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american border problems won t be fixed until congress acts. fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. border. we now have the worst border crisis in american history. china threatens our sovereignty we will act to protect our country and we did. the president s refusal to stand up to china, our most formidable adversary. it s never a good bet to bet against america, never. america can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. steve: we are using the official state of the union address music as you can see. good morning, everybody. it s wednesday, february 8th, 2023. currently in our nation s capital it is 44 degrees. come on in here to studio m., midtown, manhattan. we are at 36 degrees. and welcome to the official post game show. if you did not see what the president was talking about last night in the congress, we got you covered. ainsley: we have all the highlights for you. did you all stay up and watch? b ....
All right. here he was talking about inflation. inflation inflation has been a global problem because the pandemic disrupted our supply chains and putin s unfair and brutal war in ukraine doesn t haved energy supplies as well as food supply blocking all that grain in ukraine. but we re [inaudible] any country on earth right now. gas prices down 1.50 from peak. food inflation is coming down. not fast enough but coming down. inflation has fallen every month for the last six months while take-home pay has gone up. you can see democrats gave that a b minus. independents a d and republicans an f. what we did hear from voters was. you would think that democrats might have even given this a higher grade. in some ways one of the voter we heard from this is some somewhat divorced from my relates. this is not the place that i am living in. and so part of the problem with the speech last night wasn t that it was a good speech. it was the credibility of that ....
do you think that president biden has fought hard enough for the priorities of black voters? i do not. reporter: bradley, a trusty at her church, just outside of columbia, says her top priority is democrats voting rights legislation which was defeat this had week. she blames president biden for not pushing for it earlier. our ancestors fought long and hard to get these rights for us and for them to be taken away would be detrimental. reporter: bradley praises the president s handling of covid, but not the economy. when you go to the grocery stores you find things three and four times higher than it used to be, but our paychecks are not three and four times higher. reporter: langston brooks is also worried about soaring prices. what grade would you give president biden? i m going to say a b minus as of right now. reporter: okay. so he has some room for improvement? he does. reporter: fletcher smith commended the president for passing a covid relief bill. his advi ....
Is kind of looking, with everything going on like a b minus, maybe. it s not. good c+? b minus. will be a little. fair he restored some alliances. but you know, kabul, kyiv, aukus, there s a lot there to unpack. so, what is your sense of america s standing right now? you said he wanted america back. he said there could be other signs that the relationships have gotten better to opposed to when trump was in power. but at the same time, just this, week you at the french president say that he is calling on the europeans to think of their own security concerns and to forge their own path when it comes to dealings with russia. i am not saying he s, right i m just saying is that also a sign that the european allies are not necessarily confident that america s back? listen, this is really complicated. because on one hand, president biden went in there with the real opportunity here. to say, america s back, the pelosi s back. ....
Let s take a closer look at the u.s. jobs report. cnn s matt egan is with me now to break down the numbers. what do they tell us about the effort to recover now falls short, the expectations was what, 500,000? 194 but what is the big takeaway. at first blush this looked terrible. if you give it a letter grade it might be a d , but it is not as bad as it looked. it might get a c-plus or a b-minus. here is why. the big negative is 194,000 jobs were add. less than half of what economists were expecting. this is the weakest job growth of the entire year. as far as why. let s look at the sectors. the big negative was schools. local school employment alone fell by 144,000 jobs last month. that is a big deal because normally there is a lot of jobs coming on from teachers and staff taken off the payroll during the summer. the tact that hiring did not ....