big losses and should be holding on? big difference. good to see you as always. thank you, bob pisani, cnbc stocks correspondent. just want to look at a figure we ve got up here. we had jobs losses. this is an interesting number. we don t normally see 500,000 fewer jobs. that is a recalculation of the number of jobs that were created in 2018. it was revised lower. that happens by the way. these jobs numbers go through revisions. take a look at where the revisions came from. 146,000 of those job losses were in the retail sector. remember stephanie and i used to talk about this all year that we were losing more retail jobs per month than there were entire jobs in the coal sector which the president talks about all the time. but retailers don t seem to have a movement of people who say, hey. where are the jobs disappearing? by the way this is because of a lot of the shift to online shopping. business services. a big sector because we are service economy, right? we provide services to ea
she had some backup to say the public isn t necessarily with idea, the party isn t necessarily with idea. her argument has been let s go methodically until we have as much of an air-tight, iron-clad decision that we can take to the public. it seems that now we ve pushed this threshold. when you have the majority thinking one way, does the speaker hold her ground? how long before she makes a recalculation? how much pressure does this put on her and also the why? is it because of the mueller hear hearing? i think it s the timing. now that the mueller hearing happened, it s given latitude for members to come out. i think it speaks to a general
line. i think that s a general question you are looking at in any sort of presidential election year. especially this one where you make decisions about do i vote with my heart or vote with lacking at everything before me and doing calculations about what s working? is it policy or feelings? and trump has done a very good and able job of being able to move the feelings of a subset of the country that tends to support him regardless of whether when you boil down the fine tune details of what he is doing on the international stage or tax policy or what have you it actually is an is an advantage for them. so will that at this point we are talking about trade deals that are either going to go ahead or will be, you know, tariffs put in place. it depends on how quickly the affects are felt trickling down the chain to the manufacturers, to the people in the midwest of the country to the consumers. and we can t quite gauge exactly how long that s going to take and how long people will have
it happen. rob: joining us is a retired infantryman. for folks at home the g.i. bill takes care of college and housing for veterans that once to go to school. in 2009 we upgraded the g.i. bill to reflect the post-9/11 generation of warriors covering tuition, based on cost of living. we have certainly been talking about the g.i. bill and there is a backlog. talk about where we are with that. let your congress got something right, passing the forever g.i. bill that improves it further, unanimously backing the senate and the house, the president signs it, bureaucracy get the job, implementing changes with the recalculation of how it goes to work and that melted down the computers.
listen to my in inauguration speech? to a certain extent, he ran as everyone who has held this job in the modern era is dumb, makes bad trade deals, and gives away america s greatness. i will restore america s greatness. but i think robin s point that is important is we shouldn t be surprised donald trump is taking this approach. but we should look with some level of trepidation on what this approach will produce. we know what more traditional approach sort of what we get from that, friendly with our allies. not hostile with our enemies but firm with our enemies. this is unsettling. i don t know if it s an attempt to sort of recalculation. i think it s just he is saying this didn t work in his mind. we re going to go to the opposite direction. we don t know what happens when you do that.