america reports on this friday. white house getting good news on the jobs market but will a massive spending plan send the economy into another tailspin, making an already bad inflation problem even worse? hello, everyone. i am sandra smith in new york. jon: i am jon scott info john roberts. the labor department says the u.s. added 528,000 jobs last month. the on employment rate also falling slightly to 3.5%. both numbers beating expectations. wages are still largely out of step with the rising inflation. now more than 200 economists, 230 to be exact, warning democrats their social spending bill will make high prices in this country even worse. jon: senior economic advisor jared bernstein joins us. first, congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest on the spending bill. good afternoon. democrats say this bill will help with inflation. more than 200 economists warn congressional leaders that the u.s. is in a dangerous crossroads. they argue the bill incre
that prompted the white house to go into a spin overdrive like this. you would be amazed if they would declare this period to be a recession, even if two quarters of negative growth. we have a strong labor market and we are creating one of those jobs that is not a recession. i think probably. there is so much out of our control to read what inflation is being a global problem. brian: in fact, the gas prices coming down in the summer is extraordinarily rare. that is not something we see very often pure they follow every single day since started. that is progress but not enough and we need to keep working on this. we begin with gillian turner reporting live from the white house, good morning. good morning to you julie and bill. we did not see him at all over the weekend and we will not see him in person before wednesday. his position wrote in the letter, this just in and we will hear direct from the white house the covid coordinator this afternoon and we will get some
rattled that they re lower than donald trump. the new york post has this advice for him. the u.s. loves a winner, not a weiner, joe biden. this comes after the reports that the president is frustrated with his staff fearing their cleanup campaign makes his look weak. just yesterday they walked back his comments again. this time on handguns. a 9 millimeter bullet blows the lung out of the body. so the idea of these high caliber weapons, there s no rationale basis for it in terms of self-respect. he support as ban on the sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines and expanded background checks to keep guns out of the dangerous hands. kayleigh: that was the walk back. that was on inflation, the number 1 issue to voters. they doubled down on his take that it was just temporary. some folks have raised worries this could be a sign of persistent inflation. that s not our view. over time as the economy is turning back on, we see the transitory effects. that s wha
time for a look at the weather. it isa it is a good old delve into the mixed bag of weather this week. it is certainly cooler for the south east of england for the flower show, but that will be good for keeping the blooms in top shape. however, there is a lot of clout around today and the cloud comes pouring in across the uk bearing rain for some of us. we never really recover those temperatures that we saw at the weekend. one area of low pressure pushing up from the continent and the weather fronts are trying to tuck down from the north west. the picture across the uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rainjust to uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rain just to the east of london at the moment pulling away in the hours ahead. it should be out of the hours ahead. it should be out of the way by teatime, roughly in time for the school run, so hopefully drier conditions. heavier showers in the south west and wales and some nudging into the midlands. showers in scotland
change in policy? we begin america reports with the white house walking back president biden s comments about china and taiwan, and all comes as president biden faces a series of crisis here at home while claiming a recession is not inevitable. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you, john. john: great to be back. let me be the first to officially well come you. the president wrapping up a trip, up and down stock market, fears that gas prices will hit $6 a gallon nationwide and potential food shortage, to leave americans scrambling to feed their fires. sandra: the president admitting it will take time to lower gas prices and ease inflation but the u.s. economy is performing better than the rest of the world. we have fox team coverage now, byron york is standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president live in tokyo. what about the comments regarding taiwan and china? jacqui: john, the fact the president made those comments standing