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>> good morning, aishah. we have not heard from the president in reaction to all of this. we expect to see him a few hours from now at 11:45 and should address this. the economy adding 253,000 jobs, way, way higher than expected. also the unemployment rate ticking down to 3.4%, lowest in 50 years. these are not good indicators for slowing the economy down. what the fed has been trying to achieve has not happened yet which means those rate hikes are possibly going to continue. that's really a pivot from what we heard from the fed yesterday indicating that they were likely to consider pausing th...

On yesterday. >> i have faith in the criminal justice system and let the process take its place. those who believe that i should do something differently, i respect that. >> the former marine has not been charged. he hired criminal defense attorney thomas kenneth, manhattan das formal rival who ran against him for the race for d.a. in 2021. hochul says kneely's family deserves justice and we follow this in the newsroom. >> dana: more later in the show. thank you, laura. >> u.s. labor market hitting the accelerator. economy added 253,000 jobs last month. that is stronger than analysts expected....

Surprising growth in the labor -- growth in the labor market when other indicators have very clearly recently been pointing to possibly a cooling off. the new data was just released in the last 30 minutes and it shows employers added 253,000 jobs last month, that's far more than the 180,000 that was expected. in terms of the unemployment rate, that has also dropped slightly now at 3.4% down from 3.5% the month before which is another sign of strong hiring. this report comes also two days after the federal reserve raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, all in an effort to rein in...

And the facts around these things. and then i think the other lesson is that we can do these hard things. i mean, if you told me as a doctor i would convert a medical practice and community clinic 24 hours overnight virtually, i would say you were crazy. but i think it has been critical to acknowledge that we can do these hard things and we have to be able to do the hard things or we'll fail future generations. critical lessons learned. i hope we keep them and translate them for our current generation and those to come. it will be important. this is not our last and only pandemic. but we shoul...

These number? >> jessica, it looks like summer came early this year, at least according to this jobs report. as you pointed out, 253,000 jobs added in the month of april, hotter than economists were expecting. we did get revisions for the prior two months we can show you here. march was revised lower, february was revised low he. in terms of unemployment falling to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low. we have been in this range with unemployment about 3.4 to 3.7 since march of 2022. as the president said we saw more people coming off the sidelines. that was good news, a lot driven by women, a lot driven...