The official government jobs numbers came out today. Unemployment is up far higherthanexpected, close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they can t find employees. And it s obvious they can t. Go to the nearest strip mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors, they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because they can t find anyone to hire, so our manufacturing plants. That means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. How can that be? another question. What happened to all of the consumer products? many of the things that you buy add me to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of product seem to have gone missing complete we. The united states is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup
Unemployment is up far higherthanexpected. Close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they can t find employees. And it s obvious they can t. Go to the nearest strip mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors, they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because they can t find anyone to hire, so are manufacturing plants. That means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. How can that be? another question. T what happened to all of the consumer products? many of the things that you buy and need to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of products seem to have gone missing completely. The united states is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup, bicycles, diapers, and munition, automobiles, p
yesterday. you re our pop culture expert. jedediah: i would say around 40. i am sole h soulful. this music rattles my soul. will: this. pete: this is music for people that don t have souls i. will: i want to beat you do it. i was told justin timberlake is 40. that is the birthday. pete beat right, jed, spot on. jedediah: happy birthday, justin. will: do you think he is watching? happy birthday, man. pentagon reversing course, announcing it will pause a biden administration plan to give covid-19 to prisoners at guantanamo bay. rich edson live in washington with more. good morning, rich. reporter: the pentagon says it is halting plans to vaccinate the 40 prisoners of department of defense holding at guantanamo bay, cuba. john kirby the pentagon press secretary, he tweeted. no guantanamo detainees have been vaccinated. we remain committed to our obligations to keep our troops safe. the pentagon planned to give vaccinations to the terrorists at guantanamo. that enclouds, khalid s
lawyer s zoom appearance. can you hear me, judge? i can hear you. i think it s a filter. i don t know how to remove it. i m not a cat. i m on top of the world, hey. i m on top of the world hey. waiting on this for a while now. paying my dues. ainsley: good morning to you at home. thank you for waking up with us, it s 6:01 on the east coast. it is cold outside, brian, did you bring your coat. brian: i did bring a coat. i noticed you were shivering while you were reading the cold open. it s back to the future, almost a year ago today a week ago we were talking about impeachment and we re talking about impeachment again. that s right. you re absolutely right, ainsley, it is chilly, it s 19 degrees. good news for you, it s going to snow tonight. ainsley: yeah! i saw that. i think it s going to snow next week maybe too. and the woman cheers because she has no driveway to shovel. ainsley: you cheer because your wife does it all. she s good. she s very good at
welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world to peter doocy at the white house with the latest. peter? this all fits together. the white house wants a transformational human infrastructure package worth several trillion dollars at the same time that the supply chains are all backed up. a few minutes ago, i asked in the briefing room how it s all going to work. president biden does not want to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. but there s a new fox poll that finds 83% of registered voters are noticing bills for groceries and everyday items increasing. how is that any difference than a new tax? you know, we are dealing with a historic and evolving pandemic that is impacting our economy. we have seen it for the past 1 1/2 years. that s what people have been dealing with. it s having an outside impact on our global supply chain, this is why we re trying to pass the president s domestic economic policy. behind the scenes democra