growth in the spring. we saw often it was women largely staying home when schools went to virtual learning. now the percentage of women working or looking for work is at the highest level since the pandemic began which is some, you know, rare good news in this report. what do you credit that to? well, you know, we heard a lot in the beginning about the she-cession. women stepping off the track. child, elder care, certain job areas that women are predominant in. service jobs, travel and leisure. those were shut down. then they came back. i actually think the she-cession is overplayed. i think that going forward and particularly once we re out from the pandemic we ll see women coming back into the labor force. they want to work. they need to work, and the areas in which they have higher percentages of employment, health care, areas like that, travel, service sectors, those are what s increasing. so i m not so worried about the
that would have happened. yeah, you have to think about this. a viral video. one of the defense attorneys gave it to a radio station thinking it would clear the three men. somehow when they watched that, they didn t see what everyone else apparently saw, including the judge. when you think about this and the fact the prosecutor was involved in this case still has to see her day in court. it will be very interesting how this plays out. had it been up to her, those three men would still be walking around free. ryan young, thanks. let s turn to another court hearing involving the former new york governor andrew cuomo. today a judge dismissed charges of misdemeanor, forceable touching, against mr. cuomo, following a decision from the albany county district attorney to not move forward with the case. cuomo, as you will recall, resigned from office last year in the wake of a report from the state s attorney general detailing several allegations of sexual misconduct against him. cnn s b
jobs created would have been very, very respectable in any given month. that s the normal trend rate for the u.s. the timing of this report is key because these numbers capture u.s. jobs as of mid-december. well before the surge of om omicron-related cases in the u.s. even then in this new jobs report, 3.1 million americans reported they d been unable to work because their employer closed or lost business due to the pandemic. so should we expect things for the next jobs report will get worse? i think so. i think the fact that these numbers were collected before you had all the shutdowns that we re seeing now, you know, women, although starting to come back into the workforce, maybe having to deal now with child care issues again. so i m looking for january to be disappointing. that said, what we re seeing globally is that really the new variant seems to be about a two-month up and down cycle. so it could be that we ll see one or two disappointing months and then back to more normal
in the money lead, a disapointing monthly jobs report showing the u.s. economy added only 199,000 new jobs in december. that is the fewest jobs added in any month of the biden presidency. and only half of the number that economists expected to see. that means in four of the last five month ares, the job gains did not meet expectations. and this report we should note measured job growth before the omicron variant spread in the u.s. president biden spoke today. tried to focus on the few bright spots in the report. we ll talk about all of it. before i do, i want to take one moment to highlight that in may 2018, the chair of the republican national committee rona mcdaniel tweeted great news for our economy and workforce. unemployment fell to 3.9% last month, the lowest since december 2000. the unemployment rate today, under biden, in the midst of a
to leave an australian government hotel while he fights to stay in the country. you ll meet another man forced by australia to stay at that same government hotel and has been for years. plus, walensky s woes. an in-depth look at the cdc director s alleged missteps as america s top public health agency deals with what even allies perceive to be a major communications problem which during a pandemic could be deadly. a former cdc director will join us live. leading this hour, the jobs report spin after yet another disappointing monthly jobs report. the lowest, in fact, of his presidency. president biden tries to find silver lining. kaitlan collins starts us off from the white house where president biden trying to use today s job numbers to make a new pitch for his build back better agenda, even though members of his own party admit a path forward on that legislation is difficult to see. reporter: president biden dissecting a puzzling jobs report. i would argue the biden