Good day. It's Saturday, August 2nd. I'm Ali Velshi, and I'm speaking to you this morning from the wrong side of yet another perilous line that our country has crossed under Donald Trump.

Today, we're all waking up in a country headed by a president who, when faced with empirical data that he does not like, will fire the government official who collected

it. Yesterday, we all got some bad news, an alarmingly bad monthly unemployment report that

revealed a far more fragile jobs market than we had thought we had. Only 73,000 net new jobs,

that's new jobs created minus jobs lost, were added in July. It's a weak

number, but worse were the revisions to the two previous jobs reports. May's job report was

revised down from 144,000 jobs to only 19,000 jobs. June's 147,000 jobs were mostly a mirage as well. Turned out only 14,000 jobs were added that

month. That's 258,000 fewer jobs than we previously thought, bringing the average for the last

three months to 35,000 jobs per month, far more than the 150,000 or more that is needed for job

growth to keep up with population growth in

this country. Now, revisions to government statistics are normal. It's the nature of large numbers.

They happen regularly. They almost never show this dramatic a shift. It was a bad report. There's no

doubt about it. And bad particularly for a president who, in political terms,

owns this job market and this economy, which has been roiled by the chaos of his tariffs and

his trade wars. But instead of addressing the numbers and the challenges they present,

the president said they were fake. And he fired the head of the department that collects the

numbers. Trump baselessly claimed that the job's numbers were rigged.

He accused the fired commissioner of inflating numbers for the Biden administration

and sabotaging job numbers under his administration.

Why did you fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Stitsip?

Well, I think our numbers were wrong.

I got issues with the numbers for a long time.

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