The white house. General election coverage gets underway today. Im Andrea Mitchell reporting from washington along with my colleagues. Donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee at nikki haley suspended her campaign this morning without endorsing trump. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. We will look to exit polling to see where the haley voters are going. Donald trump is calling for the Republican Party to unite behind him before he is officially declared theexpected. He picked up an endorsement from Mitch Mcconnell in a major sign the party will coalesce behind trump after last nights results and todays announcement from haley. Trump insisting they call it Super Tuesday for a reason when he spoke last night. Theres never been one like this. Theres never been anything so conclusive. This was an amazing night. Its be
These are people who are in guerrero, and theyre on the phone in guerrero, in iguala, in most cases. I he reads in english if i dont answer, it is because ill be lunching with the military. I mean, these are evidence that theres direct Communications L and direct levels of contact between leaders of the Guerreros Unidos cartel and members of the Mexican Military. From the very beginning, like the morning after the attacks against the students, the big question was, what did the army do . Theres two army bases in iguala, a kilometre to two kilometres away from the various scenes of attack. They were out in the streets that night, at least by one in the morning. And at one in the morning, the attacks were still taking place. People were still being disappeared. At one in the morning, students were still being persecuted and shot at. Shouting the military was operating the camera Surveillance System in iguala that night. Shouting they were seeing in real time everything that was taking pl
Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen of the Front National, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. She was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. She has a very different vision. She would restore the borders of france. She would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their European Union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french factories against
0.1% but my next guest says it s the upper middle class, those in the next 9.9% that are really drivers of inequality in this country. joining me is matthew stuart, the author of the new book the 9.9%. it s great to have you, matthew. this is a book that s caught my attention this week, it s been making headlines and i wanted to talk to you about it and we re seeing it in realtime play out. let s talk about inequality here for the moment. at the end of 2019 in the u.s., the bottom 50% held just 1.5% of all wealth in this country while the top 1% held 34.9%. the 9% after them held even more at 35.8%. what is all of this pelt being shifted away from our middle class do to the overall health of our economy? yeah, well, ayman, thank you so much for inviting me and thank you especially for bringing up this really critical
Added in april. the unemployment rate still 5.8%. still double of february of 2020. wages are growing. they ve been growing month after month for the past couple of months for the first time in about 15 years. average wages are up 15 cents in the month of may to $30.33 on average for weekly pay. the average hourly work week climbed to 34.9 hours. people are working harder and making a bit more money. as we know, inside the unemployment numbers is a dynamic that s not so good. and that is the unemployment rate among races, ali, it s still uneven. white unemployment around 5.1%. black unemployment around 9.1%. hispanic unemployment at 7.3%. you see this uneven recovery in the labor market. we saw it many 2000and in 2008 .