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We have to increase exports. he said were going to double exports in five years. thats going to boost our economy. >> -- is the 9.5% unemployment. >> yes. >> people in your administration as early as last november and december were saying were in the beginning of a recovery -- >> yes. >> -- and unemployment is always a lagging indicator. it will begin to go down. here we are eight months later. >> yes. the fact is that it went down from 10.2% to 9.5%. but the important thing is the direction. we...

Economy. >> but the 9.5% unemployment. >> yes. >> people in your administration, as early as last november and december, were saying were in the beginning of a recovery -- >> yes. >> -- and unemployment is always a lagging indicator. it will begin to go down. and here we are eight months later -- >> yes. the fact is that it went down from 10.2 to 9.5. but the important thing is the direction. we went from losing 750,000 jobs the month the president took office to six months of private sector job...

Plant. that wouldnt have happened but for what we did. there are millions of people working in this country because of things we have done. we have to accelerate that. he said were going to double exports in five years. thats going to boost our economy. >> but the 9.5% unemployment. >> yes. >> people in your administration as early as last november and december were saying were in the beginning of a recovery -- >> yes. >> -- and unemployment is always a lagging indicator. it will begin to go dow...

Helping more of our people reach for the american dream again. >> you may feel the recession is over or you may feel its not. lets take a look at just how this is decided. this is a very technical decision. the national bureau of economic research makes the call and says its premature to pinpoint an end of the recession. the likely end of this recession was in the summertime last months. but one thing worth noting and many know firsthand unemployment usually keeps rising well after a recession e...

Created. it wasnt a surge but jobs were created. that was a little blip. the overall trend has been consistent towards job losses. is march the change month where we go from losses to job creation? you know, there is an awful lot riding politically on this number that comes out this morning. the administration wants to see a big job creation number. it wants to say that the turn has come, were on the right path. the stimulus plan worked. theyll make a big deal out of this. >> the government alwa...

Employment rate should look a lot sunnier and weather should get the credit for that, too. there is one place where rain, snow, or shine help wanted signs are out big time. uncle sam is the biggest employer out there. since the president took office, we have lost nearly a million construction and manufacturing jobs and big drops in retail and transportation, too. but the federal government hiring. in the same time period 55,000 federal workers hired. many experts expect though that this may be t...

>> well, i think, at the moment, these numbers are a fairly good sign. i think the real political worry is not so much focused on this jobs report, which is backward looking, its about what already happened, as about what were seeing happening going forward. and this has been a really worrying week, because weve seen some real danger signals from europe. this whole recession, the final crisis, were a reminder to us of how closely tied the u.s. now is to the world economy. and were seeing real sh...

Think the house may be a lagging indicator. having said that, i do think the members of the house who were worried about intel leaks have a point. they should also be worried about whats happening with donald trump and mike flynn. but the intel leaks are very serious. i think its worrisome that we could have a shadow government or deep state that selectively leaks information and tarks down people that it doesnt like. so i think whether its chaffetz or whoever and the house, they should be focus...