Here with us. Good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. Happy thursday. The time has come to establish the United States space force. That was not a scene from a movie. That was that was real. The space force is actually happening. Theyve got plans. Theyre finding money. Michael bey is on board to direct the whole thing cries president mike pence laying out details for President Trumps proposed new branch of the military, the space force, but critics say it is a waste of money and unnecessary. Plus, dozens of children are killed after a Saudiled Coalition air strike hit a bus in yemen. This morning there are calls for an investigation. First lady melania trumps
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correspondent john harwood, both standing by. matt, there is some good in here, including revisions to prior months, but still undershot, the forecast. what happened? yeah, jim. at first glance, this did look like a big dud. just 210,000 jobs added in november, less than half of what the consensus was on wall street from economists. it s also the weakest number of the entire biden presidency. job growth was supposed to be up in leisure and hospitality, but it barely budged. the retail sector actually lost jobs. when you dig into the numbers, there are some positives, starting with the unemployment rate, which fell to 4.2%. that is the lowest of the pandemic. keep in mind, unemployment was nearly 15% in april of 2020. there s been enormous progress since then. also wages are up very sharply. they re not keeping up with inflation, but that does show really strong demand for workers. also, more americans are getting back into the workforce, the
conversation. kelly ann conw kellyanne conway says the question of this is being ginned up by people that had another argument. the mainstream media is covering the economy. they only cover it when they can use sesame s word of the day, recession. the fundamentals are very strong. i think what changed is the 2 1/2 years of the collusion hunt and mueller report were a big dud. now they re searching around and they re trying to they re trying to borough into the president s number one issue in the polls. we cover the economy a lot around here. grover s word for the day is wrong. but there are some of the president s this are some of the president s political critics who now are saying, you know, well, you know, we got to get rid of him. if we have it suffer through a recession for it. i hope be in at this table never says that. recession that means the value of your house goes down. the economy is growing for ten years. for ten years. so whether it s president trump, forget the p
a big dud. there are many ways to look at this. but as the hearing approaches we re getting all kinds of hard news about it. on the congressional side democrats holding a private mock hearing to prep for a witness proven to be dry, unyielding unshakableable in his appearances before this institution. then there s the mueller side. even the famous little tight-lipped operator has been compelled to reveal some things about his approach. he s being represented and prepped by an old partner in his law firm because congress has to list a lawyer written down in the formal subpoena for mueller. we know as of today mueller wants one of had his deputies to sit alongside him tomorrow. it looks like that s going to happen. given the exacting lawyer and boss he is, can you imagine what it s like for those two to prep and advise him on the most watched hearing of his life? can t be easy.