than you and i think. >> i learned todd palin is not happy with joe miller. >> i think your dad has the same view i do on pakistan and afghanistan and i thought testifies spot-on. >> one accord. if it's way too early, what time is it? >> right now it's time for "the daily rundown." plus, as more nato trucks are torched in pakistan, reports this morning of secret talks with the taliban. to end the war. october, 2010. 27 days according to chuck todd. >> savannah guthrie. good morning, get right to the

rundown. we're going to start with the news out of pakistan. two dozen nato trucks were ambushed and burned as they waited to cross into the border in to afghanistan. it's the latest for a string of stepped-up attacks here. williams is live in islamabad, pakistan this morning. ian, good morning, what can you tell us? >> good morning, it seems to be open season on the tankers lining up to enter afghanistan. since the border was closed last week happened in the west near the city of queta. 25 tankers were attacked. 20 of those were destroyed. they closed the border apparently because it left three

pakistan border guards dead. hundreds of tankers are sitting there like sitting ducks open to attack by the taliban. there have been talks. a statement will be put out soon and the pakistan authorities have said they will open the border soon. in the meantime, the important supply line, the most important line for nonlethal supplies to afghanistan has dangerously exposed savannah. >> all right. we hear word thanks to "the wall street journal" that the white house and defense officials are concerned that pakistan is not doing enough to try to stem the pakistan taliban from stopping them from these attacks. staying with afghanistan, there's word that a secret high-level peace talks are under way between the taliban leaders and members of hamid karzai's

government. according to "the washington post," the deal would include bringing members of the taliban to the government as well as setting a withdrawal time line for the u.s. and nato troops. general petraeus seemed to back the idea last week when he said talks like this are the way to end insurgencies. you know, savannah, one other thing -- we heard vice president biden over a year ago say, look, there's been some negotiation with some members of the taliban because they believe the extremes only made up 5%, 10% of the taliban. and that most of the membership of the taliban will have to be brought in. >> they have the preconditions about renouncing al qaeda, renouncing violence, whether or not the taliban is willing to work under those conditions is the big question. at the supreme court today, a showdown over free speech, one that will test the supreme court's willingnd to allow a protest that most americans find

distasteful. the father of a fallen marine against protesters who showed up at his funeral with signs reading, "pray for more dead soldiers." on appeal, the case was thrown out. the protesters winning their argument that they had a first amendment right to speak out. now it's for the supreme court to settle, which is where we find our justice correspondent pete williams this morning. pete, good morning. >> good morning to you, savannah. the real question here is when you have a situation like this where speech is according to the snyder family, the fallen marine, intended to be hurtful. is that a cause to sue for damages? no, no one would take the signs as a literal truth. it's opinion, the court said. it's hyperbole, it's exaggeration. and that, they said, is protected by the first amendment. so the question for the court today is, is there some zone, is there some line that thcrosses over, that when you have something that's intended to be

hurtful. vile or assaulting, is it protected by the first amendment. that kind of speech is protected. it's dealing with public figures, people like the reverend jerry falwell. what the father of this fallen marine says he's a private citizen and the rules ought to be different for him. that's another question for the court today, savannah. >> it's complicated. the snyders and the plaintiffs in the case, the parents of the fallen marine. they're saying holding a funeral, that's the right of free expression for our religions. it's pitting different portions of the first amendment against each other. >> there's the fact that you say, look, you only have one chance to have a funeral. you do it in one place. there are no do-overs. in a sense, the people who come to a funeral are a captive audience. most first amendment scholars would say this is probably the case where the supreme court

would say no matter how distasteful would still have the speech. will the court carve out some kind of exception for funerals or military funeralles? >> wow, all right. pete williams at the supreme court for us this morning. thank you very much, sir. >> you bet. now the white house is pouring cold water -- i mean chilly water, on the notion that somehow hillary clinton could be barack obama's running mate in 2012. white house officials telling us this morning it's, quote, pure fiction. how does it start? watch. >> if obama seeks re-election as people expect him to, he could be in trouble and support the troops that hillary clinton did well in the primary election. bring her on the ticket and make biden secretary of state. they would all go out there and be delighted and happy. and it might help obama

politically. deputy political director. the cap of the day argue right? >> exactly. in this rumor of a possible biden-hillary clinton switch, there's been a constant pick of conversation on the dc party circuit. the white house is quashing any discussion of that. david axelrod told us of that intention. the talk of this type of switch is insulting to vice president biden whom the white house feels has done a very, very good job as vice president. >> speaking of table catnip, that brings us to the palins. the e-mail that todd palin sent joe miller. it was a startling e-mail for a couple of reasons, one, it seemed to hint that he very much is running the operation here, number one, and number two, that sarah palin is thinking about running for president. tell us about the e-mail?

