pakistan and the list goes on. more goods and people being able to go from egypt to gaza, so it is really running the gamut of specific things that deal with al qaeda to all muslims and arabs. that is a big list of big asks, and what is the reaction from the white house and the state department? well, if you remember, soledad, mr. weinstein was kidnapped in august and in december al qaeda claimed responsibility and the leader of al qaeda now that bin laden is dead, aman al zawahiri laid out the demands at the time, and the u.s. has a no negotiation policy and not only with the kidnappers per se, but with the terrorists certainly, so there has not been official reaction to the video and what the u.s. has said since december is that it is working with the pakistanis who are taking the lead on the investigation to find out where he might be and i suspect they are working with people in the tribal areas the try the track him down, but i don t anticipate a meeting of the deman
it will make things more difficult. it is very important that you act quickly, and i m now waiting for your response. cnn s elise lapin joins us from the white house. before we get to reaction, let s talk about the demands. what are they demanding? well, soledad, a range of demands starting from releasing all al qaeda and taliban prisoners and in particular those responsible for the 1993 bombing of the world trade center, the attempted attack on the world trade center, and also a halt to all air strikes in yemen, somalia, afghanistan and pakistan and the list goes on. more goods and people being able to go from egypt to gaza, so it is really running the gamut of specific things that deal with al qaeda to all muslims and arabs. that is a big list of big asks, and what is the reaction from the white house and the state department? well, if you remember, soledad, mr. weinstein was kidnapped in august and in december al qaeda claimed responsibility and the leader of al qa
a woman claiming to be the prostitute at the center of the secret service scandal is speaking out. dania londono suarez is speaking out. she claims secret service agents were heavily and buying alcohol. quote, like one buys water. suarez fled colombia, she says, to dubai after the incident. she said she is scared and angry at secret service agents that her family could be harmed. mark potter joins me live. we get the statement just in from congressman peter king. obviously, he is on the committee investigating the secret service misconduct. he is pointing out that the secret service gave no information on how they failed to find her and interviewed her. she popped up on this radio station. and she confirms that. this woman who says she is dania
got to do more. this is a sad time in america when people who want work can t find jobs. this is a time when america wants to have someone who knows what it takes to create jobs and get people working again. joining me now, cnbc s chief washington correspondent. i ll start with you here, john. we saw it with mitt romney and with the headlines i read. i went through dozens of them and depending on maybe your point of view, you saw these numbers as good and some as hopeful and some plain out bad. i think the white house regards them as disappointing. they would like more robust job growth than that. there is some question as to whether some of the job growth that might have occurred in march and april had been shifted by the warm weather in january and february, but be that as it may, to bring this unemployment rate down more rapidly, the administration needs a more robust level of job growth. i talked the other day to the former chairman of the president s economic advis
point of view, you saw these numbers as good and some as hopeful and some plain out bad. i think the white house regards them as disappointing. they would like more robust job growth than that. there is some question as to whether some of the job growth that might have occurred in march and april had been shifted by the warm weather in january and february, but be that as it may, to bring this unemployment rate down more rapidly, the administration needs a more robust level of job growth. i talked the other day to the former chairman of the president s economic advisers. i think there is a significant chance that we re going to have another spring time disappointment as we had in 2010 and 2011. the dow is down 157 points. we say wall street is reacting to this, as you clarified, the white house calling it disappointing but the president saying a long road to go but pointing to some of the optimism in the numbers that he sees. well, look. the stock market has been follow