3.7%, and the asian unemployment is 2.5%, and the hispanic unemployment rate is 4.9%, and the black unemployment rate is continue ing to the be higher and more than two times higher than that white unemployment rate and so is this touting or trying to fix it, and make an active effort to fix it. >> look, you can see from the steps that we have taken that we are trying to fix the unemployment for all american, and that is the promise of the president time and time again that we want it better for everybody, and we have made it significant through the number of regulations that we have cut to make it a job-friendly market, and more job-friendly environment, and certainly add ing to that the tax cuts and the tax reform legislation that the president has been historic in what has happened, and in the way that it has helped our economy and certainly helped the jobs ak a cross the country. >> and what about jay-z talking in terms of black america and he took issue, because he screened with all caps have you seen the black employment numbers. >> because they are better ta than they have been and we are making progress and we want to continue to do that. we want every day to be better t

the asian unemployment rate is 2.5%. the black unemployment rate continues to be higher and two times of that is the the white unemployment rate. is that something the administration is touting or trying to fix, makes an active effort to fix in 2018? >> look, you can see from the steps we've already taken that we're trying to fix unemployment for all americans. that's the the point president made time and time again. he wants it to be better for everybody. and we've made significant progress in that both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make this a more job friendly market, a more job-friendly environment, and adding to that the tax cuts and tax reform legislation that the president led on has been historic in what has happened and in the way it's helped our economy. >> why take issue with jay z we were talking about in terms of black america? he screamed with caps, have you seen my black unemployment number? >> we're making progress and we want to continue to do that. we want every day to be better than the day before. again, certainly for black americans, for hispanic americans across the board, t

is this administration aware that the black unemployment rate of december, 6.%, the white unemployment rate is 3.7%. the asian unemployment rate is 2.5% and the his pavenic unemployment rate 14.9%. the black unemployment rate continues to be higher. is this something the administration is touting, is it something they're making an active effort to fix? ms. sanders sprk we're trying to fix unemployment for all americans that's the point the president has made time and time again he wants it to be better for everybody. we've made significant progress in that, both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make this a measure job-friendly market, a more job-friendly environment. and certainly adding to that the tax cuts and tax reform legislation that the president led on has been historic in what has happened and in the way it has helped our economy and certainly helped create jobs across the country. reporter: what about jay-z, he was talking in terms of black america, he took issue, he seemed screamed with all caps have you seen my black unemployment numbers? ms. sanders:

the asian unemployment rate is 2.5% and the hispanic rate is 4.9%. the black unemployment rate continues to be higher and is actually more than two times that of the white unemployment rate. is that something this administration is touting or trying to fix, make an active effort to fix in 2018? >> you can see from the steps we have taken already we are trying to fix unemployment for all americans. that's the point the president has made time and time again. he wants it to be better for everybody. we have made significant progress in that both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make it a more job-friendly market, a more job-friendly environment, and certainly adding to that the tax cuts and tax reform legislation that the president led on has been historic in what's happened and in the way it's helped our economy and certainly helped create jobs across the country. >> why did he take issue with jay-z then when he was talking in terms of black america? he took issue. he screamed in all caps, have you seen my black unemployment numbers? >> they are better than they have been and we are making progress. we want to continue to do that. l

state of black america, in the philadelphia-camden- wilmington region, the african-american unemployment rate is 12%, while the white unemployment rate is 5.3%. we begin this morning with nbc10's erin coleman who sat down with the president of the national urban league, marc morial. he calls the black community strong and resilient, but admits there are still challenges ahead. marc morial: one challenge is we're in this new environment, we're in the trump environment. and rollbacks and cutbacks and efforts to repeal are, if you will, diminish value and the effectiveness of civil rights laws and civil rights principles is in play now. i think secondarily, we are in a time when, although black unemployment has come down, the economy is doing better, even black people who were not working 6 years ago, 7 years ago and now working, poverty, the challenges of people's paychecks not providing them with the money they need to pay the basic necessities of life is a new reality. it's a 21st century reality. it's the reality of post-recession america. rosemary: tomorrow is the martin luther king jr. holiday. and this spring ma

