and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of everyday goods such as groceries or gasoline. the current rate of
you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning, i am carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro and you are noticing a theme from today show, a band that is from england. the band you may have heard of them called the beatles. and today is the rolling stones. some attention there on the great city of london and the second day of the queens platinum jubilee. carley: yesterday was about the trip in the colorado s, this elaborate military parade with queen elizabeth at the balcony with the other working members of the royal family. she was wearing a blue dress. she looked great and you see her standing with her cousin there. today, we are not going to see her because yesterday evening, buckingham palace released a statement said she is bowing out of today s event which will be a church service at the cathedral where princess diana and prince charles were married. the statement reads the queen greatly enjoyed the birthday parade but did experience some discomfort taki
us. do something. just do something. for god s sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that cannot be true. this time we must actually do something. they issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. it was justice scalia who wrote, and i quote, like most rights, the right of the second amendment the rights granted by the second amendment are not unlimited. not unlimited. they never have been. it comes to the carnage we are willing to accept. how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. let there be no mistake about the silent collage kaletra that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off of her murdered friends body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in her classroom to
the wider public through the right wing media concocting with that man, steve bannon, they called the green bay sweep involved persuading members of congress to challenge the college electoral results setting off a chain reaction by their theory also by their cockamamie theory lead to stage legislators appointing trump elengthers. months after the january 6th committee made a criminal reseveral navarro to the department of justice, turn over records including communications with donald trump. at the time navarro s contempt with congress, cited executive privilege as a reason for stonewalling the select committee even though he wrote a book and went on television to boast about his role in the insurrection and how his plan for a bloodless coup would have succeeded if it weren t for the violence on january 6th. here he is. peter navarro on this very network with our amazing colleague, ari melber. we ll see ari in a moment. on yesterday. the very same die the indictment unseal
this hour one day after police say a gunman killed four in a hospital building before turning the gun on himself. investigators are warning to determine the motive and believe the shooter entered the building with a specific target in mind. in texas, the uvalde community holding more funeral services for loved ones killed in last week s mass shooting. as a bipartisan group of senators led by democrat chris murphy of connecticut say they are making progress on potential gun safety legislation. our hope is we re going to be able to produce something for our colleagues next week. i think everyone in the senate, even a few exceptions, have been moved by what has happened in the last week, and feel a real political imperative to get something done. and this hour, president biden will be meeting with nato secretary-general stoltenberg to discuss the upcoming nato summit in spain and the war in ukraine as president zelenskyy says russian forces now occupy fully 20% of his coun