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Good morning, im Stephanie Ruhle live on the floor of the new york stock change on jobs day. We are seeing traders file in, getting ready for the market to open after the biggest Economic News of the Trump Administration yet. Breaking news this morning. A monster jobs report. 235,000 jobs added. The Unemployment Rate ticking down. Were going to break down the full report in the new trump economy. A secret meeting taking place. Our cameras exclusively capturing fbi director, james comey on capitol hill to brief leadership about President Trumps wiretapping allegations. Plus, deep divisions. Republicans holding a press conference this hour as many members reject the new health care proposal. It would not reduce prices for insurance and make care affordable. We are going to begin this rning with the jobs numbers. The first snapshot of the economy under President Trump and the benchmark for the jobs Going Forward. I have the best team in the business to do it and im in the best place. Im with ali velshi on the floor of the new york stock change. I walk in, i want to get a hug from the traders. Lets talk numbers. Break them down for me. Reporter yeah. Its pretty big. Its a big jobs report. 235 net new jobs created. Unemployment ticking down to 4. 7 . This is why its important, we have averaged a good jobs number every month. Its been much lower than that. In the last year, if you take it from last february to now, we have been getting about 196,000 net new jobs every month. We got 227,000 last month, now 235 in march. This is a very big deal. That said, it is similar to this time of year in previous years and, as you and i discussed, donald trump will take credit for this very shortly. President s do get too much blame and too much credit for the jobs reports. However, the market likes big numbers. We were looking at an increased open for much of the morning. We might see it flat as a result now because as the market digests this information, it tends to balance out. Bottom line, no complaints here, big number. If we got 235,000 net new jobs every month for a few years, we would be doing well, unemployment going down and jobs creep up as they have been for about a year now. Wages is going to be the important factor here. I want to go to chris jansing. I know it takes an hour for the white house to digest the numbers as they get them the same time we do. Reporter they are digesting them. I ran upstairs and the word is we are pretty please zed. You may have seen President Trump retweeted, his favorite form of communication, what the drudge report said, it quoted the jobs number,id great again. That tweet went out this morning. Here is why its so important. Ali looked at it from a financial standpoint thrks is a political standpoint. You talked about what the president has going on. James comby looking at the allegations of wiretapping at trump tower. You have the Julian Assange cia breach and the fight over health care. This is the one thing the president likes to point to to say this is why you hired me. You hired me, im a businessman, the economy is going to grow. What to watch for later this morning, the president who kept a low profile after making the accusations about president obama is having a meeting. Press will be allowed in. There will be questions. See what we hear from him. Thanks, chris. President trump may be taking some credit for todays strong numbers. In the past, he trashed the jobs reports, even when they have been good. Dont believe those phony numbers when you hear 4. 9 and 5 unemployment. The number is probably 28, 29, as high as 35. The worst jobs report in 6. 5 years. 38,000 jobs. 5 figure is one of the biggest hoaxes. The end of last week, they came out with an anemic jobs report. A terrible jobs report. Hmm, we are going to see what the president has to say about the numbers today. Im going to bring in bill cohen and author of why wall street matters. Currently professor at the university of chicagos booth school. Welcome gentlemen. Austin, i want to start with you. We know the jobs number needs to be in the right direction rather than the wrong direction. How important is this number as it relates to the overall economy, not just the voice here on the floor of the exchange . I think its pretty important. We are now in the longest string of Jobs Creation in u. S. History at least since we have been keeping the data. I think thats important for both politics and the economy that that keeps going at a steady, growing pace. Its surprising, we have been able to do this for as long as we have but i think its great. Surprising. Does that mean you think its going to change . I certainly hope its not going to change. Personally, i dont think its going to change except that we got to be inching our way closer to full employment. As you run out of bodies to hire, the numbers are probably going to shrink a bit. The question is how much below 4. 