would catch up when it comes to money. we ve always known this was going to be a close election, harris. the one thing you can always get more money but you can t get back more time. that s the challenge trump will face because we re only a couple months away from november. if he doesn t have as many field offices as biden. he is catching up with the money. harris: i won t quote exact numbers because we always get into that game and it is not a game. they re big crowds. look, i agree with you at that but look at the economy. it will play a major role in this election. job reports came out today, 272,000 jobs. this economy is strong. gas prices, by the way, are coming down under $2 in many states. harris: not in new jersey. i don t know where you are shopping. i know he tapped the reserve, that s temporary. things are looking good for
laura: operation restore record is underway back home while biden is still in france. members of our corrupt press working overtime to hold up the latest economic data as proof that the biden agenda is working. big number. you never know with the jobs market. i can t. every time i come to it i feel like it s eyes open, jaw drop. it continues to defy exceptions. really good job numbers. it s not just job numbers it s wages and how it relates to the rate of inflation. strong u.s. jobs report showing employers hired significantly more in may these are incredible numbers. laura: one problem here, you lift up the skirt a bit on the report and you see some disturbing trends. the job growth component, the 272,000 that the new york times and others krohn about
trump. a lot of good people on that list. at this point we just want him to win and get back into the white house. everybody is committed to that. no matter who he decides to go with. at the end of the day, we have to get our country together back on track. our economy is a mess, border is insecure, foreign policy is abject disaster, donald trump will do a significantly better job. bill: thank you for your time. republican out of florida. today we find him in nashville, tennessee. thank you, sir. gillian: take a look at this. may jobs report coming in hotter than expected this month. u.s. added 272,000 jobs. unemployment ticked up to 4%. who better to break it all down for us that edward lawrence at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning. hi. yeah, the president has weighed in on this saying the great american comeback is continuing. this jobs report is hotter than the federal reserve would like to say for inflation.
addition to the post verdict war chest that trump has already amassed, $141 million in self-reported funds from the campaign and also the republican national committee, plus $150 million from organizations backing the former president. that number does not include the leading super pac supporting trump s campaign, which reported raising nearly $70 million. sandra, trump still has fund-raisers today in southern california, today and tomorrow, then he heads to nevada. we are still waiting to hear from the biden campaign on its main numbers. we do know that it does have a big time flashy hollywood-style fund-raiser coming up with headliners of george clooney and julia roberts. sandra? sandra: will be watching it. alicia, thank you. john? john: sandra, the united states economy added 272,000 jobs in the month of may, beating the expectations as the employment rate edged up to 4%, the highest level in more than two years. jared bernstein is the chairman
it is 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. 9:00 a.m. here in the east on this friday morning. i m jonathan meier alongside the bbc katty kay and joining us is former white house director of communications to president biden, jennifer palmieri. let s get right to the breaking economic news. the may jobs report was released just moments ago and it shows that the u.s. economy added 272,000 jobs last month, above what economists had expected. let s bring in cnbc s dom chu. dom, thanks for joining. let s get your reaction to that number of jobs added and also where the unemployment rate stands. sure. the 272,000, as you point out, much higher than expected. also a tick higher in the unemployment rate. let s put some detail around the headline numbers that we just showed you. from an economic perspective, the numbers are generally more positive than negative, at least from an economic perspective.