alison, everyone is noting that this is just a part of the trend. right. well, first of all, don, it is an encouraging report, especially when you look at the trend here. when you look at the trend, 1.6 million jobs have been added in the last year. the unemployment rate is at 8.5%. so, yes, things are getting better. the dow is down and nasdaq is mixed. not so overly impressed. as things improve, the expectation is rising and the fact is these numbers just didn t blow away expectations. the economy at this point is kind of like an economy that s had its training wheels taken off but we still haven t moved into the fast lane and wall street wants to see if the economy is picking up steam. and when you break up these numbers, it s not equal among everyone. it s not. the unemployment rate didn t budge for african-americans. in fact, the black unemployment rate in december was 15.8%. compare that to the rate for whites at 7.5%. you know what, economists say, it s nothing k
threatening to dredge it up. gingrich reporters say getting information from the house ethics investigation would be at the least unethical. pelosi says she s only talking about information already on the record. they asked the candidate about it yesterday. we turned over a million pages of material. we had a huge report. the total 83 charges were repudiated as false. the one mistake we made was a letter written by a lawyer that i didn t read carefully. mr. gingrich isn t telling the whole story about the house investigation back then. it s complicated but they wanted to know if he used money from tax exempt organizations to fund college courses that he taught and used, by his own admission, to further his political agenda. shortly after the rival filed the complaint, gingrich hired a washington lawyer who wrote two material letters to the ethics committee. gingrich signed the first letter and approved the second. both contained statements that were false. gingrich was te
oh, my god. please stay where you are. everybody, stay where you are. did you get it? oh, my god. keep your heads up. everybody, stay where you are. i knew that was in the stands, oh, my god. it could have been us. i know. in my mind, it was coming. joining me on the phone is the man who shot that video. he is brent wilson, he s back home in portland, oregon. brent, you know, we could hear i counted three oh, my gods. i don t know if that was from you or your son. i can t imagine what you were feeling. if you can, walk me through your initial thoughts when you saw that plane nosedive and hit the crowd. it was obviously an incredibly tragic event, and initially, before it got down to the ground, you know, it was all over the sky and for a brief moment what appeared to be an eternity to us, you know, it was coming directly for us in our area. and, you know, i just froze and my sons. it was something that is life changing. my son kyle actually is the one who
and now, this is the man who allegedly strapped that thing in place in hopes of prying money out her parents. paul doug peters, age 51, an australian finance executive. paul doug peters arrested yesterday outside of louisville, kentucky, by a local fbi swat team in connect with the case that has gripped australia for nearly two weeks. let me take you back to august 3rd. this was the scene in a wealthy enclave outside of sidney where this sl-year-old spent a heldish ten hours. she was fearing this mechanism would explode. it turned out to be a hoax. but the assailant s demands were very real. he wanted money from madeline parents. the demands were that it was financial, demands made. again, i can t go into too much detail on exactly what they were and that they needed to be some follow-up contact. and further instructions would be given. like i said, a truly bizarre story. let s go to susan candiotti outside o the federal court in lieu louisville. i know you want to talk a
the killing of osama bin laden, new details. we have correspondents covering all angles. they ll join us at the top of the hour. but first politics. ron paul wants president obama s job. he announced his intentions earlier today and plans a news conference at the top of the hour. the republican congressman joins newt gingrich in the gop race for the white house. a long time political observer, broadcaster and businessman has a new book, fail up, lessons from building successes from failure. tavis, welcome. good to be on. i want to talk about your book in a little bit, but first politics. ron paul just announced p about should president obama be concerned? i m sure the white house is concerned about any potential candidate. ron paul of course has run before. has a loyal following and what s been fascinate for me is how much he has a loyal following amongst young people and the money that he can raise. so he s a threat obviously on a certain level. but at the same time,