there is some result from the census but that certainly doesn't cover all of it. all the private sector economists think in fact we are getting the beginnings of a recovery that is going to be felt in the employment market. the question is, how quickly and how much of a boost do you get from that. it's going to take awhile for it to play out. we know the unemployment rate because tim good nighter as he said to matt lauer the other day is going to stay unacceptably high for a long time but they've got to take the arguments they can use and the positive gdp growth as well to try and make the case our policies are working. >> john harwood from cnbc watching the jobs numbers for us. thanks very much. president obama has a quick turn around this morning following his trip to maine and boston with a stop in north carolina today to talk about those jobs numbers. athena jones is at the white house for thus morning. i saw that robert gibbs immediately tweeted the numbers,

job growth. so i guess that's the equivalent of doing a jig on twitter. >> reporter: well, good morning. right. the president's going to be departing within the hour to go to north carolina. this is going to be his third trip to that state since coming into office. and he's going to be, of course, talking about the jobs numbers today. this is the first time in awhile that the economy's added 162,000 jobs. but it's really not enough. it's not fast enough when you consider that the economy has lost 8.4 million jobs in this recession. he'll say that there's still a long way to go and he'll go to a plant that makes advanced battery technology. it's been able to expand its business with the recovery act grant. so he'll try to show what the administration has done on jobs and what it still plans to do on jobs. he's going to talk about some ideas he's had and get congress to push through plans such as using t.a.r.p. money to expand loans to small businesses. >> all right.

athena jones at her post at the white house this morning, thanks so much. big changes in the way foreign passengers traveling to the u.s. are screened. the obama administration is announcing new procedures today in the wake of that christmas day attempted bombing. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins us now. as i understand it, this replaces a change that was made really in the days and weeks after that attempt by abdul mutallab. the old plan was imposed in january if you were traveling from the middle east and africa mostly, you would automatically if your passport said that be pulled aside for secondary screening after you go through the metal detectors. that could be a patdown, that could be the full body detectors. now they're saying they're still going to use the no fly list and the predetermined list of selectees based on÷qvq names buw they say they're adding a new layer, that if there is a piece of intelligence suggesting that people from certain parts of the world or traveling with certain kinds of bag ang or meeting

certain kinds of descriptions or any number of things, a travel mat terns, the way they pay for the tickets will cause them to be put on for selective screening. so a secondary screening. it's not just based on names but based on intelligence. for example, they might have a fragment of a name or a part of a passport number that, sort of thing. >> now, yesterday, also or overnight, homeland security released a report about rail or what they called surface transportation security. you've read the report. we read the report. it seemed like it was a report about all of this stuff they would like to do but haven't done yet. why put out a report like that? >> you're probably better able to judge that and that me. it could be a response to the train bombing in moscow. the suicide bombings there. this was a report that a bureaucrat would love. it's lots of language about things that need to be done. but let's face it, rail transportation, everyone realizes it's a much harder security job and that airport

transportation. more people use it. you just can't put folks through metal detectors and submit them to the kind of screening that airplane passengers get. >> pete williams, our chief justice correspondent on the beat for thus morning. thanks very much. >> you bet. a second day of pirate attacks on had the high seas. a ship was attacked just west of the cyclades islands by three boats. yesterday, pirates went after a navy ship. jim miklaszewski joins us. mick, they got some pirates yesterday. but are there just more attacks going on right now. >> you know, we're entering the height of the pirate season. not only in pirate alley in the gulf of aden, but in the somali basin and they've spread all the way down to the seychelles, hundreds of miles from where they usually operate. but yesterday, the u.s. navy eb countered what had to be the dumbest pirates in the world, the u.s. frigate the nicolas

