Expectations. Meanwhile, the Unemployment Rate dropped below double digits for the First Time Since the shutdown, plunging to 8. 4 . Joining me now to discuss this and more, former jpmorgan chief economist anthony chan. Anthony, thank you so much for joining us. You know, the headline number might have been in line, but you get underneath and look at some of the details in this. This is a pretty impressive report, and lets start with the Unemployment Rate at 8. 4 . I think wall street was looking for 9. 8 . Charles, this is a great report from that perspective. I get very excited when i see Unemployment Rates go down. That really tells you that thats going to throw a real breath of fresh air for the American People as they see that were making Good Progress on the Unemployment Rate. I was especially excited about the fact that the black Unemployment Rate dropped sharply, and so did the hispanic Unemployment Rate, which is something that we badly need. The only thing that bothered me a
Second amendment. Charles the president s comments coming on the heels of Congressional Ethics Committee launching an investigation into long time democratic congressman john coniers after he reportedly settled a wrongful dismissal complaint for more than 27,000 in taxpayer money after former female staffer alleged she was fired in 2015 because she would not succomb to sexual advances and he expressed denying the allegation in a statement. This all unfolding of course as several left wing activist groups are now demanding democratic senator al franken resign after two women have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, to my panel now, tammy bruce, fox news political contributor member of the independent womens forum board of directors and Washington Times columnist, and columnist for the fiscal types. Com, and a contributor to the hill and ashley pratt, contributor to the u. S. News and world record. Ladies thank you for joining us let me start with you tammy. Its just all com
Congressman james who told the New York Times that the allegations against congressman conyers quote could be made up. So what will it take to end this hypocrisy . Lets bring in a panel Tammy Bruce Fox news contributor, an independent women voice board of directors and a Washington Times columnist Beverly Hallberg and contributor to the hill and gabby, a Washington Examiner white house correspondent. Ladies, thanks for joining us. Tammy, you wrote an article today. The liberal roots of feminism. We just got to breaking news on the first democratic congressperson, congresswoman, as a matter of fact, to call for conyers to step down. No such calls for al franken. And heres the thing what makes it so frustrating for a lot of folks is that the avalanche effect until now this week a disaster for the democratic party, a disaster for the progressives, a disaster for the progressive Mainstream Media and very reluctant to call for anyone to step down. Yeah. Well, my column is really about the b
Nuclear breakdown. Charles todays declaration leaves the obamaera deal in a place, but it leaves congress to reimpose sanctions. President rouhani says they will stick with the deal. But it depend on what the United States does. This was well telegraphed. President trump appears to have taken in some of the considerations from some of the folks in his Foreign Policy team. But making it pretty clear to iran that they are violating the spirit of this deal and hes going to make sure they change their course of action. President trump delivered a tough, robust speech with harsh rhetoric. A completely different tone from President Trumps appeasement approach to iran. This was a strong statement today. And decertification was an important first step in terms of dealing with the huge overwhelming threat that the middle east faces from iran. That the west faces in general. And so he set definitely the right message to a hostile regime. Decertification is the first step along the path to the Un
Justice. They will finds that Law Enforcement and everyday people in this city are not afraid of their evil. They see through their false hateful rhetoric and are committed to bringing them to justice. Thats what we intend to do. I would like to bring in bill sweenly, assistant director in charge of the fbi. For th the past 24 hours, the joint task force has been working around the clock, developing and tracking leads as we dig deeper into the leave it and motivations of saipov. The charges announced this evening should be taken as no indication that our work here is over. Well employ all investigative techniques to fully understand his social network. Well not tomorrow until every last lead has been covered. I have one recent update i would like to make you aware of earlier we were seeking about an individual. Many of you in this room received that alert. We are no longer seeking that individual. We believed he had information related to yesterday, but we are not looking for that indi