host: emily kaiser, thanks for your insight on the job situation.earned that after 22 straight months of job loss, our economy has now created jobs in the private sector for 6 months in a row. thats a positive sign. but the truth is, the recession from which were emerging has left us in a hole thats about 8 million jobs deep. and as ive said from the day i took office, its going to take months, even years, to dig our way out -- and its going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort. in the short term, were fighting to speed up this recovery and keep the economy growing by all means possible. that means extending unemployment insurance for workers who lost their job. that means getting small businesses the loans they need to keep their doors open and hire new workers. and that means sending relief to states so they dont have to lay off thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers. still, at a time when millions of americans feel a deep sense of urgency in their own lives, republican leaders in washington just dont get it. while a majority

host: emily kaiser, thank you for your time. coming up we will have a discussion about the arrest of suspected russian spies. we'll be right back. >> "washington journal" continues. host: here is david kramer to discuss the washington spy arrests. what does it mean to you? guest: it is still confusing, what happened. last weekend u.s. officials arrested 10 people in the united states in arlington, virginia, new york, virginia, and massachusetts, and charged them with representing a foreign government without officially rem registering with u.s. authorities. a number of them were charged with money laundering. none of them were charged with espionage, but they are alleged to have been working for the russian intelligence service and were trying to get influence into u.s. policy circles and to figure out what u.s. thinking was on a whole range of issues. there are still many details which have not yet come forward, but we'll see what happens over the next few weeks. host: were you surprised? guest: the fact that spying continues d

host: lots of calls coming in for emily, kaiser. chico, california. john, democrat.: thank you for taking my call. i'm an active ttitter person and i've been noticing a lot of anger out here amongst both liberal and conservative regarding the level of war spending that that is never hardly mentioned as far as the deficit neutrality issues and all tt, people seem to ignore the fact there is a huge hidden tax from the war that's taking money out of our economy. i'm wondering why isn't that discussed more that the cost of the war is really a drag on our economy and really i don't see what it's really accomplishing. so a lot of us democrats are actually angry with our president about it, we think he's on the wrong track. what would your opinion be about that? guest: on the deficit you bring up a good point. for all this discussion about how much we should be stimulating the economy to get it growing, those aren't the longest term drags. you mentioned the war, it's been going on for a few years but the biggest drags are struccural, medicare and social security. those have

. >> this morning we'll talk with reuters economics correspondent emily kaiser about the june unemploymentn david kramer offers his insight on the arrest of 10 people suspected of

reuters economic correspondent and only kaiser talks about the june unemployment -- and only -- emily kaiser talks about the june unemployment numbers. david kramer offers his insight on the 10 people arrested suspected of being undercover agents. and john hall from the for the center for fiscal and economic policy discusses how for that is dealing with a $6 billion budget shortfall. >> live on book tv's in depth, the former education secretary and the first drug czar. i join the discussion on american history, education, and politics. three hours with bill bennett on sunday. get the whole schedule at but tv got -- booktv.org. >> now, the memorial service for senator robert byrd, the longest serving member of congress in history. this takes place at the steps of the state capital in charleston, west virginia. we hear from president obama, vice president biden, house and senate leaders, and others. ♪ [bells ringing] [bells ringing] [bells ringing] [bells ringing] [bells ringing] [background sounds] [background sounds] >> we invite you to join us as we recite the pledge of allegiance. i pledge

for the citizens budget >> saturday, on "washington journal," look at unemployment numbers by emily kaiser. then, david kramer, former deputy ve-- he discusses what it means for russia relations. later, a look at state budgets continues with john hall who talks about his state's $6 billion shortfall. we take your calls and e-mail slide every morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> now, a look at political campaign ads that canada -- that canada is our bunning in several collections. >> today, we want to take a look at some new campaign ads that are running in a few key senate races. joining me is amy walters, the editor in chief of the "national journals." give us a recap of what happened with the race for the senate seat in that state. >> this is former senator obama 's seat. had he stayed in the senate, he would be up for this election cycle. congressman mark kerr is a republican from chicago. if you look at the state, it is a pretty blue state. the president did very well there. democrats could easily hold on to that seat. a funny thing happened along the way. the fami