Don t do this for a living. it is confusing, but look, if we just take a look from the main street s perspective, this is good. you want to see more jobs get added. 272,000 jobs added in the month, that was way above what economists thought. expected maybe 190,000. the one thing that did catch attention is the unemployment rate ticking up to 4%. we haven t seen the number since january of 2022. we have to remember this is still the 30th straight month of the unemployment rate being at 4% or lower. we haven t seen a streak that long, chris, since the late 1960s. this economy by all standards on the labor market side is still good. the problem is inflation, inflation, inflation, the federal reserve thought the high interest rates would make inflation go down and the labor market. the labor market is still chugging along. that means the fed isn t likely to cut interest rates in the next meeting which is next wednesday. in the last 30 seconds, i have to ask about meme stocks and the de facto leader. roaring kitty did a live stream?
To be fair and not allow my own biases to colorize this, in the main this judge has taken a bunch of actions and not taken a bunch of actions that have led to a lot of delay and i would say a sort of surprising degree for the defenses arguments no matter how outlandish they seem. i agree with you, chris. i do think some of it is her inexperience. her lack of confidence apparently in her own ability to make judgments based on the written record. many of the motions that we have seen that she has had argument on, not to mention lasting an entire day and not the first time she had arguments go an entire day. many of these are motions that other, more experienced judges would have ruled on based on the papers. there is no requirement that she hear argument from the
Actions and not taken a bunch of actions, that have led to a lot of delay. and i would say, a sort of surprising degree of solicit business towards defenses arguments, no matter how outlandish they seem. i agree with you, chris. i do think some of it is through an experience or lack of confidence, apparently, in her own ability to make judgments based on the written record. many of emotions that we have seen here, that she has had argument on, not to mention an argument blasting an entire day. is not the first time she has had argument go for an entire day. many of these are motions that i think other more experienced judges would have ruled on just based on the papers. there is no requirement that she actually here argument from the parties on every issue. supposed to really be an opportunity for you to ask the questions that you don t feel, as a judge, were resolved in the papers. so that is even all the more reason why you have no need really to hear from nonparties, people just have an interest
And the stakes are massively high as everybody knows, and everybody will be referring to today. chris can stick with us is we re looking continue to watch his life pictures in france. we also just saw the us secretary defense lloyd austin take to the stage will be hearing from him as well. kayla, let me bring in on this christiane was talking about that president biden will be speaking commemorating this day and also, we ll be offering a message to folks at home back at home as well. what is that message? well he s going to be highlighting common themes for the president, kate service, sacrifice, and the importance of learning from history, which in president biden s words, it can repeat itself we expect them to talk about the mission. the mission on d-day mattered. the mission was a noble one and the mission send that allied countries are fighting around the world right now is also a noble one at home though this
I want to bring in nbc s mike memoli from outside the courthouse. also with us msnbc legal analyst carol lam. i know the court just hit a lunch break. soon we ll see hallie back on the stand. she is regarded as the prosecution s star witness. what key details came out of her testimony so far today? reporter: yeah, chris, hallie is such an important witness. the prosecution has been able to introduce a significant volume of evidence in the form of text messages, in the form of photographs, in the form of witness testimony that really speaks to the depth of hunter biden s addiction to drugs over course of a long period of time from 2016 into 2018. they have not been able to establish it at the time he purchased this revolver in october of 2018. of course, the defense s contention is that biden did not consider himself to be addicted and, therefore, it would not have been untruthful for him to mark on the form that he was not
I m glad it s done. happy to hang up my witness one hat after this whole thing. she was witness one in that original fbi affidavit and more than three years after all of this unfolded it s wrapped up in a bow with a six-year sentence here, chris. ryan reilly, thank you. up next, the world s most powerful rocket launches into orbit. why this mission is such a critical milestone in the space race. but first, honoring the 80th anniversary of d-day. my colleague peter alexander spoke with legendary actor tom hanks who of course starred in saving private ryan at the normandy smet cemetery there. we have a few men and women who i see as being 16, 17, 18, maybe 25 years old and they might be in wheelchairs now, but they are represented by everything that is here. were it not for their choice to come and do the right thing 80 years ago, you and i would not be standing here. years ago, yout be standing here
Campaign, these are crucial days and crucial stops out west for the former president, especially coming off of his guilty convictiones in new york, chris. deirdre, you are outside the house where tonight s fundraiser is being held. we think of san francisco as the bastion of liberalism, we think of silicon valley as a place where joe biden and democrats have done very well, so what s happening here? reporter: well, there s been a real shift, especially over the last eight years, and part of the reason for that is that the republican party is seen as friendlier or at least less hostile towards the tech industry. you can look at the biden versus trump administrations, biden and his regulators have been tough on tech, whether that be a crackdown on cryptocurrencies, lawsuits from the doj and ftc on big tech workers. the trump administration there were tax credits that helped the
House speaker mike johnson has now tapped two allies of former president trump to serve on the all important house intelligence committee. it s a controversial move and punchbowl news reports that speaker johnson didn t even tell the committee chair he was appointing them. nbc s julie tsirkin is on capitol hill for us. julie, what s been the reaction to these appointments? reporter: well, the reaction has been mixed, chris. if you look at allies of the former president they ve been posting on x praising the move. you have to look no further than, for example, to congressman matt gaetz of florida s message, he said, quote, that president trump now has major reinforcements for his plan to obliterate the deep state. you also heard from lauren boebert and others praising johnson the speaker for making this move unilaterally. this committee, the intelligence
Texas and there is a lot of confusion there about how exactly how they should deal with immigrants who cannot claim asylum since that ban went into effect at midnight on wednesday, but cannot be deported. as you know, we can deport about over 60 the u.s. has deported about 60,000 migrants per month over the past year, that is a high higher than anything they ve soon in the past decade, but that is still less than double the amount of migrants who cross the southern border per month. so what will they do unless they can get more funding for planes, for detention space, and to get countries like venezuela and china to take back their nationals who right now they refuse in large part to take back. so there s a lot of concern about overcrowding because, remember, chris, this was supposed to come as part of that bipartisan bill that was negotiated in the senate, but since it wasn t passed by congress it doesn t come with more money, more manpower, more detention space or more authority and they re worried about what this will actually look like if those numbers get
You see on your screen you see the flap, you see the flames and at some point you see the camera lens breaking. this was part of another major win for spacex which was eventually it did make its return to earth. so even though, you know, elon musk himself posted to x saying even though they lost some tiles, we don t know what exactly the shape of the rocket s but it did make its return to earth and nasa administrator bill nelson also celebrating this as a big success. even though part of it was loss and kind of came apart this was the first time we ve seen that. this was something we ve seen in previous tests starship exploded minutes after it lifted off. so this is all a part of this major mission that nasa has to return astronauts to the moon. spacex s starship has been tapped to be a part of that mission and eventually the mission to mars. but, chris, this is all coming during a busy week for spaceflight. remember yesterday we were talking about boeing s starliner that is a totally separate mission.