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Jobs already in a very short period of time. it's going to really start catching on now because some of the things we've done are bigley and they are catching on. >> reporter: big league and catching on. let's deconstruct that 600,000 new jobs claim. when you add february and march the official jobs statistics when president trump is president you get 317,000 net new jobs. not 600,000. if you want to be charitable and add january come up with 533,000 net new jobs. exaggeration in the jobs creation, but the trend is correct. and when you look in perspective of how he stacks up with his predeces...

Predecessors. this is what's interesting. president trump, much better than his predecessors. you can see what happened with barack obama. i think that needs no explanation. that was the end of the world almost for the economy there. so we were hemorrhaging jobs there. 2001 that was a slow recovery. and then bill clin son created 194,000 jobs. he went on to create more. donald trump has promised 25 million over a period of ten years. so he has work to do. he's got to have 208,000 jobs per month to be the best job creator god ever made. >> i know you will keep track of the numbers so we don't h...

Dues, it is a volunteer organization. when they pay their dues, they join. we will be there to support them but i'm not worried that we'll be fighting against the president. he's been very suprt and i feel confident this is all going to work out and we'll be able to not have a problem. >> so essentially, to be supported as a member of congress, you pay your dues. if you don't, there's no guarantee? >> with, you have to join the organization. it is a volunteer organization and members get a chance to choose whether to join it or not. most of then join and i hope they all do. this is a great way...

You served in the state senate for 32 years. >> i did. >> you're part of a lawsuit right now against the drug companies. we've covered this on the show last week about drug wholesalers. what's the lawsuit getting at? >> the lawsuit is ground zero for opioid drugs in the nation. mcdowell county, city of welch, west of here named kermit, they dumped 4 million, 194,000 opioid pills in one year. the pharmacy was making $500,000 a month selling these pills. people had 10,000 pills in their pockets selling to anyone who was willing to buy it. so this suit is bringing -- we brought the first politica...

Dump dumped 4 million, 194,000 ownershopioid pills in one year. the pharmacy was making $500,000 a month selling these pills. people had 10,000 pills in their pockets selling to anyone who was willing to buy it. so this suit is bringing -- we brought the first political subdivision suit in mcdowell county that's ever been brought and we've recently filed a suit for the city of welch and it's for the opioid epidemic. >> and you're seeing you irresponsib irresponsibly pump these pills into -- >> absolutely. it was willful and wanton. if you're selling a poisonous pill and take it in any quantiti...