american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. [ applause ] >>> national economic council director james sperling spoke last week at a white house forum on women and the economy. he talked about the u.s. job market and recent unemployment numbers. he's followed by a panel discussion. ate little more than an hour. >> my name is tina tchen. i'm the executive director on women and girls. it's my pleasure to start off our forum and welcome you all for being here. my job, first thing in the morning here, is one that gives me great, great pleasure and that is to introduce to you someone who has been a dear friend of mine, someone who is a business woman, a single mom, a lawyer and now is senior advisor to the president of the united states, and chair of the council on women and girls and has been leading the effort for the last three years that brings us to all the accomplishments we'll talk about today and to our wonderful partnership working with all of you. my good friend valerie jarrett. [ applause ] >> thank you, tina and good morning, everyone. welcome to the white house. it is such a pleasure to

i also want to see the politics panel, and also james sperling, the door of the national council of economic advisers and assistant to the president, also all of that will be happening in this room as soon as we wrap up here. so, i just -- that's what do they call that, in a little station announcement? also, as i look out, i just want to recognize one of our board members is here in the room with us, dr. david jefferson, senior. he's a senior pastor that the metropolitan baptist church, and also a practicing and licensed attorney in the state of new jersey, and so we welcome him today. obviously has a special litigation going on, for those of you that don't know dr. jefferson. let me bring glenn martin. glenn martin acid is the vice president of development public affairs for the fortune society. [applause] >> good morning. as soon as i walked in the romance of a panel i said as long as i don't go last i'm okay. put me after a bunch of heavy hitters, all right. so, i'm going to be sent send. i would like to think michael for the in like to think michael for the introduction and the. i would

james, when you started this interview with me, i'm going to quote you. when he took office we were losing three quarters of a million jobs a month. >> a month. >> i hear you. gene sperling said this today. he said the economic hole the president inherited is very deep. we're making progress, but nowhere close to satisfied. at what point though do you say this is 2012 -- you get these questions all the time. when do you have to take account for it and say, all right, my job, i can't continue to blame the administration before me. >> well, i don't know -- i don't know that he's blaming the administration by pointing that out. >> i'm going to repeat it, james. he said the president inherited a very -- the hole that the president inherited very deep. that's the hole he's talking about from the bush administration. that's not from day one. >> well, what gino said is very accurate. the other thing that can be pointed out, however bad -- however difficult this economy is, this president created more jobs in three years than president bush in eight. one of things that caused the job numbers to be horrific is we lost 600,000 public sector jobs since this recovery started. my poi