to help us take stock of this all, i'm joined by catherine rampell. she's a special correspondent for the newshour and a columnist for the "washington post." catherine great to have you back on the newshour. july we saw almost a million jobs gained and now we're down to just barely a quarter uf that. -- of that. do you point the finger and the blame squarely at the virus for this? >> i think deltaariant's fingerprints are over this report. particularly if you look at wt industries most misses expectations. so for example, you had the food services and drinking establishments sector that is restaurants and bars, a fancy way to say restaurants and bars, they actually lost jobs in august after having averaged about 200,000 jobs per month over the previous six months and that makes sense, right? if in fact it's riskier to go out to go to a bar, restaurant, hang out with your friends outside your home, people aren't going to do it. so you have those kinds of employers dropping people from their perils. and you -- payrolls. you see similar effects through ot

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we also have cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean and catherine rampell, a columnist for "thehington post" and cnn economist and political commentator. jeff, i want to start with you at the white house. president biden has been remarkably consistent on this since taking office. he believes the top 1% and corporations should, as he says, pay their fair share which are higher taxes he thinks, and that middle class and working class families are getting the, you know, basically short end of the stick with all of this. but who is his audience? who does he keep having to make this case to? >> reporter: alisyn, he is trying to reframe the kf conversation, but his audience by and large is to the american people but specifically to democrats in congress. his issue now are the democrats who have not yet agreed to really the size or scope of this signatu signature piece of legislation, some $3.5 trillion. if you want to boil it down his audience is senator joe man chained senator kyrsten sinema of west virginia and arizona respectively. they were here at the white house yesterday. they

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to help us take stock of this , i'm joined by catherine rampell, she's a special correspondent for ther and a columnist for the washington post. great to have you back. in july we saw almost a million jobs gained and how we're down to barely a quarter of that. do you point the finger and the blame squarely at the virus? >> i think the delta variance fingerprints are all over this report, particularly if you look at what industries most missed expectations. for example, you had food services and drinking establishments sector, restaurants and bars, a fancy way of saying restaurants and bars. they lost jobs in august after having averaged about 200,000 jobs per month over the previous six months, and that makes sense . if it is riskier to go out, to a bar, and at with your friends outside your home, people are not going to do it. so you have those kinds of employers dropping people from payrolls. you see similarffects through other sectors that have been sensitive to the pandemic. the healthcare industry lost jobs. that might seem counterintuitive but when you think about the fact that e