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This day in and day out. your thoughts about today's -- as garrett put it, the climax. >> garrett is exactly right. this was a moment built to take advantage of susan collins. ostensible indecision. very strategic about who was standing behind her. about having her go out and give this speech. they knew everybody would be paying attention to it because she was this person who hadn't made up their mind. all very strategically done. >> by whom? the white house isn't strategic. >> but mitch mcconnell is strategic and it wouldn't surprise me if -- maybe we're overreadings this but it's a fairly sa...

They are not consistent with anything, anything, gdp, ism survey. >> how do you make sense of this? >> i'll tell you how i make sense of it, next month, we'll get the bench mark revision and they'll be all revised up. >> jared bernstein, former chief economist for vice president joe biden, former msnbc contributor and fellow at the policy and priorities. do you agree with mark zandi? >> to a point. the underlying trend before this report was 200,000 jobs a month. as you mention, 74,000 for december is way below trend. and there's a lot of noise in the monthly data, and it wouldn't surprise me ...