boxes overseen by an aide recommended by first son hunter, potentially another chinese spy reporting back to the chinese communist party. meanwhile in washington, joe biden acts clueless, claiming he has no regrets. i think you re going to find there s nothing there. i have no regrets of following what the lawyers have told me hay want me to do. that s exactly what we re doing. there s no there there. thank you. maria: betrayal of the trail of gross negligence today with the chairman of the gop oversight committee, james comer, as he readies subpoenas and demands answers on the millions of dollars and a three-carat diamond that hunter and biden s family accepted from chinese officials just as classified documents were moving throughout several unsecured locations. plus, gop majority leader louisiana congressman steve scalise on oversight and accountability now. then trump immediate ya and technology ceo media and technology ceo devin nuñes on the process of removing
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
into the final weekend of the midterm campaigns. the elections now just four days out, as candidates from both parties make their final pitch to voters. also tonight, the u.s. economy the top issue for most americans, is getting one more gut check before the midterms. the labor department reporting 261,000 jobs added during the month of october. we re also watching former president trump, who now says he s very, very, very, probably going to run for the white house in 2024. there are new indications the announcement could come soon after the midterm elections. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar, and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the midterm campaigns hitting their final stretch. cnn is on the trail covering all the key races across the united states, with just four more days until polls close. we re also getting one final look at the health of the u.s. economy befor
all eyes were on the april jobs report this week. welcome to your $$$$$. fewer jobs than expected were created and the labor force participation rate dropped to its lowest level since 1981. hold organizati hold organization i ll tell you what that is. bottom line, this was not a good report. chris even romans is here to break it down for us. 115,000 jobs isn t enough to convince anyone there s robust hiring going on here. hiring actually slowing in 8.1% as you point out is a drop in the unemployment rate, but it s because so many people dropped sought of the workforce in the month. let s take a look at where there were jobs created. health care, we ve seen that z consistently. health care, 19,000 jobs there. also saw jobs in leisure and hospitality. again, many of these are low wage jobs and that s a big question about the durability of the american dream with the kinds of jobs we re creating. retail jobs, 29,000 jobs created there. reversal from last month when we didn t
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike