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That's the number they tout. it's a fake number of progress. fitting that they do these events now at the fake white house set that they have set up for joe biden so he can read a teleprompter. you mentioned it, will, a harvard economist pointed it out 11.7 million job openings in this country. and 7.7 million unemployed. so there's a job and a half for everybody who wants one. but they're choosing not to because of all the incentives not to. rachel: what are the incentives? why are people saying i don't want to go to work? pete: there has been plenty of unemployment benefits did run out. buff...

Has said that this was not -- the unemployment benefits did not create a disincentive for people to work. people are looking for jobs. they want to work. yes, perhaps what they're looking for, the type of job they're looking at, has been affected by this pandemic. but people want to work. they're trying to work. trying to make a living. and so this is coming at a bad time for our economy and i think our country. and the thing i do agree with that the administration has said is that states need to get their act together and make sure we're investing in people so that they don't fall off this cl...

October 2018 mass murder their, which he didn't. the allegedly asking a foreign leader to mislead the world about what is happening in afghanistan. it may not shock the census. what did shock many was the jobs report that our employers added just 235,000 payrolls last month. far fewer than expected 720,000. >> unemployment rate dropped to 5.2% and however the jobs of words showed the rate of unemployment actually rose up to 8.8% up to a .2% in july. and the slow learning hiring spree. we will see how it ratchet up as

I know what we've seen this year is continued growth, month after month, in job creation. there's no question the delta variant is why today's job report isn't stronger. >> president biden there citing the delta variant for a weaker than expected jobs report, even as unemployment fell to 5.2%, 235,000 new jobs added in august, but below the 720,000 predicted. joining me, jonathan alter, nbc political analyst, and also presidential historian. good to see you. take us inside the white house right now. is there concern about these numbers? because the president struck at least in part an optimist...

>> president biden facing criticism over a big miss on the august jobs report. 235,000 jobs were added. economists expected the number to be closer to 720,000. the president telling americans that he's calling for higher taxes on the wealthy. >> despite the delta variant and i'll talk more about that in a minute, what we're seeing is a economic recovery that is durable and strong. the biden plan is working. we're getting results. america is on the move again. we're going to do it by levelling the playing field. by just having a fair system where we ask the wealthiest americans to begin to pay ...