try to fill remaining positions. will also today president biden signed an executive order on abortion access following criticism within his own party. he s not doing enough to protect reproductive rights. white house correspondent peter doocy is following it all tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, mike. president biden s team pored over today s jobs report and filled up part of a speech with some numbers they think prove that things are going well and the president deserves credit. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. the reason to believe the president thinks that unemployment rate low and steady at 3.6%. recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. but more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled as hundreds of thousands have decided to stop looking. the labor force participation rate dropped another two tenths percent the labor force 300,000
the best job in the world but them s the breaks. the 140 days has past since my wife has been able to speak to me. d.e.a. has interdicted fentanyl, counterfeit pills in every single u.s. state and territory. it s everywhere. when it comes to these sky high gas prices, drivers are mad about it i m mad about it the president is mad about it oil company executives are thrilled. it s not like there is some group chat with 150,000 gas station owners on it. we are going and begging saudi arabia for oil while we are exporting our own oil around the world. we see an extraordinary, extraordinary group of americans up here in this stage. another action-packed week in american politics. monday on special report, the ceo of one of the largest simi conductor manufacturers in the world joins to us discuss the worldwide push for more microchips. join me this weekend for fox news sunday. we have a stacked lineup.
the supreme court. let s play. it the truth is today s supreme court majority that is playing fast and loose with the facts. i m asking the justice department that much like they did in the civil rights era to do something, do everything in their power to protect these women seeking to invoke their rights. mike: jeff, is that just frustration from the president since he really doesn t have control over the supreme court. yeah. i think there is a lot of frustration there. because of what you just said, mike, and because he can t actually do that much with executive orders on the issue of abortion. he issued the one that you were just referring to. it does a few things. it seeks to protect access to abortion and to contraception for women, but the truth is i doesn t have that much authority to do that. that authority is now with the states. mike: leslie, there have been calls by the left for the president to do something on abortion rights is it enough?
well, it s not enough but he doesn t have the power to do enough or to do more. certainly, this is going to appease some, but it is not enough. it s very scary when you heard kevin mccarthy yesterday, you know, touching upon a federal ban, which we think republican also do if they get the house, the senate, and the white house not in the midterms but in the general election. and, of course, there is a concern about republicans trying to limit the ability for women to travel interstate even though currently protected that could always be changed. roe v. wade was protected and there since 1973. the president is doing the best that he can. what the american people need to do if they don t like this decision is get out and vote in november and vote for people that want to protect a woman s reproductive rights. mike: ben, what about that? does that energize democrats in it november s midterm elections. unfortunately virtually anybody on the democratic side who is going to be energized
family. the sister previously said the family had requested a conversation with mr. biden for months. we re taking a fresh look at war and global conflicts from an old school perspective. tonight my colleague bret baier speaks with a former secretary of state and national security expert about international affairs and how impactful leadership shaped them. thank you, mike. we are pleased to bring in former secretary of state nobel prize winner, scholar, national security expert, dr. henry kissinger. his latest book leadership, six studies in world strategy. dr. kissinger, it s great to see you. good to be with you. bret: i want to talk about your book specifically but i would love to get your thoughts on the world today while we have you here. and specifically, what s happening in ukraine and russia. how do you see that tonight? that s 15% of the territory of ukraine and the line for the