i m jose diaz-balart we begin this busy hour with breaking news. the brand new jobs report shows the u.s. economy added 261,000 jobs in october. which is higher than expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from last month s 3.5%. this as the hispanic unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. the black unemployment rate remains mostly unchanged and there you see the numbers at 5.9%. it s the last jobs report before election day on tuesday with the economy and the cost of living ranking as the top issue on voters minds headed to the polls. joining us with more is business and data reporter brian chung. whatever your takeaways. i want to rehighlight again the numbers we got about an hour and a half ago. in september we had 315,000 jobs added. the new jobs for october showing 261,000 jobs added in the month. but something that caught a lot of attention was the 3.7% unemployment rate that we clocked in as of october. that was a little bit higher than the 3.5% that we g
wisconsinites. one thing we ve also seen is him using that story we heard out of milwaukee. using the lawsuit in green bay filed by the republican national committee using that to ask questions about the results and legitimacy of next week s election. i want you to listen to his response when i asked him if he would commit to accepting the election results next week. i sure i hope i can, i can t predict what the democrats might have plan. it depends on what you see? it has to. let s see how this plays out. reporter: when we caught up with tony evers, my colleague caught up with him after one of his bus tour events, the democratic governor in this state said what you saw out of milwaukee was an example of the system working. there was wrong doing and the person will likely be charged. he said that s serious business.
running for the united states senate sometimes requires a really big effort, even full have been an incumbent senator for decades. in 2014, when he was facing a strong challenge that year, kentucky republican senator mitch mcconnell got help with his campaign back home from a fixture in local republican local kentucky republican politics. he turned as he had before to a kentucky republican fixture, a campaign operative named todd inman. todd inman helped organize a pro coal tour after kentucky for mcconnell in 2014. according to inman s resume posted by pro publica, he produced all the in-state and national media campaign rallies and bus tour events and press conditionses for senator mcconnell s re-election campaign, 60 stops along a three-week tour. mitch mcconnell ended up winning that race in 2014, ultimately became majority leader of the senate, the most powerful man in the senate and that ends up
some stuff to employ people in order to stave off a double-dip recession, in order to get the economy going, we have to do it soon. he said, he argued on cnn this weekend, that if we had to invent a fake invasion of space aliens in order to get the government to do that, in order to motivate us to do some economic stimulative government activity, then fine, frankly, fake space aliens have been used for worse in the past. if we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive build up to counter the threat and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. fake aliens will save us. president obama is out doing campaign-style bus tour events in the midwest today, tomorrow, and wednesday, talking about what everybody wants to talk about, which is the economy. so far he s making two essential points, neither about aliens,
for his part is out doing campaign-style bus tour events in the midwest today, tomorrow, and wednesday, talking about what everybody wants to talk about, which is the economy. so far he s making two essential points, neither about aliens, arguing republicans are trying to block any economic process and he is arguing that in order to get any economic progress, we are going to have to overtly do stuff as a government. congress right now could start putting people to work rebuilding america. at a time where interest rates are low, contractors are begging for work, construction workers are lining up to find jobs, let s rebuild america. we could be rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and parks all across america right now. could put hundreds of thousands of folks to work right now. there s a bill sitting in congress right now that would set up an infrastructure bank to get that moving, attracting private sector dollars, not just public dollars. congress needs to move.