the african-american unemployment rate did hit a record low of 6.8%. black unemployment still significantly higher than other u.s. groups. the white unemployment rate is 3.7%. and the asian unemployment rate is 2.5%. let's talk more about this with van jones. so i'll start with you. we played just a clip there at the beginning. did the president sort of miss the point of what he was saying. it sounds like he was saying money doesn't buy happiness. >> he was confessional and he was deep, he really opened his heart up and talked about his marriage and kids. he also talked about the pain in the black community when you hear president trump use s-hole nations. e he talked about raising black kids in the face of that. i tried to point out what about the unemployment numbers that are looking pretty good. he said that's not enough. you can't disrespect people and then just think they are going to be happy because they have money. it's about human dignity pefs h. he was addressing the thing that the president tweeted about. i think most people feel that way. >> how do you say it? >> the president didn't give anybody $100 bill and call the

is this administration aware that the black unemployment rate from december, 6.%, white unemployment rate 3.%, asian unemployment rate is 2.5%. hispanic unemployment rate is 4.9%. black unemployment rate continues to be higher, two times that, more than two times that of the white unemployment rate is. that something that this administration is touting or trying to fix, making a active evident to fix in 2018? >> look i think you can see from the steps we've already taken that we're trying to fix unemployment for all americans. that is the point that the president has made time and time again is that he wants it to be better for everybody. we made significant progress in that, both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make this a more job-friendly market, a more job-friendly environment and certainly adding to that, the tax cuts and tax reform legislation that the president led on has been historic what has happened an in the way that it helped our economy and certainly helped create jobs across the country. >> why did he take issue with jay-z, talking in terms of bl

the red line is the higher unemployment rate among african americans. the blue line is the unemployment rate among whitesand what you see across the decades, the black unemployment rate has always been higher and remained higher. to me, that is an important story i would love to see the president engage on. instead, he's engaging with jay-z trying to celebrate the gradual decline but it's that persistent gap that's the bigger story. >> and had the white community experienced black levels of unemployment, we would call that the great depression. what is normal now for the after condition american community would be considered a catastrophe, a world shaking catastrophe for the white community. why do we accept that? to donald trump's point, this have been republicans like jack kemp who took black poverty and the lack of opportunity and engaged with the black community, had good policies, had good relationships. trump is not one of them. trump has never shown up for any of these real discussions that happened in the community all the time. he could. he should. i hope he will. jared kushner has been talking

roll it. >> the black unemployment rate continues to be higher and it's actually two times that, more than two times that of the whiteloyment rate. is that something that this administration is touting or they're trying to fix, make an active effort to fix in 2018? >> look, i think you can see from the steps that we've already taken that we're trying to fix unemployment for all americans. that's the point that the president has made time and time again is that he wants it to be better for everybody. and we've made significant progress in that, both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make this a more job friendly market, a more job friendly environment, and certainly adding to that the tax cuts and tax reform legislation. >> i think she missed april's point. i am happy about these numbers. 6.8% unemployment for african-americans, even though it's double white, it's still good. and those numbers have been coming down for about six years now, so obama did most of the work, but trump has continued that work. from a bipartisan point of view, we should be happy about that. at the same time, when you ha

>> look, the downward unemployment on black has s not a result of donald trump's policies. beyond that, the black unemployment rate is still double the whitenemployment rate. and black people should be grate to feel this president even though we're at double the rate is ridiculous. >> i'm sorry. >> the president likes to play in pop culture. it's much easier for him to take on jay-z than to answer a question on climate change. >> right. >> and he didn't attack eminem, who is a rapper. >> it's hard to keep up. you're watching "hardball." thank you. ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ this time, it's his turn. you have 4.3 minutes to yourself. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. >>> the "hardball" round table