came upon these pirate who's then opened on the knave warship with small arms. the nicolas returned fire with a machine gun and took five pirates in custody. they remain in custody. the problem is 11 pirates were captured the day before aboard the "uss destroyer farragut. but the navy had to release them. why? because there's no place to put them. the kenya jails are full. they say they can't accept any or pirates and and until the situation on the ground there in somalia is fixed, in other words, they get a stable government and there is some way to clear out those pirate havens, those pirate camps on the shore, this piracy is going to continue. although there has been progress, chuck, in that many of the private shipping lines are now taking the kinds of evase i be action that had been recommended, and there are some very aggressive patrols by this

international task force heading off some of the pirate attacks. >> all right. nbc's jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. we actually are going to talk pirates again with matt lauer who joins us in a few moments with his exclusive interview with the captain of that pirate ship at the center of a big storm last year. at the vatican, catholic officials are trying to stem the tide of criticism of the pope as the sex abuse scandal once again envelopes the church. anne thompson is in rome this morning. ann, do we expect the pope to make any further comments about this? >> well, we will have two opportunities to see him today, savannah, one is at a good friday service this afternoon in st. peter's and then this evening when he leads the way of the cross at rome's coliseum. now, this day, which is called good friday in the christian calendar, marks the day that christ died. while the pope has not yet spoken about the sex abuse crisis, it is shaping the good friday services across europe,

particularly in germany. in germany, the leader of that church, the arch bishop of berlin, robert zolich today said he hopes good friday can be the start of a renewal for the church, one that is desperately needed in light of the scandal. he said the church has been shaken by the scandal. in germany alone more than 250 people have come forward to say they were sexually abused by priests when they were children. in dublin, the archbishop there an addressed his holy thursday mass yesterday. he said this is not something that the church can just proclaim and then move on. he said the church must look at the past, must recognize its failures, identify those failures and correct them to restore any kind of credibility. and as for the victims,der mot martin said that you cannot rush their healing. there is no fast track for healing. this is going to take some time.

savannah. >> anne thompson for us in rome. watching this. >> sorry, chuck. >> this holiest of weekends we shall see what the pope says at some point this week. health care, the economy, national security, we've got the top ten issues the candidates can't stop talking about coming up in today's decision "2010." plus a year after his rescue from pirates, captain richard philips is talking about his five-day ordeal and what life has been like since his return. >> it is a special day in geek dom. the eve of the release of apple's new ipad. but will it live up to the i hype? we talk live with a man who has already taken it for a test i drive. >> first a look at the president's i schedule. you're watching -- that was a chuck-like joke i must made. you're watching the daily rundown on msnbc. >> the daily rundown. we'll be back.

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was it a joke or an embarrassing gaffe? georgia democrat hank johnson now claims he was just kidding when he told a knave admiral he was afraid that the island of guam might flip over and sink if too many marines were stationed there. the congressman says he was speaking metaphorically. here's what he said and you be the judge. >> this is a island that at its widest level is what, 12 miles from shore to shore? >> i don't have the exact dimensions but to your point, sir, i think guam is a spaul island. >> my fear is that the whole

island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. >> we don't anticipate that. >> well, after the comments got nearly a million hits on youtube, johnson decided to respond "i wasn't suggesting that the island of guam would literally tip over. i was using a method ta for to say that with the addition of ,000 marines and their dependents, an additionalal 80,000 people during peak construction could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the nation's fragile ecosystem." that's the story on that. now to "2010" and chuck. >> it is not in our top ten issues. today in our "2010" the issues some candidates can't stop talking about and others wish would go away. the "top 10" 2010 issues and

themes so far popping nuptial campaigns. number ten immigration. it isn't like 2006 or 2008 but out west, it is popping up. number nine, the issue of competence. rick snyder's one tough nerd campaign in michigan is one example of a candidate running for governor trying to play up unconventional smarts at a time when states in fiscal crisis are looking for mr. or ms. fix it. number eight, national security. it's not popping up that much. we have seen it this week in that nasty republican snat senate primary rate in kentucky where the candidates swapped 9/11 charges. issue seven, the establishment. nonincumbents are being pegged insiders in races in kentucky and new hampshire. remember c coakley, martha. number six, the president. marco rubio is raising money on the obama/crist stimulus hug, mostly a republican primary phenomenon. will we see republicans do this

