BOLDUAN: President Trump woke up today to the first jobs report of his presidency although the survey was taken in early January when President Obama was still in office but I digress. Still, it is the Trump economy now. The U.S. added 227,000 jobs in January, well ahead of December's gain of 157,000 jobs. The unemployment rate ticking up a hair, 4.8 percent. What does it all mean? I don't know. That's why I go to CNN's chief business correspondent, Christine Romans. I've been waiting for this one to come out in order to just to hear how President Trump reacts to it.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: And before I get to that, let me just show you what these numbers say because they say the job market is still strong, Kate, 227,000 jobs. Look how that fits into the overall picture because context is so important with these numbers. It's the best we've seen since the summer. The unemployment rate, 4.8 percent. That's about half of what it was. Remember those terrible days after the financial crisis, during the financial crisis? The unemployment rate has been cut in half since those terrible days. This is where the job creation is, retail, construction. The housing market is doing well. Just a gradual rise in mortgage rates has been OK for the housing market. You are seeing a lot of construction jobs, these tend to be higher paying jobs, Kate, in business and information services. So where does that leave us? That leaves us with this picture. President Trump says he would like to create 25 million jobs. He has also said, and that would put him just above Bill Clinton, President Obama, who inherited a really horrible, horrible, horrible labor market, he ended up with about 11 million jobs. Look at this, George Bush only with 1.3 million. So President Trump, when he was still Mr. Trump and Candidate Trump, had said that these numbers, these official job statistics, were completely made up, that they were wrong, and he didn't believe them. Listen.
Jobs Report: 227,000 Jobs Added In January.