>> that idiot. you know? people don't trust politicians. he's authentic. have a great weekend, everybody. erin burnett "outfront" starts erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com jobs, jobs, jobs. everyone saying the report good news for the president. why he might be worried tonight. and the latest in the case of the woman found strangle led in her mercedes. the man in custody told police about the victim's husband. we have an exclusive interview. and the flight attendant that terrified everybody on her flight tonight. the woman who videotaped the meltdown is here. let's go "outfront." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, we told you so. the economy is doing a lot better. today, the third month in a row of frankly really good jobs nurls. today's report shows the u.s.

added 227,000 jobs last month and more people felt optimistic enough to get back into the labor force cht that's why the unemployment rate held firm. now, everyone is increasingly obje optimistic. our strike team said there would not be a double dip recession last fall when a lot of people were full of doom and gloom and recession, and then after the december jobs report, we were excited when we said this could be president obama's moment. that was the theme for reagan's 1984 re-election campaign and last month after the strong january jobs report, we said it again and we are glad that all that talk about a double dip has gone away, but here at "outfront," we aren't realists and the truth is, there are some real problems out there. one, in that report today, we found wages are not growing as quickly as inflation. that means the standard of lives for average americans is lower today than a year ago. and two, there are pitfalls

ahead and the president sees them, too, so he isn't counting his re-election chickens yet. >> i did not run r for this office just to get back to where we were. i ran for this office to get us to where we need to be. >> there are some eers pitfalls the economy might plunge into. right now, it does look good for him, but one issue we've talked about a lot is iran. if tensions continue to escalate, oil prices could go as high as $150. that means gas prices go to about $5 a gallon. if oil goes as high as $200, which could happen. that would take gas prices at the pump to $7 a gallon. that means consumers would get hit hard. high energy prices also mean xaeps pay a lot more in fuel and

that means less money for hiring and raises. it would mean a double dip. conrad dequadros is here to talk about the pitfalls. let's start with the one on the iranian situation. your take is you don't need outright conflict. >> the issues we had last year with libya, we had oil prices rising, even though there wasn't that significant an impagt on oil supply. just concern could make oil prices rise further. it is a potential, significant cost increase for consumers. a fairly sizable part of consumer's budgets. about 6% of consumer spending is on energy related goods and services. as you go down the income scale, thest a larger impact. lower income consumers spend a lot more. >> and it's interesting when you talk about libya a year ago because at that time, we were talking about well libya is

going to be a huge future simplier of oil and not a current one. libya is still a complete z disaster. and now, everyone's complacent. they're not even focusing on that. puts it in context. you're also concerned about something we've talked a lot about. complete and utter dysfunction. the dysfunction in our government that caused this country to get downgraded. >> it's not a matter of if there's gridlock, there's no impact going into 2013. if there is gridlock, we'll see a significant increase this tax rate. the tax cuts of 2003 expire. we have increases in tax rates from health care reform. increase in the dividenddividenh could impact the stock market and households. gridlock in washington is a big problem. we need to see some progress on

tax reform. >> really a bis mall what happens in washington. last but certainly not least, the debt problem. half of our debt held by countries overseas, china, the biggest foreign holder. what happens if china pares back? >> that is linked back to the prior point you made. if you remember in the middle of last year, the u.s. was downgraded. one of the reasons was the dysfunction in washington. you can see a situation where foreigners might become less willing to invest as much in treasuries as they have. i don't think you're going to see foreigners sell, but they can just buy less. right now, with we have very low borrowing rates, which are sort of the benchmark that all rates are based off at around 2%. a year ago, they were about 3.5%. if there wasn't another marginal buyer, you could see interest rates go higher.

