welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with the money lead. wall street closing this hour mostly flat after today s jobs reported exceeded expectations. great news, obviously, but not slowing rising prices and fears of a recession. according to the bureau of labor statistics, the united states added 372,000 jobs in june and on average american paychecks are up 5.1% in the last year. but that s not keeping up with inflation, which jumped 8.6% annually in last month s report. that s a problem for president biden as he is struggling to convince americans his economic agenda is working. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. reporter: more signs on friday of a robust u.s. labor market. the economy adding 372,000 jobs in june, far beating economists expectations and the unemployment rate remaining at 3.6%, near historic lows. president biden celebrating the news, saying the u.s. has now recovered all of the jobs lost du
reporter: japanese prime minister shinzo abe was speaking at a campaign rally east of osaka on thursday when chaos ensued. two shots can be heard. abu dhabi is hit in the chest and neck.e is hit in the chest neck. the weapon, handmade gun lying on the ground. bystanders tried to aid the former prime minister before he was rushed to the nearest hospital. but soon news broke. he had succumbed to his injuries and died age 67. translator: there were two bullet wounds. he was in a cardiopulmonary arrest after damage to large blood vessels in the heart. unfortunately, he died at 5:03 p.m. reporter: police arrested the suspect, a 41-year-old man who didn t flee after the shooting. a rare occurrence in japan, a country with one of the world s lowest gun rates.
don t play out in the long-term. but democrats are struggling to come up with a response to all of this. why are democrats still struggling because we saw this, particularly in the virginia governor s race, for example, culture wars were front and center. and yet, terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate for governor struggled to find his footing with how to address it. republicans know that democrats don t have a response to the culture wars, right, so they re continuing to do this. whether it s governor abbott out of texas or governor desantis out of florida. they know talking about these things that galvanize their voters is something that has been played to effect, it is a feature, not a bug of the republican play book going into november. all right, and we do have much more to discuss coming up. the battle over mask mandates. who gets to make the rules? that s when we come back. ck e fr! the only thing fresher than their bread is the guy reading this. subway keeps refresh
going on, but this could be all part of a message, a message to tehran to let s start talking. and in a lot of way, guys, i think the most important story this morning is the one that reuters has citing iranian officials saying that a message was sent from president trump to iran to let s start talking. so, again, we don t know if this is a pause, if it s indefinite but it seems that the president wants to give this a little more time to have conversations to de-escalate. we won t see the president much today. he will be talking or appearing at 5:30. he s got the congressional pick neck e picnic here. we ll see whether there s anything added to his schedule and make sure this is a broader coalition if anything does happen. the reports we re hearing is
tough it s been on congressman weiner as this scandal unravelled. reporter: it has. to eck e something john harwood said in a fundamental way this is really a family tragedy. on the front page of the paper. this is a picture of congressman weiner s wife, huma abedin, who many in the media business know because she s been a longtime top aide to secretary of defense hillary clinton, previously senator clinton here in new york. and so many of us know her. i know her from the campaign trail, a couple years ago. and you have to feel for her. she s pregnant with their first child, and what is the conversation like between them? of course, it s a private matter, but you can t help but feel for her and him at some level. in his district, he had a lot of support. i believe that s why he felt he could hang on. in was a poll last week that suggested 56% of the people asked supported him and said he should not resign. a smaller number said she should quit. asked would they vote for nim