WATCH: Biden Fires Back At Reporter When Asked Why People Don't Feel Better About The Economy

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President Biden spoke with the press on Friday about the September jobs report.

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00:00 >> The Press: Mr. President, you started your remarks here today

00:02 by saying it was good news today with the economic report.

00:05 Why do you think most people still don't feel positive

00:09 or feel good news about the economy?

00:11 >> President Biden: Well, first of all,

00:13 you just heard the news today, too.

00:14 They haven't heard it.

00:15 I think the people -- those 300-plus thousand people

00:18 who got jobs feel better about the economy.

00:20 Look, I got to choose my words here.

00:28 You all are not the happiest people in the world,

00:30 what you report.

00:33 And I mean it sincerely.

00:34 It gets a more -- you get more legs

00:37 when you're reporting something that's negative.

00:39 I don't mean -- I don't mean you're picking on me.

00:41 I'm just -- the nature of things.

00:43 You turn on the television,

00:45 and there's not a whole lot about "Boy Saves Dog"

00:48 as he swims in the lake, you know, to say --

00:51 you know, it's about, you know,

00:52 somebody pushed a dog in the lake.

00:55 I mean, I get it, but if you just listen

01:07 to what's going on around the world,

01:09 there's reason for people to be concerned.

01:12 There's reason for people to be concerned

01:14 what's going on with -- in Russia.

01:18 There's reason to be concerned about what's going on

01:21 in other parts of the world.

01:23 I think that the American people are smart as hell

01:29 in knowing what their interests are.

01:31 I think they know they're better off financially

01:35 than they were before. It's a fact.

01:37 And all the -- all that data, all that polling stuff

01:41 shows they think they're more positive about the economy

01:44 than they've been, more positive about their jobs, et cetera.

01:47 I just think if you -- let me put it this way.

01:52 If you just watch what happened last week in the Congress,

01:55 how excited are you going to be about much of anything?

01:59 Anyway.

02:03 >> The Press: Why is he not legally trying to challenge

02:05 border wall construction?

02:06 >> The Press: Are you going to wait until there's a speaker

02:08 to make a speech on Ukraine, sir?

02:10 - Bye.

02:10 [door opens]

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