the summit so far. the president touting the stride towards ending deforestation by 2030, 114 countries are promising to restore land, access and address wild fires and also plant more trees around the globe. the president also talked about the importance for activists, those with this passion for consering the environment, young adults and teens. the ability that they ve had in pushing this movement forward. neil? neil: thanks, alex. one of the other things that you ve heard championed by joe manchin and some other maybe more moderate democrats and economists is all of this government spending is inflationary. the proof is in the pudding. pudding prices have doubled. didn t know that. it s a worry. wondering how much of a worry and concern on all of these crucial contests. let s go to hans nichols from axios, pick his brain.
and back to the where is the president question. we started with the president on the short-term spending plan, we moved on to where is the president on immigration. where is the president when it comes to sitting down with special counsel robert mueller? remember sometime earlier in the year he said, absolutely, 100% i m willing to answer his questions. after seeing the president of norway, he said, i don t think there s a need, they haven t proven anything. cbs news talking with the president and it appears things have changed again. the president is very willing to sit down and explain whatever is responsive to the questions. do you have any fear of a perjury trial? no, but i think it would be foolish to not proceed without consering that possibility. the last part is good legal advice. it would be foolish to proceed without considering that possibility, especially when you have a history of saying things that are all over the map and inconsistent with each other and
350,000 every month for four years. i d love if that happened, but i didn t think it was likely. to get 236,000 jobs in the first full month of president obama s presidency is pretty remarkable consering our economic growth is puny. it s almost nonexistent. so this is actually quite interesting. we were all very surprised when this number came out. the estimates were for job creation of about 165,000 jobs. some people said 170,000. to come up with 236,000 is pretty impressive. now, christine will burst this bubble very shortly which tells you about the quality of the jobs and the type of jobs. and allison will tell you how investors are not reacting. but the bottom line, i am the thorn between two roses, is that the jobs number is positive. it is positive. there is no way to spin it as unpositive. i will tell you one thing that i always say, ignore the 7.7% unemployment rate. it measures a moving target