voters are asking for. all right, matt duss, thank you very much. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now with ali velshi in for alex. good evening, ali. important point there, this isn t an either or, all or nothing, don t support israel or do support israel. it s a measure of condition that goes along with the aid that we give ukraine or any other country that says we have to prosecute this war in a different way. in fact, it s interesting one of the things that we learned, right, during the early days of the war was very intense conditions placed on ukraine about attacks in russia, specifically because of fears of blow back, of escalation. and it was, this was an active conversation, very, ve clearly. very early, and they re constantly. i m glad you brought that up. thank you, my friend. have aooweekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i am ali velshi in for alex wagner. last month, the united states economy gained 2
unemployment kept steady at an historic 3. 7%. that marks three consecutive years of economic growth in biden s three years in office, and along with more jobs come consistently higher wages. there is no way to paint this as anything but good. so, let s see how they celebrate the good news over that, at fox. the job numbers are through the roof. jobs numbers are pretty gangbusters. jobs numbers smashed expectations. of course, the left is trying to figure out how to spend these great economic numbers. okay, i m getting. that isn t how they celebrated it at fox. that was fox. but that was not today. those were fox personalities talking about positive job numbers during donald trump s presidency because in fox s world, the monthly job numbers were always fantastic when trump was in charge. but today, when fox, and even fox business, did talk about biden s positive job numbers, the bulk of it sounded like this. we ve got another strong jobs report. but it isn t what
everything in the senate now, requires 60 votes 60 votes. you know how many votes it got? 100, because they basically did it by unanimous consent. unanimous consent is how everything used to go to the floor, you know, like, 30 years ago, and certainly before the trump era and the mcconnell era. so, that moment earlier tonight, when they just went, unanimous consent meant that every single senator who made the slightest noise about getting in the way of this bill was not really serious about getting in the way of this bill. some of them to have points they really need to make and everyone understands that. and that s why they are being accommodated in this fashion tonight. but all of them want to race out of that building and get to the airport at this point tomorrow morning as soon as they can. yes, it s a question of is it a concern about the u.s. default that is making them putting the pep and the steps, or is it just the problem of losing their weekend? only time w
i m going to attempt, and i probably regret this, i m going to attempt to make sense of the current debt ceiling situation. instead of having someone come on who doesn t know what s going on, i thought i don t know what s going on, i can just guess and so, we re gonna do a little bit of that. and i will advance a theory that joe biden is doing everything right. there is a theory that i landed on it today that joe biden is doing everything right. i reserve the right to take my mind tomorrow. [laughter] listen, lawrence, i will put my money on you being able to not only explain this but make sense of it, and have a plausible theory for all of it so i m eager to see what you have to say this evening. it s one of the things that i know will sound good while i m saying it. i don t want anyone to think about much after i say it. okay? [laughter] [laughter] let s see what the news is tomorrow. you ve got to get the 10:59. right, yeah! it is given some until 10:59, and
thank you alex! have a great show. thank you. well this is the breaking news that i m holding in my hands. this is a letter from donald trump s attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel s office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there s a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith s criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents