in december. that beat out estimates. maybe job numbers are contributing to america s spending mood. we can celebrate the robust increase in payrolls over the past year. 4.26% payroll growth since january. trump inherited the longest payroll expansion in modern times and he hit 1.37% for his first year in office. in fairness, biden did inherit a poorly performing covid economy from trump. so many of his numbers are going to look very strong initially. coming up, trump has gone almost a year. yet democracy is still in peril. some argue it may be in worse shape than while he was in office. we will discuss that next. office we will discuss that next. for driving safe and driving less. okay, what message did you hear this time? safe drivers can save using snapshot? -what s snapshot? -what the commercial was about. -i tune commercials out. -me too. they re always like blah, blah blah. tell me about it. i m going to a silent retreat next weekend. my niece got kicked out of one of those.