with the national rate expted keep rising, advocates for the unployed say that's not enough. darren ger "nightly business report", washington. >> susiein a big legal victory for comcast, a fedal appeals court s essentially given giant cable companiethe go- ahead toxpand or merge. the decision annnced today, threw out a rule that lited cable compies to 30% of the market. comcast, the biggest.s. cable- televisionrovider, opposed the measure, saying itroze its business the reriction was imposed by the federal communicatio commission to avd cable monopoli. the court disagreed, sayg the litation didn't consider competition from compani like direc-tv a dish network. >> susie: the i-phone isaying "knee-how"o a new market: ina. today apple and wireless carer cha uni-com announced the i- phone will go on salthere before thend of this year. china has the largeswireless marketn the world in terms of subscribers with 650 million mobile phone aounts. about 140 million them are on ina uni-com. the compandidn't give financiadetails on the deal and didn't sayow much the i-phe will cost in ch

unemploymentate that notched wn a little bit we s on friday is a statistic fluke and as long as people aretill unployed and there are a lot of people without jobs,hey are notoing to be spendinso we cannot get growth. ken, what do you say to thatn terms t ouook for the job market. >> well it's certaly challenging. i mean ihink the unemployment rate i going to get over 10% before this is over. i mean it depds on how many pele get discouraged and pull out of the labor force but i think the big pediment is hoing prices are not goin to come down for a long time,two yearmaybe seven yearsand that's going to cause people to spend less. that's 70% of o gnp. that's a big factor demand. that's going to tough place it withnything else. >>usie: is the housing market in thatcrisesyet? go ahe, mark. >> well, was just going to say one reon for optimism is that everyoneas so pessimistic. am i think if you go back to the even of last year the financi system was collapsing, people panicked, consumers business people inveors completely panicked and business slashed investnt, they slashed pay roles and i think theoverdid i

it seemed like y'all were preparing all of us for a -- you know, obviously, a rise in the unploi unemployment rate. maybe not 10% yet, but was he surprised to see a drop? >> i don't think anybody feels like they can precisely project where unemployment is going to be, but we did see that. states and localities were hiring more people, were able to keep a lot of folks in their jobs. so certainly we saw that there was some benefit to what the recovery plan was doing. but we do think that there is still a lot more work to do. >> i want to ask you about health care. specifically, these town halls. as you well know, some of these town halls that congressmen and women have been holding around the country have gotten very heated. there's a lot of anger out there. earlier this week, white house press secretary robert gibbs suggested that may be manufactured dissent, kind of a fake protest, con tritrived by interest groups. is that still the white house position? >> certainly, you see there's a lot of organization that's happening from groups from individuals who are personalities on tv shows and radi