steve herman is white house bureau chief with voice of american news. he's in washington.day for, sort of, a dark day in washington, so to speak. it isa day in washington, so to speak. it is a day which will be tugging on the hearts of many people in the city. yes, there is no doubt about it. we are hearing from both sides of the aisle, former presidents, both republican and democrat, offering condolences and is very clearly stating what a remarkable senator and statesman john mccain was. i can tell you as a journalist, those of us who interviewed him over the years, he was always available for quotes. he had an encyclopaedic knowledge about what was going on in the world. he was the chair of the very powerful armed services committee. and most remarkably, in recent months, and in the past couple of years, he was the most prominent republican willing to take on, directly, donald trump, both during the campaign and during president trump's administration as well. let's touch on a couple of thoseissues well. let's touch on a couple of those issues in terms of global affairs.

. >> steve white and i will conclude by just asking you to e-mail the mta board to support relocation of the inbound 38 to gough and geary. the board meeting is next tuesday at 1:00. >> thank you, very much. any other general public comments? hearing none. any old business? hearing none. new business? item a. requesting authorization to modify the exiting grand agreement with institute on aging for the provision of increasing the center for elderly suicide prevention and grovgrief-related services for programs capacity. during the period of july 12,018th through june 302,019th for $180,000, for a new grand amount of 485,273, plus a 10% contingency for a new total amount not to exceed $533,800, welcome. >> good afternoon. president, commissioners and director mcspadden. i am program annalist. today where here to seek your approval for a modification to i.o.a.s, center for elderly suicide prevention as known as the cesp program. the cesp program provides 24/7 crisis support to older adults and adults with disabilities. out calls that increase social connectiveness for isolated individua

white house. that's crazy. >> steve: in a weird way -- what's going on here?> one thing i will say is that it's not something you want to buck. for her bucking general kelly and now calling him on the carpet to have to explain the legal issues that she was violating, what was that she was doing that would come into question to have legal concerns. that's what i want to know. she's opened up a pandora's box that people have to come forward. and there'll be this ongoing cycle of events of who said what. the unfortunate thing and i know the left will kill me for saying this, the one thing i did appreciate donald trump did was to people on the campaign with him to the white house. all people disagree, but he was really strong on saying these are people -- >> that is really important. >> steve: we are out of time. come back soon. coming up, the exclusive swamp watch on mueller and james comey. will it be a red wave or blue wave? the experts are divided. we will clear up the confusion, after the break how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changin

steve herrmann, the white house bureau chief for voice of america.in is starting to sweeping and the winds are strengthening sofa some of us, we are talking about a good few hours of heavy rain and possibly much of the day being damp at the very least. look at all of the cloud across the uk. this is the low pressure swinging the end of the lendich, pretty much engulfing most of the uk now. at least the cloud — that wet weather hasn't reached everybody yet. it is across the western half of the british isles so if you are in the east, and he want to make the most of any dry weather this morning, not necessarily sunny, do it over the next few hours it the rain will march in and the winds will be strengthening on the south coast and west of the coasts and it will turn when the inland as well but notice that the rain breaks up at the time we get to the afternoon across western areas are perhaps in pembrokeshire, northern ireland, south—western parts of scotland, some sunshine will be on the way late this afternoon but some of us will hang onto that cloud

administration and that's ground truth so you can see the verbal gymnastics and equivalence steve bannon lays down but here in 2018 whiteened by this president and i heard steve bannon, what i think the news of the interview is is basically acknowledge that if donald trump, in fact, knew the purpose of the meeting was to get information from the russians about hillary clinton which he most certainly knew because bannon was telling the truth when he said there is no way donald trump jr. had the meeting and didn't report to daddy. >> he did say that and building on that point he conceded under questioning that that would be very concerning. that is exact thing mural's probing, that michael cohen will reportedly testify to and that neera and i pointed out, steve bannon believed donald trump was in on seeking the foreign help. >> so when we find out that is what happened, that in his estimation the president committed treason, that's the news of this interview tonight. >> neera? >> i agree. i think the reality here is that steve bannon said at the time and he says today dealing with the russians was treasonous, was traitoro

