pandemic in all these other situations and now audited of like staying out late and work anymore but. you have to worry about your surroundings. shannon: does is the third time in four days that nypd officer has been shot on the job . we ve got a live report with breaking details. military equipment assistant from the us arrived in ukraine tonight. close to 200,000 pounds of lethal aid including for frontline soldiers. media neutral ground in switzerland and russia daniel huskins joins us live. , bitter cold in washington for the annual march for life it is the largest pro-life rally. many attendees hoping that roe v wade will soon be overturned by the us supreme court. we begin with america press the crime crisis exploding with deadly gunfire in new york city. kevin corke is tracking the incident. good evening, kevin. as you can imagine the white house wants america s largest of these do you all the resources that that disposal to help curb the crime epidemic. t
if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
I think that s well said. you ve been making this point for a long time, volodymyr zelenskyy makes this point all the time, that why would you think this would end at ukraine? ukraine was an absolute sovereign country that russia had no right to invade, but it invaded them. why stop at ukraine? if russia can outlast the west. that s exactly right. russia has been an attract bill threat to ukraine and to the west for years. it is now fueled on grievance, that grievance has only been exacerbated through several years of war, and embarrassment that russia suffered earlier on. long worsen aerial makes russia even less tractable on this issue, makes russia more entrenched on threatening not just ukraine but a broader regional stability and security, including european and nato member states. i think this has been a mistake to not provide ukraine aid early on. now we have to deal with the problem. of course, we need to keep the pressure on
But the bill threat that they are hiding. sending hundreds to instructors. if nothing else, they have a little bit more time for diplomacy and there was talk about possible biden/putin meeting if russia thought it was warranted. i cannot say if we are on the right track of with the wrong track. we will understandably get the american answer. menfolk russia continues to amass its troops while preparing for invasion while ukraine continues to ask for more support to defend themselves. for now at least ukraine welcomes the talks. the longer than we speak the better it is because when diplomats get quiet, arms start speaking. another issue is that they don t have a unified plan if russia invades ukraine. they said repeatedly that their locks up and unified in some countries don t feel as strongly as standing up to russia.