>> the e-mail is uncovered by a alaska blog. hell hath no fury like a todd palin scorned. in the e-mail todd palin sent to alaska senate nominee joe miller, palin was very unhappy with how miller described sarah palin's 2012 chances on fox. miller was asked whether or not palin was qualified to be president. and miller said, there are a lot of good candidates in the republican field. todd palin wasn't happy about it. he sent a nasty e-mail to joe miller. and then people have released that out to the blogosphere and available for all to see and to talk about. >> oh, goodness, talk they will. political director with two juicy kind of nonstories this morning. >> funny. >> thanks, mark. >> well, with 20 minutes to go before the opening bell, we're going to get the daily check of the markets. for that, becky quick, we go to here in washington today, co-host of cnbc's "squawk box."

there you are in new york. >> i snuck back. >> i snuck back to new york. and, yes, you're right, savannah, the friday jobs number, we're hoping to get any signs of it. we got disappointing hint this is morning in the last hour or so as we heard from adp. they came out with the jobs report. the number was down 39,000. a drop of 39,000 jobs for the month. the market had been expecting a gain of 20,000 to 25,000 jobs. it is disappointing. it showed that construction jobs were down by 28,000, manufacturing lost 17,000. and gains in what they call surprisingly anemic. these are not good indicators. we got the challenger jobs report out earlier this morning. it said that employers announced 30,000 job cut unless september. that sounds bad. but when you look through it, it's the second lowest number of job cut this is year. could be better than expected. the futures are bouncing around

on some of this news. the dow and the s&p features are in positive territory. nasdaq futures are a little lower. you have to remember we're coming off of a strong day yesterday. so it would take something to get the futures pushed. again, though, what we're seeing are indications that friday's number could be disappointed to too. that could be bad news for the markets. tim geithner could be ready to speak. you can expect him to start talking tough on china and the currency fluctuations. that's some of the things that we'll be watching as we get to the opening bell. >> becky quick at cnbc's world headquarters there back in the new york metro area. thank you very much. and you know, savannah, we've seen one of the end cape tors we get behind the scenes, one of the economic reports that indicates the expectations that the unemployment rate would go up .10. and that would be the last jobs report before the election. not exactly a good piece of news for the white house. coming up, campaign cash 2010 style. so who's behind the millions

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what has nevada gotten from senator reid. record foreclosures. >> with pelosi and salazar's agenda, it can feel like you're getting robbed. >> we may never know why bishop supported pelosi over seniors, but this november, when you vote against tim bishop, he'll no know exactly the reason why. if you're following the money, you may be surprised where it leans. conservative independent groups are lining up to pour millions of dollars in the republican ad campaigns, outspending groups on the democratic side by a five-to-one margin. it's now up to an eight-to-one margin, republican money over democrat money. >> we saw a couple of products of that spending. peter stone writes about the

topic this week in the special report for the center of public integrity. he's the author of the book, casino jack and the united states of money. recently released in paperback. and also with us, ron brownstein, political director for atlantic bee yeah and columnist. so introductions behind us, you write about this in some detail, it's astonishing to see how much money is coming in to campaigns and many say the flood gates were open by the supreme court's decision earlier this year, i believe, in citizens united. is that really the cause of this outside spending that we're seeing? >> i think citizens united did play significant role in spurring some of these donations. as i point out in my piece, there were other factors that work in sort of a confluence with it that make a big -- that are very important. >> just so people understand, that's the case that essentially allowed unlimited spending by corporations. >> corporations, unions, and individuals, overturning about two decades of campaign finance

rules. and it did encourage or spur some of the corporations to start opening their checkbooks. but it's very much, also, unaffected by the fact that the republican national committee this year has had a lot of problems, management problems, fundraising problems. and many of the big donors and fundraisers on the republican side have decided basically to put their chips elsewhere. they've been encouraged in that significantly by karl rove and gillespie to superconsultants who work in the bush white house. both have been outside advisors to one of the key groups that emerged this year, that's american cross roads, that is looking to spend an epps mated $52 million this year on ads and get out the vote efforts. >> get through these things. american cross roads, cross roads gps is norm coleman. >> an affiliation of coleman.