trump also doesn't mention the fact that black unemployment rate is dramatically higher than the white unemployment rate, something the trump administration has done nothing to address. today the president indicated that tomorrow night's state of the union address will double as something of an economic victory lap. >> mr. president, how is the speech coming? how is the state of the union coming? >> i hope it's going to be good. we worked on it hard. cover a lot of territory, including our great success with the markets and with the tax cut. >> again, expect trump to spend a lot of the speech pushing the markets without worrying too much about the context or frankly, the truth. trump has made 31 specific claims about companies adding or saving american jobs thanks to his intervention. it added up to 2.4 million jobs. republika did the due diligence and checked. it turns out more than 90% of those promised jobs have not materialized. and what about this promise from the campaign trail? >> i create jobs. and i always say i'll be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. we're go

doesn't deserve the credit, and i think what is important is, is that the black unemployment rate is still double that of the white unemployment rate. so it's not like we've solved a problem here. and i think when you have a p h pathological liar, either that or he's delusional. either one is bad for the president of the united states. when you have someone who lies multiple times a day, it should not be a surprise that members of his cabinet would follow that behavior, and sad to say, it's not a surprise that senators in the cabinet or the house would think it's okay to outright lie. >> these are the facts, and people have been dismissing them lately. unemployment for blacks is still far higher, as you said, than other groups. white unemployment is at 3.7%, asian unemployment 2.5%, hispanic joblessness, 4.9%. you can see african-american 6.8% there. it still trails whites. and median weekly earnings for african-americans last fall were $696 compared with $887 for whites and $1,010 for asian americans. clearly there is a lot of work left. >> absolutely there is a lot of work. but implied in what he said is that we

white people make. so they may be working indeed. although i would say the rate for black unemployment is almost twice that of white unemployment.t's the other point nobody talks about. if we're making 55 to 50 cents when white people are making a dollar, i don't know how great that is. yes, people are working. but we are underemployed. we are not getting the same benefits, the same kind of jobs, the same kind of training. you have to look at it deeper than just raw numbers. i think that dent tell the whole story. >> you mentioned that today april ryan pointed out to sarah sanders the white unemployment rate is 3.7%, asian unemployment is 2.5%, hispanic unemployment% is 4.9%. there's a lot of room for improvement, especially among african-americans. >> yeah, and i think that what you heard from marcia, and you mentioned earlier, okay, black unemployment is low. black underemployment is extremely high. that's why we have this big growing gap in income inequality. if you look at employment as the sole measure, then you have to say sharecropper is employment. but it is the kind of employment that would keep you busy without paying

giving the statistic about the poverty rate, the unemployment rate rather, specifically in our region, philadelphia-camden-wilmington. are you surprised by these numbers, especially the disparity with white people who are unemployed? allison: i'm not surprised by the numbers. while we talked earlier about progress, we definitely said that there's more progress to be had. i think that some of the-- some other progress, especially for african-american women, if you think about during the time of dr. king's speech, over 50, almost 60% of females employed were in the domestic service space. now, 64% of females employed are in white collar roles. so, that's progress. so, while there is a gap between, within our race we do see lots of change.

, the 44th president of the united states, put in policies that actually saw the night rate for people across -- the unemployment rate for people across the spectrum, black, white otherwise, to see the unemployment rate specifically in the african-american community decline. we also saw wages going up. for the president to take -- for the 4 5th president to take credit for this like he took credit for flight safety last week and the fact that we didn't have any plane crashes. that's not him. that's not his -- that's not -- he didn't do that. i mean, the next thing he's going to do is take credit for the moon and sun, you know, the sun rising and the moon circling -- >> what do you think, mike? >> i know this drives democrats crazy because the idea that a republican president could do something for the african-american community and actually break their lockhold on them is terrifying to them. the fact of the matter is, what he said is true. we have -- you said it wasn't true. keep in mind -- and i'll be fair about this -- we didn't record african-american and hispanic unemployment i think until the '70s. since that's been recorded, this is the lowest it's ever b

