Mike tobin is live on the scene there where this is about to get underway. hi, mike. hi, martha. the president is on the ground here in the northwest chicago suburbs. he s making a tour of a development by the clayco corporation. that company is significant because the boss is an advocate of vaccine mandates and a big fund raiser for democrats and democrat projects. president biden is pitching the mandate backed by the white house that says mandates would result in more vaccinations and a healthy work force and the economy churning along. united airlines is based downtown. united is the first of the big air carriers that require employee vaccinations. they ve fired employees for refusing to get the vaccine. the president s mandate extends into the private sector. companies of 100 or more would need to require vaccinations for employees. healthcare workers and government contractors would need to get the shots as well.
neil: here s good news. the economy churning a lot of jobs. about 235,000 of them. here s the bad news. most everyone was thinking a number three times higher than that and didn t deliver. hospitality and leisure hiring that was going on crawled to nothing in the latest period. some are steering that this could be a signal of things to come. the president was blaming the delta variant and the unvaccinated people that stunted hiring in the country and all the rest. my next guest isn t buying that entirely. larry glazer from may flower advisers. there s a bump going on here. the president indicated it s a temporary bump because of the variant, because of the people not being vaccinated and putting a chill on the recovery from the pandemic. you re not buying it. what a disappointment. this is not the jobs report that
Now senate her has said here she is in favor of voting to convict the president which is very high by requiring to 2 thirds of the senate, no indication it is going to get anywhere near that and i seriously doubt that if they were to want but further charges based on the mueller report which largely exonerated the president, it raised of obstruction of justice issues but not sufficient to get mueller to even say there had been obstruction of justice, only that there were cases that might have added up to that and it was rejected by rod rosenstein and william barr. i think what democrats are doing here is an extreme longshot and maybe too long shots. as we get to the end of the year the president seems like he has some political wind at his back despite this impeachment, a couple 50%, some about 45, 46 but the economy churning on all
Aspects of immigration and they can use that to their favor if they win the house. republicans feel the same way. if they can calm the immigration storm right now and get the economy churning once again, maybe quiet the waters on tariffs and get the markets moving back up, they will be in better position. but there has to be something done right now. i think when you tie daca to the wall, that is an aspect that would work for both sides. and chad says they are not going to try this smaller piece of legislation until the compromise bill fails. i think the republicans hurt themselves politically if they do that. i think that is another reputation smear and tarnish. what they should do is go for the narrow legislation now. have one fit. have it done. because they need to do something. and then if everyone wants to wait until after the midterms that is fine. i would think the hoopla on the border as much as i think the democrats were hoping it would embarrass and it is embarrassing bec
And the game-changer now and the perhaps certain european countries feeling more willing now to take that risk and that cost with more restrictive sanctions still. putin seems to think that europe and the end of the day does not have the stomach for tough, sustained sanctions. jim, quickly here. international pressure aside, how real is the worry inside russia that putin risks, you know, further alienating the ruling class there. the billionaires who keep the economy churning? i don t think that s going to be an issue. remember that most of the current crop of billionaires are the ones who depos s who got th investment at sochi olympics. those were russians pretty poor before putin.