before the election. the results are mixed. bill: 261,000 jobs added. it s good but a hot number. we ll explain. we expect 200,000. slightly better than expected. unemployment rising. dana: the bump in unemployment days ahead of an election where 80% of voters say the economy is the most important issue. david spunt is live at the white house. a long day for you as well between now and tuesday. it really is. we re waiting to see what the white house has to say about the 261,000 jobs added to see what they will say just days before the election. after all, this is the final jobs report before the mid-term election, which is telling if you look at it. white house officials and bill don t want to use the word recession or focus too much on the economy, but it is hard to escape the president talked about the economy last night in san diego. listen. president biden: important to remind ourselves of the detail. the fact of the matter is we re 6.4% unemployment when i came t
with the people. right now on early start what president biden calls a defining moment for democracy. air raid sirens pierce the air as north korea tries and fails to test a missile. it all adds up to baseball history. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. president biden about to head to mexico to campaign with the governor and other democrats. expected to strike the same fee. american democracy is under dire threat and laying the blame at the feet of his predecessor. you know, american democracy is under attack because the defeated president of the united states refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election. he refuses to accept the will of the people. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington. good morning, jasmine. so nice to see you. the president, president biden veering from the democrat s 11th hour focus on the economy. zeroing in on the threat for democracy. what s the thinking? reporter
stumping in arizona warning voters that conspiracy theorists and election deniers are putting democracy on the brink, the former president using a heckler to make his case. watch this. this is part of what happens in our politics these days. we get distracted. we got one person yelling and suddenly everybody s yelling. you get one tweet that s stupid and suddenly everybody s obsessed with the tweet. we can t fall for that. we have to stay focused. obama is not the only former president on the campaign trail. form are president trump is also set to hold a rally in sioux city, iowa. he s not the only potential republican candidate in the state. mike pence, nikki haley, mike p pompeo have made appearances, maybe even testing the waters for themselves. jeff, a lot of airplane traffic that is happening there. reporter: there certainly is. iowa is not the hottest 2022 battleground but it s the opening bell of the 2024 presidential race. this republican wave of optimism is swe
united states refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. he refuses to accept the will of the people. he refuses to accept the fact that he lost. he has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the constitution. a typical year, we re often not faced with questions of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put us at risk. but this year, we are. and the last standard bearer of the democratic party, president barack obama campaigning in arizona, the state that perhaps any other battleground state has been roiled by the big lay with election deniers on the republican side picked up on the same themes, laying out for his audience, the stakes in this election this way. i lost my first congressional race in the primary by 30 points. i got whooped. i was frustrated. that didn t feel good. you know what i didn t do? i didn t claim the election was rigged. i didn t spin conspiracy theories. i didn t instigate a mob to go up on and stor
not alone. at least 50 officers shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year. ashley strohmier has more on it, ashley. please have the suspect in custody with a shooting in north carolina yesterday. five people lost their lives including an off-duty police officer. a k-9 officer was hurt but luckily he was released from the hospital. authority said another victim is still fighting for their life. the police officer is a brother or a sister so when you lose one of our own comic things are tragic, heartbreaking day for all of us. the mayor of raleigh said a man started shooting on greenway, which is a walking trail around 5:00 p.m. and shortly after, officers blocked off streets and surrounded the entire neighborhood in an hour long manhood telling them to shelter. they took him into custody 10:00 p.m. but gave no other details on his age. here is the mayor speaking on that tragedy. we pray that something like this will never happen here. it did. we have to end