and i have been at the white house for 21 years now, that's one of the stories i've been first and foremost just pushing and you know that. and the issue is the black unemployment ratemuch higher. a lot of times two times that of white america. the december unemployment rate for black america, i believe, 6.8%, for white america it is 3.7, for hispanics, 4.9, for asians, 2.5. so and then during the obama years, when he received -- when president obama received the recession and tried to work on it, the numbers went as high as 16%. started coming down then. so, you know, if you want to say that you brought it down, where is your -- i want to know where the targeting approach was, the targeted approach was to bring it down, and also, you know, jane sperling said you're coasting on a trend. they have been talking about it when they talk about this america first message, but there has not been a targeted aapproach. if you tout the fact that it came down, still twice that of white america. there is still a historic and traditional problem with black unemployment. so i don't think that is really something to jump for joy about, and it goes to jay-z's point. so i don't know

and the unemployment rate is 6.8% and white unemployment rate is 3.7%.hile they are both going down together. we're not closing that gap. >> exactly. we're not. and full employment is about 4% unemployment. and so african-americans are substantially higher than any full employment number. and again, it is hard to believe, if the president wants to do something about black unemployment, then he should have some sort of program, because we are americans. african-americans are dreamers as well. he ought to take some initiative to close those gaps. instead of pandering to us. >> good to talk you to. thank you for being with us. congresswoman gwen moore of wisconsin. >>> next, you the president's claims about the kpri but first predictions for the trump voters for the next year of his presidency. >> i think that he's going to get certain legislation passed and that it will be brutal. >> same old trump but same old gridlock. they are probably not going to get any major things done. (siren wailing) (barry murrey) when you have a really traumatic injury, we have

the white house is looking for. >> you bring up the economy and the president has touted it a lot including the lower unemployment ratethe lowest in history. that's true. it's also twice what the unemployment rate is for white americans now. jay-z, the super star and the president went at it this weekend and jay-z said, look, i'm paraphrasing here, it's not enough to just help us economically. it's about respecting, et cetera. it's about what you do full circle here. here's what the president wrote back. can we bring up that tweet? somebody please inform jay-z that because of my policies black unemployment rate is at the lowest rate ever recorded. what's your take away from this? >> i don't know why someone else needs to inform jay-z if he just did. i just don't understand -- i understand the president is trying to pivot and distract from what jay-z was saying which was in the context of the s-hole comments that the president was reported to make in the white house. saying that that was hurtful. it seems to me the president missed an opportunity there to address. if some super star like jay-z is on national television

the president's tax cut didn't do anything to help main stream america. >> and david, black unemployment is low but it's still about twice the rate of white unemployment.e. we need to do more for our inner cities and rural america and i think this president wants to lift -- wants to lift all americans up. i think you'll hear that in the coming state of the union. it's going to be optimistic, kind of, you know, speaking from his heart about how this presidency, this tax cut, you're talking about five million individuals getting 1,000 bucks. i know speaker pelosi kind of demi grated that as crumbs. >> we still have to go along way in this country and ensure from an educational standpoint that african americans and other communities are lifted. we're talking about generational poverty need to be lifted. >> cleveland needs to be repaired we need to work on that. that's another thing. the president would like to see that this coming session. you'll hear some of that in the state of the union. >> and one of the things we expect to hear is the immigration. listen to president trump talking about the d.r.e.a.m.ers and daca. >> if you see numerous senators on t

so i think he wants to be grateful for the fact that our unemployment rate is down, even though it is still twice as high as the unemployment rate for whitemericans, and the fact that the economy is getting better, i do not believe it is due to his policies and i don't think that we have anything to be grateful for to his administration. >> all right, representative karen bass, thanks so much for being with us, appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. >>> cameo controversy. hillary clinton slammed by some for really trolling the president. >>> overnight, the trolling heard around the world. hillary clinton at the grammys doing a dramatic reading from the controversial book fire and fury. >> he had a long time fear of being poisoned. one reason why he liked to eat at mcdonald's, nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade. >> that's it. we've got it. that's the one. >> you think so? >> the grammy's in the bag? >> in the bag. >> joining me now, ron brownstein, senior political analyst a analyst. funny or fail here. look, "fire and fury" is not without controversy. it quotes steve bannon. that had great effect. but there are

