market. april s surprising jobs report. all this coming in right here to cnn news central. all right, surprising and impressive jobs numbers just in this morning from the labor department. employers added 253,000 jobs last month. that is a lot more than the 180,000 that were expected. the unemployment rate also dropped slightly, now 3.4%, it s down from 3.5%, and 3.4% is like the lowest level it s been since 1969. this report comes just two days after the fed raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, all in an effort to rein in inflation. rahel solomon is with us. these are good numbers. these are good numbers and the labor market continues to defy expectations. 253,000 jobs added in the month of april. as you said, stronger than almost every economist that was polled was expecting. also stronger than the months prior. i want to put that 253,000 in perspective. we did get downward revisions for the prior two months so stronger than that, but you can see this i
have a weird line, but i am in new york, so we are on set on different studio, so far yet so close. or the other way around. i will get you a signed copy very soon, i appreciated have a great rest of your night. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, marjorie taylor greene is calling for a national voyage between red and blue states. i will explain why that is a very dangerous recipe for violence and mike pence wants you to see him as the 2024 alternative to trump, but news flash mike, you are still doing trump s bidding if he refused to testify about january the 6th. plus, florida republican education has been so big, so much bigger than banning critical race theory. i thought rhonda sentence was for freedom? we need to talk about divorce. specifically, marjorie taylor greene and divorce. not her divorce, i don t care about her private life, in fact i wish you were a private citizen so i didn t have to talk about her at all. the problem, if she is a very public figure. a b
dangerous recipe for violence and mike pence wants you to see him as the 2024 alternative to trump, but news flash mike, you are still doing trump s bidding if he refused to testify about january the 6th. plus, florida republican education has been so big, so much bigger than banning critical race theory. i thought rhonda sentence was for freedom? we need to talk about divorce. specifically, marjorie taylor greene and divorce. not her divorce, i don t care about her private life, in fact i wish you were a private citizen so i didn t have to talk about her at all. the problem, if she is a very public figure. a bombastic member of congress, an influential gop member of the house, who this week called for a quote, unquote national divorce. a literal dissolution of the union, severing the country and get to frankenstein patch s of so-called red states and blue states. we are done with the united states of america, she said. we are done. she did not muse about the notion, she didn
come the same week that hunter biden lawyers will meet with department of justice officials, one source telling fox news it s not necessarily a signal that prosecutors are ready to charge hunter but the timing it sure interesting especially now that white house appears to be doing damage control over that testimony from the former cia deputy director who told congress now secretary of state blinken played a role in inception of the letter signed by intel officials that describe the hunter biden laptop story as disinformation a white house spokesperson attacking republicans on the judiciary committee, claiming that testimony was highly misleading and a selective whreek all of the accusations about hunter bide about and corruption within the biden administration, the president himself says his presidency is actually pretty dull. take a listen. putting on my sunglasses. so i can see [applause] as i told my distinguished friend from massachusetts and good friend senator marke
fighter jets as of yet. despite the ask, the continued asks over the last year from president zelenskyy that they in fact do. well, what i will tell you is that, no disrespect to the president. my assessment is, if you want the ukrainians to defeat the russians today, then we have to give them all the equipment that they need. that means attack helicopters, air defense, missiles, long-range artillery. and, if you want to go after those rockets that are being fired on the key infrastructure and the people, f-16s are perfect for doing that, they re also perfect for destroying villages sticks have of the russians. they are perfect for destroying the communication centers of the russians. and so, my assessment is they need the f-16s. the other thing that is key about this conversation is, of course the ukrainians will need training. they are going to need equipment to repair parts for these f-16s. it takes somewhere between 8 to 10 months to train a pilots on flying an f 16. so