[applause] livelook at the mississippi civil rights museum which is having its opening ceremony today in jackson, mississippi. president trump will be there to tour the museum and make remarks from inside. that is -- that is happening at 12:30 p.m. eastern. we will take you back when the event get started. until then, here's a portion of today's washington journal. joining us now is eric morath, economy reporter with the "wall street journal." he is here to break down the november jobs of report. thank you for joining us this morning. let's start with the headline -- "the u.s. economy is hitting while stones not seen in more than a decade, marked by a --ust hiring that has led to nonfarm payrolls a seasonally adjusted record 86 straight ." its of expansion also says "the unemployment rate is down to 4.1%, down for two straight months the holding at a 17-year low." what is the reason for some of these positive figures? guest: we have been in a long stretch of economic expansion to we have been growing fairly consistently in this country since the middle of 2009, so we are starting to s

[applause] livelook at the mississippi civil rights museum which is having its opening ceremony today in jackson, mississippi. president trump will be there to tour the museum and make remarks from inside. that is -- that is happening at 12:30 p.m. eastern. we will take you back when the event get started. until then, here's a portion of today's washington journal. joining us now is eric morath, economy reporter with the "wall street journal." he is here to break down the november jobs of report. thank you for joining us this morning. let's start with the headline -- "the u.s. economy is hitting while stones not seen in more than a decade, marked by a --ust hiring that has led to nonfarm payrolls a seasonally adjusted record 86 straight ." its of expansion also says "the unemployment rate is down to 4.1%, down for two straight months the holding at a 17-year low." what is the reason for some of these positive figures? guest: we have been in a long stretch of economic