Second. He would come in so high. He believes his number. Not everyone else im surprised that the average stayed below 200. I am too. Given how hot the number was. Its 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, were hoping for a big number. For other reasons like the last eight
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. Theres clearly a good februarys part of the numbers. Im not going to deny that. But on the other hand, when you look at what weve been doing here at the white house and all the ceos we brought in, whether it be exxon or sprint or intel, theyve promised an enormous amount of jobs and job creation in the United States. Those hirings have not been done yet. Those are future hirings. Were still living on the hire tgs from the normalized Economic Growth thats built into the system here. Lets 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 proBusiness Environment is feeding the jobs number now. So i think the jobs number now were seeing is probably just a continuation of the general trends in the business cycle. It was a very
Join us to explain a little bit later. Thats some real money. Yeah. Lets 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 wed like it to go. When i was on a month ago we talked about bringing jobs back. I think this number reaffirms everything that were 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. Heres where the jobs were, construction up 58,000 along with leisure and hospitality. T
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That weve been tracking overnight. A natural gas explosion at a bp plant in mississippi. New video shows flames lighting up the sky in pascagoula. A pair of workers were on duty at the time but theyre actually okay. Some nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution. Officials now saying the fire is contained. All fuel lines have been cut off. No harmful chemicals have been detected in the air. An investigation will get under way once the fire is out. Of course were going to stay on top of this throughout the morning. New developments in the race for the white house. Donald trump is making what some are calling a shift in one of his signature proposals. Seeming to soften his controversial call to ban muslims. This as trump pivots to the general election. Facing new attacks from Hillary Clinton as well as Elizabeth Warren. His campaign is sending conflicting messages about what the immigration ban will now entail. We get the latest right now from abcs lana zak live for us in washingto