right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden taking his state of the union message on the road after pitching unity and compromise to the new house majority. when republicans engaged in unprecedented heckling, he did not hesitate to take them on. nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. they are the facts. check it out. check it out. with tyre nichols parents in the chamber, the president reaching out to black americans on police brutality by acknowledging what black parents know so well, how they have to teach their children how to interact with police, what s known as the talk. my children, i never had to have the talk with them. i never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away, don t reach for your license, keep your hands on the steering wheel. imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got
Is doubling down on its assessment that israel was not responsible for the deadly explosion at a gaza hospital. Our Defense Department says its highly unlikely that it was israelis. Loo im not suggesting hamas deliberately did it, either. The president is urging israelis to avoid the mistakes after 9 11 that the u. S. Made that led to 20 years of war. Im sure those horrors have tapped into some kind of primal feeling in israel like it felt in the United States. Shock, pain, rage. I caution this, while you feel that rage, dont be consumed by it. After 9 11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where a lot of news is breaking. House republicans are punting after two weeks of failed attempts to find a permanent replacement for ousted speaker Kevin Mccarthy. The new propoal is to give temporary speaker Patrick Mchenry the power until january to move legislation to the floor
greatest generation, with a tribute to the men who turned the tide and saved democracy. we have a special obligation. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honor it and live it. and we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day. it does not absolve us from what we have to do today. those remarks taking a deeper significance ahead of biden s meeting with zelenskyy later today, there for the d-day ceremonies as the war in ukraine wages on. the president s son in court, hearing testimony in his federal gun trial. on the stand today, his brother s widow, with whom hunter had a romantic relationship after beau died. hallie testifying about hunter s addiction to crack. donald trump returning to the campaign trail in arizona, almost a week after he gets critical pre-trial rulings, both florida classified documents and the georgia election interference cases. good day, everyone. i m andrea
able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements we re supposedly celebrating. let s start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesn t tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pandemic related job losses are hitting women of color especially hard. we talk about that a lot. compared to this time last year, total employment for white women is down just over 5%. for black and latino women, that rate is nearly double. a bunch of factors continue to contribute to the disproportional impact on women of color, including an overrepresentation in industries that have been hit hardest such as hospitality and leisure. in addition, the coronavirus crisis is forcing an impossible ch
to plan military operations, that would not justify an israeli strike on a place where civilians were sheltering. it s saying that this strike is a suspected war crime. this all just underscores the fierce urgency the white house feels right now about trying to get to a cease-fire deal, trying to get to a deal to bring the hostages home. as you mentioned, president biden and 16 other world leaders demanding hamas accept the propoal on the table right now. hamas for its part says it wants clear assurances that the israeli government is committed to ending the war and to withdrawing its forces from gaza as part of the agreement. that s something that president biden laid out in that speech at the white house on friday. but hamas says there have been