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War on numbers: Trump’s latest firing crosses a new line
MSNBC·2025-08-06 00:42

Good evening from New York. I'm Ali Veli in for Chris Hayes. Donald Trump says it's his opinion that the Bureau of Labor Statistics rigged the jobs numbers against him. That was his justification for firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics.An argument that he repeated during an interview with CNBC earlier today. >> When they say that the, you know, that nobody was involved, that it wasn't political. Give me a break.It's a highly political. It's a highly political situation. It's totally rigged.Smart peo ...