the pandemic. as president biden pointed out earlier today, there is, of course, the growing threat of omicron. >> our economy is markedly stronger than it was a year ago. and today, the incredible news that our unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%. at this point in the year, we're looking at the sharpest one-year decline in unemployment ever. >> joining us now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, kristen welker with, and austan goolsbee, former top economic adviser to president obama. austan, first to you. what do you make of this number? could this be an outlier or be revised upward as the last two months, or what do you think is going on here in the economy? >> look, it's kind of a tale of two numbers. because when the jobs numbers come out, there is an unemployment number which comes from a survey of people and there's a jobs total, which
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