7 unemployment can you get before the fed starts raising the rates and is afraid that inflation would take off. If thats the case, bill, is wages the issue here . All the disenfranchised americans, when you look at the unemployment as low as it is, that doest factor underemployment, the people not looking for jobs, i the issue how much people are getting paid . Sure. Wages have been stagnant for years now. Not for ceos. Not for successful writers. The truth is, as austin was saying, we are getting up to that number of structural and full employment. Donald trump talked about this 94 million sorry, 94 Million People who arent looking for jobs, who dropped out of the work force. Most of those are students and people in retirement homes. That number is closer to 7 million. If there are 7 Million People out there who want to have jobs, we havent been able to find them yet. 250,000 clip, this could go on longer. I think we are reaching a point where the fed is going to have to raise rates, as they have signaled and people are going to have to get paid more, which is a good thing. I want to talk about confidence. President obama slowly ticked up in a steady manner what the economy looked like, but it has been slow. We are seeing a real push, especially Small Business sentiment. They are pushing forward. What do you say to this promise of these President Trump probusiness policies . How long are they going to last . Are they going to fulfill the jubilation we are seeing here . Theres two different questions in that question. One is the what led to the increase in the market or the increasing confidence in those groups that they think the growth rate changed or do they think they are going to receive a little special early Christmas Present from policy from the Trump Administration. I dont know which it is. If they think its a policy gift like their tax rate is going to be cut or get a special regulatory waiver, there you might start to get nervous because you have seen on health care, on tax reform and on infrastructure the president s plans starting to bog down into details so it may be some time, if ever, that we get those policies enacted. If thats driving the markets, theyould be in for a bumpy ride. I want to bring in tom perez, the chair of the Democratic National committee, served as labor secretary under president obama. He knows quite a bit about jobs. Good morning. What do you make about the numbers . Eight years ago, barack obama inherited there were 702,000 jobs lost in the report eight years ago in the first month of the president s administration. As a result of his courageous efforts in passing the stimulus bill and what we saw as a result of that was now 84 months in a row of private sector job growth. It was headed toward 8 now 4. 7 . So, thats almost a million job difference between eight years ago and now because of the investments of this president. Those arent phony numbers. Thats real progress. Has phony is the notion that the Affordable Care act is a job killer. We have seen 16 million jobs gained since the Affordable Care act was passed. The sector that has done best is the health sector. So, i mean these numbers are not phony, they are real. What we have to understand is when you start putting the Affordable Care act at risk, you are not only putting peoples lives at risk, you are putting the economy at risk. You are doing a great thing for the wealthy who get a major tax cu but you are doing nothing for working families other than putting them at risk of real challenges. Tom, when you lay out those numbe numbers, what president obama was handed, how do you make sense of all those working families, as you said, who were so disappointed who wanted Something Different and couldnt make ends meet . When i look at the numbers you are seeing, they look strong coming out of the obama economy. Why are there so many disappointed americans who want change . Sure. Its a fair question. Its important to understand that we were digging out of the deepest hole of our lifetime. We have made tremendous progress. As austin pointed out, we are 84 months in a row of job growth. We have a lot of work to do on wages. Our economy remains out of balance. Very rich people have gotten wealthier and all too many people who need the raise the most havent gotten it. The last year, we have seen good wage growth. But we still have a lot more work to do. Thats why, you know, we hear this talk about the fed raising Interest Rates. I think thats a terrible idea because the economy still has room for further growth. In 2000, the Unemployment Rate was 4 . We are 4. 7 now. I always thought the fed would raise Interest Rates when there was a fear of inflation. That fear is not real right now. You look at the data. For me, the north star has to be the average worker who still hasnt gotten enough of a raise. Again, we saw improvement over the last two years. But we havent seen enough improvement. Thats why you see the understandable frustration. Repealing the Affordable Care act, making it harder for first time home buyers to buy a home, which is what donald trump did day one. Making it harder for people who work overtime to get the benefit of overtime, which is what they are trying to do and challenging the overtime rule we did at the labor department. Making it harder to save for retirement which is what the administration is trying to do. Those are issues that go to the heart of what it means to be middle class in america. Donald trump is going to claim credit for these jobs numbers today. I find that to be humorous. The washington wizards, im a wizards fan here. They have one of the best records in the nba, stephanie, since january 20th. Donald trump has about as much to do with that as he had to do with this 235,000 jobs report, which is a good report. President trump cant necessarily take credit for the jobs report. He said this number is absolutely phony in the last few months. But, when you speak to people in the financial industry, they are calling this the trump rally. We have seen a significant increase in the value of stocks since President Trump was elected. Is there some argument to be made that the policies he wants to put in place could be a positive for the economy . Not just for traders, but sma Business Sentiment is up . Id again remind your viewers, where was the stock market when barack Obama Took Office and where was it when he left . There were literally dozens of record highs on the stock change. Thats not the only bellwether of success. You need to continue to look at what is it that the average american needs to move