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
mexico s government and an update on the survivors. this hour, panic in the skies after a united airlines passenger threatens a flight attendant and tries to open an emergency door mid-flight. tackled by passengers and crew, adding to a string of problems confronting the faa. the battle over reproductive rights. california s governor cutting ties with walgreens for refusing to sell abortion bills. they are refusing to sell them across the country, even where it s legal. in texas, they are challenging the restrictive laws. jay powell saying they will raise rates to tame inflation. controlling inflation will require more unemployment. good day, everyone. i m andra mitchell in a busy washington. the local governor in mexico says two of the four americans are dead. merrick garland is addressing it. i ve been briefed by the fbi, which is working with mexican authorities. senior department officials are working closely with our counterparts at the state department. during
into the june time frame. regardless, we have this dual track. there are things like climate change, things like how we deal with those nations in the global south who are in huge needs of debt relief, that we have to find a way. this is the world s second largest economy. we have to work with them. we need to understand the authoritarian regime of the chinese communist party wants to undermine the united states. they try to do it through hacking, stealing of intellectual property. i believe and have made the case that some of their technology applications like tiktok, they are collecting data on americans. they don t need to hack into somebody s file. they collect information. tools like tiktok can be used for misinformation, disinformation. we need to be conscious that this is a challenge. america spies as well. the nature of intelligence communities is nation state spy on each other.
order to receive relatively small benefits from the federal government, that the absolutely unconscionable. so it just shows you how much of the right wing republican caucus of the republican party is now controlling this discussion. and from my perspective, it s just cruel, it s heartless, by the way, 50% of all children in the united states, 50% will be on food stamps. will be on s.n.a.p. at some point in their lives. can you just imagine, that s what they re putting on the table as a demand in terms of concessions from the democratic party. unacceptable to me. i know you call it unconscionable. you say it s cruel. i want to put up what the polling suggests about it, and that s americans broadly think that mostly republicans, but independents, and even 49% of democrats say they support requiring work requirements for medicaid or s.n.a.p. benefits.
the social media app to anyone within that state. republican governor greg forte signed the law on wednesday. he says it will protect the personal and private information of tiktok users or mobile users in that state. 46 other states have considered or instituted restrictions on tiktok but montana is the only one to ban it outright. legal challenges are sure to follow and in a statement tiktok says the ban violates people s personal freedoms. you will remember, though, in congressional testimony earlier this year tiktok s ceo didn t deny that app was collecting data on americans, but said, he wouldn t categorize their actions as spying. coming up, he s passed laws deciding which bathrooms floridians can use, which books their kids can read, which pronounce their kids can use and health care their kids can receive. now he wants to take the laws