crashes. in defense of this country, of course when we hear that, we think of bunker hill or normandy or the frozen chosen at a chosen watch for. perhaps even the invasion in afghanistan in 2001. we have seen good men and women leave behind wives and husbands, sons and daughters, long life i had to go die in a war. as we should we order them. i have thousands of blood brothers from the war on terror myself not because we still share the same blood but because we spilled our blood fighting for the same cause. for america. for you. so memorial day is a day we recognize that an honor it. again, as we should. but what about our actions? what do we do to honor them? do we think about their sacrifice before we tweet something hateful or before we slap the political bumper sticker on our car? do we have them in our minds when we show up in november and vote for people? most of whom have never served to pick our leaders. to our politicians, of course fancy themselves fighting patriot
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. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
e. jean carroll. we re getting new reaction to the jury s verdict and the order for trump to pay $5 million in damages. cnn has learned that federal criminal charges have been filed against republican congressman george santos amid investigations into his astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications. stand by for details on our exclusive reporting. and president biden and congressional leaders just wrapped up critical talks at the white house, and there is no sign of any breakthrough on raising the nation s debt limit as the clock ticks forward a potentially very very dangerous default. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in new york with the bomb shell verdict in e. jean carroll s civil case against donald trump. the former president found liable for sexually abusing carroll and defaming her. cnn s jean ka satellite and radar genjean casaras is joig us. gi
heading to the southern border days before covid restrictions are headed next week. congresswoman concern have a escobar joins me here. and i will talk to ukraine s ambassador to the united states on new threats from russia. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the white house is lauding a jobs new that outpaced expectations. 253,000 jobs added in april. unemployment down slightly to 3.4%. the lowest level since 1969. the good jobs numbers could complicate the fed s plan to pause hiking interest rates as the president and speaker are preparing to hold their first talks next week on that fast approaching debt ceiling deadline. and turmoil in the regional bank sector as well could be spreading. with all of that joining me now nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli outside the white house, committee for responsible federal budget maya mcginnis and former barack obama white house press secretary michael gibbs. we are going to hear from the presi