Hour. Ill see you back at 5 00 for meet the press daily. Chris jansing takes over. Im Chris Jansing in for ali velshi. Look at the white house where at this moment the president is welcoming the champion Pittsburgh Penguins. The visit comes on a day when the president seems to be feuding with just about everyone around him. Fill in the blanks. Senator bob corker. The president back to name calling referred to bob corker as liddle bob corker, with two ds. And Rex Tillerson, openly challenging the secretary of state to an iq test after the report that tillerson called the president a moron. The president telling Forbes Magazine i think its fake news but if he did that i guess we will have to compare iq tests and i can tell you who is going to win. Did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq comment. No, i didnt undercut anybody. I dont believe in undercutting anybody. Thank you very much. You see him there with henry kissinger. Sarah Huckabee Sanders forced to answer questi
An employment report that shocked everybody and seemed to confirm this recovery is not slowing down. It is interstellar. Fox on top of jobs center. We have john roberts at the white house where the president is doing crowing. We also have deidra bolton on the records these numbers are now breaking. We begin with john. We all know that you showed the launch of apollo 11 because youre a space junkie. Yeah. It is. And a lot of the democratic president ial candidates have been saying the nation is on the verge of crisis. The economic numbers released today would contradict that. The labor parties rate dropped a little bit. Overall, the jobs grew by a tremendous amount. It was expected that we would see job growth of 190,000 jobs in the month of april. Its 263,000 jobs. Unemployment dropped to a rate of 3. 6 as you pointed out, neil. That is the lowest since december of 1969. The oval office today, the president quite happy about it all. Listen here. We have tremendous backing. The companie
Compliance. Russia hasnt been complying with the treaty for about six years now dating back to the obama administration. They have deployed these missiles that are actually prohibited by the treaty. But what the u. S. Can now do that the treaty is over is they can start developing and testing their own version of these missiles to compete with russia in this space. Now, Senior Administration official told me that these tests are not considered to be provocative. And thats because they are initial tests. The u. S. Is years away from potentially deploying these missiles in the countries surrounding russia. That would take awhile. But what we are monitoring today is the fact that there are a lot of experts who are worried about an arms race breaking out now that this treaty is no longer. The other story is that very important today is that the Trump Administration is in the process of scaling down its personnel footprint at its embassy in afghanistan. Now, that is the largest u. S. Embass
Wont budgent payday comes. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begins in our world lead, a u. S. Officials telling cnn that north korea is believed to have launched two shortrange ballistic missiles. I want to get right to cnns will ripley who has been to north korea nearly 20 times. This is the third launch in less than two weeks by floirknonorth. Hes trying to send a signal to President Trump, to the south korean president and frankly to the hawks in his country who think he should go harder on the u. S. Because they havent gotten what they want. The North Koreans have indicated a willingness to continue workinglevel talks with the u. S. In fact secretary of state mike pomp onwas in bangkok. So these are in some sense a posturing, but a reminder what north korea could do. Will ripley, thank you so much. Turning to our 2020 lead, how much to stay focused on defeating donald trump versus how much to target each other, especially frontrunner joe biden . As the candidates debated the
Program. Plus, we will have action to the democrats and sanity. Ukrainian conspiracy theory, impeachment coup attempt and how illegitimate and frankly almost laughable what it has now descended into come articles of impeachment. We will try to do the impossible in detail each and every single lie from that guy. We will expose him. He is compromised, corrupt and a general layer appeared weak tonight we prove it. But first as we have been telling you over two and half years, our top story tonight the single biggest abuse of power scandal, Corruption Scandal in american political history, our countrys most powerful tools of intelligence were weaponized against a private citizen and a president ial campaign, 18, and all 20162017. We will write from a trip President Trump was right. Attorney general barr was right. Spying occurred. We told you the mob didnt believe it, but it is all true. Take a look. Do you still stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon . It was clearly spi