which is what we're expecting, 5% by the end of next year, you're talking about mortgage rates that could be in the area. >> that's a lot of money. thank you very much, appreciate it and now, james carville and rion join us. james, first with the good news. your guy, president barack obama, i know he's careful in how he talks about it, but he has got to be thrilled with the jobs numbers. >> i think they are and i think it's very, very good that he's very, very careful. you know, people see this and they're still a lot of things in the economy. look, this economy was wrecked by the financial crisis and now, we know that coming out of these things is brutal and very hard. i think these numbers are in line with that and people are starting to give him a little bit of credit. they're seeing some improvement,

but there are pitfalls. >> rion, mitt romney talked about the jobs numbers today and i find it sort of strange that he keeps harping on the fact that the president said the unemployment rate would never go above 8% because if it goes below, it's going to be very difficult for mitt romney, but here's what he finally said when someone asked him about it today in jackson, mississippi. >> don't forget by the way, that this president, how many months ago was it? 37 months ago. told us that if he could borrow $787 billion, almost a trillion dollars, he would keep unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. this president has not succeeded. this president has failed and that's the reason we're going to get rid of him in 2012. >> i just have to say, looking through the numbers today, i don't understand why he's harping on the 8% because if it goes below 8%, which it well

could, he is going to have to eat his words -- why isn't he doing it? >> i think you're right. i think it's because it's a very clear indicator. james is right about this. a picture is actually a very confusing one because on the one hand, we have these pretty strong job numbers. on the other hand, we have weak gdp numbers, so you're right to suggest that hey, maybe the unemployment rate could go below 8%, which will confuse the romney message. on the other hand, i imagine his advisers are telling him wait a second, the gdp numbers look weak enough that it looks as though the labor market is going to soften further into 2012. >> which, james carville, it could, in part because of what we're see iing the oil prices a iran. so, how does this play into the president's calculus of how he's going to address the iran issue? whether or not it supports

isra israel? >> we have elections coming up. that some talk about netanyahu calling elections in israel in 2012 and some versions of elections in iran. i know that bob gates, one of the most experienced people who ever united states government has dealt with. he's the president of the united states. and there's always trouble spots around world. as predicted, as a result of the financial crisis, this recovery has been fragile, but it is starting to gain some momentum and the president is looking stronger and better and romney's answer is not very convincing at all. just looks like he's harping back to 37 months ago and i don't think that has anything with voters or people right now. >> james, strategically about this whole 8% versus the income growth. the average american income is

not rising as quickly, which means they are feeling worse off than a year ago. rihan points out that's a complicated thing for romney to say. is it? why does he not go after that? >> that's been a problem for the middle class since 1973. and it is kind of bad because inflation is so low and if you're not keeping up with low inflation. i think some of your friends on wall street would say in a really soft labor market, it's not surprising that right now, employees don't have much leverage with employers, so probably making a little less and that maybe has something to do with jobs numbers getting better. just sort of extrapolating on the cajun mind. when you have a soft mind, people are willing to work for r a few pennies less and that could be what we're seeing and hopefully, as the economy gains momentum, employees will have a little more advantage. >> i think we all hope that happens. it will be interesting,

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they were sent to capture kony. david, i know you've spent time there, there's a lot of talk about what joseph kony may have done in uganda, some of those acts, hacking the limbs, are truly horrific. some say he may not even still be in uganda. where are you hearing he may be? >> that's a great point. certainly, he's definitely not in northern uganda and while this powerful and simple message has been put out to millions, some say it's simplistic and loses some of the key facts in this issue. one is that he's not in northern uganda, the lords resistance army and joseph kony fled six years ago, into south sudan as well as eastern drc. they're hunkering down in the forest. hiding from ugandan and u.s.

forces. >> given that, this sort of paints the whole country with that brush, but is this newfound fame, the fact this video has gone drye viral now, going to help find kony or not? >> good question. a lot of people are wondering, if 60 million odd people are wondering who he is, is he going to use this to his advantage? try gather people around him and push back or make him easier to catch? i think neither is true in the short-term. the u.s. military is involved in trying to catch him -- >> appears like we had a little bit of a problem with david's shot there, but joining us to talk more about this man hunt that's going on and the u.s.

