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>> very little credit and i think in fact any honest economist will say presidentsing don't have that much effect on jobs at that level. certainly, trump's only been in office, as we know three months, and it has very little to do with him, even though he's been a pathological liar about this, and i have some standards from this. fortune magazine looked at the claims he's made over the last three months, looked at some and found most . the bls saided in that time period since he'd been in office, only 533,000 jobs had been created. fortune gave that a false grade. he gets very little credit fo...

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...

Mixed right now. president trump touting the number of jobs he said he has created as he was at a meeting with top ceos yesterday. >> created over 600,000 jobs already in a very short period of time and it's going to really start catching on. >> not quite. 317,000 jobs have been created since trump took office. we track these things with cnn money's trump jobs tracker. our figures include how many jobs the labor market reported were created in february and march. the white house explains trump is including all the jobs added in january as well. if you add that in, then you've got about 533,0...

We figure over 600,000 jobs in a very short period of time and it's going to start catching on now because some of the things we have done are big league and catching on. already we've created more than -- almost 600,000 jobs. >> according to the u.s. department of labor, in february and march they created over 330,000 jobs. the president served only two weeks the month of january but claimed full credit for that month's 220,000 jobs. even if he did take credit for that, he'd still be at 533,000. >> where did he get that number? >> i think somebody told him, you created 600,000 new jobs. >> no...

His policies or style have to acknowledge not that just index but small business optimism, all kinds of -- >> manufacturing. >> all the confidence indexes have turned up since the election. whether they can be sustained depends whether he gets stuff done or not. >> i think we can listen to this about job creation. let's hear what he said yesterday. >> you see the numbers. we've created over 600,000 jobs already in a very short period of time, and it is going to really start catching on now. some of the things we've done are bigly and they are catching on. >> okay. so it is important to catch s...