President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week,

days after firing Commissioner Erica McIntyre, following the release of a disappointing jobs report.

Friday's report showed just 73,000 jobs added in July, well below expectations,

and included sharp downward revisions for May and June.

The president quickly dismissed the data as rigged and manipulated for political purposes,

a claim he repeated last night.

We had no confidence. I mean, the numbers were ridiculous, what she announced,

but that was just one negative number. All of the numbers seemed to be great.

For a closer look, we're joined now by William

Beach. He is the previous commissioner of Labor Statistics and was nominated by President Trump during

his first term in office back in 2017. Mr. Beach, thanks for being with us. Well, it's my pleasure.

Thank you very much for having me. So President Trump called the July numbers fake. He accused Erica

McIntyre for the BLS commissioner he fired, of rigging the data.

What's your reaction to her firing and the underlying allegation?

Well, it's just very implausible. And I'll tell you why the commissioner of labor statistics, that was my job, has no access to the collection of the data, has no access to the summation of the data when it comes out of the regions, goes to the national office, has no access, no hand, no possibility of having any involvement in the calculation of the numbers that are ultimately published.

In fact, the commissioner doesn't see the number for the first time.

The numbers are revealed to the commissioner.

Wednesday morning, usually around 11 o'clock, in a meeting.

Those numbers have now been loaded into all the machines all over the data center, which will go all over the world eventually at 8.30 Eastern time Friday morning.

So the claim that the commissioner could influence the data has to be a lot more specific because there's no access to actually influence the

data. Could the commissioner then have put pressure on people to bend the data in one way or another?

And I want to tell you, that's even more impossible, knowing the hard-headed and loyal Americans who work at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who would never

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