good, but not terrible, what you ve got is a rally on wall street. your 401(k) is going to go straight up at the opening bell this morning, and martha, you re going to see 12,000 on the dow jones industrial average very early this morning. martha: really? yes you are. martha: i m going to smile! but i m not going to smile until it happens, stuart. it will happen. martha: you know what happens with these things, we always think we know which way the market is go to go and they start looking at something down the road but you re right, there s a good triumbrant of news, leaving things nicely higher. stuart, how are things so different today than they were a couple of days ago? any fundamental change here in the economy you re seeing in terms of manufacturing or job growth? no, it s not the american economy createing this wall street rally. that helps. no double-dip recession. that clearly helps. the big deal is the european debt deal. that s been hanging over
it s been 3 weeks. so, i used my citi simplicity card to pick up a few things. and i don t have to worry about a late fee. which is good. no! bigger! bigger! [ monica ] .because i don t think we re going anywhere for a while. [ male announcer ] write your story with the new citi simplicity card. no late fees. no penalty rate. no worries. get started at citisimplicity.com. disgruntled. welcome back to special edition of news nation. i am tamron hall in the heart of the financial district and joining me is one of the participants in the occupied wall street rally. harrison shulton. and people want to talk to the protesters and hear from the people here. how due process what could happen here in the next couple of hours when the union members start to join the people who have been here? it s going to be another
debate about the debt. there is no doubt economists are talking about this midterm and long-term problem. but none of these economists or ratings agencies or any of these people that supposedly had influence on wall street were urging government to stop spending money right now. and there is a real concern that what the bill you re voting for, even though it is only a trillion dollars over ten years, and maybe another trillion and a half is going to contribute to the slowdown. are you concerned about this? well, i think we all got a right to be concerned about that. you don t want to do anything to slow the economy. most of these cuts, though, are in the years. and that actually concerned a lot of my republican colleagues because there is no enforcement mechanism to make sure the cuts actually take place. in terms of the next year, the cuts are that have been proposed are relatively minor. i do think what we don t need to do is do anything that will slow economic growth. my hope is
republican or democrat, every american has a financial stake in what is happening in the job market. this isn t about just whether you re implied or not. because people who aren t employed. the jobs report will reveal whether ef turned a corner. christine romans is watching the jobs report. analysts say it looks like we turned a corner but they have said that before. rob was my reason for a trip to atlanta as well. 190,000 would be the best since last may. but, remember, we have been here before! we have been hoping for the jobs to come in and they haven t that yellow bar is a projection. look. we have two months down. then we had, is it going to get better? january, ugh. only 36,000. a jobs unemployment rate at more than 9%. guys, 9%. doesn t feel good. you re watching wall street rally and hearing people say it
excoriated. you don t want to be hysterical or too mild mannered. at the same time, holding corporate leaders to account while wall street and american business. you two are good together. we ll have to continue this as a regular thing. we ll travel the world together. if britain and america play each other again. which might happen. you lost my attention. this sunday, meet the press david gregory talks exclusively with ken feinberg who will be overseeing that gulf fund. check your local listings. thanks to both of you. coming up, which 30-year-old cult classic got two thumbs up from the vatican? plus grab your broomsticks. potter mania invades universal studios. we ll be live in orlando next. follow us any time on we ll be live in orlando, next. follow us any time on twitter. and here s our tweet of the day. it comes from gray spy savannah