forward. They need higher wages. This is a president who doesnt support increasing the minimum wage. People who work overtime need to be paid overtime. This is a president who doesnt support that effort. We need to make sure people have retirement security. This is a president making it harder for people to retire and first time home buyers to buy a home. To me, my north star is not what is the dow at at the end of the day . Thats useful and important, but not nearly the bellwether the average american wants to look at. They want to see are people fighting for me for better wages, for better job conditions, health care, retirement security. On all of those measures, we have a president who is doing nothing more than helping the bill nars get richer. Thats not what we are about as a nation. Thats why we are going to continue to fight to make sure that we educate the people, the American People about the fact that the Affordable Care act is a lifesaver. It has been good for the economy. You look at job creation, 2 million jobs created in the health sector. We have to tell the facts and the facts are actually incredibly compelling for the need to make sure we retain health care and the need to continue to invest in good wages and not raise Interest Rates. Thats the most important thing, i think, that can happen for workers over the next month, to make sure that the fe does not put the brakes on wage growth that we have seen over the last year. All right, tom. Thanks for your time. Everybody needs health care, but not everyone in america benefits from a booming stock market. Tom, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Good to be with you. Next, exclusive video of fbi director, james comey working overtime, arriving on capitol hill to brief lawmakers on the alleged wiretapping of trump tower. What did he tell them . Its extraordinary. Theres so much he could brief them on. We are going to be live for the opening bell. How will the stock market react to another strong jobs report . Its just a date. I can stay. Im good. I wont be late hey mom. Yeah. No kissing on the first date, alright . Life doesnt always stick to a plan, but with our investment expertise well help you handle whats next. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Tech at safelite, we know how busy your life can be. Mom oh no. Tech this mom didnt have time to worry about a cracked windshield. So she scheduled at safelite. 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That was exclusive video of nbcs casey hunt trying to get answers from fbi chief james combey about President Trumps wiretap allegations. Combey was meeting with lawmakers. I think casey hunt may have a cot there. She is there 24 7. I want to talk to Pete Williams about what is going ton there. Pete, what do you think combey was doing . He was up to answer questions from the leaders of congress. This is the socalled gang of eight, the leadership, the four leaders from the house and senate and the four chairmen ranking members from the intelligence committee. They want to ask him about the president s tweet last weekend where he said barack obama ordered wiretaps of the phones from trump tower. Its well established the fbi director wanted the Public Statement about this and the Justice Department has not gone along with that. Many Officials Say that didnt happen. We strongly believe thats what they asked about and talked about. Pete, i want to switch to health care for a moment. Washington state filed another lawsuit over President Trumps revised travel ban and a few other states joined the effort. What do you know . Hawaii was first this time around. They are filed a lawsuit in federal court. Washington state said to the judge, take our old case, we are going to revise it a little bit, bring new life into it and make it the ability to get a court order, again, freezing the new travel ban. The new travel ban doesnt take effect for several more days. Theres not the urgency to get court orders right now. And theres a very interesting question this time around, stephanie. The government went to great efforts to try to insulate the second version from court challenges. One of the basic means by which the states challenge it is to say look, people in our state are stuck here. They cant get their relatives in. They cant go and come back. So, thats why we are being able to sue on their behalf. What the Justice Department is saying this time is, we have built in a very robust system of waivers. It makes it hard for any individual to say, i cant. Theres no way im going to be able to get my relative in here. The government can say to the judge, we dont know yet. We might be able to issue a waiver in that case. The hope is they can undercut the legal challenges. Who knows where it is going to go. The religious argument, the idea this is a muslim ban, retain force. It will be harder for the states to prevail this time around. All right. Thanks, pete. We are going to take a break. We are a few minutes away from the opening bell. You can see where we are at the new york stock change. Im going to take you down to the floor to get the Market Reaction to this very big jobs report. Does it matter . We are going to find out. Also, at the bottom of the hour, House Republicans will holds a News Conference as the push to health care goes into overdrive. Now . Excuse me. Again . 