i m victor blackwell. president trump returns to washington today as north korea renews its threats to the u.s. u.s. says it is ready to merciless strike and blames the u.s. for driving the two countries to the brink of nuclear war. this mark end of a turbulent working vak vacation for the president after his widely criticized mark of the rally in charlottesville last weekend. remember, he blamed many side for the violence which included an act of domestic terror by a neonazi. since then a growing list of charities and organizations are cancelling events his mar-a-lago resort. the exits continue this weekend. yesterday, the palm beach preservation foundation became the latest customer to drop out. they say, quote, given the current environmental surrounding mar-a-lago, we have made the decision to move our annual dinner dance. cnn senior economics analyst and former trump campaign economic adviser stephen moore is with
the suspects are waiting to be sent back to illinois and we don t know yet if police have discovered a motive for this killing. the july jobs report has been a major boost for the trump administration as one million new jobs were added to the economy since the president took office. now, let s look at july specifically. unemployment fell to 4.3%. 16 year low here. the economy gained 209,000 jobs, strong number. joining me, stephen moore, cnn senior economics analyst, former trump adviser and ken rogoff, professor of economics and public policy at harvard, chief economist at the international monetary fund. gentlemen, good morning to you. stephen, let me start with these numbers. the president said on several occasions that he inherited a mess from the obama administration but let s look at the last three years of job growth during the obama administration. in 2016, more than two million jobs. more than 2.6 million in 2015,
folks who are there. they ve been walking in and out. who is that in the middle of our screen there. orrin hatch in the middle of the screen. again, this vote will happen any moment, is this the next step in revealing obamacare? dana bash, karine jean-pierre, and cnn senior economics analyst, stephen moore. alice, you have been talking to constituents all day. they re getting lots of calls, as they have been through this entire process. what are they saying. there were protesters, you know, on the capitol hill tonight. the protesters were outside the capitol, as vice president pence came, who will cast the deciding vote here. they were shouting shame, shame. they are liberal groups who support obamacare. and they re also a lot of these
nowhere near president truman nor fdr. he signed 76 bills into law in his first 100 days. roosevelt signed major legislation in the midst of the grips of a great depression. what kind of bills has president trump signed since taking office? there have been some significant measures no question, accountability and overhaul at the veterans affairs, boosting border security and military spending but almost half are ceremonial and the majority nearly reverse obama regulations using obscure legislative tool called the congressional review act. gives lawmaker s 60 days to overturn any regulation. saying it burdens business covering from employee overtime benefits, financial protections and the environment. thank you for injecting reality into this with your reality check, christine, great to see you. back to our top story some senate republicans want to move towards a clean repeal of obamacare without a replacement in place. how will the stock market react today to all of this? joining u
he s going to have to double what we got this month. let me bring in steven moore. senior economics analyst, former economic adviser to the trump campaign. steven, thanks for joining us. looking at those numbers, dropping unemployment rate, 4.3%, which is good but less than spec d job growth, what s your major take away? well, i was a little disappointed with that number. it s not terrible, but we should be doing better. i d like to see 200,000 plus a month. by the way, if donald trump is going to fulfill his promise of 25 million jobs he s going to have to get that number about twice as high. but i think christine romans made a very good point. we re very close to full employment in the united states with that low unemployment rate. by the way, the other statistic called the u 6, i don t want to get too technical, but that includes people dropped out of the work force, that s been dropping as well which is a healthy sign. right now when i talk to employers around the country, and