what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j
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
should be. however, i will say that our team, who is gone it was a go shading on this, is absolutely committed to figuring out how we can reach an agreement. america cannot default. president biden has been keeping an eye on the talks while at the g7 summit in japan, even leaving the dinner to get an update. he will be back in washington on sunday to work on this. meanwhile, progressive democrats say biden should be ready to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt limit on his own. also making big headlines tonight, the big reversal from the president on getting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. biden will support efforts to train ukrainian pilots on the f-16s, though the jets themselves might not necessarily come from the united states. and according to two u.s. officials, president biden plans to announce a 375 million dollar military aid package for ukraine. this all comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join world leaders at the g7 summit later
enforced. and my one-on-one with conversation with actor and comedian rain wilson. where he reveals the secret to happiness. at the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday night. that means our nightcap crew is here to talk about all the big news of the week. but first, we ve got to get to the serious drama in d.c. over efforts to keep the u.s. from default in an economic collapse. which could happen as soon as june 1st. talks between aides for joe biden and kevin mccarthy have been intense, and so far, there is no deal inked. earlier today, mccarthy s aides briefly walked away from negotiations, claiming things were going nowhere. we ve got to get moving by the white house. the white house is just, we can t be spending more money next year. we have to spend less than we did. kamala harris says the white house team is committed to finding a solution to matter what there are differences in terms of where
few hours. you want to see that picture up, oropeza, the reason we want to put it up is we re trying to help the sheriff s department in that area about 45 miles outside of houston find this man. what we ve learned so far, the neighbors nextdoor heard gunshots and went next door and asked him, could you stop shooting, we have a young child trying to go to sleep. he responded angry and said, i can do whatever i want. at some point, according to the sheriff s department, he went next door and started shooting people. five people killed execution-style. listen to the sheriff talk about this shooting. my understanding is that the vi victims came to the fence and said, could you mind not shooting in the yard, we have a young baby that s trying to go to sleep, and he had been drinking, and he says, i ll do what i want to on my property. fred, when you think about the details of this, you have an 8-year-old shot as well. there were also two children that were found under the bod