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Tom, to you, the floor of the change is on fire today. You run this house. Why is it so important . It was a good jobs report. This is the first full month of jobs growth under a Trump Administration. A lot of people are excited about it. The dow jones is expected to open up around the 21,000 level. Sarah, the fact that the market goes up and up, this jobs number, we have seen this steady growth. Thats not a surprise. Its moving up on promises. It is. You have seen in the jobs number the confidence boost we have seen across business translate. Thats why its so important. When grow from the socalled soft data, the sewurveys to the hard data, the hiring numbers, that makes an impact on the americans. Thats why the market is interpreting it so well. Its not translating into growth yet. We are not seeing a boost in consumer spending. We are going to see whether the boost translates into more growth and not more hiring. Many people out there in america dont own stocks or bonds. They are not impacted by the boom in the market. If you actually look at what the president promised, thats why we are seeing the push in stocks. Now the fact that the Health Care Bill is not moving quickly, is that going to cause retrenching . Who knows when we get real tax reform . A lot of the stock market rally is banking on the tax reform, lower Corporate Tax rate that is affect numbers. The administration, the treasury secretary said we can expect it by august. Leaders say thats ambitious. So, we might have to push that off. It could impact the markets. We are looking at the first. Tom, i want to stay on sentiment. This moment, this is a field trip for msnbc and our viewers. This is your house. We have the cheering. The bell is ringing right now. Talk to me about the sentiment this year, this moment, this day, versus where we were a year ago on a floor like this. You cant compare it to a year ago. You cant compare it to election night. The dow jones sold off at 17,000. Today, we are going to open close to 21,000. The animal spirits are alive. The market believes something will be done on taxes. Ceos number one issue is Corporate Tax rates, not individual, corporate. They are the highest of any developed nation in the world. How many ceos complain their business is not good because the tax rate is too high. I dont know that its hurt them. Let me parse your wordses, they are not complaining the business is not good. If you want to improve the economy and life and bring happiness, lower the Corporate Income tax rate, allowing more dollars into the economy. Lowering it would have a direct impact on corporations. Those who specifically supported President Trump, where is the direct line that is going to impact and improve their happiness or status in life . The answer is wage growth. When corporations have more profit, they hire more as we have seen in the numbers today. We need higher wages in this country. This mornings number is. 2 increase, six cents higher in wage increase. Thats not enough. We need to see 3 growth. We are not at those levels yet. The hope is, if we have a more competitive tax rate as tom and his buddies expect, corporations will not hire more, but pay more. Thats how it trickles down. Tom, i was here last week for the snap chat ipo. It is so difficult these days to go public. The regulatory hurdles. You talk to companies every day. Do you think we are going to see a severe increase on the companies showing up, going public . We are going to see an increase and we are expecting a lot of ipos. To point out to viewers, the number of companies isowny half. However, t aggregate value is up by three times. The Public Market is working for large companies. My goal, my personal goal is to make it work for small medium size companies. One of the things the Trump Administration is saying could get us in that direction like smarter, regulatory fraikwork. Is it a fair argument to make loans havent been made . Theres access to capital and regulation is put in place for protection, not to hurt. Absolutely that argument could be made. If you listen to testimony by the fed chairwoman, janet yellin, she said we are seeing less spending and loan growth but not that much. There is room for improvement. President trump met with heads of community bankers. They talk about how they dont want to be regulated by the bigger banks. They are not as complex. Their bread and butter business. Theres work to be done. We have felt this recovery. Its been a recovery, but not as strong. We havent boughten above 2 growth. Theres room to improve. This is such a treat for me, i want you to know. This is a personal treat for me. Us as well. We are going to have the gop press conference talking about health care. You are watching msnbc. My business was built with passion. But i keep it growin by ming ery dollar count. 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New kelloggs raisin bran crunch apple strawberry what we want to do is solve that, fix that, put in place a system that makes certain every single american has access to Health Coverage of the highest quality, thats affordable and provides them choices. That was secretary of health and Human Services tom price on morning joe and his take as the battle of the bill escalates not between republicans and democrats, still between republicans. At the same time, we are keeping an eye on the News Conference set to begin any moment by Kevin Mccarthy on the legislation. I want to bring my panel back to weigh in. Austin and bill. I want to get your reactions, both of you, to what tom price said. Austin . Well, you know, i thought my first reaction was, has he read their own bill because it did not seem to contort to what he was saying. I guess my second reaction, stephanie, was when you said its a fight between republicans, not republicans and democrats. So far, i would say, first they are going to have to fight out amongst themselves, but then if you dont think that democrats are going to pile on and point out every flaw that has ever existed in the replacement plan, you dont know the democrats very well. They are going to have a tough time because the