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>> how many coal jobs are there in the country? take a guess. >> there's several. there's millions of coal jobs and those attached to the coal industry. >> not millions, but it's about 54,000. >> but those attached to the coal industry, and mining industry and all those, there's millions of jobs there, and these are jobs that are coming back. there's been 7,000 jobs per month average since donald trump was electriced in november. this is directly related to president trump's policies and his posture. >> i'm -- austan, i'll let you take this. essentially what is being argued by your fellow tim ...

Average. we were seeing 300,000, 400,000 jobs a month. we know this works. >> your timing is confused. if you recall the reason we had a massive boom in 1984 is because paul voelker cut the interest rate ten percentage points in the run-up to the boom. when george w. bush most recently did exactly the thing that donald trump is proposing, we had the weakest recovery on record followed by a massive recessi recession. >> didn't we have a recession in '82 and '38 after ronald reagan had his huge reslashing budget? this is e10 for my producers. . is the employment growth in the economy, the change...

Donald trump himself saying you can't trust the statistics. these are all lies. there aren't this many jobs getting created, and literally with fewer jobs being created in the same statistics, donald trump is now saying look what i did. >> what do you make of that, tim? you put the chart back up the average in the first six months of 2016 when barack obama is still president the average was 187,000 jobs a month. the average in the first six months of 2017 is 184,000, slightly less. so isn't, doesn't austan have a good point there? >> look, the stock market tells it all. it rallies when there i...

New jobs created in this country since donald trump took office in january, and speaking of jobs, foxcon is a company who has promised up to 13,000 new manufacturing jobs in wisconsin. >> well, that was donald trump's daughter-in-law, lara trump, who works for his 2020 re-election campaign. you can never start too soon and this week hosted a new facebook live broadcast to counteract all the "fake news" with reliable pro-trump messaging. the economic headlines do certainly look good right now, more than 1 million jobs have been added since trump took office. the unemployment rate narrowly dropp...

Heritage foundation and austan goolsbee. this should be fun. tim, i'm going to start with you. you wrote a piece in "the daily signal" a conservative news website, this is what you wrote about the strong jobs report for july "it gives trump momentum for fax tax reform. since trump's inauguration we averaged nearly 184,000 new jobs per month without any substantive reforms. instead gains of likely come from reducks in harmful regulations that make it easier to run businesses in the u.s." you believe there's no affirmative policy by donald trump that's made the economy grow. >> there's nothing p...