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unemployment rate holding at 3.6%. bill: that might be a bit of welcome news after wall street s worse day in two years. the dow closing down more than 1,000 points. maria bartiromo is here. we re on the air live to you and good morning. hello, bill and dagen. bill: i was watching fox business last hour. size it up? is it getting better, worse, treading water do you think? well here is the deal, bill. this is a good report. there is no doubt about it. unfortunately it is not good enough to change a narrative which has been all about inflation. here are the details. 428,000 jobs created in the month of april. much better than the expectations. we were expecting 390,000. the problem is the wages. wages were up 5 1/2% for the month of april. initially markets saw that as a positive that goes back down from the month before. in the month of march wages were up 5.6%. however, when you look at the inflation that we re talking about, inflation is running at 8 1/2%. so ....
senator lindsey graham will weigh in. john: gross domestic product, weakest quarter since the pandemic began, fears of a recession. good to be with you again. sandra: a lot of angles, great to be with you, this is america reports. g.d.p. number john just referenced fell at a pace of 1.4% to start the year. expectations were for the economy to at least grow slightly in the first quarter of this year, and today s news is the latest in a series of economic crises that this white house continues to face. john: soaring inflation, high gas prices and unpredictable supply chain. now brand-new polling shows inflation is the top concern for american voters, and fewer and fewer of those voters trust biden to get the economy back on the right track. sandra: fox team coverage begins now. charles payne in a moment. john: jacqui heinrich at the white house. we just heard from the president a little while ago, overall does not seem too concerned. significant economic slo ....
ukrainians are, quote, not thinking about comfort, they re thinking about mere survival. his city fell back in early march. so far u.s. defense officials watching the battlefield see no major russian territorial gains in the donbas region to ukraine s east. we are, though, seeing destruction like this in major cities as russia steps up shelling across the east. and ukrainian soldiers are fortifying luhansk, the military governor there tells cnn 80% of his region s territory is under the control of russian forces and he says they re not stopping. the whole of luhansk territory is being shelled. there is no safe town. we understand that the russian government is going to push ahead and going to destroy everything on its path. let s get the latest now on the ground from cnn s matt rivers who is live for us in lviv. what s the latest? reporter: they say they will destroy everything in their path but that s whatever ukrainian forces, i guess, allow them to do based on ....
these are all lies. they will not there it s like they are seeing their houses on fire and yet they re reaching for a cigarette do the people even know how unpopular they are right now? right direction versus wrong direction, 65% of americans say now we are headed in the wrong direction. biden s job approval is at a pathetic 41.4% in the rcp average, and the g.o.p. is leading the democrats, in a generic congressional vote. how do they explain this? blame it on trump? blame it on fox news? putin? anyone but on themselves and their lousy policies that sent prices swarmed for gas, electricity, and food. the problem is that the establishment devoted to the policies and that s what they heard americans most. they trust things like international organizations, globalization, and unfettered trade with china. the bushes, the clintons, the obama s, there were all in favor of policies that forced the deindustrialization of america, and of course our middle class rank as their ....
a private college in bridgewater during an active shooter standoff. officer j.j. jefferson and john poynter, known as the dynamic duo, lost their lives in this, one of whom was the best man at the other s wedding just this year. in new york city, an huff-duty police officer was shot by two suspects who tried to rob him while he was on his way to work. we are told. officer is in stable condition. it happened on the eve of the funeral for 27-year-old nypd officer will bird maura, who was killed alongside his colleague during an ambush almost two weeks ago. in texas, during the emotional funeral for a deputy killed during a traffic stop, officials called. judicial system broken. this has to stop. those in authority who are coddling the criminals and enabling this behavior have culp beability just as those who are pulling the trigger. we cannot continue to do our jobs effectively when the rest of the judicial system is broken. people need to be held accountable becaus ....