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Punitive piece of political payback. so i would ask you again, has your faith not in chris christie perhaps diminished, because he may have been completely blind to this as he says. but surely the way that his administration has run, the culture that has developed that makes them think they can do this. that surely has been pretty awful. >> well, it's unjustifiable. those that were involved in this, there's no justification for it whatsoever. however, what i look at is i look at four years of an exemplary record. you can't deny that. i mean, we're looking at one isolated incident that never sh...

Report. good morning, alison. >> good morning, carol. this jobs report was a miss. what was expected was 185,000 positions were added in the month of august. instead, we got 169,000 and, worse, you look at the revisions for june and july. july was revised from 162,000 all the way down to 104,000. and then fewer jobs added in june, as well then first thought. a second point to make. 7.3%. that dip in the unemployment rate to 7.3% not really for the reason you want to see. the reason that happened is because 312,000 people dropped out of the labor force. they stopped looking for work altogether,...

For himself, he or she doesn't value the worker. the reason high taxes are bad because it's a sign that the government disrespects the workers by believing that what it's going to do with the workers' salary is better than what the person who earneds will do. that's the value of work. i believe you are valuable and therefore what you do has value. [ applause ] american employers added 162,000 jobs in the month of july and the unemployment rate was lowered to 7.4%. my first guest says that the numbers don't add up. joining me is the former head of the bureau of labor statistics. keith hall. gre...

Is a huge day 'cause you get the major government jobs report for the month of august. you guys remember july, right? big disappointment in terms of the number of jobs added. 162,000. but what we found out in that report is kind of what we already knew,re a nation of pare workers. the jobs being created, so we're disappointed by the number of jobs created and the quality of those jobs. lots of retail stores hiring, lots of restaurants and bars hiring, but not those jobs we might have had before the recession. >> eric: manufacturing, construction, those are the jobs you really need to be adding...

Just like you are. i am fed up with the fact that they can't control their spending habits and it's both parties. >> neil: no. no. >> the inability to -- >> neil: they cannot get handle on this. governor, let me ask this. you sent a message that it is both impressive and rattled both parties. many impressed how you turned the budget around. the tea party is angry you want to put more resources resourceso medicaid. democrats like that. obviously some conservatives don't. what is going on here? >> here's what i think, neil. whenever a family -- when mom and dad do better, there's more they can d...