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Him, it is kerry as well, it is fauci, it is pelosi. the longer people are in this machine the worse it is, maybe we stop electing these lifers. force them out. >> jesse: and we blame everything on covid. >> the covid excuse was still there. i want to do a service to our viewers and say, i was just chatting with larry kudlow and probably he would take every reason to criticize this job report, there were actually some really notable gains in the jobs report we should highlight. the big drop that held back the big job growth numbers was the local government education jobs fell 144,000. there we...

Let's take a closer look at the u.s. jobs report. cnn's matt egan is with me now to break down the numbers. what do they tell us about the effort to recover now falls short, the expectations was what, 500,000? 194 but what is the big takeaway. >> at first blush this looked terrible. if you give it a letter grade it might be a "d", but it is not as bad as it looked. it might get a c-plus or a b-minus. here is why. the big negative is 194,000 jobs were add. less than half of what economists were expecting. this is the weakest job growth of the entire year. as far as why. let's look at the sector...

But still this big dropoff, what does that show us? >> there were some revisions. we saw july and august revised higher. there was a hiring boom. you look at the numbers, strong job gains, but that's also slowed down around the time that the delta variant came into play. we have to look at the sectors to see where the weakness was. first, schools, local government education hiring, that dropped by 144,000 jobs. hotels, they added back just 2,100 jobs. that's not what is needed because that sector was crushed by the pandemic. health care is down 17,500. it's more evidence of how uneven this rec...

That's less than half of what economists were anticipating. as you can see, there was a surge in hiring. but that's clearly faded big time. this was actually the worst job gain of the entire year. so that means the u.s. economy is still down 5 million jobs during the pandemic. that's disappointing. three quarters of the jobs lost have been covered, but the last quarter has been the hardest to bring back. at the current pace, it would take two years to get back all the jobs lost. now we have to look at the sector breakdown to see where the weakness was. the big concern is schools. you look at l...

Parts of the state had twice as much rain in a few hours as they would normally get for an entire month. we'll continue to follow that. but now to that massive oil spill in southern california. we have new video to show you that shows a 13-inch tear in the pipe that caused the environmental disaster. through the gash, officials say up to 144,000 gallons of crude oil spewed into the pacific ocean. you see it circled right there. this morning we are hearing from the ceo of the energy company that owns that pipeline defending their actions in the critical hours of the pipeline. joining us is th...