>> coleman has one. his is a different name. >> american action network. americans for job security, you have the 60 plus association which we played those ads. we have the american future fund. very innocuous names. those are the names of the groups folks are seeing on tv ads. so how is it that they're getting so much money. what is spurring this? >> empire strikes back kind of moment. in 2008, it looks like democrats are taking a step ahead of the republicans ahead of the 21st century, a small donor in the internet, sums raised by barack obama. it seems in some ways as they did in direct mail, democrats had the potential for a lasting advantage. we're seeing the bulk force of big donor dollars channeled through this, reasserting itself through the outside groups while the democrats are struggling for a variety of reasons, including the fact, i think, that the small -- we talked about the

electoral base in the modern world, boom and bust coalition much more engage in the presidential years, the same may be true in the small donor base as well. harder to turn it on in a midterm. it's a large reality, chuck, the party out of power traditionally does better at raising this kind of money. the impetus -- 2004 was the best year for third party democratic spending. 2010, here it is for republicans. >> why haven't democrats taken advantage of the same rules that republicans are now taking advantage of? unions are able to call a lot of resources. why are we not seeing that? >> we will see the unions. we won't see them as visibly as we see the gop allied groups. the unions put more of their resources to voter mobilization, get out the vote efforts. >> smarter long term? oh. >> well, that's where they like to put their -- they like to put it -- they think, that's right. division of opinion, division of labor. some people think the ads do

better. this year, more of the unions are going to put a lot more of their efforts to get out the vote. a couple of them have raised their budges too. ask me -- one of the biggest unions that spent at least $50 million, jerry mcatee told me they could do better than republicans on the get out the vote front. sciu picked up their budget too. they will be spending collectively over $150 million. it's estimated that the gop allied groups will spend something on the order of $300 million. >> what's interesting, ron, rep pubs tried to do this in '06 and '08. failed. in 2004, the democrats mastered it. they martialed hundreds of thousands of resources. the republicans didn't do it at the time because the president demonized the outside groups. didn't like it in '04. you see it again. >> the democrats trying to do the work, one of the things that president obama made clear is he

thinks this is the wrong way for the count troy go. on the other end of the spectrum, the wall street big-pocketed donors, the democrats who would fund this sort of activity are alien ated from the other end. you have theoverarching issue, health care, financial services, the stimulus, big investments to liberal causes, they are not feeling enthused on many of them. and you see that reflect in the fundraising. by the way, the shift to voter mobilization, real quick, reflects the broader democratic strategy is they're not real confident about their ability to move independence in the last month and are putting more of their chips on trying to turn out the base. >> republicans are very nervous that the ground game is falling short. if they're having a nightmare, it's the ground game issue. >> ron brownstein and thanks to you both. >> complicated. thanks for trying to simplify it a little bit. what has florida's current

governor and former governor locking horns ahead of today's big senate debate. >> the wash speak for the day with all of the fundraising. we bring you 527 groups. it's a section of the u.s. tax code. these are political organizations that under irs rules can accept donations and spend that money on political advocacy. they must disclose the source of it on a monthly basis. >> there are others that you don't have to disclose. what's interesting is this cross roads group will have to prove they did a majority of their money doing political advocacy and not making campaign donations. >> it's a fuzzy line. >> the irs, not the fec, is the most important campaign finance body in washington, d.c. >> chew on that one. see if you would like to clarify or make more confusing.

