and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of everyday goods such as groceries or gasoline. the current rate of
memories. so come out whenever a huge ugl story unfolds, the media has to do its thing. my brain still to her at a pie eating contest, they never seem to know when to quit. so you saw at the gun show. its natural after a tragedy i supposed to report and report that s necessary, but what if there is not enough news to do more reporting? will than you repeated and repeated again. it s like that cars for kids ad that makes me want to puncture my eardrums. they really are talented though. but it s everything but facts, you call in talking heads and experts for angles in emotional testimony. they are the hamburger helper o news ending volume to the name in course and then when they ru dry, the speculation begins. like me calling my pharmacist, it is relentless. it won t stop. everyone tries to outdo each other. and am i more perceptive than you? are you more emotionally affected than me? the news is productive as an argument with an meter maid rat is then punctuated by dribs in
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strength in the darkness they feel right now? education staff are preparing feel right now? education staff are preparing counselling - are preparing counselling sessions for those affected. my heart is sessions for those affected. m heart is broken today, sessions for those affected. mg heart is broken today, our small community, we need a press to get us through the. one of the headline the sour, russia says it is ready for a prolonged conflict in ukraine as its forces continue to make progress in the east of the country. we report from the front in ukraine s easternmost region luhansk. thank you forjoining us. a gunman who shot dead at least 18 pupils and at least one teacher at a primary school in the us state of texas. the pupils were in second, third and fourth grades, that s means they were aged between seven and ten years old. the mass shooting within the small town of uvalde, west of san antonio, at robb elementary school, made up at robb elementary school, made up