it is 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. 9:00 a.m. here in the east on this friday morning. i'm jonathan meier alongside the bbc katty kay and joining us is former white house director of communications to president biden, jennifer palmieri. let's get right to the breaking economic news. the may jobs report was released just moments ago and it shows that the u.s. economy added 272,000 jobs last month, above what economists had expected. let's bring in cnbc's dom chu. dom, thanks for joining. let's get your reaction to that number of jobs added and also where the unemployment rate stands. >> sure. the 272,000, as you point out, much higher than expected. also a tick higher in the unemployment rate. let's put some detail around the headline numbers that we just showed you. from an economic perspective, the numbers are generally more positive than negative, at least from an economic perspective.