caught on tape. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the politics of unemployment swirling today as president obama and the republicans try to spin the latest jobless numbers to their political advantage. while the president is highlighting new signs of economic strength, the republicans are spotlighting the unemployment level that remains unchanged despite solid job growth. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian has more in prince georges county in virginia. dan? reporter: wolf, the president came here today because he says rolls royce jet engines are helping to boost the economy. 140 new jobs expected here, another hundred at a plant in indiana. but it was also a chance for him to cheer the latest job numbers which he says proves the u.s. economy is on the right track. even though not everyone agrees. the u.s. employment picture is far from sunny. but the better than expected february job numbers seems to have pushed a few more dark clouds out of the way.
woman committing a serious assault, a rapist, and a killer. they re about to hit the street. a court ruling in a 6-3 vote that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and the final decision rested entirely with the governor, but it s entirely the governor s judgment that the victim victim families are questioning. b b barbou rr wouldn t come on the show. governor, ed lavendera with cnn, can we talk to you real quick? let me get my instructions. can you talk to us in a second? he couldn t give us a second and walked right inside the building, but not before showing us what he thought of the questions. can you talk to us about the char charges? we ll wait for you out here, then. told me to stay where i m cold. can we get a few minutes to talk about the pardon? when the supreme court rules it will be time to talk. i m not so presumptuous as to predict what the supreme court is going do. the supreme court ruled so we contacted mr. barbour s office to s
month in february we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. and this facility is part of the evidence of what s going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stronger. and when i come to places like this and i see the work that s being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. i know it because i would bet on american workers and american know-how any day of the week. the key now, our job now, is to keep this economic engine churning. we can t go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. we can t go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. we ve got to have an economy that s
killers who had worked as servants in the governor s mansion. those killers were already free when the state s attorney general moved to block the pardons. but five other serious felons were still in prison. from left to right, a drug dealer, a woman convicted of serious assault, a rapist, not shown here, an accessory to murder, and a convicted killer. they re about to hit the street. now, the court ruling in a 6-3 vote that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and that the final decision on pardons rested entirely with the governor. but it s primarily the governor s judgment that victims families and survivors were questioning. governor barbour, you ll remember, refused to come on the program to defend his decision. his people said no over and over again, by e-mail and on the phone, face-to-face when we asked our ed lavendera to try to get some answers from the governor. governor, ed lavendera from cnn. do you mind if we talk to you real quick? let me get
that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and the final decision rested entirely with the governor, but it s entirely the governor s judgment that the victims families are questioning. barbou rr wouldn t come on the show. governor, ed lavendera with cnn, can we talk to you real quick? let me get my instructions. can you talk to us in a second? he couldn t give us a second and walked right inside the building, but not before showing us what he thought of the questions. can you talk to us about the charges? we ll wait for you out here, then. told me to stay where i m cold. can we get a few minutes to talk about the pardon? when the supreme court rules it will be time to talk. i m not so presumptuous as to predict what the supreme court is going do. the supreme court ruled so we contacted mr. barbour s office to see if he would make good on his promise to talk, and his press officer said no, he s traveling, busy. we asked for a phone interview. sh