Economy. Theyve been hearing us talk for three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years now about how the economy is healing and the jobs market is growing. So you still have this mighty jobs machine ten years into this recovery. The sectors here, you can see some of that weather at play. Construction doing well. Transportation warehousing had another 28,000. Health care, this is a really strong part of the economy. Consistently one of the top performers every month in health care. All up and down the wage spectrum. Lees your and hospitality. Bars and restaurants. They had another good showing. 36,000 jobs over the past six months. And bars and restaurants have added almost 300,000 jobs. So thats something to note there. You saw manufacturing down again, though. Im telling you, there are economists who say it feels like a recession in manufacturing. Trade wars still hanging over that sector. Watching that very closely. Okay. Wages because theres been some data consistently for a
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the lead and brandnew cnn reporting that is undermining President Trumps justification for killing the general qassem soleimani, because two state Officials Say that they were not told that there were imminent threats to u. S. Embassies despite the president s claim. Today on twitter, the president said that the Fake News Media and the partners are working hard to determine if the future attack by soleimani was imminent or not, and to my team and i, the answer is a strong yes. But does it not matter, because of his horrible past. So, yes, soleimani was a vicious leader of an organization that the u. S. Government considers terrorists, and he had the blood of innocents on his hands, but whether or not these attacks, the strike against him and whether or not the attacks that we were told that he is planning is imminent, and whether these alleged plots are backed up by intelligence, it matter, because that is the reason that the American