pandemic is the exact same as that 3.9%. but gop chair mcdaniels out there attacking the report today. a rather intellectually dishonest way to look at numbers. let s bring in a cnn global economic analyst and associate editor for the financial times. let s put the nonsense politics away and talk about the facts here. before the pandemic, 199,000 jobs added to the economy would be something to celebrate. as you note, almost two years into the pandemic, these are not normal times. no, absolutely. but i think it goes to one of the core principles of economics. it s all relative. we had a huge dip. we just came out of a global pandemic or we re on our way out, i should say. so when you look at what we have seen in the past, 300,000, we were expecting to see almost 450,000. that s off a very low base. so, you know, if you kind of go back to what normal looked like before the pandemic, 200,000