in the general. arlen specter can't show enough pictures of himself with the president. he's running an as a democrat for the very first time. number five, wall street. regardless of party candidates are running against it in droves. number four, health care. especially when an attorney general is involved these days. .four republican attorneys general are suing over health care. now democratic attorneys general are getting pressure in places like kentucky, georgia and oklahoma. here's favorite rand paul yesterday targeting kentucky's attorney general jack conway who's also running for the senate. >> it is jack conway's job and obligation to defend us against the encroachment of an overzealous and out of control big government. >> >> and here's conway's spo response to the charge. >> while it may make for good

tea party politics to file lawsuits it makes for a crummy lawsuit because the legal principles are not sound. >> our number three issue popping up right now, bailouts. a vote for the t.a.r.p. is toxic whether in a republican or democratic primary even as blanche lincoln runs ads about her bucking her own party about the bailout, that bailout was as joe biden might say a big deal. it's jobs, jobs, jobs. john krits running for john murtha's seat. running for pennsylvania. >> i remember pumping water while nine miners were trapped in the mine. while the nation prayed, hundreds of us worked to bring them back up. and a miracle happened. i'm running congress because we need to unite the country in the same way to, bring our economy back. a prove this message because mr. murtha told me over and over it's always about the work, and it is. >> but the number one issue is

not the economy. it's not jobs. it is washington. everybody's running against us. even the incumbents. michael bennett didn't even mention he was a u.s. senator in his inaugural ad. in that other bennett race was two ts, the bad news for bob bennett is only 20% of the 3500 delegates elected in last week's caucus to the may party convince are return delegates. the seven republicans running against him are all virtually unknown outside the state and they hope an anti-washington tide will sweep bennett out. take a listen to three of them this week when the tea party came through salt lake city. >> i think senator bennett is vulnerable as an incumbent. incumbents across the country are going to be thrown out of office. i believe senator bennett is going to be one of those. >> send somebody back there that isn't part of the corruption if you're going to fix the corruption. >> incumbents generally face a difficult task right now which is to convince the american people that they should be given

more time in office. because we've had enough government already. >> so savannah, i guess the key word is let's just run against washington. we'll probably start seeing tv shows run against each other if they're based in washington. watch out, we might be next. >> washington bad, everywhere else good. thanks. new tensions in the middle east as israel launches fresh air strikes on targets in gaza. plus, held at gunpoint by pirates on the hi seas. matt lauer joins us with his interview with veteran sea captain richard phillips. later, the good news, bad news on the jobs front today. employers are adding jobs but the top line unemployment number is stuck in neutral. first reaction from the white house with economic adviser christina romer joining us live. first, deliverables. that's our washington speak today. it's jargon for the concrete outcomes that might come out of a meeting or summit usually used in a foreign policy setting. this is "the daily rundown" only

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13-year-old daughter. the capitals helped organize the reunion and those faces are priceless. >> those stories every time. every time. >> yeah. >> five somali pirates are in custody this morning after exchanging fire with the ""uss nicolas" in an apparent attempt to seize the navy ship. >> it comes a year after a dramatic standpoint. richard phillips was captain of themaker alabama. for days he was held hostage and now for the first time telling his story to nbc's matt lauer. >> so now you've got the leader of the pirates under your control. >> under the crew's control, not mine. >> but the other three pirates still have the bridge basically and they're armed. >> yep. >> on the bridge though, the three remaining pirates were obviously getting frantic. >> i'm assuming they also believe that the navy was very close and was going to be there shortly. >> after negotiations via radio between the remaining three pirates and the crew members holding their leader, there was a deal.