reality here is that to repeal obamacare will entail millions of people losing their insurance and cutting taxes for high income people. Its hard to get around that basic math. Thats not going to look that good. I want to pull in, paul ryan was speaking about the need for replacing obamacare. Take a look. The fatal obamacare is we are going to make everybody buy our help insurance at the government level. Young and Healthy People are going to go into the market and pay for the older, sicker people. What is your take here, bill . Look, one of the thing that is makes America Great is that we, supposedly all are pulling together to help one another. Yes, of course, the healthy, young people should contribute. Theres no such thing as a free lunch. There used to be a system of nation Nation National service. That concept is gone. We are asking young people who are healthy to pay into a system to help older people who need the care. I dont understand why you would take 20 Million People who had health care off those roles. How many of those people supported donald trump . I would love to know what percentage of those people voted for donald trump and now are going to lose their health care. I dont understand why hes doing this. It sounds like the issue is in humanity. I want to share the next thought. This is what stuck out to me. A republican from the state of illinois said in the house Energy Hearing on the gop bill. If you have the volume not turned up high, jack it upright now to hear this. What mandate in the obamacare bill does he take issue with . Im curious, what is it we are mandating . Would the gentleman yield . Yeah, sure. What about men having to purchase prenatal care. Theres no such thing as ala cart insurance, john. What about men having to purchase prenatal care. Austin, what . Yeah, what is right. Look, the thing is, when paul ryan said that at his press conference, it betrayed kind of a total ignorance of how insurance works. If you look at any insurance product, everyone pays in because theres a risk that a small number of people are going to have a claim. So, theres a subsidy, if you want to call it that from people who dont get in car accidents, to people who do get in car accidents. Thats the nature of insurance. So, everyone is born, i think we can agree on that. The prenatal care is good for society that we are covering prenatal care that women can have babies in a healthy way and to object that men shouldnt have to pay for things that are womens problems, young people shouldnt pay in for things that are old peoples problems, hopefully all the young people will be old people, eventually. So, as i say, thats how Insurance Markets work. I dont understand this objection. Austin is talking insurance market. If you are watching, unlike tom price, ime not a doctor. I will talk science for a moment. Women need the prenatal care. Men are involved in the process that requires the prenatal care, fyi. Do you think there could be a moment when americans start to say maybe obamacare wasnt that bad . I made this point. We like to complain about what we have then when we stee alternative, things arent that bad. I agree with you. I think americans are going to raise up and Congress People are going to hear about it. Obamacare is not a perfect thing like doddfrank law is not a perfect thing. Tighten it up. Take a skal scalpal, not a sledgehammer. We like 25 Million People having health care coverage. That is the right thing to do. We have a country. Together, we should Work Together. I know we have to go, to austin wharks bill is calling for is the same thing so many people want as it relates to doddfrank by partisanship. A level of working together. I recognize the anger and frustration for democrats and resistance. Does saying im going to fight you help the American People . Well, i mean, it seems to me, if you are saying that the democrats should go along in a bipartisan way with apolishing and replacing obamacare, i mean its like saying im going to divorce my wife and im going to lets Work Together and bring in my new wifes stuff. Can you just, you know, arrange the house for her . That will never happen. The democrats are not going to say we will join you in dismantling the program. Just look at what the republicans are saying. They are not seeking fixes to obamacare. What they are seeking is to repeal, destroy and come up with something far worse than obamacare and the democrats will not go along with that. I think this is where the American People need to come together. Lets hear the voices of the American People calling congress and saying lets not repeal and replace, fix what needs to be fixed. We like this bill. We like this law. We like the 20 Million People now with health care who didnt have it before. We like this bill. American people, time to rise up with this bill. He wants to bring you together. We need to take a break. Thank you. Coming up, President Trump is going to issue lifetime ban on Senior Executive bran officials lobbying for Foreign Government how is he reacting to e news general mike flynn lobbied for turkey in the fall . Take a look at this. The Market Holding strong. A very good jobs report up nearly 50 points. 