worried opening abroad will be politically bill: it tells me they are being defensive. reporter: very defensive. bill: does it appear now that the big number will be below 8% come november, and what is the affect of that. reporter: i think it will be below 8%. there are a lot of reasons for this. but i think the president will have an unemployment rate about what it was when he took office. now, remember it zoomed up right after he took office, and he said that wasn t his, that was under bush s watch. be that as it may it think it will be about what it was. the states he s visiting, like virginia and ohio and florida, these are states that have seen their unemployment rates fall markedly from what they were at the highest point. the improvement in the election tore lee rich states could be part after strategy to kobl together wins there. ironically the republican
remember now the white house repeatedly said they would reconsider the request once a new proposal is submitted. now that has happened. there is clearly political pressure on the white house to assure the approval process is timely. however a decision this year is not expected. it is an election rear right now. martha: will happen shortly after. bill: we ll see. doug mckelway is working on this we got that information from doug down in washington, d.c.. martha: this morning we got very big job numbers came out just a little while ago. neil cavuto will put those in perspective for us that is coming up. bill: more shocking testimony in the trial of john edwards. word of a secret offer that may have kept his mistress and their baby hidden from the public. martha: a possible solution to the growing diplomatic crisis between the united states and china. one side is now offering a concession that could solve the fate of the blind chinese activist. translator: i want to
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today s report, bill was one very little sunshine in it. in fact so little, that 34,000 americans simply gave up and went home 342,000. we need to do a lot better than that. bill: the labor participation rate is dismal. of the percentage of americans eligible for working the number, 63.6% today. you would have to go back to 1981 before the number is that low. that s remarkable. this is a testament to of completely tailed set of failed set of labor market policies. this the lowest fraction of americans even trying to work in 3 1/2 decades. we need to put in place policies which encourage businesses to expand, to add to their factories, to add to their payrolls. we re not seeing that kind of attempt. we ll likely see more calls for temporary stimulus. we re in the fourth year of that failed experiment. time to try to go back to the principles that gave us 3 and 400,000 jobs in the
huguely was convicted of second-degree murder. sentencing for him is scheduled in august. love filed a $0 million lawsuit against huguely last week. bill: nine minutes past the hour now. we re working on a whole lot more on a friday. nearly 3/4 of a million dollars secretly fun they would to former presidential candidate john edwards and we re hearing details of the alleged scheme from the man doing it. martha: a lot of decorating going on. brand new poll numbers show you where the candidates stand right now and this is shaping up to get very interesting. bill: we also have another video now. this is home video just released of a missing girl in arizona. one of the new developments police continue in their search for isabel sell lis. what their parents just did to help with the case. we re looking for us isa. we love you and we miss you so much.