the pirates would get the leader back if they got off the ship. they'd also get $30,000. the captain phillips kept in the ship's safe. >> they are winning in their eyes because they were able to attack the ship. they were able to get off the ship with some money and once they got off the ship i told them we would exchange hostages but not while they're on the ship. >> the pirates skiff had drifted off and capsized. eventually the maersk's lifeboat was lowered by member who's came out of hiding. then the captain and three pirates transferred to it. the pirate leader was then free and got into the lifeboat. in exchange the captain was supposed to be freed and get back up on the maersk al and what with his crew's assistance. >> the moment comes. the transfer is going to be made. your crew brings the pirate leader. he gets on the lifeboat and you're supposed to get off.

it's like okay. >> i'm actually driving the lifeboat because they don't know how to drive. >> right and then what happened? >> and then he came into the boat and then he wanted to learn how to run the boat. so i basically gave him a little instruction and then he started steering off the ship. and then i said okay, we're going back. he said nope. that's where i learned never trust a pirate. >> never trust a pirate. matt lauer joins us now with more on his exclusive interview. i guess my first question is, is captain phillips back in the high seas? is he doing more runs? is he a captain again? >> he's going to go back to sea a little bit later this year. it's funny about that deal. oftentimes we ask people in government, if you had a do over, what would you like to do over. he concedes if he had a do over, he would have made that trade work where he got off the lifeboat first and then the pirate leader was put on the lifeboat. it doesn't work out that way. when you stop to think about this story, what happened over

the next 96 hours, the conditions under which he was held on that boat, temperatures going up over 100 degrees, incredible humidity, the mental stress. they conducted mock executions where they put an ak-47 to his head and pulled the trigger. he said by the end of this ordeal, by the time the rescue came with those navy sharpshooters he just wanted it to end any way possible. thetings on that boat was unbearable. >> it's so fascinateding in this special on "dateline" is really a dramatic moment by moment account that we have not heard before. what were impressions of captain phillips and how is his life now? >> my impressions are that he's an ordinary working joe placed in an extraordinary situation. there were a couple of key moments during the ordeal. remember about a day into it he tried to escape by jumping into the water pushing one of the pirate into the water and trying to swim for the "uss bainbridge" about a half a mile away.

from that moment on when he was put back on the lifeboat, he says everything changed dramatically. he was treated brutally from that point on. and at the very end of this, and i'm not going to give anything away because he tells it on the "dateline" special on sunday night but when this thing finally went down, things had gotten so bad on that ship between the pirates themselves that he wasn't sure what was happening. he thought the pirates had actually turned their weapons on each other. >> then of course, he was rescued by the u.s. knave s.e.a.l.s. has he spent time with these guys? did you get to interview some of these navy s.e.a.l.s? >> they're a private group. so no, we did not talk with them. he met with them on the bainbridge and later to express his thanks. but they don't want to talk much about what actually happened during that rescue because they don't want to give tactics away in case they're needed in any

future situation like the one you talked about just before this segment. this is an ongoing piracy situation in that region. so they don't want to give away their tactics at all. >> all right. nbc's matt lauer with a great story. we're looking forward to it. your daily rundown" debut, matt. come back early and often. >> i had will. nice seeing you both. >> happy easter. watch more of matt's interview with captain phillips on "dateline" this sunday at 7:00 eastern on your nbc station. frankly, it's like a movie playing out. >> great interviews, including a high level interview. >> very, very high level official in the military command. >> yes. >> let's leave it at that. still to come, what are your sports viewing habits say about your voting habits? guess what, it's more than you think. >> speaking of sports fans, check out who's getting ready for a big final four weekend. >> and if basketball won't keep you occupied this weekend, maybe this. that's right. the ipad hits the i stores.

