hourly wages are up almost 6% from a year ago. that s significant wage growth. however, it has not been enough to keep up with inflation growth. joining me on what this all means of the economy going forward, jared bernstein, member of the economic council. you like to lecture all of us, don t spin any of these job reports. no one job report matters. the lesson i ve learned over the last decade is it takes about three months of collection to get one month right. i couldn t agree more. so why did you prespin it all week? why did you spin it? i ll get to that. but let me point out, i couldn t agree more. one of the things we consistently do when we come out here is do precisely what you wanted to us do there, take a three-month average. if you do that with today s report, 541,000 jobs per month, 6.6 million jobs since the president got here, historical records.
the supply-chain crisis all ads together. for this president when he gets to the state of the union address on tuesday it is important to talk in reality grade this is not a democratic national convention. we are not looking for you to spend what we see right by the bus with her own eyes. we have identified the problem. now we want solutions regardless of your republican, democrat, conservative liberal, don t spin us for an hour, tell us what you re going to do we want competency inconsistency in government and we want policies whether it is broad or at home prioritizing our economy, our safety, our freedom. jon: the world has received a wake-up call from vladimir putin on all of this. lee zeldin, thank you. we will be back in just a moment
now we want solutions regardless of whether you are republican, democrat, conservative, liberal. don t spin us for an hour. tell us what you are going to do. we want competency and consistencies and policies prioritizing our economy, our safety, our freedom. harris: we do know at least from reports that the president will shift in something in terms of bringing ukraine into his comments at the state of the union tomorrow night. yeah, he will. the problem is, lee zeldin is right. i don t envy the white house speech writer whose task it is to take the last year and a half and try to make it look rosie. look at the a.p. headline. it correctly depicts the state of america at home and abroad. if he wants to talk about what is happening in ukraine, what will he say other than the things we told you would deter it didn t work? if he wants to talk about afghanistan he will say what he said in the past. it was going to be this way no
treatable. so but but important and i think it s important if it didn t get out to you, then something s wrong because, you know, you have got your ear to the ground on everything. no, i have seen reporting, andy. i ve just never seen fauci or francis collins or walensky, you know, or any of the big names saying this to america. this is something we ve got to look at. this is something you may have heard. here s what we think. never. i think tony s talked about it but it s a fair point if they haven t talked about it enough. look. i think your only obligation and having sat in that role in the biden administration, your number one role is just tell the truth. don t spin it. tell the truth as you know it. the people aren t always going to like it. we know there are modest side effects that happen from time to time. we shouldn t pretend that there aren t any. but then, we should talk about what that risk is and what the what the benefit is. i think people are overly concerned a
never. i think tony s talked about it but it s a fair point if they haven t talked about it enough. look. i think your only obligation and having sat in that role in the biden administration, your number one obligation is just tell the truth. don t spin it. tell the truth as you know it. the people aren t always going to like it. we know there are modest side effects that happen from time to time. we shouldn t pretend that there aren t any. but then, we should talk about what that risk is and what the what the benefit is. i think people are overly concerned about myocarditis and maybe that translates into people being too sensitive to talk about it. they shouldn t be. this is a very rare occurrence and, yes, the other side s going to weaponize everything. but you can t let that dictate your obligations to tell the public the truth and i think the administration does that, for the most part. and i think in this particular case, this is not that s just not that big of a concern.