The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week issued a steep downward revision to May and June's hiring numbers, prompting President Trump to call the edits "miscalculations" by the department's commissioner, whom he subsequently fired, in a social media post on Aug. 1.

CNN’s Matt Egan explains how President Trump’s unprecedented decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a “shoot-the-messenger” approach that will cause doubts about future economic numbers.