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everything strategy runs into a brick wall on these economic issues in a way that might wake people up and take them out of what you referred to as this her met particularly seed cave. if there s a wakeup moment because trump has done the opposite, take a listen to him on the data. the unemployment number as you know is totally fiction. these are real unemployment numbers. the 5% figuring is one of the biggest hoaxes in american modern politics. the jobs numbers are phony numbers. they were put there you to make politicians look good in particular presidents look good. michelle? my sense is if it does happen and to be clear, we don t know there s going to be a recession. like a slow down of some sort. but whether or not it is dramatic enough that people feel it personally in their own lives i don t think we know. we also don t know the again, because we re so polarized if
modern politics. but today president trump touted the latest jobs report. today s report found 209,000 new jobs were added last month and the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.3ers. the president tweeted his response this mortgage, excellent job numbers just released and i have just begun. many job stieflg regulations continue to fall. movement back to u.s. a. the economy was also a theme he touched on during his rally in west virginia last night. economic growth has surjd to 2.6% nationwide. you have to understand what that means. nobody thought that number was going to happen. joining me now to talk about this, seth harris, former acting secretary of labor during the obama administration. thank you for joining us. should the president be taking credit for this or is it your former boss that should be taking credit for it. donald trump gets absolutely
he doesn t try to hide his trail. here is what he said in the past about the jobs numbers and whether we can trust them. the unemployment number, as you know, is totally fix. i hear 5.3% unemployment. that is the biggest joke there is in this country. the 5% figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in american modern politics. ok. if 5% was the biggest hoax in modern politics, i don t know what 4.4 is, steve. i feel a little gmt. i was telling him these unemployment numbers are misleading. because we have so many millions of people outside the labor force. that s true. there s another statistic that i don t want to get in too much details people who have dropped out of the work 230rs or can t get a job.
saw a number could be 42%, believe it or not. these are the real unemployment numbers. the 5% figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in american modern politics. those statements were false and as president trump went on to cite that exact same labor data when it made him look good. a hoax indeed. all presidents have battles with the press. a few suggested the government has a monopoly on the truth. why would that bizarre argument, which isn t conservative, by the way, be so important for this administration? well today, we have a clue for you. 69% of trump s statements have been found to be mostly false by politifact including the potentially libelous charge that president obama wiretapped trump s skyscraper. a wall street journal editorial page stated trump is clinging to that assertion about