ruth marcus, james peterson, chip saltzman. appreciate it. coming up, another bombshell in the blade runner murder case. oscar pistorius' brother facing charges for the death after woman five years ago. the other oscar everybody talking about today. big night at the academy awards. especially for political movies. our big question today -- count down sequester. what are you most concerned about if those budget cuts take effect? chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >>> new drum a surrounding oscar pistorius. accused of killing his girlfriend. he is not the only member of his family facing charges. his brother, carl, is accused of the death of a woman in 2008. michelle kosinski has those new revelations. >> reporter: for three days, his release on bail, the stuff of global headlines. oscar pistorius has not set foot outside of his uncle's house. waiting army of photographers month doubt a detractor. his older brother, carl, also faces questions of his own out here.

michael saltzman is employment policy institute research director and he joins me now.od to see you. so the president made a statement that i think we all agree on that a growing economy would not only help jobs but would also help our deficit but the president also wants this 20%, i guess a 24% increase in the minimum wage. what would that do to the jobs picture? >> well i think what it would do for the jobs picture, specifically the jobs picture for less-skilled employees like teens it would reduce the number of opportunities. it is tied directly to the fact that the type of businesses that employ them. if you're a restaurant or grocery store and you have two or 3% profit margin, the 24% increase in labor costs as you point out it just can't be absorbed. they have to raise their prices. if they can't do that they have to provide the same product with less service. that's where you see the reduction in employment opportunities for people like teens. david: luckily we have, the experiment has already been done the we've seen what happens in the past when we raise the mi

jill zukman and republican strategist tip saltzman. no shade on the ravens. we're going to talk about politics and news of the day. i want to start out first talking about exactly what we have seen going on, the reaction out washington, d.c. to the unemployment rate. and let's go jerryd, if we look, unemployment rate to 7.9%. clearly no need to keep the pesky jobs council around with all those ideas and insight. what's your reaction to what we have seen with the jobs report for today and also the news of the jobs council disbanding? >> well, the latter is pretty small potatoes in terms of news of the day. the job council has been around making some suggestions. i'm not sure how much that amounts to. i think the jobs report -- to me the most important thing were the revisions to last year. you heard ron mention that we thought we had added 150,000 jobs per year in 2012. turns out to be 180,000. i think about 2.2 million over the course of the year. that's not great. in fact, my view on the economy is a little bit less sunny than ron's. the unemployment rate ha

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