the chart. grully declining unemployment rate. this includes whites and blacks. let me put up another chart first just with the african-american unemployment rate from 2011 to 2017. let me see if we can put that other chart on screen. it's a gradual steady decline. here it is at a record low but been declining for six or seven years. and i think that raises this question of how much credit to give president trump given that it was obama's policies that toledo that gradual decline. >> look, i am happy to give president trump credit for not screwing it up. i mean he could have come in and done stuff that reversed that trend. he could have come in and done terrible thing. he didn't. there was a bull market under obama. he kept that going. unemployment was coming down. he kept that going. great. you're not listening to the voices of the black community. you say that's not enough to make up for s-hole countries. that's not enough to make up for insulting black football players. like just because we're making incremental progress, continuing incremental progress that do

. >> the numbers just released show african american unemployment is at its lowest rate ever, and white unemployment is at one of the lowest rates it's ever been so we're near full employment. >> reporter: so then why so much negativity from economists? >> i think in part because uh people have taken a very negative view of him personally. >> reporte you're a republican? she is. and rhonda sharpe is also a president of the national economic association, founded in 1969 as the caucus of black economists. our last interviewee, she had been listening to all the anti- trump talk at the economics convention. and it worried her. >> i think that he probably has the ability to reinvent himself in ways that we haven't seen other politicians. i think the big question is going to be which way that goes and if folks who are very opposed to him recognize that they have an opportunity potentially to influence some of that. >> reporter: so are you worried that in reflexively opposing him people make it harder for him to change direction and be more bipartisan? >> i think both the reflexive response to

the white house. >> all right, boris, thanks. the u.s. president also sparring over the black unemployment rate. not with a political adversary, but with hip-hop mogul jay-z. >> mr. trump responded to comments the rapper made during an interview on jan jones' new show on cnn. >> he is somebody who is now saying, look, i'm dropping black unemployment. black people are doing well under my administration. does he have a point that maybe the democrats have been giving us good lip service but no jobs. maybe he is going to say terrible things but put money in our pocket. does that make him a good leader? >> no, because it's not about money attend of the day. money doesn't equate to happiness. it doesn't. that's missing the whole point you. treat people like human beings. it goes back to the whole thing. you treat me really bad and pay me well. >> right. yeah. >> it's not going lead to happiness. it's going lead to, again, the same thing. everyone is going to be sick. >> mr. trump later tweeted this, somebody please inform jay-z that because of my policy, black unemployment has just been reported to be

is this administration aware that the black unemployment rate from december, 6.8%. white unemploy rate 3.7%. asian 2.5%. hispanic unemployment rate 4.7 raise. black unemployment rate continues to be higher. is that something that this administration is touting? or they trying to fix make an either to fix if 2018? >> we've all ready taking it. we're trying to fix unemployment for all americans. that's the point the president made time and time again. he wants it to be better for everybody. we've made significant progress in that both through the number of regulations that have been cut to make this a more job friendly market. a more job friend environment. certainly, adding to that, the tax cuts and tax reform legislation that the president led on has been historic in what has happened in the way that it has helped our economy and certainly helped create jobs. >> why did he take issue with jay-z when he was talking in terms of black america. he took issue. have you seen my black unemployment. >> because they're better than they have been. we're making progress. we want to

. >> the white house will cite those statistics but it should be noted when you talk about for example the african-american unemployment rate that it's almost double the unemployment rate overall for the country. it's the highest -- it began declining under president obama back in 2010, not under president trump. what is the white house going to do to target that more specifically if anything? >> there's more we can do but you're not acknowledging it's reached an all time low. >> that's correct, i'm not disputing that but he's taking credit for something that started seven years ago hempltshemplt. he's taking credit for the fact he's reached an all time low. i think you'll hear that we need to continue rollback regulations, to continue to unleash the free market and you'll also hear him talk about a infrastructure plan he hopes will be a bipartisan one. >> that's an interesting topic because i know that's something that the hill might not be so ready to embrace, particularly in a midterm election year, paul ryan is speaking now, talking about immigration and daca, we're going to go to him when he takes questions, but since

