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Let's get this maniac out of the white house. to the degree you can deliver on that with bipartisan deals that feel very normal. this deal in the end was a very normal budget deal. to the degree you can deliver on that and substantively like, inflation comes down, the disruptions go away, people can book vacations and everything isn't all completely haywire, that's the core thing. i promise normal, and we're back to normal is the full rationale for the re-election campaign. >> we have gotten out of covid faster than any other developed country. our economy, even health wise, we came back. we a...

Let's bring in nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung and host of npr's full disclosure ryan far sad. analysts were expecting 180,000 jobs in april, that's 73,000 less than the actual number. break it all down for us. >> they were also expecting the unemployment rate to go up. instead it went down to 3.4%, which is a historic low. where we saw the job gains was specifically professional and business services. we also saw it in leisure and hospitality, which has been driving a lot of the job gains broadly over this post-crisis recovery. now, for what it's worth, this just reinforces t...

Surprising growth in the labor -- growth in the labor market when other indicators have very clearly recently been pointing to possibly a cooling off. the new data was just released in the last 30 minutes and it shows employers added 253,000 jobs last month, that's far more than the 180,000 that was expected. in terms of the unemployment rate, that has also dropped slightly now at 3.4% down from 3.5% the month before which is another sign of strong hiring. this report comes also two days after the federal reserve raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, all in an effort to rein in...

Just kept chugging along. this is in the face of all kinds of challenges, supply chalk from the war in europe, spiking gas and commodity prices, and high inflation, and rate rises. it continues to be striking to me when you take a step back, where we are in this recovery. >> i think what we've learned is when you give families, people, enough money, to me we don't have a bunch of people who are at risk of eviction, losing the house, not having food on the table, it gives them a lot of room to budget, to smooth overtime, and to make sure we don't have the big drops that come as the economy star...

Years after the great financial crisis. i think it's safe to say this has been one of the most successful, remarkable recoveries and all of american economic history. we had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. job growth over the past two years, highest rate ever, more jobs in the first two years of the biden administration than any president ever. inflation is coming down, wages are up, concentrated in the lowest quintiles. all of this, which progressive economics brought to bear, getting cash into people's hands, getting people back to work, running the economy hot, even risking inflat...