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3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. lets get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i ha...

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Card bills. even if you have to have a conversation in the kitchen table about should we be spending less. the president says thats how normal people do. but woor not in a normal washington with house republicans at large but a smaller group within saying, no, were not going to blink here. >> and when there has been unified control of washington, its barely taking them raising a finger to raise the debt ceiling. republicans are going to use the leverage. they realize this is their opportunity to...

To destroy hillary clinton. >> well, i mean, look, our politics have changed so much since then. now those are said out loud all the time and taken for granted. its almost rather quaint he had to step down over that in 2015 but, look, its important to pull out the lens, big picture. what did we learn from the midterm elections where they thought this was going to be a red tidal wave sweeping through the house of representatives, a real change election that rejected complete democratic control of...

You look at numbers, a black liberal democrat from the bronx, brooklyn, excuse me, just won the first vote of the republican congress. just came out on top. not enough to be speaker. not enough to be speaker but the democratic leader just came out on top in the first vote of the new republican congress. kevin mccarthy was just humiliated in public then you saw him open the cloakroom door trying to save his hide in private. what more can he give or give enough because as i said, sometimes math is...

Answer. >> its the democrats argument that they got caught. the president has a chance to counter that. he wont let any of these people testify, so if he has fact witnesses who could say thats not how it played out, they havent testified, which suggests they cant say that. >> the idea that a transcript from a career omb official is something thats really fascinating to everybody is probably a bit of a twist and turn in normal washington. why it was so important is we havent gotten any insight or...

Numbers, theres a lot of chatter in washington and among democratic strategists does joe biden have what it takes. the numbers keep saying that voters around the country, theyre fine. >> that has been the prevailing theme which is that a lot of democrats within the party feel as if theyre holding their breath waiting for him to collapse and it hasnt materialized in any of the polling. when youre on the ground, there are a lot of local people whether its georgia to nevada to iowa who say they thi...

Currently approve of him a little bit and maybe theyre republicans, but they dont think either side is doing a good job and his numbers could go even lower. >> when nancy pelosi tells democrats stick with the plan. wed all like the government open, but stick with the plan. is she in a safe position or is there a worry for the democrats? >> i think the challenge is looking at the percentage of folks who feel personally affected and feel that this is a serious problem. those numbers seem to be get...

He enounsd hes launched an exploratory committee. the 37-year-old is a vet tral and is openly gay. several other democratic hope flds are hitting the road with an interesting message for voters. im sorry. jeff zeleny is live in washington. jeff, you know the great rock band chicago said its hard for me to say im sorry. apparently not for democratic hopefuls. >> reporter: its not. at least theyre trying this out. but some of the democratic hopefuls are starting with the biggest apologize. theyre ...

Capitol hill. a test from the speaker. >> the house and senate will have to pass a joint resolution to allow the president to speak on january 29th as the president is demanding. so him just saying that he will come does not necessarily mean that the actual state of the union will take place. in fact, john, i am told that in a closed-door meeting this morning nancy pelosi told her members and advised them not to bring their family members to washington next week. that was viewed by people in the...