top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. today s final jobs report before election day was just what the white house was hoping for. 261,000 jobs beating expectations from economists, but not too high to further drive up inflation. this goldilocks number helps the president make the case for his party in the final sprint to november 8th. former president trump is also on the campaign trail. he ll be in pennsylvania tomorrow pushing for the republican in one of the tightest races for senate that is key to determining who will control congress. pennsylvania has seen more than 1 million votes cast and is just one of several key battleground states where the early vote appears to be record-breaking. in total, more than 34 million americans have already cast their ballots. cnn s correspondents are following it all. we begin in the neck-and-neck race for senate. today is the final day of early in-person vot
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
issues. and here in wyoming, you know, we have same-day registration. it is the right of people to register whatever party they want to register as. and my message is one for all wyomingites, i represent every single person in this state and i believe that there are thousands and thousands across our state that fundamentally understand why it is so important to have somebody that will abide by oath of office. there might be democrats that would vote for cheney. yeah. remarkable. you said men are running the world and it is not going well. do you think those in the u.s. are ready for women to run things? sure. i think that one of the things that have been very moving for me over the course of the last year and ha half has been the reaction of women and not just the women who have testified, although we ve seen the incredible bravery of people like cassidy hutchinson and sarah matthews and ruby freeman and shay moss and carolyn edwards. it takes real bravery to stand
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d
away. experts believe it could fall to the lowest level since last february, the white house down plays fears of a recession. my hope is we go from this rapid growth to a steady growth. so we ll see some coming down. but i don t think we re going to god willing, i don t think we ll see a recession. let s hope he s right. today s report is the first of many marking the state of the economy, especially this week. tomorrow, the fed will make its announcement on interest rates and will likely hike that interest rate. so let s begin with the economy this hour with cnn reporter matt egan and jeremy diamond. matt, we ll let you look at the numbers just coming in. but jeremy, what is the strategy for the white house as they prepare for so many consequential reports on the economy this week? reporter: we have seen from the white house a week of prebuttals ahead of all of these economic numbers this week. in particular, those gdp numbers that we are expecting on thursday. the w