military's involvement in it is rick nelson, a former counterterrorism official for the u.s. government. obviously, a little interrupted there, but he's talking about the role of u.s. military advisers. what do these quote unquote advisers do? are they cia agents? >> they're soft forces doing an acts mission, which has been a bread and butter of this force for some time. something like training and equipping host neighs or forces. this is what forces are doing in uganda. >> so, what's made this guy so difficult to capture? if they've been there since the fall and have been helping others in the region, just that people are protecting him and it's that hard to find him? >> the area david outlines is about 1.4 million square miles. about the size of the south china sea, so you're trying to

man hunt in an area that large. it makes it very difficult and that's one of the things that u.s. forces are doing is they're helping the ugandan and local r forces be able to operate there for a long time to have an effective man hunt. >> what do you make f the government saying he's not in uganda? can you trust these governments to be quote unquote good guys? to not be protecting somebody like this? >> we never really know. that's why it's important to equip the military with the skills they need to make their own determination to figure out where he may be operating. >> i'm curious about one thing. ron paul has talked so much about the u.s. military and that it should be pulling back. we looked into how many military sites the u.s. has around the world. there's about 200,000 of them. this is one example of where we

pet american troops. how do we decide to help this country instead of that or is it random or what's getting media coverage? >> that's a very good question. a lot of these decision are made at the national security counsel level. they weigh all factors involved. stability is very important given what's happened with the arab spring. we need the rest of the continent to be stable and uganda's been a strong supporter of the amazon mission in somalia and so it's important for the u.s. and international community to support these nations in africa. >> thank you very much. tonight, new twist in the murder mystery of a michigan mother found strangled in the back of her mercedes. we told you about this first a month ago. we are learning today about some questionable actions by investigators in the case. her clothes reportedly never made it to the state's crime lab after her body was found and

this is something that has continued to raise questions for us. police initially refused to believe bashara's handyman. he confessed to killing jane bash bashara, he was charged with murder and conspiracy, but not with whom. the 48-year-old handyman reportedly has an iq of a third grader. claims the husband promised him a couple of hundred thousands dollars in cash. bashara denies that claim. ted rollins is in gross point with a long time friend of the handyman. so ted, this is the friend who convinc convinced gentz to go to the police. >> he is a religious guy and says he wished he could have done more, but said absolutely sh he does not regret convincing his friend to turn himself in. >> i think if i would have had

more information maybe, things would have changed. >> reporter: standing in his front yard, he broke down talking about the murder. >> sorry. but i want justice served. >> reporter: he says his friend, joseph gentz, came to him after jane was found strangled to death. >> i seen him crying about it. sometimes, a situation just can't get out of. got to make the right choice. >> reporter: he says the choice was to tell police what gentz happened, that gentz killed jane in her garage and that her husband convinced him to do it. he was manipulated. he says he went with gentz to turn himself in on february 3rd, but after he told his story, police let him go. gentz was eventually arrested

more than a month after he confessed. bob bashara remains free and maintains his innocence. >> we have cooperated with law enforcement agencies and will continue to do so. >> reporter: news that bob bashara not only has a girlfriend, but this shop in grosse pointe. his attorney thinks his private life has clouded the investigation. >> it appears that things such as that, the s and m and the rest of it, things that aren't admissible in a courtroom, are what caused them to zero in on bob bashara. >> reporter: gentz pled not guilty at his arraignment. right now, he's undergoing a mental evaluation. until that is done, they do not have a preliminary hearing on

trial date set. >> i'm just curious about a couple of things. obviously, you were talking about evaluating his intelligence. we've reported before an iq of maybe 80. how do you think that's going to affect this whole question of conspiracy to murder? don't they have to have a conspiracy with whom and perhaps charge, arrest someone else as well? >> reporter: and the speculation is that the other people possibly involved in this will be charged and a lot of people in this community think that maybe bob bashara. his attorney says he hopes that doesn't happen, but has warned his client that could be the case. >> and what about the -- there's been allegations of shoddy police work and you're talking about joseph gentz. he originally confessed, police let him go, then they charged him. we were also talking about jane's clothes, the clothes in which she died never got to the

