. >> leading to the george washington bridge, he answered a lot of questions about how big and how long and drove into what happened last could make or break his national career. breaking news this morning. just 74,000 jobs added last month. the unemployment rate is down, but mostly because fewer people are looking for jobs. we will have first reaction from the white house later this hour. while christie's crisis clogs the headlines in the world of 2015 talk, top democrats got stung by a poll ecolleague. good morning from washington. it's friday. this is "the daily rundown," the

end of an incredibly first week of 2014. we started with the jobs report, a head scratching number to wrap up 2014, an out liar with the recent trends revised in a month or so. let's look at the numbers. the jobless numbers fell from 7% to 6.7%. 74,000 jobs were added in december. that's the lowest monthly increase in more than five years. that's far below the average monthly gains we have seen recently and far below expectations which were around 200,000 jobs. retail and business services were up and information services lot of 12,000 jobs and construction lot of 16,000. the labor. >> 'tis fell to 62.8%. that's the lowest number in 36

years. nearly 350,000 people packed up and left the labor force. we will get the reaction from the white house later in the show. let's get back to the story that has dominated the latter part of this week. chris christie with his political future on the line. new jersey governor chris christie spent 24 hours doing damage control, firing two top aides and apologizing and staging a marathon. he has proven he can survive if it's 100% true, but the rush to jump on the 2016 bandwagon by the republican establishment will slow and probably already has. christie is a man on an island. he has plenty of democratic enemies, he has a bunch of republican enemies too. john mccain had advice for christie on the show.

>> put everything on the table and answer every question. if it's a three-hour press conference, answer every question. >> it wasn't three hour, but almost two. he answered every reporter question in the news conference. >> i am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team. what they did hurt the people of new jersey and hurt the people of fort lee and the person who needs to apologize for that is me. >> he said he was blindsided by e-mails who showed top aides punished the mayor by closing lanes to the george washington bridge that created four days of unprecedented gridlock and he fired the deputy chief of staff who was implicated in the

e-mails and he cut ties with the adviser and campaign manager, asking him to withdraw from the governor's association and drop his bid to be the next chairman of the new jersey republican party. it it may be an example of what political performance can be. >> it is heart breaking to me. i am sick of this. i am humiliated that i did not know this. i am heartbroken and saddened. i'm sad. i'm just stunned. the stages went far and the anger that is there at some point. i'm sure i will have that too. >> it's very contrite and he answered many questions like he was a lawyer. he is one. he was very careful to say that

he has not talked to either bridget kelly or bill since the e-mails broke because of the appropriate and he felt his answer had leads. >> kevin and charlie interviewed each member of my staff. i then questioned kevin and charlie directly since they are the only two who report directly to me. this will go back to the nuance that constitutes a traffic study. i don't have evidence before me as we speak that it went beyond this. i'm going and getting in and asking more questions. i can't make a warranty on that. >> remember he was a u.s. attorney. for now he appears to have insulated himself against the damage that would torpedo his campaign, but if any statements appear untrue, it will undermine

of what he plans to make for his innocence. he tried to innoculate himself on the charge that he is a bully. >> i am not a focus group tested blow dried candidate. or governor. that has always made people uneasy. i am who i am. i am not a bully. >> christie is no longer going to be given the benefit of the doubt. if examples come out, even if christie survives this and he might, the story damaged him and looks like an ordinary politician. it's not different. one of the trends is he perceived to be different than they hope to be president some day. he's a straight shooter and disgusted that they are not working for the american people. what you see is what you get. he made an effort to show his hands off.

>> there is a reputation that i am a micromanager. i'm not. my staff will tell you i delegate enormous authority to my staff. and to my cabinet. >> the other problem is a drip, drip, drip of sorts. the port authority executive david wildstein at the center of the scandal pled the fifth and was charged with contempt. today, six residents have filed a class action lawsuit. the u.s. attorney announced that they are reviewing the scandal to see if there is violation of federal law. it's a sound of silence as conservatives upset by christie's embrace of pop and other enemies that christie made along the way to try to score

