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that does it for us on this friday morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. happy friday. so glad you are with us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and it may be friday, but there s still a lot of news this morning, including big economic shifts. we just got the april jobs report, and instead of the decline economists expected, unemployment numbers ticked down. the unemployment rate is 3.4%. jobs were added, many more than expected. that is some good news, but with interest rate hikes, banking turmoil, layoffs, and store closures, how do you assess the state of the u.s. economy? former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu who s also a senior adviser to president biden will join us. plus, a judge could hand down a record sentence for a january 6th rioter today. how long that defendant could spend behind bars. and we re following reaction to the historic verdicts against members of the proud boys. what does it all reveal about the
morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
chief. anyone? from food to fuel, prices all around us are on the rise. add the slow growth and experts are forecasting increasing odds of a serious economic downturn. americans cannot hide from what is happening. but apparently our president would like to do just that. oh, the mostly liberal media are finally getting curious about whether we will have to survive a tough recession. biden didn t like a reporter s question on that. president biden: not the majority aren t saying that. come on, don t make things up, okay. now you sound like a republican politician. i m joking. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning and nothing inevitable about a recession. harris: that s hilarious because larry summers has had it on and he said the opposite. the president can try to sell what he is saying there. critics aren t going to buy it. what is unique about this, like i tell to your viewers, different from the depre