the new unemployment numbers are historic, falling below 4% for the first time since the year 2000, leading the president to tweet on friday, just out, 3.9% unemployment. 4% is broken. in the meantime, witch hunt. you've got to admit, he's got a point, right? there is very little bandwidth being spent on this achievement and black unemployment is down to 6.6%, an all-time low. so does he deserve credit? joining me now, christopher lou, former deputy secretary of labor for president obama. and senior economics analyst -- christopher, if these numbers came in on obama's watch, you'd be psyched, no? >> the numbers did come in under our watch. if we're looking simply at african-american unemployment, that dropped 9 percentage points during -- since the peak of the recession. it's dropped another percentage