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1,229 delegates. that's just eight shy of the number needed to win the nomination. as for the democrats, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are focusing on california. the state's primary is just two weeks away. >> clinton kicked off a swing across the western u.s. with three stops around los angeles. at one rally, she called donald trump's campaign really, really concerning and took aim at his controversial remarks on the housing market. listen. >> we saw him doubling down on comments he made a couple years ago because he said that a mortgage crisis would have been good for his business. an...

>> what kind of money are we talking about saving? >> well, the average social security check right now is $1229. so i calculate that if we go to the cpi system, chained cpi, in 20 years, you would get $126 a month less than you would under the current system. that doesn't sound like a lot of money. $1500 a year. but if you're making less than $30,000 a year, that's a big cut. it's a 5.7% cut. i think, ed, we should go the other direction there is another measure of inflation called cpie, for elderly. and when you do that, 3% inflation raise the elderly's check by about 3.3%. after 20 years, t...

Security check right now is $1229. so i calculate that if we go to the cpi system, chained cpi, in 20 years, you would get $126 a month less than you would under the current system. that doesn't sound like a lot of money. $1500 a year. but if you're making less than $30,000 a year, that's a big cut. it's a 5.7% cut. i think, ed, we should go the other direction there is another measure of inflation called cpie, for elderly. and when you do that, 3% inflation raise the elderly's check by about 3.3%. after 20 years, they would be getting $133 a month more than under the current system. and the s...

Economy. that's how much we would reduce spending on social security. 2/10 of 1%. that's today about $30 billion. but we would be talking about an enormous amount of money in the monthly incomes of seniors who are not as a class living it up, as the charts you just put up show. >> as you see it, in the next, say, ten years, would this affect benefits to americans? >> well, it affects -- it would affect them right away. but it's a little bit. basically, chained cpi is if inflation is running 3%, it would be about 2.7%. so instead of getting a raise on a thousand dollars social security check of...

>> i'm fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. that's a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. let's get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? >> you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone really thought. 243,000 jobs were created in january. the jobs growth, fredricka, was pretty wides...