Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o
about that grandchild you don t claim, he broke royal protocol. he does something wrong. he is allowed to get mad. sandra: america reports kicks off hour two with that. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: i m chuckling, reminiscent of the last president who woke up every day to bad news. the report on biden goes on to soften the blow of biden s outbursts with an ex claimer, seeing screaming is a sign of respect. sandra: and cbs news biden s grandfatherly appeal may be absent overseas at nato summit. 68% of americans say they are concerned about biden s age. is the m ed why spinning for the president? john: the president does have a full plate overseas, including a high stakes meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy. he wants into nato, but they say not yet. and kurt volker knows what s at stake better than almost anyone. he joins us this hour. but first. sandra: this developing story. when is enough enough? gender transition surgery is potent
nato as the 32 country. regarding ukraine. president biden okayed a giant new package for tax dollars, $8 hundred million to fight off russia. approved sending controversy cluster bombs to help them. he chose the cluster bombs because the united states stock of other ammunition is so low. how does that make us look? you shouldn t be telling your adversary you have a problem, you have a supply chain set of issues and an excuse to do something. that s the quiet part. the task is to fix it and make sure you do have the things you need. harris: the wall street journal editorial board is asking biden admits the problem but then why not do something about it? in focus house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul. let s go to jacque heinrich traveling with the president at that nato summit. jacque. hey there, harris, the white house made clear after the president s interview that u.s. read enes to defend itself was never a question. the military has specific requir
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
getting started. dana: let s get to alexis mcadams live at newark airport in new jersey. how is it going? not so bad right now. a lot better than it has been since saturday and sunday where some of the people i ve been talking to have been sleeping at the floor at airports across the east coast trying to get home. we checked with airlines to see how they are doing. things aren t back to 100% and entering the busy time for the july 4th holiday weekend. as we mentioned people have not had anywhere to go except sleep on the floor. six hours, not even a bottle of water. frustrating. the line doesn t move. i know they don t have nothing to offer for us. that s kind of pretty hopeless. this is the scene at airports across the country as more than 28,000 flights and counting have been delayed and 7200 canceled since sunday. not a lot of good news. to say people are fed up is an understatement. hundreds of passengers left waiting on the tarmac for hours thinking they will l