points for himself. as media strategists said, you will see conservatives returning the favor. no love lot of between chris christie and conservatives. i don't expect them to be in love with him. if you want to win a primary, you better find a way to get them. they have not been coy about criticizing him overall. >> no one. who e-mails who. i know how angry i am in traffic. i wonder who did this to me. >> did you learn something about his leadership style you didn't know? >> republicans are thinking about their own futures have not jumped on the christie bandwagon. lindsay graham said it reinfo e reinforces a narrative that is troublesome about the guy. he is a bully. i don't think they could have felt comfortable enough to do

this unless the boss was of this mind set. i think he's going to have a hard time in the south. i really do. the edge is part of it. he's a little too slick. >> this came from republicans. i was not reading democratic talking points there. they came to christie's aid. we will see the spokesman who will be joining chris jansing an hour from now. i am joined by jonathan martin, correspondent for the "new york times" and on the phone, we hope to be checking in with our folks in newark and trenton. jonathan, you may begin. you can't lie about that. christie yesterday, before we get to the 2016 aspect. is this an airtight defense that he made himself?

>> if he was telling the truth. >> as long as he was telling the truth, he takes a hit for the incident and he takes a hit for perhaps creating a climate where the top staffers thought this was appropriate and acceptable and beyond that it is survivable and how much more did he know? i'm hesitant that he could make a declaration about politics. so much change in politics. >> the question is, what's fascinating is if chris christie were the republican nominee, you would have the reminder that some of us are much more skeptical than others have been for a long time. what we are seeing right now. >> one of the most strike things

and this is not a pure science. the governor put out that they were supportive of the governor. you scroll down the page and look at the comments, these are all conservative supporters largely from south carolina. overwhelmingly it was bile. he is not going to run. he's a liberal. there was deep suspicion of chris christie from activist conservatives. that will be a challenge. the other thing too, this is a cliche, but it's true. the most damaging things in politics were those that bring us here. lindsay graham is saying that. this screams jersey. >> a couple of other things that seemed and i think are going to hurt him down the road.

one of the things are that he's a hands on guy. his description when he found out about the story just wasn't very impressive. take a listen when you first heard about the story. >> my trainer left. i'm getting ready to get in the shower and at 8:50 they told me about the breaking story and it was the first i knew of any of the e-mails or the information that was contained in that story. >> i guess there is a couple of things that surprised me. number one, most newspapers, particularly those are not going to just not go to the governor's office for a comment. they obviously did. the fact that his staff made the decision not to tell him about it until it broke? that in itself was stunning to

me. >> let's bring it back further than that. the story was written based upon a text and e-mails obtained and wouldn't they have told somebody about the governor himself. i have to turn over stuff here. how can that not pass. there was some communication and the other part is how he runs his office. he is coming up and part of this defense is i'm a hands off kind of guy. i delegate a lot. that's opposite of the image. what supposedly turns people off about president obama. the opposite of that. >> we elect opposites and he would be the opposite and the personification of a hands on take charge governor and president.

>> quickly, here's finding a candidate. i don't know if mark warner is any more vulnerable. he's a vulnerable senator. basically a guy that screams establishment republican in many cases. . >> he decided to do this. it will make it work. >> he will have to run, but keep in mind he has $7 million in the bank. he has more personal money in a separate bank somewhere else. he had a formidable candidate. he's a relentless political figure. gilespie does give republicans a candidate. this can be something town watch. >> not only that, but it could be mark warper who lot of and you thought he was unbeatable.

he will come back and be the next governor. >> they covered bare back there and now chlt partook over the party and time to take over the party. jonathan martin, always good to talk to you. much more on the jobs numbers. it was released less than an hour ago. some people are surprised. what do the numbers really mean? that's next, but first a look ahead at the politics planner. covered at the white house. no public events for the president. jay johnson will be sworn in official low as the next secretary of homeland security. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york.

