Islamaphobia. To all of you hurting, i want you to know i see you, you belong, and i want to say this to you, youre all american. Youre all american. You are all americans. That is part of President Bidens address to the nation from the Oval Office Last night. The president also called on all americans as well as congress to continue to support ukraine and israel in the vastly different wars each is fighting. Meanwhile, theres somehow even more republican led chaos on capitol hill. A third vote is now scheduled this morning on jim jordans bid to lead the lower chamber, and this comes as the temporary speaker is now threatening to resign. Well go through all of that just ahead, and were going to get expert legal analysis on the surprise guilty plea for one of the many defendants in the Georgia Election interference case. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, october 20th. Its friday. We made it. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin
Clinton saying her steadiness makes her the best choice. Trump tried to take clinton and the rest of the current administrations judgment to task. President obama meanwhile striking back at donald trump, speaking from laos this morning. The president repeated his feeling that trump is not qualified to be president. To begin our coverage with sun l reporter what really turned into a small preview of how they could potentially handle themselves, their first real faceoff which will come later this month, both trying to gain the upper hand on the big question, who is ready to be Commander In Chief. Donald trump drumming up more controversy. The man has strong control over a country. Praising Vladimir Putin while trashing our president. Standing by his statement, claiming he knows more about isis than the generals do. Under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it is embarrassing for our country.
powell he s got to acknowledge the obvious, that the omicron variant has the potential to really complicate america s economic recovery. and that s a big reason why we have seen this volatility on wall street. stocks really tumbled on friday. they bounced back a bit yesterday and we re seeing more selling today with the dow down around 300 points. big three points that jerome powell is likely to make in this appearance before the senate, one, he s going to talk about the threats to the recovery. one is rising inflation. he s going to acknowledge the prices are elevated and that the new variant raises a lot of uncertainty about when prices can come down. two, listen, people are worried about the new variant, they may not go back to work, stay home, that could slow down job growth. and worsening supply chain crisis is a risk as well. powell didn t mention this in his prepared remarks, but another big issue that we have to talk about is how are consumers going to react? obviously the peop
the year so far. really hanging on by a thread. we also got march jobs data disappointing to some. fewer jobs added to the u.s. economy than most economists were looking for. that s the screen. although we did keep that .1% unemployment rate which held at its lowest level since the year 2000. but, fed chief jerome powell, you referred to, this neil, he took q and a at the economic club in chicago. he talked about further gradual rate hikes that s going to help the fed meet 2% inflation target. what the market heard is rates are going higher at a time when a trade war is possible. and at a time when fewer jobs are being added to the u.s. economy. now, powell didn t mention trade tensions directly. but he did say that the fed doesn t know how tariffs will affect the economy and given that tariffs are inflationary, they make price goes higher. we all pay the price of them. that just adds one more layer of incertainty to any trader s mind. neil, back to you.
types of things in me. we re instilling violence and craziness in the black community. and peggy got it right. dr. carson got it right. strong black family members raising children correctly that will correct this problem. not more enabling by these cocktail sipping left dlifts and enabling leftist policies. but you heard the messaging. you heard the messaging from cornel west. income inequality. the messaging is that it is rigged against these communities. he s lying. it isn t rigged against you. the only thing that s rigged against you is when somebody can get inside your mind and make you believe you re less than somebody else. and dr. carson is an example of somebody who didn t believe it. and inas well. when we empower these young kids to believe they are worthy and it isn t the thug life that will make their lives different, it will change.