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it's decision 2010 time. it means today is debate watch. all eyes on the political world on the sunshine state tonight. marco rubio, charlie crist and kendra meek meet in the first english debate. the former florida governor is calling out the man who currently has that job, jeb bush, a reliant surrogate for the marco rubio senate campaign is going after charlie crist for a social security attack ad against rubio saying in a statement, quote -- work longer, get by on less. that's the marco rubio retirement plan.

rueb yoep wants to raise the social security retirement age. that means you work longer and harder for your money. and rubio wants to cut benefits, it's tough enough to make ends meet. that's washington for you. balance the budget on the backs of seniors. >> jeb bush wasn't done criticizing. he compared crist to the controversial robo calls used against him in 1994 telling seniors he opposed social security and medicare. guess who chaired the hearings looking in to who was behind the calls? florida state senator charlie crist. jeb bush lost that race in 1994. don't be surprised if you see a new round of buzz between kendrick meek and charlie crist about one of them trying to push the other to drop out and turn it to a two-person race. 27 days to go. lots can happen there. >> the race for the top job in florida, the governor seat that charlie crist is vacatinvacatin. republican rick scott is trying to buy the office and scott is

trying to leverage anti-wall street anger against former banking executive alex sink. today, the sink campaign is going after scott in a new ad pegged to the $1.7 billion fine. his hospital chain paid the justice department for medicare fraud. here it is. >> rick scott can't be trusted. >> scott claims he didn't know the company he led was systematically defrauding medicare. >> ripping off seniors and taxpayers. >> when he was questioned under oath, he pled the fifth 75 times. >> that means scott refused to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself. >> 75 times, rick scott refused to answer. >> well, look, there's a first time that the campaign has gone directly at this. he told the st. petersburg time editorial board that she believes the voters support this history and don't care or are so angry with the state of affairs we find ourselves in that they put their beliefs aside. the folks have to get this

message across. by the way, the scott campaign has over 3900 points on the air. he's basically outspending her two, three, and four to one. it's an amazing amount of money that he's spending on this governor's race. finally, in the kentucky senate race, rep pubs are hammering democrat jack conway, coordinated attacks right now. a new one from rand paul's campaign featuring a pretty bad impersonation of the president. take a listen. >> jack conway -- has glitch me a stamp of approval. conway supported me for president, helped bankroll my campaign, and even fought to pass my health care plan. there he is now. mr. jack conway. now, there's a guy i can work with in washington. >> you know, savannah, what's interesting about kentucky and why i wanted to point it out is national republicans are pouring money in this race. we call it the martha coakley lesson. they don't want to take the race for granted. they don't want to wake up having won ten and lost this one and be short of the majority.

>> thanks. coming up, where are the jobs? no, really, where are they? which regions in the country are hiring fastest, and what industries are hiring in the next installment of our job series, "back in business." and what the feds are planning to do to a company it says took money to help struggling taxpayers and then nothing to help them. also, the story of an american couple that claim they were attack bid mexican pirates on a texas lake -- why some authorities are looking hard at the wife's story today. but, first, today's trivia questionf from the alumanac of the politics. who are the five children senators currently serving in the senate? the answer and more ahead on "the daily rundown." ring ring ring ring

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>> . >> this afternoon, president obama will award the highest award for valor for a green beret kill in the line of duty. he'll posthumously receive the medal of honor for heroic actions in afghanistan. and the mysterious invite only event set for 1:00 p.m. eastern time. i don't think i was invited. no word on what the announcement could be. it could be a facebook phone? wow, or an upgrade to one of the website's services. >> can i be all "atwitter" about that? >> good one. >> other stories making head lines. one embassy staff member

suffered a minor injury. in a separate incident, a french manager at an oil company was shot and killed by a yemeni security guard. emergency workers in hungary are racing to clean up a tidal wave of toxic sludge before it hits the danube river. people were killed when an industrial dam burst sending chemical sludge to nearby towns. in connecticut, jurors will return in two weeks to consider the death penalty against the man convicted of murdering three people in a home invasion in 2007. the jury deliberated less than five hours before finding steven hayes guilty. >> it's going to change the name of the song, "the blue danube". >> let's hope it doesn't get there. two days away before the midterm election cycle and before the voters head to the polls. >> the unemployment rate is expected to inch up slightly to 9.7%.