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. >> now that we have the jobs numbers from december, we can see how employment in 2013 stacked up. what had been a positive trend was derailed to 2.186 million net jobs were created. that's down from 2012. across the year an average of 182,000 jobs were added every month, slightly down from 2012 and more than 2011. looking more closely at the sector, business and professional services fared the best atting a half million jobs. the government sector lot of jobs. that has been a continuing trend ending with 9,000 fewer jobs than when it began. let's bring in the new economist to figure out what's going on. you have been on our sister station, cnbc talking about this. you believe they are a bit of an out liar and they will be revised. why? >> i don't believe them.

they were uniformly weak. the number was so low, it's not consistent with all the other economic data we are getting. gdp has been a lot stronger and that has been going more strongly and the surveys have been stronger and retailing has been good. it doesn't make sense. i don't want to pay attention to it at all. >> the one thing i would wonder here is there was a prediction that the government shut down combined with the sequester would have a form of impact after the fact. the government was shut down for a couple of weeks in october and it takes a month or two to see the impact. is it possible we are seeing the impact. >> the timing is all wrong. they have seen it in october or november or december. it's across the board. it's everything. construction, manufacturing and a decline in the number of courier job that u.p.s. and fedex to ship online.

>> that doesn't make sense in december. >> right. i don't believe it. these numbers will get revised. every year we have a month where we get an out liar on the downside. it gets revised away or reversed in subsequent months. this is one of those months. >> the famous zero jobs month. >> august 2010 or something? now we created 175 thousand thousand jobs. >> folks may not realize that the way the jobs survey and the unemployment rate, there two different surveys. the labor participation rate is a continuing trend. how troubled of you by this 36-year low in the labor participation rate? >> the decline is due in large part to baby boomers who

necessary their late 50s and 60s. >> when you say a large part, can you put a percentage on that. >> participation rates since the recession rate hit five or six years ago. i am rounding so i don't know exactly. of that, 2 percentage points is due to this retirement. the baby boomers retiring. a percentage point and that's a lot of people, 1.5 million people. that's what i call cyclical. they are discouraged and should be in the workforce, but they don't feel like they will find a job that will compensate for child care and food cost and everything. that represents -- the reality is the unemployment rate, 6.7% misrepresents the state of the job market. should you add in another point, it's seven points. that's the health of the job market. by the way, that's bad. if you go back to every other

recession since world war ii, the peak unemployment was 7%. 7.7 -- >> we are supposed to be on the down. 2014, you were very bullish about the economy. this is the year that we might see acceleration in the recovery. do you still believe that? >> absolutely. i'm convicted. >> you said convicted? >> i'm convicted, yeah. i feel strongly. i'm forecasting so all kinds of things that can go wrong and there is uncertainty, there always is. i feel strongly about the state of the economy. we are on much sounder ground. we righted the wrongs from the great recession. the only missing ingredient is confiden confidence. i think 2014 will be a good year. >> we love to talk to you on these monthly job data. up next, a lot of money in it

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. >> back now for more of my first read. the 2016 job and it was a busy week for that. if you are eying a 2016 bid, 2013 was about establishing the

credentials to be treated like a candidate. 2014 is about being able to survive the beginning of the vetting process. the gee whiz process is turning more critical. by the time we reach december 2014, we will have survived the tougher preseason process. after his 22-point win in november, chris christie basically begged for media attention announcing in any way that he was the front-runner to be. now he's got it and he is left trying to prove his biggest assets are his biggest selling points. >> the business administration never shut down government over a budget dispute. this is an administration that has bipartisan consensus. i am disappointed by this, but this is the exception. it is not the rule. i am enormously flattered that

folks talk about me in my party as someone they think could be a candidate for president. but i am nowhere near beginning that consideration process. as you can tell, i have plenty to do. it's not like i have spare time to spend. >> both joe biden and hillary clinton were reminded about how difficult it can can be to overcome. hillary told the president her opposition to the surge in iraq had been political because she was facing him in the iowa primary. that's the best on the book. it underlines the notion that the clintons will do or say anything to win. it's one example of the challenge they have in front of her. gates said vice president biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy over the past decades. ouch. that's something that could get thrown back into the vice

president's face. kentucky senator rand paul got rough treatment from the "wall street journal." as president, mr. paul couldn't behave like some aclu legal gad fly. they argued that edward snowden is a national seero shows an unseriousness that would make it unsuitable to the commander in chief. welcome to that wind of the republican party. the contenders from florida senator marco rubio have used the anniversary of the war on pof effort tow present their own prescriptions for closing the income gap. spend more on the failed programs and increase the minimum wage to $10.10. really? this is their solution to what the president called the refining issue of our time? raising the minimum wage and having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the american dream.

