucks for the republican party to help out candidates in the november election. palin and the republican national committee didn t always see eye-to-eye, but they are teaming up to raise money. back to you guys. thanks to paul steinhauser. we are all over politics here. we are hitting the road, once again, with the cnn election express and trying to see what is on your mind as we head into the critical midterm election. i am on board, once again, all next week. we wanlt to hear from you.
paul steinhauser has a look at the political superstars on the campaign trail this weekend. reporter: a busy weekend in politics. let s start with the president. barack obama is heading up to massachusetts to help out a friend. talking about deval patrick, the governor in massachusetts. he faces a pretty tough reelection this year. so the president on his way up there today. what about the republicans? they re busy as well. let s how about sarah palin. she and michael steele will be in anaheim, california, doing a fund-raising rally to raise bucks for the republican party to help out candidates in the november 2nd election. palin and the republican national committee didn t always see eye to eye but they re teaming up today to help raise money. back to you guys. paul steinhauser on politics, thank you. we re following the money trail
spill. doug, it is sort of the superpiece of this new dnc website called bprepublicans.com. it features infamous apology to bp. is this a real problem for the republicans? at the end of the day the republicans are in control of the senate and the white house. it s their responsibility and we want everybody to work forward towards this goal. we have a real problem whose initial inclination is not to pick up the phone and call bp and fix this problem, send somebody down from the cabinet for ten days. he picks up the phone and makes a tee time. that is a real problem. it shows a lackadaisical approach to the presidency. the communications department at the republican national committee didn t put out a tweet or a press release on this until obama s speech. what we saw real criticism like james carville and terry mcauliffe, that s for the left to argue amongst themselves.