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"the situation room." >> a lot of pain and not enough gain. a new snapshot of employment in this country. 18,000 jobs were created in june. that's far short of the 125,000 new jobs some economists were predicting. another setback, the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 9.2% last month, up from 9.1% in may. president obama says the steal mate over the rising debt is contributing to the problem and he says it must be resolved by the august 2 deadline. >> the sooner with eget this done, the sooner that the markets know that the debt limit ceiling will have been raised and that we have a serious plan to deal with our debt and deficit. the sooner we give our bhizs the certainty they need to make additional investments to grow and hire, and will provide more confidence to the rest of the world as well so they are committed to investing in america. the american people sent us here to do the right thing, not for party, but for country. we're going to work together to get things done on their behalf. that's the least they can expect of us, not the most that they should expect of us. >> republicans in congress and on the presidential campaign trail are pouncing on the new jobs report. paul begala is a senior strategist for the democrat fundraising group priorities usa and priorities usa action. and john fary is president of quinn gillespie commune kpapgs okay, we're out of time. all right. the republican, especially the presidential nominee, i think we heard from all of them as you might imagine. let me give you a little bit of what mitt romney had to say and he was talking about a statement that david plouff, the president's senior political adviser had to say. this is romney's. president obama's closest white house adviser said that unemployment rates or even monthly job numbers do not matter to the average american. if david plouff were working iffer me, i would fire him and then he could experience firsthand the pain of unemployment. his comments are the insult to the more than 20 million people who are out of work, underemployed or who have simply stopped looking for jobs. with their cavalier attitude about the economy, the white house has turned the audacity of hope into the audacity of indifference. okay. >> listen, this is trouble for the president, is it not? >> well, it's trouble for the country when the economy goes bad. if i was advising mr. romney, a little less glee when the news is so gloomy, sir. for him to talk about firing people. he would fire david plouff, but he fired thousands of people. that's how he got so rich. it really does gall when you see -- the risk for him, hone honestly, if i was advising him. it's bad news, try not to smile so much, sir. it does appear from romney's comments, the chairman of the national committee that i can never announce, preibus said, sad news for the economy is good news for us. michelle bachmann thf morning said she hopes the bad numbers help her campaign. there's a risk for the republicans here that they're talking down the economy and they could look like they want america to fail so they could succeed. >> we know bad economic numbers are good for the people not in the white house and running for the white house. so it's a fine line, and a very sensitive line to walk. >> it's the new narrative for july and august and september. lack of job. and that's going to have an impact on the debt limit negotiations that now takes tax increases off the time. >> it's awfully difficult for the president to say now i really want to raise taxes because everybody knows raising taxes kills jobs. for the president to try to get around that is going to hurt him even more. all the republican presidential candidates are absolutely right. they're not gleeful. they think the president's economic theories have not worked. they think they have the right theorys. that's why they're focused like a laser beam on jobs. i think this helps mitt romney because he has a lot of credibility on the economy. >> i know people say oh, yes, this has a lot to do with creating job, but it only sort of tangentially does. i get the impression that the white house would like to get this debt ceiling discussion over with. make whatever dale deal they're going to deal and move on so they could talk about jobs. >> we raised the debt ceilings seven times when george w. bush was president. many democrats voted against it then, i thought they were i plaing politics then. to be fair. >> including president obama. >> but the republicans are playing chicken with the economy now the way the democrats never did. the results could be calamitous, and now is the worst time for them to be playing russian roulette with the american economy. and they're doing it why? to protect millionaires and billionaires and oil companies. >> i'm not exactly what john says. >> they want to protect the economic growth. they don't want to raise tax in a slowing economy, which is pretty -- >> we just cut taxes in december and the economy slowed. so it doesn't look like that helped very much. >> i have to call a time-out. we'll talk some more. thank you all so much. the gloomy jobs report may get waved around in the next bargaining session. republican congressional leaders are warning the president that any tax hikes would make the