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>> american border problems won't be fixed until congress acts. >> fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. >> border. >> we now have the worst border crisis in american history. >> china threatens our sovereignty we will act to protect our country and we did. >> the president's refusal to stand up to china, our most formidable adversary. >> it's never a good bet to bet against america, never. >> america can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> steve: we are using the official state of the union address music as you can see. good ...

>> do you think that president biden has fought hard enough for the priorities of black voters? >> i do not. >> reporter: bradley, a trusty at her church, just outside of columbia, says her top priority is democrats voting rights legislation which was defeat this had week. she blames president biden for not pushing for it earlier. >> our ancestors fought long and hard to get these rights for us and for them to be taken away would be detrimental. >> reporter: bradley praises the president's handling of covid, but not the economy. >> when you go to the grocery stores you find things three and fo...

Is kind of looking, with everything going on like a b minus, maybe. it's not. good c+? b minus. will be a little. fair he restored some alliances. but you know, kabul, kyiv, aukus, there's a lot there to unpack. >> so, what is your sense of america's standing right now? you said he wanted america back. he said there could be other signs that the relationships have gotten better to opposed to when trump was in power. but at the same time, just this, week you at the french president say that he is calling on the europeans to think of their own security concerns and to forge their own path when i...

Let's take a closer look at the u.s. jobs report. cnn's matt egan is with me now to break down the numbers. what do they tell us about the effort to recover now falls short, the expectations was what, 500,000? 194 but what is the big takeaway. >> at first blush this looked terrible. if you give it a letter grade it might be a "d", but it is not as bad as it looked. it might get a c-plus or a b-minus. here is why. the big negative is 194,000 jobs were add. less than half of what economists were expecting. this is the weakest job growth of the entire year. as far as why. let's look at the sector...

This jobs report. austin, is it good, not great or fair -- is it -- it feels like a b minus. okay, it's above average but i wish it were better. >> that sounds like a tough grade, but i think that spirit is exactly right. fairly solid. we want it to be better. i think now that we are getting control of the spread of the virus, i think it probably is going to get better. as the months go forward. we are a long way down in the hole. i don't think president biden's wrong that we made a lot of progress. i don't think the critics are wrong that we still got a long way to go. >> doug, how would you ...