and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of everyday goods such as groceries or gasoline. the current rate of
and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of
report, the fight against inflation is still far from over. as bigger paychecks aren t keeping up with higher prices. there s no denying that high prices, particularly around gasoline and food, are a real problem for people. president biden warning americans that much of the fate of the economy is in the hands of the federal reserve and russian president vladimir putin. putin s war has raised the price of food. i understand that families who are struggling probably don t care why the prices are up. they just want them to go down. joe, what are you going to do to bring them down? the predalso answering calls to, quote, do something on guns following a series of mass shootings. one message for all of us. do something. just do something. for god s sake, do something. after his urgent appeal for tougher restrictions like an assault-weapons ban, universal background checks and red flag laws, the president says he s being constantly updated on the status of gun talks on capitol h