One number i want to highlight is wage growth. 2. 7 . I mean, its not terrible but you have to look at the environment. You have to look at the context here. In this stage in the cycle where were at near or full employment, meaning that every american who is either willing or able to get a job has one, weve seen wage growth between 3. 5 . This is a persistent problem to the administration. This speaks to how people feel. They want a raise. Overall, a very strong relatively strong report. Missing expectations, 157,000. The market isnt loving it because its below the trend weve been seeing so thats why the market isnt liking it. But 3. 9 . Its solid for two main reasons. This goes back to my point about context. One is that at this point in the cycle you would think that hiring would slow very significantly because we are at near full employment so you would think that actually you
would expect this kind of pullback. The other thing is it doesnt seem like tariff worries until this mornin
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Tantrum. Hes contradicting his sons original story about the Trump Tower Meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Well, if trumps lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with American Families years ago. But emails from donald trump, jr. Show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. Now, the president admits the meeting was for Opposition Research and admits its no big deal. Hes wrong. Its a violation of federal law. Dana bash reporting that trumps advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. Lots to discuss now. Cnn contributor frank bruiny and Global Affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations. A recap of the days news. Took the stand today incriminating really his former bo
Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came about as one of manaforts attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from Paul Manafort. He asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. She said she would. He teed all of it up by making
it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. And he tried to suggest through his questioning of her
Was actually dictated by President Trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. With no mention of dirt on Hillary Clinton. It wasnt until the New York Times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. That was the New York Times reporting. At the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. They get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for Russian Adoption, according to his statement. The comments are about any type of information on Hillary Clinton were vague, meaningless. As you can see from the emails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. There was some small talk. I dont even remember what it was. It was sort of nonsensical. Then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about Russian Adoption and how we could po