crime lab. is there concern that a lot of is were not dotted? >> yeah, as far as not arrests gentz right away, r who knows what investigate rs were thinking. but on the close thing, it really has raised a lot of e eyebro eyebrows. detroit police told us today we sent the clothes she was found in to the state crime lab with the state police. the state police told us today we never received those clothes. what happened to the clothes? who knows. bottom line, there could have been very critical evidence on those clothes and they're missing. >> thank you very much. reporting from michigan tonight. flight attendant terrifies passengers on an american airlines flight. the woman who videotaped that meltdown comes "outfront" and we talk about just how overtaxed and exhausted a lot of the people who are flight attendants and pilots in this country may

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227,000 added in america in february. good news for the president, but there are still some concerns, wages are not grow iing as quicy as we need them to be. inflation is growing more quickly and as conrad told us earlier, there is still some cease risks to the economy from a possible conflict with iran which could drive oil prices higher. number two, al assad not losing support despite reports of defections. that's what intelligence officials tell our barbara starr. the officials also showed satellite images showing heavy artillery damage. it is believed syrian forces have targeted hospitals and mosques. also shows iran is helping syria with weapons. three, dominique strauss-kahn spoke about the economy today to

students in cambridge, england. he had to be rushed into the building as a crowd of protesters awaited. the society stood by their invitation, citing his prolific knowledge of the economy. he was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. charges were dropped. he is in the midst of a prostitution ring trial in france now. four, the crash of the costa concordia cruise ship hurting the profits of the world's largest cruise ship op rart. i remember when this happened, i was walking through the airport in atlanta and heard people talking about canceling their cruise ship booking. carnival posting a $140 million loss. a year ago, they made $150 million. the cruise company says fewer people are booking cruises, especially with the european brand. also hurt by rising gas prices. it has been 218 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we going to get it

back? the positive jobs report helped stocks. fourth week in a row for the s&p and nasdaq, but by the way, more people earning money means more tax revenue. 40%. and now, to a disturbing incident aboard an american airlines flight in dallas. just minutes before takeoff, 4322 was headed for the runway, a flight attendant launched into a tirade, screaming that the plane was going to crash, alluding to 9/11 and complaining about the american airlines bankruptcy organization. for a few moments, passengers were in a state of panic, then they realized that was happening. lauren grady captured the scene on her cell phone. actually makes the hair on my arm stand up.

imagine if that would have happened when the plane was in the air. the passengers on board took action. they subdued the woman. another flight attendant helped. after the plane returned to the gate, the attendant was taken to the hospital for evaluation. lauren flew home on another flight. thank you very much for taking the time. just hearing that and hearing the fear and terror in the flight attendant's voice that you captured, what did you think when you first heard that happen? >> the screaming? scary. that was after somebody already -- up to the plane. or actually people ran up from the back to restrain her after she was making comments. at first, we thought she was joking and there's just an error in leaving the pa on and as she started talki ining about turni the plane around and mentioning the plane crashing, which she

did several times, everybody started getting pretty upset. >> you said she mentioned the plane crashing several times. what exactly did she say? >> she mentioned she was responsible for the safety of the plane. she said she was trying to reach the captain. she said i give up, it's not my fault and several times, she referred to turning the plane around and if it crashes, it's not her fault. she mentioned opening the doors and at that time, we were taxiing towards the runway, so obviously, very afraid that we were going to take off and you know, what may happen if we were to get in the air, so luckily, somebody did try and take the p.a. away. they were not sure what was going on with her either, and finally, somebody wrestled with her and some other passengers came up with fr the back and restrained her. that's when you start hearing the screaming, then police cars escorted us back to the gate and

