amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. we ll watch to see if he stops to comment on this report. with me now brian cheung, josh letterman, also joins us, host of public radio s full disclosure and politico chief chief correspondent. the biggest jobs gains were in leisure, hospitality, health care. i think the big takeway is that the labor market still appears to be chugging along. americans have options out there. with the unemployment rate a 3.5%, by the way, multidecade lows on that front, you re not seeing the traditional recessionary dynamics in this labor market where you
soon as december. and herschel walker now says he s not backing down despite the abortion scandal rocking his campaign. ma maggie haberman joins me this hour on donald trump s decision to back walker despite his checkered past. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin our coverage in ukraine where a furious counteroffensive is now sweeping russian troops out of territory. moscow has held for months. cnn is your national security editor. nick paton walsh is joining us live from the war zone. nick, this rapid ukrainian advance comes as vladimir putin laid claim to that troubled nuclear power plant. what s the latest on the ground tonight? ukraine s president zelenskyy clear that half a thousand square kilometers of territory in the kherson region have since the beginning of the month been liberated from russian control. that s a larger number of than officials said earlier today and it s part of the slow drip we saw ourselves just yesterday of territory r
d.c. president biden calling on the remaining states governors to take action. we first met steve d angelo in 2017. he served a federal sentence for marijuana possession in the 1970s, but his case is a rarity. most marijuana arrests and convictions happened at the state level and he says the states are where real reform has to happen too. i appreciate president biden s call to the governors to also implement pardons because the largest number of prisoners in the united states are in state prisons. reporter: president biden s moves also won t affect the marijuana black market, a major concern for law enforcement and officials across the country. new challenges growing along with the trend toward decriminalizing marijuana nationwide. nbc s jacob soboroff with that report. joining us now, msnbc chief legal correspondent and the host of the beat on msnbc, ari melber. ari, first of all, tell us what this does given the history and
because i think it s different when someone has been a president and they are back to doing the same thing they had done before they had power. you know, he s doing these rallies again. i don t think that feels great to him and it s not hugely surprising to me that he feels that way. he may get more into it if he declares a campaign. he tends to enjoy a fight once he s in it as opposed to the lead up to it. but you know, i just think that his heart is not in it the way it once was and this is something a number of of aides have observed as well. we ll see where it goes. thanks so much for joining us and writing this poimportant bo. there s the cover. i highly recommend it. it s going to be a huge best seller. thanks, maggie, very much. thanks, wolf. just ahead, president biden takes his first major steps towards decriminalizing marijuana nationwide.