media chairman steve forbes, "barron's" senior editor jack hough, and natwest chief economist michelle gerard. michelle, let's start with you. this market is not getting speakinged at all. why? >> first of all the unemployment rate was not necessarily weak. absolutely we had a miss on the headline payroll gain, although a lot of it is weather and that data is very noisy but meanwhile the unemployment rate fell further. we had an uptick in terms of the labor force. you had very good underlying details like number of people employed to the population. details from a good part of this survey were positive. so i think that helped to cushion some of the initial negative reaction. david: steve, let's talk about the syrian strike because in my mind that was a huge positive, not only for the nation, in terms of standing up to a war criminal, assad, and his allies, the russians, our adversaries but it clears the deck for him to do a lot of stuff internally. it gives him political capital for tax cuts, for dealing with china on the north korean issue. of course democratic foot-dragging. so is the marke