jobs problem worse heading into sunday's bipartisan talks, the president is busy dealing with demands from his own party. here's our congressional correspondent kate baldwin. >> hey there, candy. if president obama thought republicans were going to be tough, his own party is now reminding him, they have some pretty serious demands, too. ahead of another round of debt talks, house democratic leader nancy pe lowcy met privatety with president obama at the white house. a. >> back on capitol hill, pelosi met behind closed doors with her fellow democrats. she described it as lively, but others called it angry, frustrated, and anxious. and one after another, they emerged, pushing a unified message. no deal if it includes benefit cuts to medicare or social security? >> we can't subsidize tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the poor and working families. it should not be used to pay for reckless spending that led to these massive deficits. medicare, medicaid, same thing. >> medicare or social security. >> is that a bottom line here? >> there's no question about it. >> pelosi did leave the door open to changes to the entitlement programs, but only if the savings stay within the programs and were not put towards deficit reduction. >> the dirty rotten devil is in the dirty rotten details. >> it's not that there's some imminent deal about to happen. there are serious disagreements about how to deal with this very serious problem. >> they cannot get any deal through very unlikely, at least without them. >> they don't need all of either party, but they need most of both, don't they? >> they need a majority somewhere. >> they do. thanks so much. a whopping 14.1 million americans are out of work right now according to the new jobs report. and when you break down the number, there's a very clear gender gap. >> reporter: the health care industry has been a rare bright spot in a dismal jobs market and it's one of the reasons why 47-year-old stephen roy switched careers from a major tech firm to nursing. he landed a job at the stony brook university medical center where he saw an opportunity in a field traditionally dominated by women. >> i don't know if i was foolish or not, but i did, partly because i did come into the work force as, you know, a man in his 40s going into this field where, you know, i knew there wouldn't be a lot of men my age that i would be competing for jobs with. reerlt health care is one field where the pugh research said men are finding jobs at a faster rate than women. men gained 805,000 jobs, while women lost 281,000 jobs in that same period. it's a major shift from the start of the recession. economist heather boucher says then men lost 7 out of 10 jobs and says it's not surprising they are now gaining jobs faster. a pick up in manufacturing earlier this year helped put men to work but there's another reason for the gender gap. >> men make up majority of state and government workers. we've seen very sharp layoffs that have disproportionately affected women worker ps. >> layoffs for teachers and librarians are hurting women more. on a broader scale, one network helping put women to work sees an uptick in job seerks. >> more women are seeking our services and have been seeking our services in the past year. and more often than not, their reason for seeks oyou are services is because it is taking them a long time to get back into the work force. >> reporter: while women may be getting higher at a slower pace, the unemployment rate for men is still higher at 9.1% compared to 8% for women. with no dramatic improvement expected soon, one newcomer to the health care profession isn't complaining about making less an working harder. >> i'm incredibly grateful for what i get to do every day, but secondly, i feel like i dodged a bullet. >> stephen waugh for one is betting that an aging baby boomer population will create demand and help provide job security. he's not alone. a forecast by moodiemoodieseconm expects 4.3 million health care jobs to be added until the year 2021. candy? >> wow. inside the figures, really interesting. thank you so much. america's space shuttle program is one launch closer to becoming a blast from the past. stand by for the excitement and the history surrounding today's liftoff. and what's next for nasa. and the political cloud over rupert murdoch's media empire in britain and here in the u.s. it's under scrutiny right now after a new arrest in an exploding scandal. 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>> compare this launch to the others you've seen. >> and here's that picture inside the shuttle cargo bay. it's a live shot, now it's gone again. of the carrier, of course. that's got all that equipment in. what it came down to today as i was watching it, you have that feeling there's another one, i'll see another one. this time as it clears the tower i'm thinking to myself, that's it. there's not going to be another one. i'm not going to see another one of these spectacular launches. the night launches are something that -- you know, the skylights up, it turns to day. they're fabulous. you know, early morning launches. every one of them is a little bit unique. and there's that live picture from the shuttle atlantis. the center, that's where all the goods are being stored. what you're seeing at the right there is the