charles. that s right. listening to the president speaking just now, you d think that we got all good news in the jobs report today. in fact, i was reading his statement from earlier on the jobs data. the first line, this is bidenomics in action. but charles, you ask the average american how they feel with what they re bringing home, when they have to pay for groceries. seems to be a disconnect versus the rosy picture coming out of pennsylvania avenue. i want to dig into the numbers that we got today. the economy added 209,000 jobs in the month of june. that is the lowest addition that we have seen since december of 2020. it was significantly below expectations as well. if you listen to the labor secretary, she says it s good news. this is very much a part of bidenomics. creating good jobs in every community across the country. we re seeing job growth and wage increases in a tight labor market, workers have more power to choose and to look for better working conditions and
starts right now. martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. live in des moines, iowa. this is the story. we re just hours away from our third big event of this week. tonight we will speak with former president donald trump as he heads in to caucus week, monday night, very important night for him. he will take the stage here this evening with me and with bret baier. that will happen at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. here in iowa. we have a lot more ahead on tonight s town hall as we prep and get ready for all of that. we re looking forward to it. first though, a shocker on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden showed up at a hearing, no one was expecting him. it was his contempt of congress hearing that was getting underway after he defied a subpoena from house republicans to testify behind closed doors. that s the general procedure before you do a public hearing. so here s how that went over both sides of the aisle. watch. you re the epitome of whi
inning spending, consequential reforms that will rein in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programs. jason: here is what we mow is in the deal: it suspends the debt ceiling until after 2024 election, no increase in non-defense spending for the next fiscal year, and it caps it at 1% the following fiscal year. it also increases defense spending and money for veterans. we re also learning it claws back some unspent covid-19 pandemic funds and cuts nearly $2 the billion in money used to hire new irs agents. it also reportedly expands work requirements for some adults receiving food stamps but no work requirement changes for medicaid. the house republicans are expected to come back to the washington on tuesday and and vote on the bill on wednesday. we ll take it up with congressman brian mast and congresswoman beth van duyne. meanwhile, china has spent the week courting african countries like the democratic republic of congo for rare either minerals
more fighting in the sudanese capital khartoum with reports of fighterjets and drain targeting positions held by rival paramilitary forces even though the ceasefire is meant to be in place. forces even though the ceasefire is meant to be in place. these images show car team meant to be in place. these images show car team where meant to be in place. these images show car team where fighting - meant to be in place. these images show car team where fighting is - show car team where fighting is continuing in parts of the capital with reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by the vapid support for is our rf seth. there have been chaotic scenes and pots are done in the east as people try to escape and about 2000 people try to escape and about 2000 people have been arriving in the saudi coastal city ofjeddah. sandra berg has the latest. safe from the fighting nearly 2,000 people packed on board a ferry arriving injeddah, saudi arabia, this morning after a
believe in all kinds of positive ways, but i do think that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through, it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. some of it justified, just misdirected. i think somebody like mr. trump is taking advantage of that. there are some people that are just stone cold racist, we know that. but there are a lot of people also who feel, and are to some degree or another, feel like they are on the losing end of the stick. there are a lot of people who rose to the bait, i would say, the encouragement of the kind of pr mastery of trump. trump made it into an us and them in black and white. there was no question that he had a self-consciousness of a past to whipping up resentment. and, on was a black president. toward the end of obama s presidency, i received an invitation to what was billed as a celebration of black music at the white house. there was bel biv