the white house tonight, thanks. >>> the new jobs report is out. the u.s. added 148,000 jobs in december falling short of economists' expectations. the unemployment rate remains steady at 4.1%, the lowest level in 17 years. and year over year wages grew about 2.5%. >>> speaking of jobs and the economy, with the trump administration this week rolling back obama-era rules that allow legal marijuana to thrive, nerves are sure to be rattled in california towns that are now banking on recreational cannabis to dig them out of tough times. nbc's jacob soboroff visited one of them. >> reporter: in 2001, the town of desert hot springs went bankrupt. it's been struggling ever since and now hopes to revive its fortunes with cannabis. >> we have over 200 parcels that are zoned for cannabis. >> reporter: she runs a consulting group for cannabis businesses there. one of them is this facility that costs $7 million to build but the upside is almost priceless. >> 8,064,000 cannabis. every year out of this one building? >> your lips to god's ears. >> devil hot springs has a project just like this. it's already had an impact on property values. >> a couple years ago pro

can actually see the relationship between higher evels of unemployment and higher levels of violent crime. black people hat and white people typically consume and sell drugs at similar rates. people who have been locked up in the last few decades have crimes.ked up for drug but black people are far more likely to be arrested an crimes.ated for drug so we, of course, have to eliminate that discrimination. a large extent do like many states are doing, in which hey're legalizing drugs like marijuana, that a drug that is ess harmful to the body than alcohol. so i think for me, the focus should not be on thinking that in a general sense, people.listic sense is for us to see the ways in which by providing jobs and people, that for that actually will lessen crime. conversation with ibram here in washington, d.c. next caller is from indianapolis. go ahead, paul. on the air. >> yes, dr. kendi, it's an honor talk to you. i have been studying this since retired about ten years ago. i have come to the conclusion that racism doesn't have much to slavery. slavery was ancient and universal, where as what we racism now actually developed, started developing in called s with so scientific

the white house. this relationship with the truth. the president has been bragging a lot about things, including african-american unemployment rates.as tweeted today it is great the jobless rate for after kan can americans has fallen. trump is saying the dems had nothing to do with it. under obama it fell from 16.1%s in 2009 top 7.8% in january of 2017. it has since fallen to 6.8%. is it fair for this president to be taking credit here for that? >> especially not fair for him to be taking credit for it when he thought she is same statistics from the bureau of labor statistics were false. remember during the election when he didn't believe in this? now he wants to take credit for it because they're positive numbers attributed to his presidency. >> thank you all. see you soon. thanks for watching. i'll see you right back here tomorrow. good night. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but w

the tax cuts, record high stock market and a very low unemployment rate. cheryl: all good things for the markets, obviously, well, president trump is praising white house chiefaff john kelly one day after kelly angered him when he told fox news that trump's policemen was not fully informed and trump talking about kelly in visit in pennsylvania. >> he's great, i think he's doing a great job. he's a very special guy. cheryl: the wall is the wall and has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it rnlgt -- media took it out of context. lauren: shares f ibm and american express are putting damper on blue chip average. cheryl: we have been on a roll so far and now we hit a bump, good morning to you. tracee: good morning, the dow is setting up for another down day courtesy of ibm and american express reporting analysts that beat expectations. ibm's revenue rose for the first time and warned that higher tax rate would eat into profits, ibm shares rallied 10% on hopes of turnaround for the company sell more than 3% after the closing bell. meanwhile shares of american express fell nearly 3% in extended trading, the company reported first quarterly l

that someone should inform jay-z that black unemployment is at its lowest rate ever under his presidency. but after all the cabinet members he's fired, whiteloyment is at an all-time high. [ laughter and applause ] very interesting. did you see this? in an interview with piers morgan, trump was asked about some controversial videos that he retweeted in november. take a look at what he had to say. >> you know, retweet -- sometimes you do -- retweets are a very -- when you do your own tweeting or when you do your own social media, it's fine. when you do those retweets, they can cause problems, because you never know who is doing it to start off with. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you see, when you retweet a tweet -- when the tweet is retweeted, that's how you tweet the retweets. i'm the president of the united states." [ laughter and applause ] what is going -- what are you talking about? well, a big sports story here. the cleveland indians announced that they will no longer use chief wahoo as their logo beginning in 2019. they admitted that the logo is extremely offensive, so they're only going to wear it for 162 more games. [ laughter ] then enou

