103,000 jobs created in the month of march, a big miss from 185,000 expected. you look at this chart and wonder if there s a pattern here because you see the march from last year, only 73,000 were created. maybe something is going on in the month of march where employers just aren t hiring. one month doesn t make a trend, but this is definitely a weak jobs report for march. look at the sectors where we saw employment actually added, manufacturing jobs added 22,000, health care added 22,000. you are seeing some of those higher paying jobs being added to the economy. alison, appreciate it, thank you. phasing the prospect of $100 billion in additional tariffs, china says it s not afraid. cnn s ivan watson is in beijing with the latest. reporter: the commerce ministry here had a rare late night press conference in which the spokesperson warned that if
risk as well. the march jobs report weaker, almost 100,000 jobs lower than the 200,000 that were expected. the jobs were, in his words, a little sloppy right now. walk us through these latest numbers. i would say ignore them for the moment. 103,000 versus 175,000 expected. when you get that sort of disparity between the expectation and the reality, that usually means some catastrophic event, and in this case it s the weather. look at construction. instead focus on the revisions of january and february. when you see those, you see that the u.s. is still creating jobs, roughly 200,000, among exceptional job growth. 19 months of continuous job growth and an employment rate at record lows. it cannot continue. there simply are not the people
it. north korea is a good example of it. the eu is a good example of it. and nafta and mexico have been examples of it. the thinking goes that, yes, the president may be talking tough, but that ultimately the worst won t happen. make no mistake, erica, as christina was saying, you know, they are ready here for the worst and fearing it. the other thing we re dealing with today is this weaker than expected jobs report. how much of an impact is that having? it is really not having too much of an impact based on the conversations that i had here on the floor. this was a big miss, no doubt about it. talking about $103,000 jobs versus the estimate of 185,000. bottom line, the economy is still seems to be very strong, if you look at some of the indicators in their report, like wage growth, for example, so it does seem to be holding up and let me remind viewers out there, we re talking about the 90th consecutive month of job growth.
and long-time fixer michael cohen paid daniels $130,000 right before the election in an agreement she will stay silent about an alleged relationship with trump. cohen says he acted on his own. here s trump at air force i yesterday. reporter: did you know about the $103,000 payment to stormy daniels? no. no. what else? then why did michael cohen make those if there was no truth to her allegations? well, you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael jacks michael it my attorns my attorn know. daniels is trying to get her nondisclosure agreement thrown out because she says the president never signed it. her attorney says it should help daniels in court. you can t have an agreement if one party claims they knew
demerhen of the washington post. it is remarkable on the first friday of the month, when you talk about wall street, you re talking about reaction to the jobs report. 1 103,000 new jobs. you look at 103 and you think, okay, just a day of bad weather. if you list ton the presideen t this morning, pretty candid. yeah, the market will get mad, the farmers will get mad. but i m going to stand up to china and we ll take a few hits. except for the fact you don t really know where it ends. that s the thing. the president can t really predict that, either. he s trying to make everyone feel okay that the market is in turmoil right now. the reason the president can t say when it s going to end is because it s not up to him.