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Long beach, california with the return of some buying limits at some stores due to a supply chain crisis. aishah hasnie at the capitol where congress is now officially raising the debt limit just kicking the can down the road to december. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy starting us off on the north lawn with what the president is saying about the economy tonight. good evening, period. >> good evening, bret. the biden plan for the government to try to spend its way out of a jobs crisis might not be working. but officials here are spinning this report as good news because job...

Kaitlan? >> well the president is choosing to focus on that second number there, the unemployment rate falling below 5%. of course the first time since he's been in office that it has been below that but also the bigger question about what it looks like in the wake of the pandemic and what this american recovery is looking like. and the numbers are obviously a r road block and the 194,000 jobs added to the economy, that is tough for any president to sell and it was tough for president biden as he said it is a sign progress is being made but pinning a lot of this on the delta variant and one th...

The unemployment will help over time, but it definitely hasn't been as large and as fast as many might have hoped. >> so just quickly here, jason, are you expecting a revision even of these numbers, as you saw for last month? >> i mean these numbers always get revised. we spend a lot of time looking at them a year later, it's a totally different number than we talked about on tv that morning, so i think there will probably be some more revision, a little more likely up than down, but i think the picture was not as good of a month as we like, not as bad as it looked. >> monica, talk us through ...

As when it comes to testing and more investments in testing that will, as the president recently announced, will quadruple our over-the-counter tests. there's a lot that's positive. the cautious part is very important here because, look, we know covid has thrown curveballs at us before. we've seen increases and depp creases and haven't always been able to explain why. we have to remain vigilant. nobody should take the encouraging numbers as a sign weep need to no longer get vaccinated or it's no longer important to wear masks. if we keep doing the right thing or keep getting more people vaccin...

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...