ight now. hey, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian, if you re joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with us, we re so thankful for that. the president embarking on an overseas trip that will be a high wire act of diplomacy, preparing a possible rift in the uk, advocating for nato to induct new members and rallying support for ukraine. and he ll have to defend the decision to arm ukraine with cluster bombs and issue getting pushback from some allies in congress. in a moment, i m just because congresswoman, debbie dingell, and ask her where she stands on the issue, as well as much much more. also, this hour, while donald trump is on the campaign trail this weekend, there s another places rivals would like to see him. and while the former president may skip it, his main challenger is it ready to go. that is when people are really going to start paying attention to the primary. up to this point, a lot of that has been about some of these legal cases. i think a lot of the vot
sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. what that could mean for the war. also today, extreme weather. millions are at risk of record-breaking temperatures and severe storms as well. and then in washington, new fallout from the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the west wing of the white house. what congress is now demanding. and a medical breakthrough, the fda gives full approval for a new alzheimer s drug, but it comes with a serious warning about potentially deadly side effects. we begin this hour, everybody, with another sign, the economy may in fact be cooling. the government reported that employers added just 209,000 jobs last month. below the 240,000 the economists had expected. and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.6%. when you break it down by race, black unemployment rose by .4%. and hispanic unemployment rose by .3%. the president reacting to the news in a statement saying in part this, we are seeing stable and steady growth. that s bidenomics,
that s the situation we re in. let s just be clear, the russians are killing ukrainians. and if the russians overrun the ukrainian soldiers, they will kill more civilians. we all want to be sure that the ukrainians can defend themselves and civilians. we don t have the regular authority, to build back up the industrial capacity to build up the regular version. it s going to take about six months. in the meantime, during that time, the only thing we have to keep the ukrainians going, to keep them from having to be defeated are these clustered munitions. no one likes, it but that s the only choice we have. i want to revisit a conversation that you and i had during the wagner mercenary group rebellion. in that possibly there is an off ramp with very precious