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Back to the breaking news, the surprising positive jobs report in january showing 467,000 jobs add aid long with revisions showing an additional 709,000 added in november and december. joining me now, labor secretary marty walsch. good to see you. i know the white house was suggesting we brace for a disappointing number. so, was that a little bit of expectations game? are you genuinely surprised? what do you make of the fact that we defied expectations so dramatically? >> first and foremost, very pleased with this report. and maybe i should be a little stronger than that, but, you know, i thin...

>> president joe biden is ending this week with major economic wins. a record 6.6 million jobs have been added to the economy during president joe biden's first year in office. beating president jimmy carter's record of 4 million jobs during his first 12 months in office. the u.s. added 467,000 new jobs last month, despite a surge in omicron infections. revised numbers for november and december also show that the u.s. economy actually gained 709,000 more jobs than was previously reported. the unemployment rate is still very low, at 4%, but in another good sign, another 1.4 million people enter...

January. jobs numbers from january december rose up. adding an additional 709,000 jobs. there is no denying that the biden democratic party fiscal policy is working. the economy is booming. former secretary labor under president bill clinton, author of the system, who worked it while we fix it? >> she serves as a chief economist in the department -- department of labor during his administration. they both join me now. betsy, let me start with you. it was because of the adp numbers. a consensus expectation of, either very bad report, or not great report. some were expecting job losses. what wer...

Surprisingly huge number. a major major economic improvement. the u.s. added 467,000 jobs and the reports got major revisions up 709,000 more jobs than were reported at the time. on top of that, participation in the labor force seems to be recovering. now 62.2%, the highest since the pandemic start jd the news is a welcomed surprise as far as we know to the biden administration as it tackles franlgic matters. the white house warped last week that the numbers measured on the mid-january and omicron just starting to peak in most places and feared it could be low with the pandemic seemingly sidel...

Is struggling with that issue this morning. >> so how does it happen that 709,000 more jobs than were previously reported in november and december, how does that happen? i mean, we're not talking, you know, 500 people. >> and the survey that the bureau of labor statistics uses has become a little less reliable to an september because the companies that participate in the survey have either been slow to respond or haven't participated at all of late. there has been a declining amount of interaction between big companies and the labor department. so we're not getting accurate reads on a month to...