ready to face-off. cnn is live in pennsylvania for the debate showdown between john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz. also tonight, president biden is warning russia that it would be a serious mistake to use a tactical nuclear weapon, vladimir putin raising new fears about his war plans as moscow doubles down on its disputed claim that ukraine is planning to deploy a dirty bomb. and corporate america turns on kanye west for his antis-semitic remarks. we ll take a closer look at the impact as adidas and the gap cut ties with the controversial rapper also known as yay. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get straight to the midterm countdown right now. we re just, what, two weeks, two weeks out from election day. candidates in a slew of pivotal contests preparing to clash in high stakes debates tonight with millions of voters already casting their ballots early. cnn congressional correspondent jes
of data. you like to see the trend for markets and economics. after three months of 200,000 jobs created or more, people are saying, look, it s healing. things are going to get better. the rearview mirror is a slow jobs recovery. then you have a stall here. when your biggest customer has countries in it that are in recession, that doesn t mean if you re a big company in this country you wan to be adding a lot of workers. that could be a big bart of it. i want to look at the private sector of public sector jobs. 82,000 private sector jobs created. 13,000 public job sectors lost. there s the tug of war for the economy. the private sector trying to create jobs. the public sector losing jobs. you ll hear people in the gop say, look, this shows the president s policies aren t working. the problem is what is the answer to that? if the president s policies aren t working, how do those cutting spending fit into the equation? cutting spending will mean more public sector job loss,
put lipstick on this pig. welcome to your $$$$$. i m ali velshi. christine romans the host of your bottom line, my good friend, has been studying these numbers. she breaks it down for us. christine, everybody who watches knows some jobs day we have some area of disagreement. i can t find one. you and i are together on this. the glass is half empty. you and i both see it that way and it s rare. 69,000 jobs created. this the world s largest economy, the world labor the world follows, the biggest driver of growth. there you go. if people don t have a job, they can t be spending money. here is the trend, look. this is what s important. you don t look at one month of data. you like to see what the trend is nor markets and economics. the trend after 200,000 jobs created and more, people are saying, it s healing, look, the rearview mirror, a slow jobs recovery, then a stall here. one of the reasons might be europe. quite frankly when your biggest customer has countries in it tha