All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for friday, march 7th. And good evening, everybody. Im Tyler Mathisen. And im sue herera filling in tonight for susie gharib. With the wicked Winter Weather still hanging in there we got a surprisingly strong report on the jobs picture from the Labor Department today. The economy added 175,000 jobs last month, and previous months were revised higher. But the Unemployment Rate ticked up to 6. 7 from 6. 6 as more people started to look for work. The report offers a little more clarity about winters effect on work, wages and the economy. Heres Hampton Pearson. Reporter despite the harsh Winter Weather nationwide, that kept more than 7 million workers at home for at least part of the month, employers stepped up hiring. Job gains beat forecasts by 46,000, renewing hopes that jobs and growth could accelerate this year. Obviously we were somewhat upset by the polar vortex. But i think that this reaffirms that grow pattern, that in fact not
Former Ohio Republican congressman bob ney discusses his newlyreleased memoir titled sideswiped subfour. Cspan former congressman bob ney in a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert manipulative cunning stealth vicious cold hearted instrumented evil that karl rove and the bush administrative head guest i must have left out a couple of things but alice fisher. Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin and particular and that basically kind of went away as i explained in the book but alice fisher had really never particulaparticula rly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the criminal visit division went over to work for chertoff. She was basically by the white house directly placed here and there is they needed her. An extreme political operative and a business where there is politics and in the bushcheney Reelection Campaign etc. I dont want to say she was a political hack and i dont want to be u
I think in many ways our institutions are under assault, both externally, and that is the big news here. Russian interference in our election system. And i think as well, our institutions are under assault internally . Internally from the president . Exactly. In high gear add in the meantime, jeff sessions, the Attorney General, and his deputy interviewed eight candidates, the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, john cornyn, alice fisher who was in the Justice Department years ago. Judge michael garcia, Federal Judge from virginia, henry hudson. Adam lee who is the head of the fbi virginia. Mike rogers from michigan, he is supported by an association of fbi agents paid a lot of people think he has the inside track. They interviewed former bush security advisor frances
umbrella of the u. S. Global health fund which will probably by a factor of at least ten, probably more increase the amount of money that is covered by that policy. Heather just another monday on capitol hill. Very
Not with the number of cases his company. Soaring across the country. We found enough of the filter and calling on americans to keep material to make 75,000 masks. Up the social distancing. Thats the goal for the next couple of weeks. We need a lot of help and the peak, the highest point everybody is just rising to the occasion and joining us. Its been amazing response. Of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit in two weeks. What happens when you drop them off . What are hospitals and Health Nothing would be worse than care professionals saying when you drop them off . Declaring victory before the well, the interesting thing victory is won. Is i think whats so important that would be the greatest loss about this is, you know, we see of all. Therefore, the next two weeks all these numbers that were and during this period its very hearing and its very, very hard to actually connect to them. Important that everyone strongly i think that what weve been follow the guidelines, have to
Time have been focused but yet we did not still have enough. We didnt have enough swabs. We didnt have enough masks. We didnt have enough gowns for all of those Incredible Health care providers. I dont want everyone to be given the impression you raised the flag just in january, okay, when you saw it was short because you hadnt gotten the job done prior to january. You were at those tables, as were so many others. This happened over a very, very long period of time. And those of us have been very disappointed to learn what was and was not in the Strategic National stockpile. I thank you for your service. I thank you for your expertise. But across the board over many administrations we did not do enough, and i yield back. Do you want to respond, doctor . I can say those plans had been in place and it was disappointing they were not pulled out in january of this year and followed. They were not put on the table with a strong leader indicating these are our plans. Everyone fall in line an