happy good friday. i m bill hemmer. happy good friday to you. it s time to break out some colors, i decided, indeed. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. let s get you to the numbers. the united states added 236,000 jobs last month. that is the weakest growth since december of 2020. unemployment it ticked down to 3.5%. we re crunching the numbers. hello, steve. is this good? is this bad? what s it tell smart guys like you? what it tells you that things are beginning to slow. what is more important is what happened earlier this week, the report on manufacturing. report on surfaces, isns, purchase managers, a very good indicator of what s about to happen. manufacturing is in a serious decline. services, which have been a mainstay in terms of people being able to spend on services again after the lockdowns, that s beginning to show signs of weakening. people s savings are beginning to be run down. credit card debt is beginning to go up. the storm clouds are there
tex. he leveraged the media, talked about the cellphone stuff. this guy got it done. kudos. they re still looking for a third suspect. might have news today on that. paul mauro, thank you. thank you. 13 american soldiers killed in the terror attack at the kabul airport. now the biden administration attempts to shift blame for the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. dana, good morning to you. nice to see you. getting ready for the easter weekend. wow. passover is underway. i m bill hemmer. good morning. the new report released by the biden administration saying the decision to end a 20-year war was the right thing to do. it does not, however, erase the pain. one marine recently calling the massive blast at the kabul airport leaving him severely injured. remember this? a few days. i m thrown 12 feet on to the ground. i opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious, lying around me. mmy abdomen ripp
he ll join us with his thoughts on the arrests and the nation s growing crime crisis coming up. so you are saying the option to authorize war powers is on the table? if communist china invaded taiwan, it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by congress. john: house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul making it clear the united states will uphold the pledge to protect taiwan, saying it could empower the president to use military force if the island is invaded. this is america reports and anita vogel, welcome to friday. beijing strongly opposed taiwan s president visiting the u.s. and meeting with house speaker mccarthy. john: and lawmakers will meet with tsai ing-wen in her country, a move to certainly embolden the chinese government. and how the u.s. might respond if china invades taiwan. aishah hasnie is on the ground with more on this. hello, aishah. hi there, anita and john. chairman mccaul, in order to avoid conflict b
sanctions over the war in ukraine are hurting russia s economy. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv with more. mike? trace, another update coming from russian news agencies. gershkovich has a hearing on the books now scheduled a week from tuesday. so far no u.s. representative has been able to get in the yale to see gershkovich. the wall street journal said private lawyers got to see him. the u.s. ambassador in moscow had a meeting with the deputy minister. not much movement came from the meeting. gershkovich is the wall street journal reporter taken into custody and accused of trying to obtain classified information about a russian arms factory at the direction of u.s. officials allegedly. he was taken to moscow where he s being held in prison. denied access, u.s. officials don t have good insight to his condition. i wish we did. we still haven t been able to get consular access. that s an issue that we bring up through our embassy in moscow. i wish i
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe