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That's a big problem. the good news, by the way, there's another piece people aren't reporting on which is if we can get this trade deal done with china, and i know you report on this nearly every day -- charles: you're a mind reader, my man. [laughter] >> these are top on the economy. i'm feeling pretty good about things. you can never trust those politicians, but if trump can pull this off and the chinese buy more of our products, protect our intellectual property rights -- they're stealing $300 billion a year from us, you know, as trumps yahoo!d to say, you can't have free trade with a coun...

Saw in january. as you mentioned january saw 304,000 jobs added for february, dow jones estimated the u.s. economy added 180,000 180,000 jobs. in terms of the unemployment rate, analysts are looking for a fall from 4% in january to 3.9% in february. then on average hourly earnings, the other key metric for investors today, that number is expected to rise, 0.3% compared to the previous month. all eyes on that from the market's perspective today. another metric worth highlighting came overnight and that was in the form of chinese trade data. we saw chinese exports plummet in february amid ongoin...

Modern presidents and performance of the s&p 500. can we put that up? i mean, to austin's point, barack obama had 22% and change growth in the first six months. papa bush was at 20.7%. there you see president trump in third position, not bad, but not as strong as obama at six months. respond to that data, ed. >> sure. often there's administration changes after we go through recessions, and so you have to take into account the circumstances that each one's under, so to say that the stock market rose under president obama is a little disingenuous because it crashed and burned in the financial cr...

Papa bush 20.7%. there you see trump not bad but not as strong as obama in six months. respond to that data, ed. >> certainly, administration changes after we go into a recession. you have to take into account the circumstances. to say that the stock market rose under president obama is a little disingenuous because it had crashed and burned. it was going to rise. it topped at 18,000 and stayed there to the election. and when the economy was very robust, we're no longer in recession. it's now whizzing close to 25. similarly at job creation, at 10% employment and you're creating jobs at the sam...

Chairman, do you think that hillary clinton is trying to cut off discussion of benghazi? do you think she is trying to get out of testifying before the new house select committee? >> i don't doubt that but she has been playing politics with the issue from the beginning. now she is launching a political defense, an organized political defense. how did this chapter get leaked to the newspaper? because obviously their people are trying to stop anymore criticism she has been receiving on benghazi. she from the beginning as secretary of state should have known that this was al qaeda the entire time...