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Thank you for having me here this morning. Jobs are looking strong. We know we are in a good economic cycle. We have seen a trump boost. Yes. When you look at this specific number, this is a number on the campaign trail President Trump said dont believe it, phony baloney, nonsense. When you look at the trump economy, where is the big positive here, if not this number. The positive, this is a start. The first month of a fouryear process where hes going to have a strict focus on jobs, a strict focus on cutting regulations and create positive job environment. If you look at intel and lockheed martin, they are Companies Post trumps election they saw a president to create a positive biness environment for everybody. We are going to continue to invest here. U see e month, part of january is the second month growth. I think the next couple months and as you have more time for the president s policies to get in place, more and more focus on jobs. Do you think the president still thinks the numbers are phony . I think the president thinks the country has a long way to go. We have a long way to go making people who want a job find a job. They dont mean anything to the person whos currently looking for a job and cant find one and thats what the president s focused on. I think the American Worker has elected somebody who is probably one of the nations best negotiators and hes negotiating day in and day out to make sure the job environment here exists for them to have a job, for them to support their families, for them to exceed their expectations for them to do better than their parents once did. Such a strong business person, you know, you would think would bring around a very strong team. Trump tweeted in october, i will issue a lifetime ban against Senior Executive Branch Officials lobbying on behalf of Foreign Governments. Draintheswamp. Yes. Michael flynn in the news now had worked as a Foreign Agent for turkey making hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this. Mike flynn towards the end of the campaign was the one up there talking Hillary Clinton pay for play, lock her up. How did the campaign operate . Did it not do background checks . Mike flynn clely servedis country, many would say hes an honorable man, but to be a senior official next to the president taking that kind of dough from turkey, what gives . Id say this. First, let me start with general flynn. Honorable man, served with distincti distinction. They understand some come from the private sector and part of that private sector is lobbying. Flynn had that in his background. He said i dont want to focus on this anymore. I want to serve my country again. As i join this administration, i agree to a fiveyear ban Going Forward that im not going to lobby. So you think President Trump knew . You think trump was aware that mike flynn took that 350 grand . Its all public disclosures. So the Transition Office was aware of this, just like were aware of previous people who are now in the administration. Theres a transparent process. I think from a transition standpoint, they thoroughly vetted these people. The important component is to understand that whereas they lobbied in the past and served these foreign entities in the past, they made this decision to serve this country now as general flynn did. They said you know what, im going to take a lifetime ban of never lobbying for any more Foreign Countries and im going to take a fiveyear ban of lobbying the federal government. I think thats an important part of what hes doing. What these individuals are doing working in this administration. I want to talk about the globe. Epa head scott pruitt yesterday said he does not believe Carbon Dioxide is a primary contributor to Global Warming. This is a stark contrast to what scientists told us. Does the president agree with scott pruitt . The epa, you have to tighten it up. To say Carbon Dioxide doesnt contribute to Global Warming, thats a wow. No, what im asking you is, does the president believe Carbon Dioxide contributes to Global Warming . I really dont know. Its not a topic i followed in the campaign. I dont recall it being a constaco constant conversation we had. What i do know is the president believes the epa is out of control. He brought on somebody on board who has taken on the epa. Who has saw the epa his as we know it. They did everything they could to sort of torpedo the economy over rural america. What the president said is let me bring somebody from oklahoma who he believes is going to do a great job. And restore it to its original principle of clean air and clean water. Not all these other regulations that shut down business. Not all these other components that feed an agency, thats just consumed on punishment business. 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Were bringing you back from the floor of the Stock Exchange and to all of you, good morning and happy halfway to the first 100. First 50 of President Trumps first 100 days. Stocks looking to be higher. You can see after that new jobs report out today weve been talking about. Coming out better than what economists expected. Sean spicer, this tweet, not a bad way to start day 50 of this administration. Within just the last little bit here, were hearing from Republican Leaders selling hard on health care as that story dominates the day again. 45 hours of debate and deliberation. This is regular order. This is the committee and our members at work. Just what the American People expected from their representatives. Buckle up on this friday. Lots to get to on this hour. We have it all covered at the new york Stock Exchange. Chris jansing at the white house. Kelly odonnell on capitol hill. Joining me on set, wall street Journal White House reporter carol lee and Associated Press White House Reporter vivian salama. Lets talk about this idea of whether its a trump bump or not. My prediction, the president will likely come out taking a little bit of a victory lap on this some time soon. Well, thats whats so interesting, as you mentioned, sean spicer put that tweet earlier, not a bad way to start the day. The white house economic adviser, the most senior person closest to President Trump on all things economy, already came out saying this number comes out with a boom, reaffirming everything were trying to d