you can see all the equivalence that steve bannon lays down. but here in 2018, white racists, have been emboldened, they've been emboldened by this president. and lastly, i heard steve bannon what i think the news of the interview is, is basically acknowledge that if donald trump, in fact, knew the purpose of the meeting was to get information from the russians about hillary clinton, which he most certainly knew, because steve bannon was telling the truth when he said that there is no way that donald trump jr. took the meeting, had the meeting, and didn't report back to daddy. >> well, he did say that, and steve ---ing wh building on tha he did concede that would be very concerning. that is the exact thing mueller is probing that michael cohen will reportedly testify to, and that nira and i pointed out. steve bannon already implied he believed donald trump was in on seeking that foreign help. >> right. so what i heard steve bannon say today is that when we all find out that that is, in fact, exactly what happened, that in his estimation the president committed treason

steve: i think brian and i were watching golf. brian: meanwhile after the top of the hour. we have two hours and 59 minutes to go. the whitefiring back at advisor -- former advisor omarosa manigault newman. ainsley: legal action now possible over her secret situation room recording with chief of staff john kelly. steve: griff jenkins live in washington, d.c. it sounds like she taped a lot of people at the white house including in the situation room when she got fired. >> that can get her in trouble. good morning, guys. let's not forget that the president made omarosa famous as the villain news tv reality star. the senior white house advisor is trashing the president in a tell-all book. >> donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities. but when he talks that way the way he did on this tape, it confirmed that he is true a racist. >> she says that the only regret she has is being complicit with deceiving the nation. another recording that you mentioned, steve, is raising questions over whether she violated national security. a conversation secretly made in

there may be just one exception to that, who is living in the white house! steveghly involved in a lot of these trade negotiations. he is very much a kind of odd man out in the white house. there were a number of goldman sachs figures that came in in the beginning. it was a wholly—owned subsidiary of goldman sachs for a while! that's right, white house llp. barack 0bama had his fair share of goldman sachs ex—employees, but i take your point. and he has been spending half his time recently on this, because this is a directive that is coming from the white house. yes, but he's also trying to hold back trump's worst instincts on trade. that is a difficult task. he may not last through it all, because trump is quite determined and trump has brought in people like pete navarro, who is a china hawk and has been strident about china for years. they must have clashes all the time in the white house. do you think that in terms of the prospects for this, some might argue that this policy, whatever you think of it, is starting to show signs of being successful? if countries

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earlier i spoke to steve herman. he is white house bureau chief with voice of american news.ck in washington took tojohn mccain. we are hearing from both sides of the aisle. both republicans and democrats. they are free their condolences and clearly stating what a remarkable senator and statesman john mccain was. i can tell you as a journalist, those of us who had interviewed him over the years, he was always available for a quote. he had in fact the big knowledge about what was going on in the world. —— encyclopaedic knowledge. he was the chair of the armed services committee. in recent months, remarkably, and in the past couple of years, he was the most prominent republican willing to take on, directly, donald trump, both during the campaign and during donald trump's administration, as well. let us trump's administration, as well. let us touch on some of those issues in turns global affairs. —— terms. a lot of people know him from his frequent trips to other countries. what you did his legacy is an upfront? is to be that showed compassion fault what is happening all over th

i was in the room when that happened at the white house. steve: we are joined by ed from dan barry, connecticut on the republican line, good morning. caller: reporters at the time of the vietnam war reported free and open access to the combat scenes. they would just hop on a plane and they were able to see the fighting as it occurred. as tet came along and the pentagon papers came along, and there were great surprises. i am wondering, how do you reconcile the gap between free access and yet missing the main facts of the war? steve: i will have you answer that question and also explain how your pieces came back to the u.s. >> in those days, if you were in television, you had a camera crew, a cameraman, a sound. and you went off to cover the war. i would have to quickly add that i did most of the coverage of the vietnam war from washington. my brother covered it for cbs from the war front itself. what i know is that you would go out with a team, there was no censorship, you covered what it was that you saw, you then brought it back, then it had to

