This has been a pretty successful week for him. not just the confirmation, but striking of new trade terms with canada and mexico, and the eye-popping job numbs, and capping that off with a supreme court nominee who will tilt the ideological bent of the supreme court for years, so trump will have a lot to say to his base here in a little over 340 minutes from now. ana in. and also what is the president saying about the protests we re seeing? reporter: well, president trump fired off a tweet on his way to kansas about the size of the crowd downplaying the energy and outpouring of opposition we ve seen around the country to the nom confirmation. he s compared the side of the crowd to the crowd that s gathered him today. that mirrors the red riggs we ve seen from him. he s also accused the protesters of being organized by democratic
prison where he s been held since 2009. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. not only the null better one issue for most americans, but also the issue that will win the white house in november. the latest jobs report is not nearly what the obama administration was hoping for. it s given the republicans fresh ammunition. we re covering all the angles, beginning with our white house correspondent dan lothian. what s the reaction over there to the latest jobs numbers? reporter: well, aides and the president himself point out when you compare the situation did now to the depth of the recession, progress is being made, but they also note the obvious that there s still a lot of people out of work, still a lot of work to be done. on that point, republicans agree with the president, but they believe it s time for someone else to try to fix the problem. in a good news/bad news scenario, president obama offered americans the good news first. our economy created 130,0