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extensively throughout the six hearings the committee has already held. but it was after we heard from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson late last month that the pressure really ramped up on cipollone to testify, under oath, before the committee. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto west exec saturday morning and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. there are developments today of potential new testimony the committee may hear from two other individuals who were closely aligned with trump. here s the headline for my paper, the washington post. trump considers waving claim to executive privilege for steve bannon. my colleagues isaac stanley-becker, josh joce and jacqueline alameda report, quote, former president donald trump is considering sending a letter to stephen k ....
no. there were some event celebration occurring in the madison area. [ inaudible question ]. he planned this for several weeks for the highland park shooting. any last questions? folks, this is probably going to conclude our formal press briefings on this matter. if there is breaking news or anything major that does develop, we will call a press conference. otherwise, i would not anticipate major press briefings like this. investigators have months to go continuing their investigation into this. we ll be collaborating very closely with the state s attorney s office. they ll be collaborating with their federal partners. we ll be collaborating with our federal partners. any specific questions, please reach out directly. [ inaudible question ] he s being classified now. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. you are watching the prosecutor walking away after delivering breaking developments on that fourth of july parade massacre in highlan ....
with him that went on for more than an hour. we ll have more on that in a moment. we re goingnd to w speak to hisn ,butt we re here in brazil broadcasting all week for a reason. heth if you re worried about the future of the united statesa ,this is a goodce place to come. to get a glimpse of it ork what it might look like depending on what choices we make, brazil, united states have much more in commonve m thc we realize. both are huge countries, but actually the larger than the continental united states countries with deep natural resources , diverse physicalro environment, diverse population and a very dividediv political climate. on one sideidal you have p a nationalist party that s currently in power. now these controls the executive in brazil. on the other side you haveav in effect a globale, party andto the tone of the politics here is bitter and the stakes are very high. people go to prison in brazil routinely when they loseti elections. to ahe reason we re here ....
frankly the headline number, matt, is a big one here. also it shows healthy growth in several sectors of the economy. yeah, jim. this is blockbuster growth. and it is pretty remarkable. this number is going to go a long way towards shutting down this idea that the u.s. economy is already in recession. to be adding more than half a million jobs, in a month, at this stage of the recovery, is pretty impressive. let me give you some context around this 528,000 job figure. this is twice as much as the consensus from economists. not only that, but it is 200,000 more than even the most optimistic forecaster had pencilled in. two big milestones that came out of this report, the labor market has now fully recovered all of the jobs lost during covid. total nonfarm payroll is back to february 2020 levels. the unemployment rate is now down to 3.5%. that matches the half century low set before covid. again, none of this suggests an imminent or ongoing recession. but here is the pr ....
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has no ....