then came on, took her off. >> and what else did she say? you say she talked about it crashing. was there anything else that she said? >> no, it was, in the beginning, it was just, seemed like it was an accident and she was maybe a little disgruntled with her job. i just remember thinking, wow, she's not happy and another stewardess saying you need to shut that off. then when she started talkinging about turning the plane around and plane's not going anywhere unless everybody sits down and everybody was sitting. we were all very confused and obviously realized she was having some kind of issue within herself. >> thank you very much. we appreciate you taking the time and sharing that video with us. well, you heard laurie say that she was disgruntled and unhappy with her job. being a flight attendant used to be a dream job. you could travel the world and

enjoy the perks airlines had to offer. you can see the stress flight attendants have to deal with with. it's a really hard job and average salary, only about $38,000 a year. you're on the road all the time. away from your family 15 to 20 days a month. many don't even live in the town in which they work, which means they have to get in an airplane to even start their job. peter greenberg has done an entire documentary on american airlines in recent years. these jobs are really hard jobs now. >> they are. they're high stress. working in an enclosed environment where people may be angry, drunk. you add a delay, weather. when they're working these hour, they're also expected to be the policewomen on the plane. that's what's happened since 9/11. they're the only ones, if you look at the entire arc of the

flight, public contact with people on the plane. it's tough. >> and with all the cutbacks, they given everything they go through, $38,000 a year with traveling and being away so much and time zone changes and everything. >> that's an average. a lot of them make less than that. they cannot afford to live in the cities in which they're based and the other reason, you talk about the history of flight attendants. flying for flight benefits. see the world. all those days. airlines are flying at 82% load factors. the flight attendants can't use their benefits to go anywhere when they're not at work. >> we've heard recently about the pads where they say -- >> hot bunking. you have four to six people per apartment in these cities where they have to go to start their day. when somebody gets up, somebody takes their place. >> it's amazing and some are so professional and so kind and smile in spite of everything.

i just don't know how they do it. but pilots as well. pilots have taken significant pay cuts in recent years. >> and have lost their pensions, too. >> and we've heard recent reports about alcoholism, exhaus exhaustion. >> the department of transportation recently proposed new rules. giving them at least an hour or two between layovers. that doesn't necessarily apply to flight attendants. it can make a difference. >> thank you very much. coming up, a rare look inside a prison that's housing somali pirates and the latest from the rutgers sex cam trial. fellow students came on the stand today and talked about the man who was blamed for tyler clementi's death. that's next. to keep big winter jobs on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting,

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shells. proving these men are really engaged in piracy is notoriously tough. the ring leader here still insists he's innocent. indeed, the authorities say many suspected pirates r were once fishermen driven out of business by commercial operations. they plow these waters for a more lucrative cash. this prison is just one of the number in the region full to bursting point. the u.n. is building more facilities, but here, they're actually planninging to release 19 prisoners next month to make way for more senior pirate leaders. so-called king pens. those 19 inmates are expected to be transferred to smaller prisons elsewhere, but despite multinational efforts to detain ring leaders, business is

booming for the pirates. over the last four years, average ransoms have risen from $600,000 to $4.7 million per vessel. total runs and payouts last year totalled an alarming $135 million. >> at the moment, people practice pirate attacks can be paid up to $10,000, but the average income is $600, so the temptation is always going to be there. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel vijay lean tries to stop them. >> especially at night,t's very difficult -- sometimes, at night, anything at most. >> reporter: they are overwhelmed with pirates they and other countries have detai detained. some are just children.