the white house. this relationship with the truth. the president has been bragging a lot about things, including african-american unemployment rates.ournalist tweeted today, it is great the jobless rate for african-americans have fallen. trump is saying the dems had nothing to do with it. under obama it fell from 16.1%s in 2009 to 7.8% in january of 2017. it has since fallen to 6.8%. is it fair for this president to be taking credit here for that? >> especially not fair for him to be taking credit for it when he thought the same statistics from the bureau of labor statistics were false. remember during the election when he didn't believe in this? now all of a sudden he wants to take credit for it because they're positive numbers attributed to his presidency, not barack obama's. >> thank you all. see you soon. thanks for watching. i'll see you right back here tomorrow. good night. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go

look at this man's record in the white house, it's been astou astounding in terms of black economic progress with lowest unemployment raten 30 years, that the please in income and so on. that's all a very positive thing. brooke, if this man is a racist, why is it that his approval rating, among blacks, has increased while he has been president? it's because of his record, not what he says. >> approval ratings, latest cnn poll from december showing approval of trump among black americans at 3%. >> you're looking at a different poll thai than i am. latest polls show trump's approval rating with black males at about 25, 26%, which is substantial improvement over what it was on election day and even among black females, which is his toughest demographic, his approval rating has gone up. his approval rating with blacks has not gone down. it's gone up. >> angela, thoughts? >> yeah. i have several. i'm so glad that stephen wants to talk about donald trump's record, so let's. let's talk about how he preferred a man with yamikas to count his money over a black man because they're lazy, he has a lazy gene. let's talk about donald

we going to take away the punch bowl now when we're making real strides in stuff that margs, which is to lower this, not only the unemployment rate but the gap between black and white>> you think the fed is responsible for that >> i think there's an argument >> you are making an assumption that that pufrm bowl is responsible for the move in that data >> no, he is just saying if you raised rates >> you could stop it from happening. >> it would be better if you raised rates >>, this by the way, is the argument of the fed up, folks, and some other folks that are out there saying, you know what, why cut it off let it go. let's -- it's a cheaper way, by the way. if you -- >> of course, that violates both of the fed's mandates. skbro we have stable below target prices. >> jared, that's where i would argue. where you closing in on a full employment i think we're at full employment >> okay. maybe we're at full employment we can argue about that. >> 6.8% and half of the americans are unemployed maybe it's not unemployment. >> maybe they're sitting at home >> you know who benefits most from this part of the recovery it's precisely the workers that steve is talking about it's

the economy, the unemployment rate was low. stock market at that point. i understand. i felt in september 2008 it all changed. the whitese needs to make a choice. they could win by complaining or they could show, not tell make the media covered it. if president trump left town and chooses ten cities to go to, the media has to cover it. make them follow him wherever he goes. she would get coverage, not only in the national media event and all of those. >> greg: the wall street journal asked 68 economists about the economy. >> kimberly: fair and balanced balanced. where did they learn that from? "wall street journal." that's us. we deserve, as americans, honesty. fair reporting and accuracy. and they should give credit where credit is due. i was applauding them. while i was reading to say okay, this makes sense. things are going in the right direction. will they continue to be forthright, the media and the rest of the mainstream media to give president trump the credit for his economic gains that he's been able to obtain early in his presidency. >> greg: we can't just blame the media entirely. things are going great, whi