>> what grade would you give? >> i would give us a failing grade. it is failing. we should have done better. we can do better. people think it's getting handled. i paid my taxes and i am working really hard. that doesn't cut it anymore. people need to get involved in their communities. >> well, quite a week that was in 2016. the former chief of staff to president biden and msnbc political analyst for john mccain's 2008 campaign. a little handicapping. why not? we are only two years away from the iowa caucuses. i know you are close to a lot of people that are close to chris christie. where do you think he is today as opposed to where he was 48 hours ago? >> look, i think that he is at the front end of a difficult

period. as you know, resiliency is one of the requirements to run the gauntlet to become the nominee and be elected president of the united states. i thought his news conference was very good. the longer he talked though, he did expose himself to some contradictions with regard to his narrative with regard to his brand. one of them of course is that by his own admission, he is not the hands on leader manager. he is a delegator barely removed from the decision making. asunfolds and the e-mails come out, as he is not involved in any way, that was an entirely truthful attempt, he will survive this and may benefit from it in the sense he apologized and took responsibility and imposed accountability on people that are close to them. this has a long shelf and he

will be dealing with it for a long time. >> as somebody watching the republican process, i'm sure you had some opinion about how kristi should handle this. >> i thought he had a good press conference, but all the facts came out on the first day and that's it. that's the most important thing. even if this is all there is, i think he has three lingering problems. what did it say about the management style? they told people to do this. this is what they wanted done. when these things reinforce preexisting narratives, they tend to stick. this is the narrative and it's going to stick. that's not me saying this. this is what republicans were saying. >> i want to you comment on that. chris christie looks like a man

on an island. i was stunned by the lack of republican support he got yesterday. >> it's a powerful force in and in politics. chris christie through his style antagonized no support of republicans through his embrace of obama and the criticism of the republican economy. in large number, he will be running against the congressional wing of the republican party. that wing of the party is obviously going to do what you saw happen yesterday which is to stick the knife in. being opposed is a good thing as you run against washington, d.c. these types of antics that played out, this outrageous abuse of power and sheer stupidity of it in a race where he was clearly going to with sin

endemic of the type of politics. >> it goes to the whole thing. why was nixon so worried in a landslide. really? you are that worried? it's a tough commentary. this is not new. they clashed a lot when it came to the afghanistan review. they were basically the two wings arguing in front of the president which is what the president -- it does seem to be he is getting more. and there is this narrative on joe biden. he is loveable and it's not quailesque. it's a lot of knocks he gets. >> obviously joe biden and bob gates have different views about how to end the wars in iraq and

afghanistan. they have a big election in 2008. barack obama and joe biden said those wars would end on a timeline with the response they had to exit. the debates on how to do that. joe biden took a strong view that he should be skeptical of the leaders they are making and begin to end the wars responsibly. >> you don't think the criticism would hurt them if he ends up running for president. >> if he does run, he should carry this book around him. every stop at iowa and new hampshire. democrats were tired of these wars and they wanted these wars over and this validates the fact that vice president biden had a strong point of view as an adviser and we should end them in a responsible way. that's a big asset for him. >> we were talking about negative stereotypes being enforced and brought up the issue with chris christie.

stereotypes that got reinforced and the gates book. you were talking about this earlier. you think this is a big negative and yet that politics entered her boat on the iraq surge. do you think what bob gates says will have an impact on her when she is running in the primary in iowa? >> it's a damning indictment. in 2008 was calling back the last place to be the republican nominee. it was advocating for the surge which was necessary and an important thing to get done. i would rather lose an election than lose a war. hillary clinton did the opposite according to bob gates. i think in a fundamental level from a character perspective there had to be people who look at that and say that's a disqualification. i don't know whether it's going to have a lot of intensity and whether it's going to be the focus of the campaign.

i suspect not. it is an indictment of her character as commander in chief. >> what do you say to this? >> i disagree. clinton can speak for herself. she as a distinguished record. >> i know people are watching the shot. in politics -- >> but she also was a member of this team of rivals and also did a superb job advocating her point of view. i do not think that the criticism of a lifelong public of bob gates is going to have anything to do with it. >> it doesn't reinforce the narratives. >> she did a great job and that's what's going to happen on her side. >> two veterans have run their share. they could begin big boys's perspective this early in 2014. up next, the presidential plans to fight poverty. how does it fit into the outlook.

