we will hopefully have updates on that soon. appreciate it. thank you. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill in for poppy on this friday. at this hour with kate bolduan starts now. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. try this on for size. this whole thing is a hoax but we re going to make it a top priority to make sure that hoax never happens again. that seems to be what the president is confusing? it s the show of force versus, well, simply the show. first, the show of force. not the space force, the force, the i national security communi. all at the white house speaking publically and taking questions about election security. the real threats from abroad. no waffling, no sugarcoating
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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. that s right. i think the question is, who does vladimir putin believe. it s vladimir putin who is coordinating these attacks on our democracy. he believes the president of the un
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the senator from maryland. senator, good to see you. thank you for joining us. what do you make of that quite unexpected news conference today? it did seem like full court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasn t as confident that we know exactly what we re supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. first, it s good to be with you. you re exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. putin, the russian government, that was behind that. they acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. no evidence that they re doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. that was very clear. and th
one number i want to highlight is wage growth. 2.7%. i mean, it s not terrible but you have to look at the environment. you have to look at the context here. in this stage in the cycle where we re at near or full employment, meaning that every american who is either willing or able to get a job has one, we ve seen wage growth between 3.5%. this is a persistent problem to the administration. this speaks to how people feel. they want a raise. overall, a very strong relatively strong report. missing expectations, $157,000. the market isn t loving it because it s below the trend we ve been seeing so that s why the market isn t liking it. but 3.9%. it s solid for two main reasons. this goes back to my point about context. one is that at this point in the cycle you would think that hiring would slow very significantly because we are at near full employment so you would think that actually you
would expect this kind of pullback. the other thing is it doesn t seem like tariff worries unti
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