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  1. Will be interested in seeing your take, but I'm not sure it matters how reasonable his criticisms of the BLS's analytical practices are when the president is out there insisting that the "Job’s Report was RIGGED." Hassett is doing his best to find neutral ground, but that's not where his boss is.

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  2. CNBC: Do you believe the jobs numbers were rigged?

    Kevin Hassett: "As an economist, I like to go for what I can prove, and what I can prove is that the data have become very unreliable."

    Trump, one hour later: Last weeks Job’s Report was RIGGED"

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  3. Elaine Chao, former Bush Labor Secretary and Trump cabinet member: "There were months in which I didn’t like the numbers, the White House didn’t like the numbers, but we basically never thought of it that as, as somehow that it was not prepared correctly." Says the process is secure.

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  4. Kevin Hassett, on CNBC, "The frustration that the president has [with the Fed] is that he believes that other countries have cut rates and the US hasn't. And he worries, just as with the BLS, he worries that maybe there's some partisan calculus going on here."

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