reporter: does the president feel the obama administration had been liquidating numbers? press secretary spicer: i think you know the president s view, he has made a very clear in the past his comments on how those numbers were articulated in the past. i think there is a question between the total number of people that are employed. the president s comments in the past have affected that his big concern was getting to the bottom of how many people are bringing in this country and that the denominator, meaning their percentage rate of the total number of people is not the most accurate reflection of how many people are employed in this country. how many jobs are created and have any people are getting back to work, how many companies are committed to hiring more people, it s a much more accurate assessment of where we are headed as a country where our employment and economy is headed, but to look at a number and say we have 4.7% or 5.9% unemployment is not necessarily an accurate re