Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with breaking news, a brandnew Jobs Report beating expectations. The government reporting employers added 254,000 jobs in september, thats well above the 150,000 predicted by most economists. The Unemployment Rate fell slightly to 4. 1 . And when you break it down by race, both the black and hispanic Unemployment Rates fell by. 4 last month. There you see the drop. This report comes hours after Port Workers and Port Operators along the East And Gulf coasts reached a tentative deal to end a strike that began on tuesday. That walkout threatened to bring chaos at the start of the holiday shopping season. With us now, cnbcs dominic chu. Dom, good morning. This was a strong Jobs Report. What else did we learn from it . Good morning, jose. Yes, it stands in stark contrast, this Jobs Report, what we saw the previous month, which got read as a very big at least disappointment. What we did note beyond
Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
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Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Forces along its northern border with lebanon. According to one u. S. Official, the idf is planning for a limited Ground Operation that could begin at any moment now. Israeli commandos have been conducting smaller operations over that border in preparation. Just two days after hezbollah confirmed its leader was killed in a massive Idf Strike in southern beirut. A 2,000 Pound Bunker busting bomb, according to an expert who spoke with Nbc News, dropped on the u. S. Designated terror groups headquarters. It follows the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkietalkies and promises they will do whatever it takes to secure the northern border. In addition to killing the hezbollah leader, they killed hamass leader and dropped bombs on Power Plants and Shipping Infrastructure used by the houthis in yemen. The goal, to harm or disable Irans Axis of resistance. The danger, a war in The Middle East that drags in u. S. Forces in. The u. S. Has been able to convince israel to scale back plans fo