this week, may just go down as one of the best weeks of joe biden s presidency to date. let s start with the economy, today, we got a truly stunning jobs report for july, u.s. employers added 528,000 jobs, more than doubling projections. and the unemployment rate, it fell to 3.5%. the last time the unemployment rate was that low was in 1969. 53 whole years ago. the economy is now recovered all of the nearly 22 million jobs lost since the start of the covid pandemic. president joe biden and his signature aviator sunglasses took a much deserved victory lap earlier today. we re almost had 10 million jobs. almost a 10 million jobs since i took office. that s the fastest job growth in history. today, there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there are more people working in america at any point in american history. in a relief for drivers all across america, gas prices have dropped nearly $1 from highs in june. highs that were driven in
all of the nearly 22 million jobs lost since the start of the covid pandemic. president joe biden and his signature aviator sunglasses took a much deserved victory lap earlier today. we re almost had 10 million jobs. almost a 10 million jobs since i took office. that s the fastest job growth in history. today, there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there are more people working in america at any point in american history. in a relief for drivers all across america, gas prices have dropped nearly $1 from highs in june. highs that were driven in large part by supply shock after vladimir putin started a war with ukraine. the average price of gas is now $4. and in many places, including in many red states, gas prices are well below $4 a gallon. president biden highlighted the seven-week decline in gas prices in his speech today. gas prices are coming down. down almost $1 a gallon from where they were just a month ago. and we are ma
subpoenaed to the grand jury two people from the white house counsel s office including the white house counsel himself, but what is standing in the way of getting all of the information that prosecutors want are claims that donald trump is trying to make about executive privilege where he s trying to protect statements that were made to him or that he said on these crucial days that are being investigated. so those claims of executive privilege, that s potentially leading to a court fight where the justice department will try to get access to those statements through these witnesses and that s what these talks are about, lining up the justice department team and trump s team, talking to one another, potentially they could be pitted against each other if this does go to court, but the big picture here is that criminal prosecutors right now are definitely interested in doing fact-finding and locking down what they can about what was said in the white house either by trump or t
hook families say they re going to challenge that, and there have been some constitutional questions raised about those award caps. so they think that this might be a good test case on that front. but regardless, the sandy hook families have always said, this has less about the money then about sending a warning to americans that from sandy hook over the decade leading to the january 6th insurrection, alex jones has been emblematic of the spread of false narratives and disinformation in society. he s got his fingerprints on every one of the major events that have been called into question. pizzagate, coronavirus myths, charlottesville, and the january 6th insurrection. we in the last minute here, you did get to see him in court, although you said he wasn t in there for a portion of this trial today. any sense that he feels any
but regardless, the sandy hook families have always said, this has less about the money then about sending a warning to americans that from sandy hook over the decade leading to the january 6th insurrection, alex jones has been emblematic of the spread of false narratives and disinformation in society. he s got his fingerprints on every one of the major events that have been called into question. pizzagate, coronavirus myths, charlottesville, and the january 6th insurrection. in the last minute here, you did get to see him in court, although you said he wasn t in there for a portion of this trial today. any sense that he feels any remorse, any hint of remorse you could glean? no. as one of the lawyers for the sandy hook family said, and in