sandwiched between the two of them. do you get the sail sense and if so are with is it going? i think it is speeding up, whatever happens in syria i don t think it will drag on for another two years. the problem with it once assad leaves and it collapses, it gets worse. it doesn t get better. there are a lot of our militias, there are democratic pro-democracy guys and islamic rad kls and al qaeda elements in the groups. they will start turning guns on each other because none of them want the other rebel group to get in charge. bill: thank you, kt macfarland here in new york. thanks. bill: heather? heather: heading to bankruptcy court. a large american city trying to deal with nearly a billion dollar problem. is this just the start of what we could see other cities going bust? bill: an issue there, right? another government agency busted for wasteful spending over a parody training video of the why the irs is now accused of wasting your tax dollars.
tamron, is that republicans and we look at every survey and said look, we re winning independent voters, and that s whether it was an ohio survey or national survey, as we found out according to the exit polls. they did win the independent voters but lost the presidential election. it s important to note that winning the independent vote doesn t mean you win a presidential election. that makes perfect sense. i m going to throw a wildcard at you because of our close ties to texas. this immigration comment from senator lindsey graham, that he s ready to go all in on immigration reform, the president has made his pledge to the latino community in his first term and certainly now in his second term. might we see a speeding up of this conversation? it certainly looks that way. of course, getting legislation done, as we ve seen over the last several years, is a lot easier said than done. with john mccain, lindsey graham, people saying we need immigration reform done, that is a very good
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi
we can t afford to go back to it, not now, we ve got a lot of work to do. we ve got a long way to go before everybody who wants a good job can get a good job. we have a long way to go before middle class americans fully regain that sense of security that has been slipping away since long before this recession hit. but you know what? we have got something to show. all of you show what and possible when we pull together. over the last two years our businesses have added about 3.7 million new jobs and manufacturering is coming back for the first time since the 1990s and companies are bringing jobs back from overseas and the economy is getting stronger and the recovery is speeding up, now is the time to keep the foot on the gas and not put to breaks and i m not going to settle for a country where just a few do really well and everyone else is
wide-ranging better view. and growing likelihood israel could attack iran s nuclear sites anytime in the next few months. that chilling prospect is only the latest stunning statement by leon panetta. why is she speaking so freely? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s been a long time since economists have sounded so giddy about jobs, but they re cheering, showing nearly a quarter of a million jobs, 243,000 were added in january, far more than expect ed the dow jones industrials just closed, up more than 150 points to reach its highest level in almost four years. the nasdaq reached a peak it hasn t seen in more than 11 years, but that doesn t mean is the economic picture is suddenly all rosy. let s go live to dan lothian, he s looking at all of this. dan? reporter: that s right. the white house has cautious optimism. for the past few years we ve been talking about high unemployment numbers, now 8.3%. behind these numb imperils are real people. they aren