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bottom of the hour now. so let's get you caught up on the stories driving this good friday. >> just released jobs figures show the nation's unemployment rate remained at 9.7% for the third straight month, but the economy added 126,000 jobs in march. fewer and that analysts expected but it was the most jobs added in the private sector since may of 2007. this afternoon, president obama will be in north carolina to promote his plans to create jobs. homeland security secretary janet napolitano will tour flood-ravaged rhode island

today. officials are now concerned about capitals such as garbage and sewage flowing into the rivers there. it's good friday for christians all around the world. in jerusalem, pilgrims are retracing jesus' steps to the hill where he was crucified. today marks the anniversary of pope john paul i snooi we're going to have more on jobs numbers with dr. christine roemer in just a minute. but moving on, after months of hype, the day is nearly here. apple's ipad hits the stores at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. in the grand tradition tech geekz, people have been sleeping on the street to be the first to get their hands on apple's latest gadget except i thought you already had to preorder it. >> omar wasso technology analyst with the root.com we'll ask. not only that, don't you have it with you? they selected omar. >> show it. >> oh to, try out ipad for a week and review it. tell us what you think of it, despite the unfortunate name.

how is it as a gadget. >> you know, i don't mind the name. i was actually skeptical about whether a sort of a tablet computer could work because for decades people have been trying to figure this out and nobody has quite nail it had. i think apple has pulled it off. this is a very elegant, fun, easy to use, engaging computer. >> now, you call it a computer. but it was originally being billed as sort of this is going to be apple's ipod for books. have you used it to read a book? >> well, yeah. you can use it to read books and you can use it for lots of other things. here you can see a book shelf. i can go in, open a book. this is winnie the pooh. they've done a really nice job of making it sort of elegant so that you can sort of have a book-like experience. >> turning a page. i see that. do you it either way. >> exactly right. you can do it either way. there are also lots of other applications. you can do things like you know, sort of explore maps that work

really well on it. if you want. you can do things like play with photos in a way that's sort of very easy. it's really i think one of the things that will be most popular is just using it because it's got the spectacularly beautiful screen as a slide show, as a digital picture frame so that you can kind of show your pictures. >> but omar, before we will devolve into an extended apple commercial, isn't it true some techis think it is kind of lo y lousy, not as great as advertised. >> sure. one of the big critiques is there are a bunch of technical features it doesn't have. for example, it doesn't have a keyboard. it doesn't do multitasking allowing to you run multiple applications. for folks who want all of those features you can get a net book or a laptop for a low price, and so people say why would you ever get a device like this when you can get something cheaper that does sort of things that this doesn't. i think the answer is that this

is a very different kind of device. sometimes you want like a swiss army knife that does everything and sometimes you want a butter knife that does something very well. what you've got with the ipad is a device that's like a very elegant easy to use device for doing things like consuming video, watching movies, reading books. in a very comfortable format. i find myself reading news in bed in a way i never do with my laptop. i found myself playing casual games on my sofa, a part of my living room i haven't visited in months because i'm always at my laptop. techies don't quite get how this is a very different experience. >> the simple question is, it an oversized iphone or a laptop killer? >> yeah, i don't think it's the answer is yes to either of those. i think it's a very different thing than an oversized iphone in the way that hdtv is different from regular tv. it's going to complement the laptop. if you're a heavy laptop user you're going to use that. when you want to read or watch a

movie you might go to this because it's more convenient. >> omar waso holding the gadget du jour, the ipad which goes on sale tomorrow. thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, savannah. we'll do our trivia. who are the first two practicing buddhists in congress. >> there you go. it was one person we've already named today, democratic congressman hank johnson of georgia and mazie hirono of hawaii, the first two ever in the u.s. congress. >> coming up, unemployment numbers stuck in na neutral still flirting with double digits. >> we're going to get reaction from today's new jobs report from the white house chief economist dr. christine roamer. >> coming up this sunday on "meet the press," don't miss david gregory's exclusive interview with michael chertoff. >> first the white house soup of the day, jay june seafood gumbo. kind of an easter treat? i don't know. not really.

