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Case that the pandemic, controlling the pandemic is the key to restarting the economy and president biden needs to get his agenda on track to build long-term economic prosperity, as he sees it and as he's trying to get democrats to come along with him. >> john is going to stick around as we are standing by to hear from the president. john, thank you. some of the areas hardest hit last month, health care and education there's also a lot of focus on what happened in hospitality and what it means for all of us. matt egan is joining me now. he's been digging into these numbers further. the labor...

White house advisers under president obama now a professor, jason, i want to start with you on this one, we got the jobs numbers coming out 30 minutes or so ago, right, 194,000 jobs as the projection was half a million jobs, nowhere near that, then you have the adjustment, up to 366 for august numbers, up from 235, what is going on here? >> there's no question that the most important story here is that the delta variant is slowing our progress. it's not reversing our progress. it's not like the first wave was last year, but it's slowing our progress. you look though beneath the headline number...

You can see senator joe manchin's response behind chuck schumer there. >> he was not the only one not happy with that response. before we get to that, let's take a closer look at the job numbers we joust got. matt ooegen, you have been going through these. disappointing could be an understatement. not at all what was expected. >> this was a messy jobs report. and more evidence of all the distortions that covid has caused for the economy. if you look at the big number, 194,000 jobs added in september. that's less than half what economists were expecting. that last quarter is proving to be the m...

Dangerous journeys. >> lourdes, thank you so much for being here this morning. an amazing look. that wraps up the hour for me and for the week. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin picks up with more news right now. i'll see you tomorrow with "nbc nightly news." and a good friday morning to you. craig melvin here. the september jobs numbers are in and they are not the numbers president biden wanted to be talking about half an hour from now. here they are. 194,000 jobs added in september. that was way below expectations. experts were predicting somethin...

On this morning, and a lot of coverage that we want to show you. we're going to start with september jobs numbers from the labor department. showing just 194,000 jobs added just last month, 500,000 were expected. the unemployment number fell from 5.2% to 4.8% as well. this is coming just hours after congress gave the economy a little good news. finally, coming through, with a deal to raise the nation's debt limit just 11 days before the deadline, after telling democrats for months they had to do it on their own, mitch mcconnell changed course and struck a bipartisan deal. it is a temporary fix...