but the pace of new unemployment claims has been slowing. like everything with this unemployment picture, steve, i mean it's one step forward, one step back. what can we expect? >> a private company, adp does payroll for a lot of the nation. every month, they come out with a jobs report a couple of days before the government -- helps the market predict what the government is going to say. it predicts that the government will say on friday that private payrolls declined by 39,000. the first decline in seven months. now, it's been pretty anemic already. but this is not a good sign. it's on the wrong side of the zero line. it's within the realm. it's anemic. what we're expecting on friday. no great negative or positive. brought it down for the most part of the recession every

month. down around the zero line. not a great expectation there. market taking it well. it's flat this morning. and given the negative news, you think it would have been worse. >> any sector of the economy shows job growth. any part of it showing job growth. industrial? the service sector. any part. >> well, yeah most of the sectors of the economy measured by adp, chuck, were negative. the one thing was a slight positive of 6,000 in the service sector. by way of comparison, the service sector can in good times generate 200,000, 250,000 jobs a month in a good -- in a good month on the way back from a recession. so 6,000 is nothing to write home about for the president. >> yeah, we're going to get in to this a little deeper in the next segment. where are the jobs. >> i have to give you the investment tip of the day here. >> lay it on ums. >> check this out. if you want to earn 6.1% on your money, the rates are going to get in the savings account are really low. less than 1%. but you can get 6.1%.

all you have to do is lend the government of mexico money for 100 years. they did a 100-year bond offering yesterday, originally scheduled for $500 million. so much demand came in at $1 billion. 6.1% but you have to have your money in mexico for 100 years. >> who's living that long? >> i don't know. >> i guess you have to pass that -- >> feels like a test. >> the mexican bond stock tip of the day brought to you by steve liesman. all right. >> thanks. moving on, the federal government is going to shut down an alleged nationwide tax relief scam today. you've seen the ads, american tax relief took over $100 million in fees from thousands of delinquent taxpayers promising they would cut their tax debt, but guess what, they didn't deliver. kevin tibbles is live for us in chicago where the federal government and specifically the ftc is going to make the announcement at noon. hey, kef, we see this on our tv

airways all the time, these guys advertising. tell us about it. >> well, guys, the federal trade commission this morning is calling it all an elaborate fraud that preyed on those desperate enough to get out from under a mountain of tax debt. >> if you owe over $15,000 in taxes -- >> you've probably heard the pitch. >> this is your one-second chance. use it well. >> ads promising to help people climb out from under tax debt. >> american tax relief got them to accept a fraction of what we owed. >> tim fullerton was desperate when he heard the ad. >> american tax relief, we can reduce your tax debt by up to 90%. >> you said, whoa! >> sounds like a plan. >> turns out, fullerton wasn't the only one. some 20,000 people paid american tax relief fees totalling as much as $100 million. problem is, they didn't deliver. >> because of the -- because of the downturn in the economy, scam artists are trying to take

the last dollar out of people's pocket. >> today the federal trade commission announces that a judge has shut american tax relief down, accusing it of bilking consumers. >> plainly a company preying on the most vulnerable, people who are deeply in debt to the irs. >> at first, tim said he didn't tell his wife. >> guy thing, you want to fix it. >> a guy thing. >> he sent $2700. nothing happened. he felszed up to darlene who happens to be an accountant. >> i was on a one-woman crusade to take them down. >> she wasn't alone. the ftc said american tax relief often cashed the checks but never even approached the irs. the company directors lived large in a beverly hills mansion and drove luxury cars. >> i was very, very angry with american tax relief. >> the fullertons have gotten half their money back after protesting and have worked out their own arrangements to repay the irs. >> it comes down to the old phrase -- if something sounds

too good to be true. >> it is too good to be true. >> now, lawyers for american tax relief did not return calls from nbc news. meanwhile, the ftc is saying, look, if you owe the irs money, contact the irs, or at least hire a tax professional who is certified. and -- >> too good to be true. >> certifiable. >> once again, like the old shell game. >> yeah. >> all right. >> tibs in our chicago bureau with the glasses look. we like it. >> very hip. >> see you on the campaign trail. new details today in the story about an american couple allegedly attacked by mexican pirates while jet skiing on a lake in texas along the border. david hartley was kill in that attack. his wife, tiffany, survived. but now mexican authorities are casting doubt on her account of what happened that day. this morning, tiffany hartley answered some of the accusations and in an exclusive interview on some of the today show. >> did you have anything to do

with the disappearance and/or the death of your husband, david? >> no. not at all. i loved him very much. and i went back for him to help him and i did what i could. >> all right, nbc's janet shandley is in mcallen, texas with the latest. janet, we mentioned the mexican authorities are concerned about this story. what about american authorities looking in to this. >> you know what, savannah, this is becoming something of an international incident as you alluded to now. tiffany hartley and her family are very unhappy with mexican authorities. they want them to be searching for david. they need some closure. american officials cannot go in to those waters. and on the other hand, mexican authorities say we don't think this happened the way this young lady says it does. now, the sheriff on this side, the zapata county sheriff who's investigating say he totally buys into it. there's a witness. he believes tiffany's story.

