heading to the southern border days before covid restrictions are headed next week. congresswoman concern have a escobar joins me here. and i will talk to ukraine s ambassador to the united states on new threats from russia. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the white house is lauding a jobs new that outpaced expectations. 253,000 jobs added in april. unemployment down slightly to 3.4%. the lowest level since 1969. the good jobs numbers could complicate the fed s plan to pause hiking interest rates as the president and speaker are preparing to hold their first talks next week on that fast approaching debt ceiling deadline. and turmoil in the regional bank sector as well could be spreading. with all of that joining me now nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli outside the white house, committee for responsible federal budget maya mcginnis and former barack obama white house press secretary michael gibbs. we are going to hear from the presi
old. the news continues. cnn newsroom with michael starts now. anderson, thank. you matt gates, he singlehandedly held up kevin mccarthy s election as speaker, you ll recall, well tonight he is threatening to do it again in a new battle on capitol hill. and, he is here. i m michael, live from new york city, on the day the president joe biden asked americans for another four years. the nation is at risk of a potential economic disaster. thanks to partisan and intra party politics in washington, the u.s. is scheduled to default on its debt, as early as june. something that has never happened before. , and if the nation default, that means massive job losses, almost usher as a recession. federal benefits like social security are at risk, interest rates, what do you pay out of your house, your car, your college loan, they all skyrocket. the stock market, it tumbles, dragging with it your 401 case. i know what you re thinking. you re thinking, michael, we ve seen the movie before.
good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
there s more to do, so let s finish the job president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job we ll take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer who s now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlson s ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the proud boys put the blame for the january 6th capitol attack squarely on donald trump we ll have the latest from the courtroom ahead of jury deliberations. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where just hours after announcing his re-election bid president joe biden gave his first campaign speech yesterday and was greeted with this warm reception. four more y
from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs and officers on horseback and drones that are working to track him in order to locate him. the sheriff is saying that he hopes to have the suspect in custody within the next couple of oropeza hours, and this informatio