happy good friday. i m bill hemmer. happy good friday to you. it s time to break out some colors, i decided, indeed. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. let s get you to the numbers. the united states added 236,000 jobs last month. that is the weakest growth since december of 2020. unemployment it ticked down to 3.5%. we re crunching the numbers. hello, steve. is this good? is this bad? what s it tell smart guys like you? what it tells you that things are beginning to slow. what is more important is what happened earlier this week, the report on manufacturing. report on surfaces, isns, purchase managers, a very good indicator of what s about to happen. manufacturing is in a serious decline. services, which have been a mainstay in terms of people being able to spend on services again after the lockdowns, that s beginning to show signs of weakening. people s savings are beginning to be run down. credit card debt is beginning to go up. the storm clouds are there
know what, she is right. it is this extraordinary gift that all these people that we love and follow, you know, it makes sen. i m really proud of the fact that i wasted my life listening to the beatles and dissecting every melody and every bass line that paul mccartney ever did. he knows every one. every single one. big time. yeah. it s worth it s been worth every second. it really has. explain that. totally. and look at the power of joanie mitchell, who s at her peak now. these are songs that will be communicating to us for decades upon decades. cameron, on the topic of staying power, such a personal story for you, almost famous, but it has resonated for so many people for so long at this point and now in the new form. what is that like to have your story mean so much to other people? thanks, jonathan. you know, it tells it says to me that there s power in telling a personal story, because almost famous was a little movie we got to make because jerry mag
kirby trying to defend that. there were children being killed, people hanging off air force jets that were leaving, and you re saying you re proud the way this mission was conducted? proud of that? proud of the fact that we got more than 124,000 people safely out of afghanistan? you bet. proud of the fact that american troops were able to seize control of a defunct airport and get it operational in 48 hours? you bet. proud of the fact that we now have 100,000 afghans, our former allies and partners living in this country, working toward citizenship? you bet. there was a lot that went right. a lot of afghans are living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices and work of so many american government officials. yeah, there s a lot to be proud of, peter. let s bring in massachusetts democratic congressman seth mullton, a veteran yourself. sir, let s get your reaction to
they warn that time is running out for united states to prepare itself and its allies to prepare for a possible war with china. michael waltz of florida and seth mullton join us now. thank you very much. i think a lot of americans right now are thinking about our engagement and to help second handedly in the war in ukraine, and the two of you would like to bring to the forefront the concept of escalation with china. is the u.s. prepared for escalation? seth, i ll start with you. frankly, we re not. we re working very hard to get prepared, and we saw amazing examples of that from the troops that mehmet on the ground in the pacific, but as a major leagues we re not ready. xi jinping has made it very clear that he wants to get out of this war. what americans need to understand is we don t have a plan to fight this war through taiwan, like fighting the
women, or an entire iraqi town. and that level of leadership experience, i don t think you get almost anywhere else in the world than when you re put in a position like that in iraq. or afghanistan. and the other thing that veterans bring is courage. people ask me all the time, seth, why is congress so stupid. how can congress not believe in climate change or whatever. my observation after being there for three years most of my colleagues are pretty smart. a few exceptions. what s lacking in washington isn t intelligence, it s courage. it s just the willingness to do what s right, to stay with what s right, take tough vote even though it might hurt your re-election process. donnie everybody is talking about john mccain how courageous he was. here s a man who is a prisoner of war and remained prisoner of war even though he was being beaten and tortured and brutalized. but he made that choice because he wasn t going to go home