His side of the story: The president made headlines yesterday after announcing he would be firing the commissioner of labor statistics, who he alleges has been producing jobs reports that are "rigged" against his administration. This morning, he was asked about it: "The [Bureau of Labor Statistics] commissioner doesn't even really get involved with the actual minutia of putting [jobs reports] together.…These are statistical changes based on this antiquated system, and it's just a big leap to go to 'rigged.' And then it also, Mr. President, it makes anyone you pick…critics are gonna say, 'Hey, he's picking a guy or a gal who's giving him the numbers he wants,' so it undermines confidence in the system to some extent," CNBC's Joe Kernan posed to President Donald Trump on Squawk Box this morn
Trump gives his reasoning for firing labor statistics commissioner

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