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farmers out west. thank you, see you later. dana: god bless them. president biden is going to be making some comments any moment now. we ll bring it to you live as soon as he begins. he will be talking about the jobs report, 850,000 jobs were created last month. that s a big jobs number. no doubt he will come out and tout that. we ll bring it to you live as soon as he is ready. trace: a big jobs number but you talk to people like johnny and michael who can t get people to work for them. the same all over the state and country. and what happens is you have people even in los angeles they had the playoffs in staples and downtown and the restaurants around the playoffs couldn t get people to work and they were shut down. biggest time of the year. dana: we ll be right back with all this. the deployments, and you ve been the wife at home, or you ve been the spouse at home,
corporate rate down tremendously and the individual rates. they keep talking about those benefits going to the rich. that is fake news. 80% of americans got the benefit of the tax cut. to take them away you are penalizing 80% of americans. i don t think that is a winning strategy. the question is are they talking about corporate tax cuts? probably corporate. take away the tax incentives for businesses, what they won t do is create jobs. todd: a big jobs number today. the scuttlebutt on the street is that will lead to the feds dropping the rate a quarter percentage point. do you think they will drop it? is it a good decision to do so? everyone is betting on the drop. i don t think the job number will be influencing that. buried in that jobs number is another important piece, the wage curve rate is twice the inflation rate.
political consequences if you know it s going to fail in the senate? i know. a good question. steve rattner, by the way, thauchthank you so much. still to come, less than two months in office, the president is back in campaign mode, hail a big jobs number. the president returns to the rust belt. we are joined by someone who knows more than anybody on the campaign trail maybe, katy tur. and later, senators lindsey graham and claire mccaskill and joe manchin will join us here on morning joe. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ) it s off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects
seems to be a good idea to keep a better eye on the tunnels underneath that prison going forward. jean casarez for us in dannem a dannemora. we have new jobs numbers to report this morning, big jobs number. the unemployment rate fell to 5.3%, that s a seven-year low. so what does this really mean for the health of the economy? what really is going on here? let s go to cnn s chief business correspondent chris tee romans. we re talking about a jobless rate that s the lowest since before the crisis and that s what s really important here, since before the crisis, 5.3%. so you ve got an unemployment rate that s been steadily improving. let s talk about jobs added here. here is the trend and you have 223,000 jobs added. there were some economists who thought we would see more than that, but 223,000 jobs, another reading above 200,000.