i want to bring in cnn's cristina alesci. the white house joked about the change of tone today but this was no laughing matter when the president was discrediting these numbers in the past, right? >> right. government data in general is very serious business and some emerging markets as you know, jim, and even countries like china, there are serious questions about whether the data is legit. so, the u.s. right now doesn't have that problem. but comments like the one spicer made today give government statisticians and economists pause and they don't believe officials should undermine the data one month and promote it when it's convenient. and some think it's dangerous. >> i hear, 5.3% unemployment. that is the biggest joke there is. don't believe those phony numbers. >> the unemployment rate is not real. >> the unemployment number, as you know, is totally fiction. >> reporter: comments like those have data crunchers on edge. >> there is a real challenge in
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