but certainly, poppy, it was a moment that raised a lot of eyebrows, with he got in touch with the secret service right away, again, who issued this statement, right now, poppy, we re going into really i d say a new phase of this trial where we re starting to see these witnesses really pick up. the first dumb of days was focused on this one fbi agent, no you we re seeing quite a few more witnesses, several of whom say they are former oath keepers. poppy. whitney wild, thank you for being on top of all of it for us. president biden fulfilling a campaign pledge, just a month before the midterms this comes announcing that he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. this is a move that senior administration officials say would affect thousands of americans. it would also be a first step, a major step, toward decriminalizing the drug. too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. it s time that we right these wrongs. let
jackson joins me now. i want to note for our viewers you have defended complaints facing similar charges on the state level. this is federal. but you have interesting perspective on this. look, you have administration officials saying and i should note that there are not currently any americans serving prison time solely for simple federal marijuana charges, but the number that had been charged with this as a crime on the federal level between 92 and 2001 was north of 6,500 people. how significant is this move by the administration? yeah, poppy, i think it s very significant to the point of at the state level defending them, new york of course being one of about 20 states now that recognizes marijuana for recreational use and doesn t prosecute it and as a prosecutor i remember prosecuting these, too, but even before new york removed that impediment the matter in which it was handled was a lot different meaning you would be getting a marijuana acd, just stay out of trouble, you are
it s a terrible deal for california. we win. you lose. glad you are with us, i m poppy harlow. we are following several major stories here in the united states and around the world, all across the globe. let s get right to it this morning. the labor department here in the u.s. out with the september jobs report, the u.s. economy added 263,000 jobs last month, the unemployment rate fell down to 3.5%, all of this as president biden is set to give remarks in just a few hours on the state of the economy. he will do that in maryland. let s begin this hour with our chief business correspondent christine romans. what does this all mean, not only for americans and the job market, but for the fed and
sales, we re providing them with the patriot missile, we should suspend the spare parts and airplane logistics that we provide them and we should pass nopac, the president could pass that which would allow for antitrust lawsuits against the saudi oil producers who are making 73% profit margins on these barrels of oil. at this point it does not appear that the white house that the white house is moving in any of those directions right now. brian deese the national economic council director said yesterday i have no announcement about any of that today when he was asked whether the biden administration still believes saudi arabia deserves u.s. weaponry. do you have confidence the administration is goings to do any of the things you just laid out? i will tell that you people in congress are itching and demanding that the administration should do something. i mean, you ve seen that the price of the barrel of oil has gone up almost $90. this is going to hurt americans
inflation? there are different ways to look at this. so for americans it means the hiring continues, 263,000 jobs and it was pretty broad-based hiring, but when you look at the trend, poppy, it is the slowest pace of hiring since about april 2021, it matches april 2021. so when you look at that nice bar chart you can see slowing jobs growth and that s exactly what the fed is looking for. it s been raising interest rates now for six months and it actually takes about six months for monetary policy to effect these kind of economic statistics. back in march raised interest rates 25 basis points, now this is where we are in september. but the jobless rate fell back to near that 50-year low of 3.5%. that s near full employment and we ve seen from other statistics people who want a job have a couple of jobs to choose from really in this economy here. so 3.5% still low across the board hiring. leisure and hospitality 83,000, health care 60,000. now you are back to pre-pandemic levels for he