jobs and the dignity and security that comes with a paycheck. former president trump awaiting a decision that could be coming soon about possible criminal charges as the manhattan district attorney appears close to wrapping up his investigation into the role of the a the alleged role of the former president in hush money payments to former adult film star. the apology from a mexican drug cartel for the murder of who americans who died in a case of mistaken identity in a kidnapping just over the border with texas. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the labor market is strong. the pace of hiring is slowing. 311,000 jobs added in february. higher than markets had expected. january s big jump was also revised downward. the unemployment rate rising to 3.6% amid persistent concerns about inflation. we created more than 12,000 jobs since i took office. nearly 8,000 manufacturing jobs. overall, we created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in
The russell 2000 down 11 with the small caps since the watermark on july 31st. It has people wondering with the small caps and industrials down, is that a worse sign to come . Germany is in recession. China is slow there. Maybe we shouldnt be surprised. The fascinating thing is people are writing articles that we could be in the First Quarter of the slowdown. Not negative, but a slowdown. It would be one of the things where it happened gradually and all at once. The indicators are not saying that. Correct. We are hearing more and more people and it is depressing with the former fed guys, the smart ones we had on. Daniel. That narrows it down. Saying the biggest problem the fed has is they dont have a crystal ball. We know that. We need to remember that. If you are looking at three months or six months ago and making policy decisions, they will not be at that rate. I dont know what is better. Maybe some rules based regardless of what your gut is feeling. Sometimes that doesnt always wor
in the cross fire as the war between israel and hamas escalates, and questions of mount about gaza s future. former congresswoman jane harmon is here to discuss. trump s on trial, don jr. prepares to return to the stand in the new york civil fraud trial while his father suffers a setback in florida, for now. charles coleman junior will be here with insights on what it all means. and, spotlight los angeles, mayor karen bass tells me about her old efforts to ease the homeless crisis in los angeles, and how she is helping other big city mayors meet the challenge. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. this week started with democrats hair on fire. on monday a new york times poll showed presidential biden trailing donald trump in five out of six key battleground states. by tuesday night, voters had their say, and it was not good news for republicans. they were trounced at the polls on election night, after voters in ohio, kentucky, and virginia soundly rejected candida
Im telling you, it moved me smelled really good. Youre dry from flying, right . The lips dry. Ill say, in three days you spent two of them in the air. How far 16 hours one way, 15 the other. Whats the mileage . Im on a need to know basis . 10,000 maybe . 13,000 miles . I dont know. You go up i want to say 10 or 11 there doing the flight before. Okay. Thats some serious mileage. Frequent flyer miles. Very dry. I have to figure out if i can get them i think it may be a part of the delta line you had a pod not the big pod this is like the little one. Not the ones with balls with the shower i didnt have the shower. Exactly. We are glad youre back nice to see everybody our guest host today is steve grasso from Stuart Frankel and a cnbc fast money trader good morning. Guys, lets look at the u. S. Equity futures yesterday was a bit of a mixed day for the markets. Dow down by 39 points. The nasdaq put in a positive day. It broke a threeday losing streak this morning green arrows with the s p i
Yesterday, they were off the highs of the session this morning green arrows are indicated once again, but modest advances the doi ww was up by 10 1 2 poi, the nasdaq up by 3, the s p up by 3 the gains have been significant this year. Have we seen 71 days for the dow . 71 records. But 22,000 on the point 2,000 p before we got to the new year. I think i heard President Trump say 85 that could have been from the election to the first of the year thats probably what it was. Bitcoin today, did you see it . Yes we should probably show that we show it every time. We will show it after the tenyear tenyear is back under 2. 50 but it was above 2. 50 at one point yesterday. The highest weve seen since june or earlier. Maybe april. You look at the tenyear note, yielding 2. 486 . Looking at bitcoin actually its coming up a bit. Some of the dbig stories theres bitcoin okay. Its not so we got our first christmas vacation vignette out of the way on the opening there will be a few of those a great movi