numbers. we learned that claims for unemployment benefits are the lowest in 49 years. there are a record 7 million jobs open today and people are quitting jobs in record numbers. the president tweeting encouragement to the job quitters. there are new high paying jobs available in the economy. if you are not happy where you are, start looking. ivanka trump tweeting. it is the economy, stupid. the president taking credit for the job gains. 1.6 million net new jobs on top of 2.1 million new jobs last year. look at those numbers. now let s look at the context. context matters. here are the strong jobs gains of the first two years. shown over the past decade. job creation almost matches the very strong numbers of 2014, 2015 and 2016. not quite yet. you will get a great near for
view, what the the status of the intent is by interviewing the president. yes. what prevents every u.s. attorney from doing the same thing? you fire somebody, you don t like it, you think there is bad intent, so you interview him. he says he removed him because he didn t like the probe and you want to know why. if hillary clinton would have fired james comey, would that have been okay? would he have been in the mid of an investigation that involved her and threatened her presidency? would you think she could not fire him? context matters, counselor. that s what i m saying. under the context of the election listen, i was very critical, you know this, chris, i was critical about engaging and unengaging that took place during the campaign. i remember. there is a reason there is a policy that says don t do that. he should have shut his mouth. i think that s fair consensus. so he didn t, he s now terminated. here s where we are. let s talk about where we are beca
from the president himself. just think about what you said just then. like i said, we re friends. you can only determine, in your view, what the the status of the intent is by interviewing the president. yes. what prevents every u.s. attorney from doing the same thing? you fire somebody, you don t like it, i think there s bad intent, so i interview him. he says he removed him because he didn t like the probe and you want to know why. if hillary clinton would have fired james comey, would that have been okay? would he have been in the middle of an investigation that involved her and threatened her presidency? would you think she could not fire him? context matters, counselor. that s what i m saying. under the context of the election listen, i was very critical, you know this, chris, i was critical about engaging
meadows out of context and releasing them to the public. shannon: you understand like he says in his letter to the deputy attorney general, any reasonable person reading these things, based on the consecutive timeline, with articles coming out, that would make sense to a reasonable person that there is more to that. i learned in law school that a reasonable person is always an aspirational goal. i will let that sit. i know that congressman nadler, and congressman cummings said today that if you look at the text messages and totality, in fact, they are not referring to a news article about page, rather they are talking about shannon: may happen on the same day. they are talking about comey. again, a reasonable person could also infer that in fact they were talking about a profile that she worked on. context matters. we should release all the text messages. shannon: there are a lot of pressure by the house g.o.p. on the president to release a lot more involving these cases.
is opportunistically cherry picking messages out of context and releasing them to the public. he says in his letter to the attorney general, any reasonable person reading these based on the timeline with articles coming out that would make sense to a reasonable person if there was more to this. reasonable person is an aspirational goal. i will let that sit. congressman cummings said today if you look at text messages in totality they are not referring to a news article about page, they are talking the same day. about comey. a reasonable person coming in for the profiles he worked on. context matters. a lot of things, a lot of pressure on the president to release a lot more involving these cases and he could do that, questions why he hesitated