the neighbor market news for employment the unemployment rate is still at a seventeen year low the good news for american workers case that wages are increasing. staying with the trumpet ministration and the whiteuse has announced that it wants to open almost the entire u.s. coastline to offshore drilling music to the is of energy companies but several coastal states have already vowed to do whatever it takes to stop that happening. the five year plan calls for forty seven new offshore leases opening waters that have been off limits for decades including areas off the california and florida coasts is a move that the u.s. interior department says is in the nation's interest but it is a clear difference between. you wait a minute and under president we're going to have the strongest energy house and become the strongest interview supercar we've certainly yet is to do that the proposal follows last week's announcement of plans to roll back or even repeal safety regulations adopted under the obama administration environmental groups have vowed to oppose the move and are organizing protests offshore drilling is is inherently dirty it's an awful lot of work there will be an oil spill such as was the

line's employment growth in the white line is gdp growth rate the green bars, a lot of data should show economic confidence at a high since the currency blocks early days. unemploymentould come at a post prices low continues to boom as well. inflation is the key metric of the ecb, it will probably be the slowest in six months. don't forget mario draghi is language last week in that statement, he said exchange rate swings are a source of uncertainty that need to be monitored for the impact on inflation, the strong euro does push down on inflation. a quick look at zinc and zinc futures versus vick. is impressivehink we've seen a two-year rally in prices more than double. caring the momentum in 2018 with a vengeance. the metal is used to galvanized steel, surging once again today, a decade high today inventories tracked by the lme is dwindling. the zinc prices rising and it seems a supply squeeze is taking place on the lme, given stockpiles are so low and canceled warns are rising. ordered torrants remove metals from sheds. 90 minutes of the session in the u.s., julie, how's it looking? julie: stocks take another leg lower the u.s., all three major averages hitting the

lock that is good news, the president and the white house could be talking about, like the stock market, going to records at the end of last week. unemployment rateis tax agenda. but to what extent does the president, when he's reaching out to his base these tweets on suck all the oxygen away from that storyline? clearly it has gotten away from the storyline, that republicans want to push. at the same time, the president felt it necessary to take on this book head—on, and to quote bracket or surrounded with his surrogates and put it to bed. a lot of people have questions about the author michael wolff and his journalistic tendencies on whether or not what he was writing was accurate, clearly there are some passages in the book that seem a little more true than others. when you look at the ones that definitely seem to be false, that definitely seem to be false, that puts a pale on the whole thing. he has addressed it, now it's time to move on, that's old news. we need to move on, that's old news. we need to focus this week on the task ahead. in november, the midterms. all the polling and recently results suggest you do face some headwinds. what so

the white house counsel on economic advisers reports that the unemployment rate for manufacturing workers is low. the lowest rate ever recorded. the facts also show that according to the last energy information agency quarterly report, coal production in the west is 19.7% higher than the second quarter of 2016. in addition, the stock market is reaching record all-time highs. administrator pruitt has also made significant progress in protecting the environment and righting the wrongs of the past administration. he has made it a priority to clean up america's most contaminated sites. he has held polluters accountable. even if it was his own agency that was responsible for the pollution. pruitt rightfully called the obama administration's response to the epa caused animus river spill wrong. and he followed -- allowed for victims of the spill to refile their claims that had been denied by the previous administration. administrator pruitt also allowed the city of flint, michigan, to have their $20 million loan forgiven so that money could be better used to protect the health and safety of its

the african-american unemployment rate worth noting it sank to a record low of 6.8%. that's as low as it's been since i have data going back to 1971 the gap between black and white unemploymentlso a record low, 3.1% should the fed let the economy to run to allow greater strides in these metrics >> earlier this morning, you said you thought it was a three-handle on the unemployment rate that spooked the fed. so 4.1% allows them to breathe easier >> a little bit for a little while. the fed is going to have to grapple with a three handle on there. how does jay powell react to this does he let the economy run? how does he react to the incoming stimulus that's out there from the tax cuts? either call it keynesian stimulus or supply side stimulus from the corporate tax cuts. we could get a bit of both actually, and the question is does jay powell think three is okay for this year you can see from the possibilities the market just getting around to kind of thinking about three it's got two priced in, thinking about the third, and the bet, the second favorite on the fed this year is for four rate hikes, not three >> you know, steve, in terms of the impact on the economy, it's sort o