in december. he s going plow that chicken truck into the other truck. the biden agenda is a lot more about keeping the government open and funded. there s a long way to go to getting his signature bills passed. for more on the status of the president s build back better bill, i m joined by jared bernstein, a member of the white house council of economic advisers. it s good to have you on, jared. let s start with today s jobs numbers which came in far below what i think consensus estimates were. unemployment sub 5%, which is uncouraging, but 200,000 jobs. i think there was an idea people would get vaccinated and everything would come roaring back. it looked like that for a bit and then we got delta. now where we are? that s a great question. we are making progress. we re making solid progress. you start out with the unemployment rate came down from 5.2 to 4.8%.
de facto campaign stop for roy moore which was made very clee by t clear by the president s tweets earlier, vote roy moore. you know, as vaughn knows, uncouraging folks to go to the rally. share media markets. talking 20 miles. the reasons you re seeing the president hit the road tonight, leaving the white house in about 90 minutes from now. why does that matter? it s an opportunity for reporters to have questions of the president. sometimes he stops and takes those questions, sometimes he does not. he may want to talk about roy moore. clearly he does, given his tweets today, or at least tweet about him. that comes since monday, when the president officially endorsed moore, the white house faced serious questions that the president supports, not just somebody who faced these accusations he denies sexually abusing a teen girl, sexual