said was impossible to do. but the fact is, we are just getting started. fact check, the economy has added 4.87 million jobs since president trump took office. the president s claim of 5.3 million, that includes jobs created before his inauguration. and some context here, you guys, jobs have been added now for 100 straight months. last year s 2.6 million new jobs, that was great, but it doesn t match the best year of jobs growth in the obama administration. john, i would say he s mostly right about the manufacturing jobs, not quite 600,000, though. he s counting jobs added even before he was president. the question is why doesn t he just use the real that are good. that are good in and of themselves. thank you very much. president trump calls for investigations on his administration to end, house democrats might just be getting started with several critical hearings. can democrats work with the president? we re going to ask a key member
and with tull of tall of the fl of bipartisanship and the center of that speech was immigration and the wall which is the issue that within the next few weeks he ll be battling on. so there s no indication on the key question that he s backing away. julian zelizer, thank you. thank you. the president taking credit for a jobs boom. we have created 5.3 million new jobs and importantly, added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs, something which almost everyone said was impossible to do. but the fact is, we are just getting started. fact-check, the economy has added 4.87 million jobs since president trump took office. the president s quote of 5.3 million jobs includes jobs created before his inauguration. and context here, jobs have been added now for 100 straight months.
something which almost everyone said was impossible to do. but the fact is, we are just getting started. all right. crunching the numbers. the economy has added 4.87 million jobs since president trump took office. a little bit shy of that 5.3 million claim there. the president also overstated the number of manufacturing jobs created in his presidency. according to the bureau of labor statistics, there are 454,000 new manufacturing jobs added since the beginning of 2017. the manufacturing jobs have sped up during the past two years. the reason, a number of factors including falling oil prices, job numbers nationwide. and president trump s famous deregulation. all right. ahead, the president says without him we d be at war with north korea, with millions killed. the second summit of kim jong-un is all set. details from that, live, from seoul next.