jillian: steve brown and white house correspondent for the daily caller who was at the fiery briefing, there was more to it. outlining specific instances, they are factually correct. >> i went to say this. the media, like certain outlets, are the envy of the american people. if you trace the historic analog of those comments they are not comments a us president should ever make. we have a first amendment that protects the media. 13% of the world population enjoys a free press, everybody else doesn't have one. those smack of dictators. they are inconsistent with rule of law with a democratic society that depends upon free press that holds our government to account. the president makes comments like that, he is delegitimizing the important work the media is doing. jillian: they are showing up and having briefings, they can't stop him from answering questions, he will take straight questions getting on marine one, it is good for your job, you are there. he wants to talk and joust with the media, he likes the challenge of this going back and forth. how did it feel to you? >> the problem i

. >> he joins a long list of high profile white house departures including hope hicks, steve bannon and his first cheer of staff priebus. cbs news the white house. >> in the florida governor's race ron desantis is facing criticism for a comment democrats are calling racist. >> the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda. >> his democratic opponent is tallahassee mayor andrew gillum, an african american. they said they were directed at his policies and not a candidate. during a broadcast interview, gillum says he isn't buying it. >> it's very clear that mr. desantis is taking a page from the campaign manual from donald trump. but he has another thing coming to him if he thinks florida voters are going to respond to that. they're sick of it. >>> earlier gillum said florida voters want someone that's not racist and not bigots. he would be the first african american governor. >>> a dallas jury sentenced a former police officer that shot and killed an unarmed black teenager to prison. he fired his gun into a house party killing 15-year-old jordan ed

. >> former white house chief strategist steve bannon speaking about the trump tower meeting in an interviewh ari melber. and other topics included robert mueller's russia probe, tax legislation, potential impeachment of the president and trump's response to the riots in charlottesville last summer. >> was the president wrong to say there was blame on both sides? >> no. he's absolutely correct. when you talk about the confederate mindness and whether they should stay or not, the president is saying there ares good people on both sides, okay. when you talk about the people that come there for violence, he's condemned those people. he condemned the confederates and the neo-nazis and the kkk and they are just as violent as the new york confederate and the kkk guys and they have to be condemned. >> let's bring in kurt bard ella from the huffington post and adrian el rod from hillary for america and lonnie chen director of domestic policy at stanford and from the mitt romney campaign in 2012. great to have you here. kurt, we have to start with you because you know who this guy is and the institut

steve: busy two hours that starts right now, rachel? rachel: thank you. the whiteh attorney general jeff sessions over the direction of the department of justice. brian: peter doocy is live outside the white house with what's fueling the friction and what senator lindsey graham did about it. >> brian, president trump had rewarded jeff sessions for his early loyalty to the trump campaign by making him the attorney general. but, the president is still really mad that sessions recused himself from the russia probe and the attorney general apparently saw the president telling ainsley that he was still mad about it yesterday. sessions pushed back with this he said while i'm attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. i demand the highest standards and where they are not met, i take action. well, just a few minutes ago, the president saw that and responded. department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political consideration. jeff, this is great. what everyone wants. so, look into

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white nationalism. so the fact that he seems unapologetic about that is problematic. steveationalists. porter a wife abuser. miller who has white nationalist leanings. now this guy. what is it about this administration that attracts them. he also got his dissertation on a german philosopher who was also a member of the nazi party. this guy is scholarly investigation and study. these are the kinds of people this administration is atrapbgting. >> washington post is reporting that beatty scott resisted the push for him to resign that ultimately led to him being fired. it's skpoezed to be extreme vetting for everybody. tprrsz do you think he'd still be working there if the reporting had not been surfaced? >> ocly because he was working there unhim the reporting was surfaced. it's interesting to hear he resisted his request for resignation. one of the things that should be immediately clear is it's not about you, it's about the president, the institution, the office. and so when you do something or something surfaces that brings embarrassment to that office, you should have enou

