approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76. up $0.17 from a week ago, and 1.72 higher than last year. president biden speaking on the may jobs report and acknowledging the toll inflation is taking on american families. the president putting the onous on congress. anita: karl rove in a moment, but first white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn
congress charge yet took him into custody and marched him into court. steve bannon? john: no, navarro. congress has a right to try and force its subpoena and what happened, the department of justice said you know what, you are not even attempting to cooperate with us, not even trying to find a solution that is amenable to both sides so we are going to play tough with you. yeah, i mean the department of justice, it s not congress that s making that decision, it s the department of justice, and one thing i learned in my time at the white house is if the department of justice is coming after you, you better have the ability to talk to them and you shouldn t just simply take the attitude bannon and navarro have, which is get lost, they have the ability to enforce their actions. john: they do. we ll keep watching this and see where it goes. karl as always, thank you and have a great weekend. with title 42 still in place, thousands of migrants waiting in
so the court don t want to hear that they are on a you know political fishing expedition or reign in congress that superficially appears to be doing the regular job. those are difficult choices. the guys indicted with the criminal contempt charges have made the decision to fully ignore, saying i m not showing up, i m not turning over anything and that kind of pokes the bear and leads to the referrals to the attorney s office, made some interesting decisions in terms of how they executed arrest and walk away things like andy mccabe false statements. anita: why do you think they did not allow him to surrender? they put him in cuffs, let steve bannon surrender. why not peter navarro?
could potentially face jail time? it depends. if at the end of the day they say look, you have to come forward and talk about things that you were talking about with outside individuals, you know, there may be a gray area that he s protected on and things he may have said to the president or the president said to him, but if their focus is on what can you say to, say, professor eastman or rudy giuliani or mitchell or sydney powell, then he better be forthcoming with them. otherwise he will end up in jail. but he has a right, let him take the indication to court. i hope it s adjudicated quickly for everybody s sake. my sense is given what was said in harriet miers and bolten cases, he cannot say i was at the white house therefore i m not going to respond to anything in the subpoena. john: it s a contempt of
court. chad pergram on capitol hill with the breaking details. chad: arraignment here for peter navarro is going on right now, the magistrate there, he s charged with two counts, one of defying congress s request to have a deposition and also refusing to produce documents. this is part of the 1/6 committee investigation. they wanted to bring him in. the indictment came down yesterday. he was arrested today. now, i interviewed peter navarro on wednesday morning and he keeps claiming that he is exempt from this. the reason he says he doesn t have to appear before congress is because he served in the white house. he also claims that the 1/6 committee is invalid. the house of representatives voted to create the committee, it s empowered to do so under article i, section 5 of the constitution. committee hearings thursday night, primetime hearing on thursday and the committee will try to thread together efforts to those close to former