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march. that's the largest gain in three years. >> but the unemployment rate is still stuck at 9.7% unchanged for the third straight month. christina romer chairs the president's council of economic visors and joins us live this morning. your first reaction to these numbers. i know the consensus forecast was to add 200,000 jobs. you got close to that, 162,000 jobs. are you pleased with that? >> you know, i think i've been out here a lot of days in the rain announcing some pretty bad numbers. we have a beautiful spring day and we do have positive jobs numbers which is certainly a lot better. i think it is important to keep these numbers in perspective. it is wonderful that we have seen positive job growth. we know since this recession started we've lost more than 8 million jobs. so it's going to take a lot of months of even faster job growth and that this to really fill in that hole but this is an

important beginning. >> dr. romer, what more can government do to spur job growth or do you feel like you've got all the policies in place and now you just wait to see the private sector react? >> well, we all know that the private sector's going to have to be the main engine here. they are the source of jobs in this economy. but absolutely there's more that policy can do. i think what we have done so far has been an incredible part of the change in trajectory that we have seen, but the president has said we need more targeted actions just a couple of weeks ago, we passed the hifrre act. there are bills pending in congress on small businesses, a lending fund, getting those small businesses the credit they need so they can create jobs. there are also bills talking about extending the recovery act's provisions for unemployment insurance, for aid to state governments, all those things are important.

i think we can't take our eye off policy because as i've said, we need a lot more months of good robust job growth to actually get this economy healed, put those millions of americans back to work. >> kristina, where are the signs ever real organic growth in these jobs numbers? i know 48,000 of the 162,000 added were temporary census jobs. where is the private sector hiring happening? where are you seeing the real signs of life? >> that's a great question. you know, one of the first places you always see signs of life as you come out of a recession is in temporary help employment. that's often where employers first start to put on more workers. we had this month some 40,000 new temporary workers, and that's the sixth straight month that we've seen that go up. health and education have been growing sector for much of the recession. they're continuing to add strongly. so we're going to be seeing that.

you know, we'll be watching manufacturing. i think that is a sector that's certainly been devastated by this recession but we are starting to see life there. that's going to be a crucial one to watch and have that come back. >> at this point, is this the expectation, i know that the last thing you want to do is to predict monthly, monthly. but is the expectation if you look at this on a graph that, over a year and a half from now, this will be the beginning of an uptick, the beginning of the up slope of the graph. >> i think actually if you do a graph of looking at, you know, where we've been, i'll give you one statistic. that if you look at on a quarterly basis in the first quarter of 2010 as a whole, we've had the on average each month 54,000 jobs. a year ago, we were losing each month 750,000 jobs. so just think about that trajectory. absolutely what we anticipate going forward is that this continues on a, you know, on an

upward trajectory. we know there are going to be bumps in the road. i mean, these numbers do inherently move around. you mentioned the census awhile ago. that's going to be another source of turbulence over the next several months. we'll be adding a lot of workers to do the census. over the summer we'll be losing those workers. we're going to have to be careful to keep our eye on those. we anticipate sort of starting gradual, adding jobs and then i want to emphasize we want more and more because that's what's going to bring the unemployment rate. >> christina romer, chair of the council of economic advisers at the white house. we'll see you next month. at least the weather is getting better for you out there. >> can't promise. april showers you never know. >> great to be with you. >> coming up what, do wrestling, golf and nascar have to do with your decision at the ballot box you? didn't know this did you. >> no, i did not. plus, president obama doesn't like us. was it something we said? >> we shall see.

