penalties. at least in my former office we would not bring a criminal case under those circumstances. so when someone s already paid back the taxes, it doesn t seem that the prosecution really brings back that much in the door. this idea he wouldn t be charged if his name wasn t hunter biden has ring to it. that was barbara mcquade pointing out a possible political motivation behind the new tax charges against hunter biden. we ll break down those allegations against the president s son. we ll also recap donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial as the former president is expected today be the last person to take the stand. plus an update on the bipartisan negotiations in the senate on border security. the issue that s holding up critical aid for ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, december 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin today with news from the west coast. hunter biden is facing a major new l
happening in thejobs market. employers are growing more cautious, putting off hiring. employees are sticking around longer. one caveat we could see some distortion to the numbers. the auto and actor strikes both ended in november with many returning to work that same month. plus, the end of the year is when many seasonal workers get taken on. now, america s central bank, the federal reserve, will be watching closely that s because slowerjob growth and wage gains will fuel expectations that the fed will leave rates on hold. rates have risen to above 5% from nearly zero since march of last year as it wrestles to bring down inflation. the jobs report is the last significant piece of economic data before the us central bank s rate setting meeting next week. now, we should note that despite expectations for a slowdown, america s labour market remains strong by historical standards. still, if economists frequently use the word resilience to talk about the economy in 2023, they
as the bbc s michelle fleury reports from new york. amazon announced 0 a new chat bot for people to use at work. there seems to be a dispute over where the name came from. some say it s 0, after the character from the james bond movies. others say it s 0, a character from the star trek tv shows. either way, this is a big deal. amazon may not have built chatgpt, but it now has its own generative ai helper. which is designed to assist employees with daily tasks, whether it s answering questions about company policy, to coding, to summarizing strategy documents. crucially, though, it will compete with other corporate chat bots, including microsoft s copilot and google s doitai. now, the tech giant also unveiled new ai. chips at its annual developer conference in las vegas, where also taking the stage was the boss of chip maker in nvidia, a sign of the deepening relationship between these two. amazon said that as well as its own ai chips, it would offer customers access to nvidia
letting us into your homes. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. in just a few moments we are going to get into what became a heated and sometimes significant day in the fraud trial of donald trump s organization. in fact, two of his adult children, executives, testified. you see don junior going in there. that s new today, and we have the update on what is a significant set of what is testimony that seems to hurt the trump org in that quarter million dollars fraud trial. when there s news off the middle east war we ll bring you that. we have updates off gaza. earlier the skyline filled with explosions and flares, signs of what we can make sense of, what seems to be the widening escalation that was discussed, and we have news on what the new york times is reporting israel is doing at this hour. the military there according to the new york times says they have encircled gaza city and they re fighting, quote, fac