he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
china cutting ties with key diplomatic issues as retaliatio retaliation against nancy pelos continues our foreign policy experts weigh in as tensions escalated. and what washington, d.c. new york will not be getting any help from the national guard in dealing with the influx of migrants being best in from texas. the defense department denying what she calls a human internin crisis great what helpings next in the nation s capital. would begin with that complicated u.s. economy. good numbers today. it doesn t get in line up with the most americans struggle wit the effects of inflation. the u.s. job growth, unexpectedly shot up in july battling the forecasted amounts. employers added 528,000 jobs only expected to hit 250,000 th unemployment rate also a downward trend at 3.5 percent which is the lowest it s been since the pandemic started over two years ago. breasted biden still testing positive for covid 19 in his second bout in two weeks following the reports released, the pres
joining us now. so what more could you tell us. reporter: well this story is fast moving. it is only 72 hours since we first learned there was a problem at the secret service where text messages from january 5th and 6th on agents phones were erased or lost because of a data migration tech process that that agency had ongoing around the 6th, this pivotal event. but here is the story of how this played out over the last couple of days. so the department of homeland security inspector general, a watch dog that would look into the secret service related to january 6 was frustrated about not getting information from them in this investigation. and that included the i.g. learning there were erased text messages. this i.g. at dhs notified capitol hill three days ago this was a problem, that is how the public and the news organizations covering the story first learned about it and then the inspector general went and briefed all nine members of the house select committee yesterday.
in decades whether or not biden still should be at the time top of the ticket, whether or not he can continue to lead the nation. a question illuminated at lead last week, cnn presidential debate for years, biden his push back on that question consensus distantly answering in two words, he would say, quote, watch me. here he is in september 2022 ask whether you who are fit for the job. and when you hear that i wonder what you think let s take that and it s all my watch me. if you think i don t have the energy level mental acuity then then, you know, that s one thing another thing watching and keep my schedule just one month after that. i asked the president to respond to american voters who frankly admin watching whenever anyone raises concerns about your age you oldest president in the history of the united states, you always say, watch me. voters happened, watching you democratic voters approve of the job you re doing. democratic voters overwhelmingly like you but one poll
leaders at odds over how to handle the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. u.s. secretary state entity blinken met with foreign ministers from the middle east and jordan earlier today to discuss the conflict. leaders of egypt and jordan are strongly condemning israel s offensive and are demanding an immediate cease-fire. blinken opposes a cease-fire he is pushing for israel to allow pauses in its assault on gaza. united states believes all these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian causes. we believe pauses can be a critical mechanism protecting civilians, getting aid in getting foreign nationals out. while still enabling israel to achieve its objective to defeat hamas. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is rejecting calls for temporary cease-fire saying the country s military will only pull back when hamas frees all of its hostages but he adds his country will continue to block fuel from entering the region. meanwhile u.s. state department is urging a