. >> president trump sounding so confident of a red november to remember, while former white house insider, steves the hill, he has a warning for republican candidates. if they want to distance themselves from the president this fall, don't do it. >>> politico playbooks and a uniformity that believes the gop could lose the house. >>> two democrats are pushing back on a report the congressional black caucuses are looking for a number of house speakers if they regain control in november. here is what was said on msnbc yesterday. >> i don't think jim clyburn is looking to challenge nancy pelosi. we don't know what is going to happen. we have a lot of people that could fill that seat. >> there's one single focus, winning the house back. talking about leadership or anything of that nature is premature. >> let's bring back kevin and sean. kevin, i want to start with you this time. what did you hear by the responses by the congressmen? >> they want to win back the house. they have the enthusiasm gap. republicans would disagree with that assessment. the second point is, there is a battle, a moving battle

>>> and omarosa talking race in president's white house including her encounters with steve bannon. >> he explained that he was a proud white man and i tried to push back, but if you've ever -- i don't know if you have, but i've had a chance to sits down and talk to him and it is actually scary for him to not see the alignment and the harm it is doing. >> what many are calling the worst week of his presidency, donald trump remains consistent, he is using twitter again attacking the fbi, prodding the attorney general and pointing the finger at hillary clinton. but no denying that investigators are pouring over his personal and business finances. michael cohen is accusing him the breaking finance campaign laws. and now some have imine imunity. we are covering it all. michael, let's go back a month. you all report here that there is interest in that allen weisselberg has been subpoenaed. catch us up to speed, what has happened. take rais that raised a lot of questions. >> what we reported is that he had gotten immunity for his testimony in the grand jury and that he did in faskts go to t

steve: and good luck. brian: bring some representatives to the white house. find out first hand what the problem is. those poor moms losing little ones. 11-year-old shot over the weekend. steve: his point senior citizens and children hostage can't leave their house. brian: it's a two-way street. he wants more respect for the cops for the people. you have to show respect to law enforcement, too. ainsley: absolutely. brian: somehow that message has got to get out. steve: people don't trust the cops in chicago. brian bine we trust jillian. jillian: i trust you. now that we all trust each other, 20 people behind bars after violent crashes erupt between two groups of protesters in berkeley. as you can see police arriving in riot gear as the far right nothing to marxism. stop the hate rally. dozens of weapons including rocks and poles were confiscated. three people suffered injuries after some type of explonges were thrown. no officers were hurt. remember when actor peter fonda tweeted about putting president trump's son barron that cage? now he is back for his second acts. now this time he wants democrat

trump policies and then executing the trump policies fell to other incompetence in the trump white house, steve bannon, steve miller and the incompetent trump cabinet. who can forget donald trump's homeland security secretary in her confirmation hearing lying under oath about norway? >> norway is a predominantly white country, isn't it? >> i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. >> her white immigrant ancestors are from skand knave yeah, and she actually pretended to know nothing, which is a level of incompetence that is hard to believe even from a trump secretary of homeland security. tonight omarosa stands accused of incompetence, not just by those who knew she didn't have the competence to work in the white house but by the president that hired her to work in the white house, the president that promised his supporters that he would not hire people like the person he has spent all day attacking. >> we've got the best people. >> i know the best people. >> we're going to use our best people. >> the best people. >> i know guys that are so good. >> it's hard to rank the

thank you so much. >>> tonight we've got john brennan with rachel at 9:00, and former white house chief strategist steve bannon speaking out in an exclusive interview with ari melber, i believe in his first television interview since leaving the white house, or his first, i should say, on msnbc. that's tonight at 10:00 eastern. >>> stay right with us here on msnbc. next, six months after the parkland, florida school shooting tragedy, are our nation's schools safe enough? i'll ask one parkland father who was just at the white house for a meeting on this subject. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (vo) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ ozempic®! ♪ oz

white person. let's be real about what is going on. steve: thank you for the call. we actually had focused on that in a previous installment. his is a nine part series. but today, we are focusing on the media. >> he's got a good point. obviously, we can't cover the most tumultuous year in american history and get it all in there. but quite frankly, the photographs taken by my colleagues, particularly of civil rights unrest, pictures of martin luther king, really made a big impact on all of that. we were telling a story. think he has a good point. as a young white person from a fairly white part of oregon, that is what i knew growing up. i have certainly come a long way from there. you did cover that in a previous segment, as you mentioned. steve: from the book, "frontlines of the television war," how powerful were these pictures as americans were watching walter cronkite or david brinkley on nbc, and they watch the body bags being carried out? marvin: in my opinion, television came of age in the 1960's. clearly when we got to 1968, beginning with the tet offensive i

