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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...

Will react to the president's comments in moments. >> trace: jacqui heinrich is live from the west lawn. jacqui. >> jacqui: the president is taking a lap on this jobs report, which was far cry from the 500,000 jobs added that economists were looking to, 194 really missed the mark there, the president called it evidence of progress we are making. he pointed out a couple bright spots in the jobs report and noted unemployment fell below 5%, first time since march of 2020 and noted report comes from september when covid casess were higher. should note he's using numbers toic mathe case for more va...

Right now on the democrats agenda. according to david scientist, david shore, who worked on obama's reelection campaign and consult with progressive groups, the most popular policy is allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it is the number one policy of 194. it is in the multi trillion dollar bill that the democrats are proposing, the big reconciliation package with the climate change and safety net stuff. but three house democrats, kathleen rice of new york and others are threatening to kill it. those three members have received one point $6 million from the pharmaceutical i...

Be unpopular. then there are things that are good policy that are popular and part of politics, but part is for politicians to sort of figure out how to bring those two things together. to find stuff that's both popular and good. take the most popular policy right now. according to data scientist daft -- data scientist david shore, the most popular policy is allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it's the number one policy of 194 that he has tested. it's in the multi-trillion dollar bill the democrats are proposing. the big reconciliation package with climate stuff and the sa...

You're 9right. and maybe someday we get people talking on the same paliç regardless ofq political party. one more quick slide as we wait for the president tonight. here's the challenge for the president of the united states. if you go back, when he took officer, 194x$ñ a big drop. we got to a low of 11,000 cases on average a day. look where we are, more than 150,000 cases a day. covid cases a day. this is why the president decided he needs to ask the country to do more and try to shake up the administration's strategy. this is the president's challenge. tonight also just today an even right ...