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
vigorous one. we re in a presidential election cycle, but we have an army of volunteers, absolute heroes, almost 10,000 volunteers working with more than 200,000 grassroots organizations across the state, having been working with us together the petitions that they generated a historic number of volunteer petitions, over a quarter million. and they are primed and ready to work on the campaign abortion on this ballot initiative. we re excited to get started. in the off-year elections that we saw, and in the mid term, we saw something interesting, that across the country, whether it s abortion or these other issues about book banning, another big topic in florida, it s actually driving voters out. there are places where people might otherwise vote republican, who are coming out and voting for these types of measures. do you think that this will be a motivating thing for people who will otherwise sit on their hands or not necessarily vote in the upcoming election? listen, i am not a p
volunteers working with more than 200,000 grassroots organizations across the state, having been working with us together the petitions that they generated a historic number of volunteer petitions, over a quarter million. and they are primed and ready to work on the campaign abortion on this ballot initiative. we re excited to get started. in the off-year elections that we saw, and in the mid term, we saw something interesting, that across the country, whether it s abortion or these other issues about book banning, another big topic in florida, it s actually driving voters out. there are places where people might otherwise vote republican, who are coming out and voting for these types of measures. do you think that this will be a motivating thing for people who will otherwise sit on their hands or not necessarily vote in the upcoming election? listen, i am not a political pundit. i am a mom. i got three daughters, and i am out on the streets working on this every day. here is what