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♪ ♪ . >> president obama is promising to tie up income -- on thursday he officially unveiled the first five promise zones. think about the jack kemp empowerment zones that are different. those are the urban ones. southeastern kentucky and the nation of oklahoma. the white house said they focused on the communities and have been hardest hit by the recession. it's an attempt to cut and public safety and housing.

think about it. yesterday's event included kentucky senators mitch mcconnell and rand paul who were there because the president designated eight kentucky counties and personally decided to attend thursday's event to show that support. pennsylvania congressman said it was a good sign. take a listen. >> the fact that you had mitch mcconnell and rand paul and myself along with president obama here today for these announcements signifies how important this is for the country. this is something that brings all of us together. >> jason furman is the chair of the white house council of economic adviseors. five were unveiled and walk me through how this gets expanded and how does a community get designated if they would like to be. >> there is a process for designating those zones and it

is based on what the words say. there places that have been hit hard and are struggling to make it back. there places that we think have potential.assistance, we can catalyze them and help them grow. these are the first five. there's going to be many more designated, and just last night, you know, i was in conversation with a lot of our cabinet members, because this is something that the whole government is making an effort on to really talk about how excited they all were about this and the next steps we're going to be taking on it. >> it's not often we get that kind of bipartisan support as we saw yesterday, all the wings of the republican party were there, democratic party were there, seems to have bridged a divide that's always very difficult. i want to move to the jobs report, jason. it was not a great picture. what do you make of it? >> you know, there's no question that december's jobs number was well below expectations, but chuck, i try not to get too excited when numbers are well

above expectations. i try not to move too much the other direction when they are below. >> by the way, is that part of the job description? your predecessors love that line, too, jason. >> but it's true. look at these numbers, for example, they say that we lost 25,000 accountant jobs in the month of december. do i think there was a huge blow to the accountant profession in december of this year? i don't think so. things like that are often seasonal quirks, a lot of things in these numbers. now that we have december, we can look at the full year. 2013, the unemployment rate fell 1.2 percentage points, 2.2 million private sector jobs were added in 2013. a wide range of data, not just the jobs numbers, all indicate that the economy was strengthening in the second half of 2013, so we're certainly making progress. no question, a lot more work to do, also part of the job description. >> all right.

jason fehrman, chairman of the president's white house counsel of economic advisers. obviously, so bullish, you came to the north lawn without an overcoat. anyway, thank you, sir. >> thanks, chuck. trivia time. eight virginia governors have later became u.s. senators. congratulations to today's winner, kyle wiggins. we'll be right back with my important u.s. senate takeaway. , you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec-d®. powerful relief of nasal congestion and other allergy symptoms -- all in one pill. zyrtec-d®. at the pharmacy counter. i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. we're gonna be late. ♪

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as you know, the republicans need a net gain of six seats in order to make a majority in the upper chamber. ten months out, these are the races it looks like they'll have the best chance of flipping the seats from blue to red. races we've talked about a lot. in addition, these seven seats, here are the seats that look more competitive than they have before, and it's all thanks to some interesting potential recruits, new hampshire, virginia, michigan, minnesota, and colorado. think about that. that's a big deal, the gillespie seat, scott brown there, not saying they are going to lose, but they are going to have to work. we have 12 seats in play, which means republicans are in a pretty good place with now room for error, they can lose now georgia or kentucky, those republican-held seats that they are worried about. let me show you the democratic target map. it really is only two seats right now, two historically red seats, democrats do have a shot at turning blue, but what's

interesting here is how little luck the democrats have had finding a chris coons. think about delaware, or indiana, taking advantage of the tea party. they don't have places in south carolina and any of those, mississippi, if the tea party guys win. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." have a good weekend. chris jansing is next. crust that's made from scratch. or mix vegetables with all white meat chicken and homemade gravy. but marie callender's does. just sit down and savor. marie callender's. it's time to savor. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard.

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