keith ablow. alisyn: can't wait to ask him those questions. >>> first he called it a bump in the road, new new reaction from president obama on last week's disappointing jobs dat kwrarbgs the president saying, quote, we don't know yet what happened in terms of this particular blip. take a look at his interview yesterday. >> we were on the verge of going into a great depression, those who are still unemployed, my main message to them is every day i get up and ask myself what more can i be doing to give them a shot. what else do i have within my power to make sure that jobs are being created, businesses are succeeding, small businesses are succeeding, and people are able to live out the american dream. so what they should know is they've got a president who's on their side. alisyn: now, another member of the president's economic team has resigned, austan goolsbee, the chief economic adviser, leaving his post later this year. stuartstuart varney joins me. do we know why tkpwa*ls bee is leaving? >> th

i understand a strong push was made for equity by both commissioners campos and ablow, and commissioner wiener led an intense discussion on a fifth scenario that san francisco argued should be excluded because it encourages additional growth in the outer bay area, which is the kind of sprawl we have been trying to combat for a long time. unfortunately, that did not gather all the votes needed, but came close. i do expect these issues are going to get more and more difficult and controversial as we go on. these are really fundamental to our advocacy at the individual level. i think we need to stay focused on them. we have been trying to do our part at the staff level, in terms of local education. both the deputy for planning and our principal planner have been called upon to make presentations in the last couple of weeks. the department of public health at an event recently looking at housing as well. the chamber of commerce, the presentation was made on these issues. we are continuing to try to educate the public and opinion makers on all of this. kanuris and i was not at the meeting la