He joins us from detroit with the latest. Hey, grady. Reporter hey, neil. As you said we dont know the specific details of this contract but the news it has even been agreed upon by the two sides is just trickling down to the workers here. Obviously theyre pretty excited by the news. I want to bring in jessica. You came from the plant you work in at indiana to be here at the Renaissance Center where the negotiations are happening. How do you feel you know there is an agreement . Even though it is cold and rain any were excited to be out here at this critical moment representing the union and good news. Reporter what has been on strike without pay . It has been hard on a lot of people. 2 a 50 week a not as at all. Reporter youre a temporary worker, negotiations are behind closed doors. Were told this created a pathway for somebody like you who has worked three years consecutively, will be able to get fulltime employment f that is the case, if you find that out tomorrow, once the contrac
His presidency. Many hoping that the vietnam war would end soon. It did not. After a raucous 1968, a lot of people were optimistic that the economy was on the mend and it was all clear sailing ahead. That was then. Similar hopes today. A lot of it built on an unemployment report that shock ad lot of people, it was more like a goldilocks number. Very low Unemployment Rate. Even though the number of overall jobs gained. That was a little less than thought but it continue as trend of jobs that are advancing in the latest period. Well get into that. But meantime, a lot of attention is on the reported itself what it says after a week we got news the Manufacturing Sector was slowing down, the Services Sector was slowing down. They were ready for bear today. They didnt find that. They found Something Like i said a goldilocks number that hit all the right buttons so far, the dow up 228 points. Lets get a read on all of this from Edward Lawrence who crunches numbers as we speak. Edward . Report
In the United States, are expected them to cut rate another quarter point, dropping the ball on all of this and president declaring not even two weeks ago that hes an enemy, reminder how easy it is to make friends in the city, dow 75 points, lets get the latest first on the trade front on whats going on there and growing talk that at least the talks are back on and so far no one is throwing dagerds. No one is throwing at each other, the jobs are fundamentally strong, 130,000 jobs in august, 3. 3 over the past months, the white house economic adviser say it doesnt really matter that the jobs missed the estimate because the Labor Force Participation edged up. The people on the fringes of this come are coming in and getting jobs, if you peel back some of the numbers, consumer is still spending and thats in construction 14,000 jobs in construction, half in Residential Home construction, people buying homes, consumers are buying, the other half divided among specialty trade construction and
Cuts for working fam families who seem to always be forgotten isnt too hard to do either. So, will gop leaders cave into r ubios demand in exchange for his vote and if not how will this impact the bill lets go to our panel, a Washington Examiner commentary writer, mark lauder, former press secretary to Vice President pence and beverly halb erg, contributor to the hill mark ive got to start with you. You understand how these last second washington d. C. Events like this go down and this one is a true nail biter. Do you think rubio has drawn a solid line in the sand and if so how do tax writers get around it i think he will still get there. Senator rubio has been a champion for increasing the child tax yesterday the and the house passed it originally 1600 the senate did 2000 and the final bill has it at 2000 which is where senator rubio wanted it charles with all due respect he said it was 1100. Well theyre talking about how much could be refunded if you dont pay taxes in the first place
Yesterday but day we had reversal. A lot of people saying negative arrows would continue. Instead, Cheryl Casone we have green arrows. Melissa Technology Companies came in. Hello, everybody, im Cheryl Casone, in for melissa francis. This is after the bell. We have all eyes on the white house to see if President Trump responds to questions about james comeys firing and independent counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney general to head up the investigation into russias involvement in our election and if there were any ties to the trump campaign. We do have blake burman standing by in the east room of the white house. Break, what do you expect to hear . Do you think the president will answer questions after the statement with him and the colombian president . Port this one could go in any number of directions. Were here in the east room. This could go east, west, north, south, any way they take it, there are a litany of issues from the president on this day. The president making two big pie