let me bring in steve rattner for fact checking.joe" super computer, the size of a city block, i tell you. the president saying that he's going to protect preexisting conditions, my super computer, it spit back out the fact this is a lie. republicans have been feverishly working to kill the preexisting condition protection. that would be afforded to people like my son with type one diabetes. also steve rattner, two other things. first, the economy is the best it's ever been. this is particularly maddening not because the president is saying it and lying about it, and not because republicans in congress are repeating that lie. but because the media, and i've been complaining about this for a couple years now. the media parrots the president. it is one of the best economies ever. no. economic growth under jimmy carter was higher than it is under donald trump. economic growth under jimmy carter in '79, the malaise year, when things were supposed to be so bad, was about a third higher than it is under donald trump in 2019. donald trump'

steve rattner has another fact check.ays good. >> we like facts. >> in response to the president's tweets gloating about the economy. >> the obama recovery, yeah. 11 years in. >> the president is not very good on facts so we try to do our best here to make up for that. you guys had a good run at it yesterday and i wanted just to start with that tweet that you put up yesterday, pivot from there. i just want to focus on the parts highlighted in yellow where he says that he now has the best jobs ever. and so if we take a look at his actual jobs record, what you will see, in fact, that not only does he not have the best jobs record ever, he does not have the best jobs record including even president obama. if you look at job creation under obama since the recovery began in the fall of 2010, obama created 201,000 jobs a month. if you look at what trump has done in his first three years he has created 182,000 jobs a month, jobs a month, so 10% less job creation under trump than under obama. if you want to -- >> wait. wait a sec

i know i was listening to steve rattner this morning as i like to listen to the total view where he was talking about well, if you take into account inflation, you can't talk as much about wages. but what he didn't mention is the fact when you're this deep into a recovery, normally things are really levelled off. i think the tax cuts that helped small businesses, blue collar workers, and rolling back unnecessary regulations are fully behind why this is extended rather than waned in terms of the economic recovery. you don't get into the weeds like that in a state of the union address. but i think if you look for that, you glean that there was good news. >> so i appreciate your focus on the economy. i will point out that the critics say that the president was trying to take credit for something that was happening before he took office. i understand on your way to this interview this morning, you caught up with up with some other reporters and you said i think we need to get back to hand shakes and get away from partisan grand standing. is that a knock on the president? doesn't he bear res

this is one that i had with steve rattner on "morning joe." this was a month ago.ng into super tuesday and joe biden is struggling to kind of keep up with him and be the main alternative to bernie sanders, doesn't bloomberg carpet bombing with money just pull from biden support and make bernie's path to the nomination easier? >> bloomberg isn't even in the iowa primary. >> i know that. but super tuesday becomes the issue for biden. he hz to win big with more diverse voters and a wider electorate. but he's going to be facing michael bloomberg and clearing a path for bernie right up the middle. >> i think the point is pretty simple is. if biden -- michael bloomberg is doing nothing to stop biden's candidacy. you haven't seen an ad or anything about joe biden. michael bloomberg is fine if joe biden wins. so joe biden is either going to rise or fall on his own without any help or hurt from michael bloomberg. michael bloomberg is not running against joe biden. he's running in case joe biden cant live up to his needs and finish first or second in those early primaries. >

loo along with joe, willie and me, we have eugene robinson, steve rattner is here, and we welcome tosidential candidate former mayor pete buttigieg. your supporters love you. >> the momentum is fantastic. we were just out at a couple polling sites where our volunteers are 14ishivering in world holding our signs and i love the energy. we'll keep pushing all the way and we feel good about new hampshire. >> so it is primary day in new hampshire. again, for a lot of people that love politics and follow politics, this is as goods as i gets. talk about how your day last already started. >> so the day began with bringing coffee and doughnuts to supporters who are out there at the early polling sites. even before dawn. and it is a great civic ritual of democratic participation and exciting to see and also remarkable to think that we've been at this more than a year now spreading our message about how we can put together a campaign based on belonging, the campaign that i believe will ultimately go on and defeat donald trump. and with him right here in the state last night, it reminded us all

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