they are buildinging more prisons, but they won't be ready for years and they can't cope. these men have made a simple calculation. the chances of getting convicted alone and the rewards could be life changing. >> an amazing report. now, we go to nigeria and a failed attempt to save two hostages kidnapped by an islamic militant group. they were killed in the failed rescue by nigerian and british forces. now, britain is under fire for not telling italy in advance about the raid. i asked how the hostage rescue went so wrong. >> reporter: clearly, something went terribly wrong during this rescue mission, but none of the countries involved, nigeria, italy or britain are saying officially exactly what happened. david cameron when announcing the failure of the operation

said chris and franco were killed by their captors before they could be rescued. a source telling us they were actually killed during the raid. one going further, saying it was during a shootout. good luck jonathan immediately blaming the sect operating say those responsible are these two construction workers. >> thank you. and let's check in with anderson. he's got a look at what's coming up. happy friday. >> we're following breakinging news out of syria. troubling new information about how much support the assad regime is receiving from iran. also, sources telling cnn that the president's circle remains strong. also, a sad chapter in our country's history. the practice of eugenics, california led the nation in the practice. yet they've done nothing to make

amends. and it's been a year since the massive earthquake and tsunami drivewayed much of japan. that is still ongoing. tonight, we're going to hear from a journalist who managed to smuggle a camera inside the destroyed fukushima plant. he says dozens of workers continued to put their life on the line to contain that meltdown. >> thank you. a parade of witnesses took the stand today on behalf of dharun ravi as his defense team tried to show he wasn't biased against his roommate because he was gay. prosecutors though were quick to pounce on cross-examination. >> have you in your own personal interactions with dharun, ever heard him use any derogatory words towards homosexuals in general? >> no. >> did you ever have occasion to discuss with him homosexuality? >> no, i did not.

>> had you ever heard him say anything negative or derogatory about homosexuality in general. >> not at all. >> did you ever discuss specifically the topic of ho homosexuali homosexuality? >> no. >> have you heard him say something derogatory about homosexuality in general. >> you said you never discussed it with him. >> that's correct. >> dharun ravi is accused of placing a web cam in his room to supply on clementi and humiliate him. clementi committed suicide after he learned that ravi and others watched him have romantic encounters with another man. paul cowen has been covering this case for us and obviously, we just saw some of the character witnesses and what they're trying to prove is that

ravi was not home phobic. >> this was a bone headed tactical decision by the defense in the case. it's been a sophisticated defense up until today, but you put a character witness on the stand. why? to show he's not antigay. so who do they call? seven friends of his father to say the kid is not anti gay. how are they going to know? the jury's expecting his fellow students to be called and if i'm on the jury, i'm being said, why didn't they call his fellow students. why did they call his father's friends? >> assume because didn't know what they would say? >> exactly. if you're on the jury, i think that's what you're going to assume. better to call no character witnesses than to call character witnesses who know nothing about the defendant, so very foolish move by relatively sophisticated defense attorneys who have done

a dwraet job until now. >> you had said yesterday that ordinarily, shopt put him on the stand. but they should in this case. >> i think they should and now, more than ever. the bias intimidation claim, that he's antigay, was the weakest in the case. there's one tiny piece of evidence. he said he was uncomfortable around gays in an e-mail. that's the only piece of evidence. the father's friends, they better put him on if stand and i think it's all the more important now that he testify. today, president obama was on air force one. he's on a lot. but today, he made a phone call to one vladimir putin and you know what? they planned a vacation. yep. and one of our producers got something in the mail from rick santorum's sugar daddy today. and i promise you, it is worth sitting through our commercials the see this. polar shifts wille the earth's gravitational pull

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the mail yesterday. it's from american businessman foster freesh. on the cover of the card is a photo of foster and his wife lynne on the beach with this caption. smoking hot wife. it's right at the bottom below their feet. it gets stranger inside. on the inside cover is an ad for lynne's new book. it's a children book that amazon declines as the story of an inquisitive chipmunk. john f. kennedy made a speech that rick santorum said made him want to throw up. what is the deal? is this a christmas card? an ad for lynne's new book? a statement of faith? the answer is found on the back of the card. it's a photo of the couple eating a popsicle together. 50 years, can you believ