we'll cover it all with republican congressman duncan hunter and former cia nnlt ken pollack. >>> nearly 6 million americans tried to pick the final four. only two got it. what's the secret? >>> i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in march the unemployment rate inched down to 8.8%, a net gain of 216,000 nonfarm jobs. back to february's net gain of 192,000 and employers are hiring at the fastest rate since the recession began but 13.5 million are still unemployed. 921,000 discouraged workers left the workforce last month giving up. bring in labor secretary hilda solis. the good and the bad. the participation rate held at 64.2%. the unemployment numbers overall are obviously good news for the administration and for america. >> yes, andrea. i will tell you that in february and march we had one of our biggest growths there in the private sector. and that was since 2006. so we have made some progress. and overall in the last 13 months we saw 1.8 million private sector jobs added to our economy. but as you say and we know, we still have a long way to go. we still have a lot of people hurti

republican congressman duncan hunter who says it's time for nato to step it up and former analyst ken pollackroll the u.s. is playing to help the rebels against gadhafi. >>> even as the president's overall approval rating has taken a bit of a hit, a poll out this week suggests he's as popular as ever with young voters. in the harvard university poll of young americans 55% they approve of the job he's doing. it comes just as he gets ready to launch his re-election campaign this month. karen finney is an msnbc political consultant and former communications director for the democratic national committee. how important will young people be to who is the next president? >> young people are going to be critical. one of the things in the 2008 election for the very first time you had more young voters voting than seniors, meaning there's been a real shift in terms of dynamics of the power of voting blocks that can have an impact on the election. that crop of young voters is now four years older and there's a whole new group of young voters to go after. one of the challenges the gop had in 2008, they

bush is correct, the best book written on this is the gathering storm -- the threatening storm by ken pollacky good book in 2002 making the case for invading iraq. the american cia was pretty sure saddam had weapons of mass destruction or logical reason that everybody points to the things they got wrong like curveball. we had good informants like the former iraqi intelligence told us they had wmds. there were good reasons to think they had wmds and it was the easiest way to make sense in regime that refused to let inspectors in. in addition you to look at the impact of events. back in the early 90s when we thought iraq was disarmed we found that it was not. a normal country does not invade a nation to in size but saddam did in 1980. that after eight years of a ruinous war you do not invade kuwait but it's a damned it. past events led american intelligence to misunderstand much of what the regime was done. i consider those force airs. i don't blame the president for making those errors. franca western intelligence services mostly agree with them. so did and egyptian intelligence, et cetera, et