arm, the shuttle's arm, and in the back, you can see the tail section of the shuttle. so looking from front to back there, as they're traveling at about 17,500 miles an hour. you know, racing as fast as they can to catch up to the space station. candy? >> john zarrella, you are going to misthis, i can tell. >> yes, i am. >> the action shifted to johnson space center in texas where nasa is tracking every move of atlantis and its crew. that's where we find cnn's e ed led l ed lavandera. >> here in houston is where hundreds of thousands of people are behind the scenes support. the astronauts get all the glory when they're walking out to the launch pad and lifts off. these are bittersweet days for all the people here in the houston area who work for the shutdle program. and just after that launch, we were able to speak with the flight director. richard jones who's talked about what an amazing day this was for him. this is richard jones, flight director of the last shuttle launch that we've seen today. what was it like sitting there? >> oh, gosh. well, even before we lifted off, i was a bundle of nerves. >> the fact that you knew the whole world was watching today as closely as they had ever been, did you -- did that sink in at any point? >> no, it's sinking in right now as i'm talking to you. but no, absolutely not. i was d, in this room, you kind of learn to live in the bubble a lit bit. so everything that we're doing is -- it fades to the background. we know a lot of people are watching, but it becomes background noise. i wasn't to cushion on anything except my job at the time. >> you're talking to the team in there a little while ago. you got emotional. >> yeah, i did. i wasn't expecting that until the very end. and it's because i'm saying goodbye to a lot of my -- a lot of my co-workers. and so i've been in the trenches with them for a very long time. just saying goodbye to them, it hurts. >> it came rushing to me. >> what did you want to take away from that? >> to me it was the past, present and the future. we're just a little part of it. right now, we're in the present. and there will be others of us to come. and so just relish the moment. >> this room in a few days will be quiet for the foreseeable future, won't it? >> yeah. it will be. that's going to be hard for people. >> it's part of the transition. it's up to us to not stay quiet for so long. >> you haven't seen the launch. crazy thing about this. there's not a monitor around there that shows you the actual video of the launch. >> once i get home, yeah, i'll go look at the replays and see how well and how it went. i'm expecting to see a beautiful, beautiful launch. >> i can attest to it. it looked great. congratulations, man. >> appreciate it, thank you. >> candy, it was really amazing to watch these people work here in mission control this morning. about 30 minutes before the launch, there was a lot of tension growing in that room. they weren't quite sure whether or not that weather was going to cooperate. and there's about two or three minutes before the launch, you could see richard jones start to calm down. he had been pacing around, walking around back and forth. at one point he asked everyone to be quiet just a second so he could think. they were making the final decisions and he said it was a great experience to get the shuttle atlantis up into space. candy? >> lots and lots of history and lots of work being done. ed lavandera, thanks so much. we appreciate it. yo ou need to stay with cnn for complete coverage of this final shuttle mission. and an in depth look at what's next for nasa. tonight, a cnn special investigation -- beyond atlan s atlantis, the next frontier. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific right here on cnn. syria has tried to keep a lid on information trickling out of the country but desserters from the military are coming clean about what they say they did in the name of their nation. and an execution in texas fuels anger on both sides of the mexican border. we'll explain the outrage over a convicted killer's death. >> announcer: this past year alone there's been a 67% spike in companies embracing the cloud-- big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that's why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds means more than ever. pro democracy activists in syria say eight people were killed in clashes with security forces today. protesters declared this a day of no dialogue. they say the government's offer of talks isn't enough. but syria's ruth crackdown has sent a message, too. desserters from the army told cnn's ivan watson how far account government is willing to go to crush dissent. we have to warn you, some of these pictures are really hard to watch. >> syrian troops and tanks, squaring off against anti-government demonstrators, snapshots of a bloody government crackdown that's gone on for months. now a man who says he's a dee earther from the syrian army claims in an interview from cnn he was given orders to shoot unarmed protesters. >> translator: there were protests and chanting. suddenly our officer gave us the order to shoot at the people. it didn't matter how many would be killed. the important thing was for the protest to be dispersed and we started shooting. >> he asked his fies not to be shown because of reprisals against his family