President Donald Trump told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that last week's optimistic jobs figures were "not really the numbers" and said the economy was recovering from a "very, very weak" position. The president described so-called "discouraged workers" as "the people that got me elected" and vowed to "take care of those people." When Carlson asked how Trump spends his spare time, the president said, "I love to read," but bemoaned his lack of opportunities to do so. "Every time I do about a half-a-page," Trump said, "I get a phone call that there's some emergency, this or that ... I don't get to read very much, because I'm working very hard on lots of different things."

Source: Fox News March 17, 2017 02:48 UTC