steve herman is white house bureau chief for voice of america.released, says @presssec." this comes on a day when the turkish lira has regained some of the ground it‘s lost against the us dollar recently. it‘s now just over 6 lira for one us dollar. some of the reason for that is that turkey‘s president erdogan has announced new tariffs on imports from the us as mark lowen in istanbul has been explaining. today, turkey announced it was hiking cariss drastically on american goods from cars to alcohol, to cosmetics, even rice —— hiking taxes. some of them doubled, some of them going up by double in response to the us raising sanctions and imposing sanctions on turkish goods because of that continued detention ofan because of that continued detention of an american pastor. every sign that the rift is deepening, two nato allies at each other‘s throats, with regional implications. the court here voted not to release the pastor and it will go to an up in court but there is little optimism that he will be released. difficult for businesses that have bor

the white house according to this reporting, steve cash with us now. legal experts say the president's lawyers have been careless in not asking mr. mcgahn the presidential lawyer what he had planned to tell mr. mueller's prosecutors. they moved forward. the article goes on later to say here, the very reporting that came out yesterday, steve, set off a scramble on saturday morning with mr. trump's lawyers and advisors. the president sequestered at his private golf club and solicited opinions from a small group of advisors on the possible reprecushions of the article. so, steve, again, exactly what might be the worst case scenario for this white house, to are this president more specifically. seems to be playing out in this reporting. >> yeah. i can't tell from this, obviously. i don't know what extent the white house was surprised. but what is important here, you said it at the very beginning, he's not the president's lawyer. he's the white house's lawyer. he represents the institution ofof the presidency. if you're surprised that someone like this ends

white people. thank you, ari melber. full interview with steve bannon airs tonight ten eastern.nnan on tonight. and he is right in the middle of the news. up next giving our round table a chance to weigh in. he is hitting them because he is scare of manigault. trump blaming the districts of columbia in stopping his bastille day parade. he is blaming the mayor of d.c. you are watching "hardball." sy, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ your hair is so soft! did you use head and shoulders two in one? i did mom. wanna try it? yes. it intensely moisturizes your hair and scalp and keeps you flake free. manolo? look at my soft hair. i should be in the shot now too. try head and shoulders two in one. all your school get supplies today... school.. grade.. done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like these for only a 25 cents at office depot officemax. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. pg&e wants you t

but this is a big deal because it was recently shared by the white house. steve is out there pushing this plan to punish legal immigrants who receive benefits like welfare. >> yeah -- oh, sorry. i thought you had a question. >> no. >> there used to be delineation speaking about legal and illegal. but when you're speaking only about illegal immigrants. but this is a clear blur of the line in both cases and it seems explicitly linked to demographics. i think there's a subsection of those that they ignore, is that people that have been accused or even convicted of crimes in some cases and that affects real americans. but when you look at actual stats about cultural assimilation and whether they are taking on the values of america, by second generation it's the same as other generations of immigrants have been, when you look at crime statistics for new immigrants, those neighborhoods have sometimes less crime than native born americans. there are problems we need to deal with and can name, but it's not about this entire community, and this entire community is part of

. >> steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist, he has been talking about big tick.e thought about the president tweeting this and making it a big deal. he had a lot of strong words for tech companies. he called the executives of facebook, google and twitter, he said they're evil. he said that he wants to have the government seize the data from these big tech companies and put it into a public trust, which doesn't sound like a very pro-free market, pro-private market. >> when we think about what the president said that some of the things he believes he has seen, what he perceives to be a bias, even in the google search engine, calling things illegal. >> this is a campaign issue. this is something that republicans are using to campaign in the 2018 election. it's probably going to be a 2020 campaign issue as well. this is politic at its best. we're going to see this advance. >> we will see this keeping you very busy. oliver, appreciate it. >>> education secretary betsy devos proposing changes to sexual misconduct rules that would boost the rights of the accused. the po