>> there's one witness, independent witness who never met tiffany before who actually saw this -- this commercial fishing boat chasing her, you know, in to zapata, into the united states. and as soon as she arrived with him to seek assistance, this boat made a u-turn add headed back towards mexico. >> so we are in front of the mexican consulate here in mcallen. tiffany had a three-hour meeting here yesterday with authorities. she says she's encouraged somewhat but there seems to be a stalemate, even the sheriff on this side of the border says that authorities in mexico aren't doing all that they could. they've said that in not so many words to help find this man, bring his body home. >> oh, wow. okay. >> mcallen, texas for us on this increasingly mysterious story. thanks very much. well, let's move on to our trivia. who are the five children of senators currently serving in the u.s. senate? i could name a few. >> could you get it all done

quickly, though? >> mark pryor, his father david pryor, connecticut senator chris dodd, utah senator bob bennett. a lot of people forget that. indiana senator, evan bayh and lisa murkowski. four of the five may not be in the united states senate by 2011. >> going home again, i guess. coming up, our special series, "back in business," despite the down economy, there are sectors that are hiring. we're going to tell you where opportunity is knocking. >> take advantage of it too. first, let's do the white house "soup of the day," asparagus and fettah. >> i've been down on them a couple of weeks. not down at all. it's a good one, unique, interesting. you know, the only problem with asparagus soup is when you bring it in, the colleagues better like it it has an interesting odor. i love asparagus. if you don't like it, you won't like the odor. >> don't bring it to the white house today. keep your asparagus soup far from me. the "daily rundown" only on

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back in business, how to find a job when it feels like no one is hiring. today's focus, where are the jobs, literally? geographically, where are they? some industries are booming, others are busting. the unemployment lines are longer in some parts of the country than others. >> where to look -- first, you're in better shape if you live in the northeast and the west where more than 22% of employers are planning to add fulltime jobs. but bosses in the midwest and the south are not hiring quite as quickly these days. here to tell where you say to look, not only geographically, but certainly which industry is rosemary hatner, she's a career advisor at careerbuilder.com.

rosemary, you have ideas about different types of industries more likely to hire in an economy like this. what's at the top of your list. >> well, i would say the good news is it's not necessarily just one industry versus the other what we're finding across all industries. companies are cautious. they're guarded. but they're looking for those positions that are going to drive revenue and protect the revenue they already have as well as bring the new revenue in. >> sales or something? >> yeah. >> customer service. >> exactly. sales positions are up. customer services positions are a 25% increase for the last six months on our site. companies are smart about where they're hiring. they don't want to go backwards, they wand to protect that base and move forward in the next six months. >> you also put in the information technology and health care. are there specific things that workers who maybe are thinking about those two fields, do they need to go and get certified in some area. you know? maybe it's an nurse's aid or

health care aid, is there a certification they need to get before going they go in those to fields? >> it's a great question. a lot of questions, health care is a whole variety of positions. if you're just wanting to get into that field, you will want additional training and certifications and a lot of programs now online that make that easier for people across the country. so, it's a booming, health care booming sector. we've been hearing that the last 18 months and it will continue for the foreseeable future. that will be a good place for people to focus and look at retraining opportunities. >> we just showed it a couple moments ago, areas where there are new opportunities potentially emerging. you put social media on the list, green energy, cybersecurity, we'll see health care global reform. tell us why you see these as areas for growth? >> is it just the number of jobs created in those fields?

what we are seeing where the businesses are making their investments and looking where they're ready and a lot of that is undetermined. what will it look like from a marketing strategy perspective and even from communication or recruiting perspective for companies as they like to get more candidates in the year in the next year or two. social media is something where you can parlay a lot of different backgrounds and experience into that field. suber security is also things that are just booming. you are talking about what we were talking about a couple minutes ago. education, certification, those are things you can get started on now and probably in the next 12 to 18 months, you'll be ready to hit the ground. >> very quickly yesterday, rosemary, we had advice about folks trying to deage their resumes and you advise to do multiple resumes. explain. >> tough market and what people are doing are applying to a

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