all morning long. and tomorrow, we ll get the latest gauge on unemployment nationwide from the labor department and it does not look encouraging. september s jobless rate is predicted to edge up slightly to 8.2% when the federal report is released, up 0.1% from august. a private survey showed american businesses made 162,000 hires last month, down from august. something that may be addressed in the next two presidential debates, a new book that says president obama hoped to put osama bin laden on trial if he add surrendered in last year s raid by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. the book quotes mr. obama as saying he thought he would be in a strong enough position politically after bin laden s capture that a criminal trial would have been possible here in the u.s. it also says the president expected bin laden to go down fighting in the raid. the book is called the finish and it s being published in two weeks. and nearly a dozen people in new york are facing charges this
pretrial publicity. they want tho know how it was leaked. gretchen: a field team if seal team 6 didn t kill osama bin laden, president obama would have put him on trial. that s the revelation in a new book called the finish. it says president obama planned to hold a criminal trial in federal court if he was captured. the book says he penalty due process and rule of law would be our best weapon against al-qaeda. steve: need gas? good luck if you live in california. many gas stations there closing up shop because they re running out of gasoline. refinery problems and the closure of a pipeline being blamed for the shortage. and the short supply also driving prices to new highs. in one day, a gallon of gas in california jumped five cents. look at that number right there. regular gas is 4.32 on average. that s more than 50 cents higher than the national average. brian: emu, looking for love in all the wrong places, taco is