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retire? okay. we do begin with the big battle that affects nearly a third of all adults in america. we re talking about high cholesterol. an fda panel decided whether to approve the first in a new class of drugs many experts believe could drastically cut the risks of heart attacks and strokes. one of the drugs is made by regeneron and sanofi. parma reporter meg tirrell is here with more. this drug is being discussed and tomorrow they will discuss a very similar drug from am again and both work in similar ways known as pcsk-9 and lower levels of ldl or bad cholesterol in the blood. shown in clinical trials to thrower for as much as 60% for some patients. that s very good news. one of the big questions being debated today by this panel of outside advisers to the fda is which patients these drugs should be prescribed for because, of course we have statins like lipitor that are very effective for lowering cholesterol levels and they are taken by pill form. new drugs are ....
second. he would come in so high. he believes his number. not everyone else i m surprised that the average stayed below 200. i am too. given how hot the number was. it s not a one to one correlation. every other signal on jobs indicates that the market has gotten stronger and stronger for jobs. this 8:30 number we say how big it is. this one actually does [ overlapping talking ]. the futures are looking at 100% odds that the fed raises rates. if you get a weaker than expected number will they still feel like they can go ahead humor me today and go for 450 or something. we just want to see the tweet from trump. you would want that for the american humor you for the purposes of tweeting. it would be fun to watch drudge put boom and have a picture of him. that would be fun. would you prefer so that you can say something negative that less americans get put to work for whatever reno they get put to work. for whatever reason, we re hoping fo ....
board, pretty much all morning long. we talked to national economic counsel director gary cohn first on msnbc and got his take on the numbers and the president s policies. there s clearly a good february s part of the numbers. i m not going to deny that. but on the other hand, when you look at what we ve been doing here at the white house and all the ceos we brought in, whether it be exxon or sprint or intel, they ve promised an enormous amount of jobs and job creation in the united states. those hirings have not been done yet. those are future hirings. we re still living on the hire tgs from the normalized economic growth that s built into the system here. let s bring in michael forruely. guys, good morning to you both. michael, walk me through. what carl just said and the degree to which expectations of a pro-business environment is feeding the jobs number now. so i think the jobs number now we re seeing is probably just a continuation of the general trends in t ....
join us to explain a little bit later. that s some real money. yeah. let s start with the jobs report and the latest out of washington. another busy day there. steve lease man is there at cnbc headquarters and eamon javers is at the white house. the president s team taking strong for the 235,000 jobs added in february even though it came just a month into the trump presidency. reporter: i think it was a perfect number. right exactly where it needed to be. our jobs plan and our jobs creation and bringing jobs back to america is going exactly the way we d like it to go. when i was on a month ago we talked about bringing jobs back. i think this number reaffirms everything that we re trying to do. no matter who was responsible, it was a very positive report. unemployment falling to 4.7% and it was helped by some temporary factors, for example, warmer weather but showing good underlying strength and payrolls. here s where the jobs were, construction up 58,000 alo ....
many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. welcome to hattiesburg, mississippi, on booktv. located in the southern part of the state as apocalypse of nearly 80,000 is home to the university of southern mississippi. with the help of our comcast cable partners, over the next 90 minutes we ll talk with local authors as well as about the history of the area and the dakota clinic look at the civil war through the eyes of both well-known and ordinary families. i really had always wanted to write this kind of sweeping, i guess sauger of the civil war. and for me as a military historian over the years what i of those is that as much as was ousted by what happens on the battlefield and this sweeping changes that take place because of his campaign on that campaign, the soldiers are always looking older i really came to deciding on my writing that you have to look at both. you have to look at the soldier and the ....