rice and steve hadley in the national security count cynicism i was there for three months and i was asked if i wanted to shift inform to a position in the homeland security council. so i dl a little bit of poking around and i looked at one of the new guys on the staff of a hundred and senior branch in the military. and i came to the conclusion i wanted to hitch a wagon to the security council. when you look at the homeland security construct that enterprise of did he line to be integrated into the national security. and if you read the book from the council of foreign relations he writes that in all national security. force projection will begin at home. and so national security and homeland security a lines are blurred. and we stood up the northern command in colorado springs. we told the four-star combat and commander to figure out the homeland defense and homeland security. it is very difficult much the issue of the homeland security is abroad enter pies that is designed by the national security act and the fact is that when you start to look at the threats and the opportunities

hadley gamble joining us with king abdullah. let's get to the cme group, rick santelli with the santelli exchan exchange. >> you know i'll tell you, we do, we really appreciate steve of my sources now looking for a variety of issues that are embedded in our data because we use data to evaluate the economy. and steve shined a light on some of the shortcomings and well, there's many. now today we learned for example that we had 274,000 in terms of initial jobless claims. now that isn't the 15-year low. the actual 15-year low was several weeks back at 262,000. but it's awfully close. and of course, i do this number every thursday at 8:30 eastern. and it is good news, many times when it comes out lower than expected, we see rates move because it is significant. well, as i said, i've been getting a barrage from all my sources, not only here, but around the globe. with data points in europe. but special thanks and shout-out to art nolan and porter boggus. here's the idea they gave me, bls website is something we should all spend time on. initial jobless claims may not be giving us the type of picture and making us draw the right conclusions about the economy. why? labor