Trump teases new hire, Musk's pay package, SC governor hopeful & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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| 0:31.9 | Hey there from CNN. I'm Krista Bo with the five things we need to know for Monday, August 4th. |
| 0:38.4 | President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the July jobs report |
| 0:42.4 | and the massive revisions to May and June's reports were rigged to make him and Republicans look bad. |
| 0:48.4 | As a result, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erica McIntyre. |
| 0:53.9 | We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three, four days. |
| 0:59.0 | We had no confidence. I mean, the numbers were ridiculous what she announced. |
| 1:03.0 | That was Trump on Sunday. This morning on CNBC, the top White House economist, Kevin |
| 1:08.0 | Hassett, also took issue with the BLS's combined 258,000 downward |
| 1:12.9 | revisions of jobs data from May and June. |
| 1:15.8 | They could be politically manipulated because they're so untransparent. |
| 1:19.2 | There's a black box system out there making the jobs numbers that needs to be improved. |
| 1:24.1 | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Hassett to be fired for defending, quote, |
| 1:28.5 | Trump's lies about the jobs report and for the firing of the BLS commissioner. VLS revisions are normal, |
| 1:34.6 | because the initial numbers are estimates based on incomplete data, so the jobs reports get revised |
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