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It's only possible if new hampshire goes to donald trump. we get a brand-new poll that suggests it could be more likely than ever. and the jobs report out showing just 161,000 jobs added in october. so what will that number mean to voters just four days before the election? job! i'll be programming at ge. oh i got a job too, at zazzies. (friends gasp) the app where you put fruit hats on animals? i love that! guys, i'll be writing code that helps machines communicate. (interrupting) i just zazzied you. (phone vibrates) look at it! (friends giggle) i can do dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs... you n...

The final jobs report before election day is out. it's been out for about an hour and a half. labor department saying 161,000 jobs added last month. that's below the 175,000 that was expected by a number of economists. also down a notch to 4.9%. the trump campaign clearly unimpressed. here's part of the statement. the disastrous jobs report underscores the total failures of the obama/clinton economy that delivers only for donors and special interests and robs working families. ali velchi what it means in terms of election. we like to call ali to help us separate fact from fiction. >> we are sh...

Falling from 5% to 4.9%, 161,000 jobs added to the economy in october. but the headline really for this report, the way i see it, is the acceleration in wage growth. wages grew 2.8% over the past year, so that means for many americans they're seeing bigger paychecks. that's something that can make voters feel good about the economy. meantime, donald trump putting out a statement calling this jobs report disastrous. i'm finding it a little hard to find anything in this report disastrous, brooke. >> what about also the -- what citigroup is saying about how if donald trump were to be elected pres...

On things but i don't know what the picture will look like on tuesday morning in terms of polls. >> let me move up the states, we saw the jobs report, we saw the additional 161,000 jobs added, the wage gap is better and even citi is reporting if trump were to win the stock market would go down. that said -- which would be great for dems that said are people feeling that? right? which would bode well for donald trump. >> that's a great question. one indicator of whether this is truly a change election to the extent that donald trump needs it to be because donald trump is an unconventional candi...

There. >> how do these jobs numbers compared to the jobs numbers from previous presidential administrations? >> look at the last six presidents. this is the average number of jobs created in a year. bill clinton was the mac daddy of them all. 2. 8 million. bush, 161,000 a year and president obama a little lower than average. 1.9 million going the way we are now. that's per year in office. not bad. >> the clinton years, again, what, 2. 8 million. >> a lot attributable. >> it was coming off a recession. that always happens. these are important. presidents get more credit and blame than they shou...