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why does the president hate us? we've noticed recently in president obama's speeches, he's been beating up on us in his speech. this hurts our feelings. he says pun dits say the polls haven't gone up yet. >> can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on

a farm. you planted some seeds and they came out the next day and looked, nothing has happened! there's no crop. we're going to starve. now, it would be nice if we were just kind of examining the substance. we were walking through the detail of the plan, what it means for you. but that's not what the cable stations like to talk about. i mean, they are just -- you walk in -- you walk in somebody else's office, they have got like five tvs. you know, cnn, msnbc, fox news. i'm just saying. >> just saying. it could be worse, though. at least the president isn't accusing us of being under the influence of satan, although one tal i don't know exorcist is making that accusation. the recent reporting on pope

benedict and the abuse scandal was, quote, prompted by the devil. i can't speak for all reporters but i can say we aren't motivated. >> when you walk by flowers, they don't wilt. biden's blunder, you can put anything on t-shirts. it's now available on a democratic party t-shirt. the shirts say health reform is bfd. it's not washington speak to explain what that stands for. 25 bucks will get you a keepsake. >> and maybe a cup of coffee. now for the story reported in the hot line. reench -- researchers analyzed people to find out how sports fans vote. scarboro usa did the voting, a joint project between neilsen and arbitron, to top rating

agencies. some fascinating. nascar a stop for republican registration and photo ops. gop candidates should save ad dollars for pga tour. fans of the tour are 35% more likely to be republican than the average american and more likely to turn out than fans of any other sport surveyed including nascar. the other sport that excuse especially republican, not surprising to a lot of people, college football. for democrats it's about professional basketball. though the wnba has fewer fans, fans are more likely to vote. tennis fans favor democrats, are a little less likely to vote than golf fans. fans of the sports with the biggest viewership are more likely to be republican. fans of major league baseball than national football league and the olympics all skew slightly republican. olympics fans are more likely than nfl fans to vote but edged out at the voting booth by basketball fans. fans of nascar racing, both of

them are likely democrat, while drag racing fans are more ikely to be republican. sorry, linda mcmahon, this surprised me, former ceo of world wrestling entertainment running in that republican senate primary in connecticut, wwe fans are democrats. and they are very unlikely to vote. that we could have told you they would be least likely to vote. they have a fun chart here. again, it breaks down. my favorite thing is baseball is pretty close to being -- >> bipartisan sport. >> 50-50 sport. that's a good thing. baseball, it's fair. everybody is safe at home. you get extra innings. that's george karlin has a great routine about baseball. >> that's it for "the daily rundown." have a great weekend. >> david shuster, among his guests, the fifth-grader better at basketball than you. that kid who has gotten the attention of pro scouts. >> at 1:00, "andrea mitchell reports." have a wonderful weekend. we will see you on monday. >> happy easter to you and yours.

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good morning, everybody. i'm david shuster live in washington. a new jobs report is out. it shows more people are finding work. is this significant enough to be called a turning point. is underemployment becoming the bigger problem? big changes in who gets screened at the airport. will this make the skies safer? we'll show you the new rules. if they want their television, prison inmates will have to pedal for it. we'll talk to the arizona sheriff behind this new program. we begin this morning with the latest jobs numbers. a short time ago the labor department released figures for the month of march. they show the u.s. economy added 162,000 last monthish the largest monthly gain in three years. still the unemployment rate remains the same at 9.7%. joining us now is john harwood, cnbc's washington correspondent. john, break the numbers down for us. >> reporter: look, 162,000 in march, revisions to the january and february numbers.

so january was in positive territory as well by 14,000. that's a 40,000 improvement from what we thought earlier. february numbers, negative at 14,000 jobs were also better. you're beginning to see signs of a trend unemployment -- the jobs picture is beginning to match growth in a positive story for the administration. the question is when you have more people entering the labor market, the rate stays high, can the administration sell that and convince people the economy is getting better? this is a start. >> underemployment rate. what exactly does that mean? >> well, it means people don't have the number of hours they want. they are not getting the wage growth they want. look, it's a weak unemployment picture, weak employment picture, rather, and it will be for some time. tim geithner and economic advisers to the president have said that over and over. the question is, is it getting better and is it getting better enough and