memory i don't think it's positioned for any major upside right now it happens to be the day steve bannon left the white house. a tax law happening in december. it was up 10% more from late august through the end of the year >> hold on that's a rerun >> are you suggesting that career risks might be driving some investment decisions >> this is where we are at it has done just enough to keep the weight of the evidence on the positive side. >> the main thing. >> yeah. on the whole you're right. but you certainly get another leg in the story by virtue of these kinds of agreements. >> yeah. here is is what the trade war did. it bummed people out it got people concerned. you got moderated sentiment and caterpillar have celebrating at 142. of those three two aren't there. we are not worried about higher inflation and higher interest rates. we may not be worried about trade. it is a fundamental point of view earnings have exceeded already high estimates to me i put that all together. >> the market is sneezing late in the cycle what is the market trying to say by moderating. >> not starting. >> i just gave you t

the rumors got wilder and wilder day by day and desperate to respond white house press secretary steve early pleaded by cable for permission to tell the public system. roosevelt wouldn't allow it. this was too much fun. on receiving the latest batch of cables and rumors fdr was heard to tell military aide and buddy, i guess we gave them the good this time. although he had told churchill about the trip in advance, fdr had also given the prime minister the slip by cutting 10 days off the window of tuned for churchill to meet with him in advance of quadrant and try to influence him and that well may be why to the relief of jcs, the white house took the plan of the fishing trip off the shelf where it sat for a year activated on very short notice. fdr's absence from the city also left sir john anderson with no one to talk to about -- about atomic cooperation except for bush, roosevelt's science adviser and fdr knew that bush would hold a hard line, so the president gone, secretary simpson started writing toys trip report with his emphatic recommendations to fdr to take charge of this and in

desperate to respond, the white house press secretary, steve early, pleaded by cable for permission totell the public something. roosevelt wouldn't allow it. it too much fun. i'm receiving the latest batch of cables and rumors. tell his military aid and then want to, i guess we gave them good this time. last max although he had told churchill about the trip in rants, fdr could also give the prime minister the slip by cutting 10 days off a window of opportunity for church show to meet with them and try to influence them. and that may be why to the relief the white house took the plans on a fishing trip off the shelf where it separates four-year on very short notice. fdr's absence from the city also left are john andersen with no one to talk to about atomic cooperation except for van deckard bush, roosevelt science advisor. hard line, so the president gone, secretary simpson started writing toys trip report with his emphatic recommendations to fdr to take charge of this and in that, he warn fdr to be constantly on the alert for mediterranean diversions. stenson wanted to take report pers

steve: kellyanne conway live on the north lawn of the white house. kellyanne when the number came out were people in the white house going where in the heck did that number come from? >> i'm just happy this president has been the best friend to veterans and military parade or no parade this calendar year. what he has done for our great men and women in uniform over $700 billion in funding the first major pay raise they have had in many years. they have got the respect and the resources they need and they deserve. and look what he has done to our veterans absent a parade. let's run through the tape here and review some of it. the va choice act allowing our veterans who cannot access timely quality care through the v.a. system, which most say they can to go into the private sector and access those options. and not have to pay out of pocketed for them. the whistle blower and accountability act was really remarkable, helping folks to ferret out abuses or fraud and be protected in the meantime and more accountability in the v.a. also, this president throu

joining me right now with reaction, manhattan institute senior fellow steve malanga along with our own kristina partsinevelos at the whiteouse right now. steve, i liked the jobs report. i like we added 157,000 jobs. we're continuing to on great trajectory. 3.9% employment, nothing to be concerned about there, wages, when does the wage growth happen? >> here is part is what is happening. we had fewer and fewer people in the labor force in over the years. decline in labor participation rate, now the economy is so good, one of the thing happening right now, people who weren't even in the labor force, who weren't working are being gradually attracted back into the labor force. that will hold down wage growth right now. but it's a good thing to have a greater labor participation rate of all americans. that is actually a positive. trish: it will work its way through to a certain extent? >> exactly. trish: christina, your reaction to the jobs report today. we did not get as many jobs as we expected and yet, 157 is not bad. if you look at average since the tax cuts, the average is 212 per month. it is lower than 190 estimate. th