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President trump has been talking about the markets. he suggests a lot of people not getting enough attention. this is a really difficult thing to ignore when you think about a 4,000 point jump since the election back in early november, this is extraordinary. sometimes you can go a generation without seeing a move like this and here it is. >> shannon: did you get a picture of it when it went to 22,000? he gets very excited. i don't know if this or the fantastic baseball plays are more exciting for you. i don't know. >> bill: this has more meaning to our lives. what apple did yesterday. when you...

That worked so hard. >> you knew that he was entering office in such tough historically difficult circumstances. >> this inspiring moment in our history is happening against a disspiriting and bleak backdrop. as obama takes the reigns the nation is in the midst of not one but two wars and on the edge of a great depression. >> barrack obama inherits a nation literally coming apart at the seams. >> not in generations has wall street absorbed the number of body blows it took today. >> the country was losing 750,000 jobs a month. think about that. whole neighborhoods were just collapsing under the...

750,000 jobs a month. think about that. whole neighborhoods were just collapsing under the weight of mortgage default. people were losing their homes, their livelihoods, their 401ks were being evaporated. >> the american people were in an economic predicament and what a leader does is give people a sense of security and comfort and confidence. >> he begins work on a stimulus plan before taking office. the opposition is massive and instant. >> it hardly makes sense to provide money to nations that don't need it and for those that do, what will make them spend it wisely. >> he walks into a repub...

Disaffected. otherwise we wouldn't have had the results we had in the election. on the other hand, if you look at the basic indicators of where the country is right now, the unemployment rate is as low as it's been in eight, nine years. incomes and wages have both gone up over the last year faster than they have in a decade or two. we've got historically low uninsured rates. the financial systems are stable. the stock market is hovering around its all-time high and 401ks have been restored. the housing market has recovered. we have challenges internationally, but our most immediate challenge w...

Schools, in residences, and it is a big mess that's going to take a lot of money, a lot of time to try to address. jose? >> john yang and stephanie gosk, thank you very much for being with me this morning. also back with some breaking news from wall street where stocks are down, and they're down sharply in this first hour of trading. let's take a look at the big board, shall we? let's see it together. it's down 175 points. it was down plus 200 as early as just 40 minutes ago. so things are getting a little bit better than they were at least when it opened. when it dropped more than 200 point...