everyone, have a good weekend. cnn news central starts right now. an insider at mar-a-lago, a major new development as the new york times reports on a potentially crucial cooperator in the classified documents probe. what this could mean for the special counsel s investigation. just in this morning, a surprising april jobs report, the labor market is heating back up. what does this mean now for the economy? we will break it down. plus, the countdown to the coronation is on. we re live at buckingham palace as the official crowning of king charles iii happens tomorrow. those major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. all right. we have to start with those april jobs numbers showing surprising growth in the labor growth in the labor market when other indicators have very clearly recently been pointing to possibly a cooling off. the new data was just released in the last 30 minutes and it shows employers added 253,000 jobs last month, t
here s the deal. take the debt limit, pass it like you did three, four times, when trump was president, and he increased the whole national debt by 40%. republicans would argue that donald trump, at the very least, they d say, played ball. you re not willing to play ball. play ball? play ball. he ballooned the debt, he created unemployment look, when i came to office, we had incredibly high unemployment. we were in a situation where we had very little movement on anything going on. look, look at the employment right now. just today, 250,000 new jobs. highest participation in 75 years of women in the job market. lowest unemployment rate for african americans. things are moving. as i said, you have a good economic recovery story. this is a very volatile congress. there were members of congress that might be okay with a stifel dane, because they think it could hurt you more politically given that, are you prepared to invoke the 14th amendment and blow through the debt ce
Im jose diazbalart. Right now, we are tracking the very latest on the deadly storms and tornadoes that slammed into parts of the South Killing at least seven people. Well bring you a live report from alabama. Also this morning, were following the very latest on the controversy surrounding the classified documents found at President Bidens former office and delaware home. What the Special Counsel is looking into, coming up. On capitol hill a growing number of republicans are now call ong one of their own to step down after congressman George Santos admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. Well have congressman Robert Garcia about that and more. And here in miami, i had the chance to speak with the charity providing migrants with legal advice, food, and shelter. Well discuss the challenges facing Asylum Seekers later this hour. We begin with the cleanup and recovery just beginning this morning after a dangerous storm system swept across parts of the unleashing a series of destructive
Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
even a brief default would cause the country half 1 million jobs, according to the council. if there is no default, dragging negotiations out until the last minute could cause 200,000 jobs. some argue president biden could act unilaterally by provoking a provision and the 13th amendment. other question the legality of such a move. in the exclusive interview with stephanie ruhle, the president didn t take the option off the table. i am not there yet, and here s the deal. i think that, first of all, this is not your father s republican party. this is a different group. and i think that we have to make it clear to the american people, that i m prepared to negotiate in detail with their budget. how much are going to spend, how much you re going to tax, where can we cut. for example, in the first years of my administration i cut the death by 1.7 trillion dollars. 1.7, more than anyone s done in history. their budget goes in and, there is no possible that they can pass their budg