big moves in arizona cutting off building permits so they don t have to cut off the water and far-reaching effort to make sure that everyone in arizona has enough. and new research in breast cancer, and researchers fiending new results of clinical research. this is cnn news central. the important big development this hour, the us j tis department has officially closed its investigation into vice president mike pence and his handling of classified documents. this is when an attorney for mike pence found about a dozen documents marked classified in mike pence s possession. evan perez and katelyn polantz is with us. i am going to you first, kate. well, it is clear that the justice department is not bringing any criminal charges related to the discovery of classified records or records with the classified markings with them in the possession of former vice president mike pence. what happened to start this investigation, buzz that back in january, a lawyer had gone to penc
the job support job report out shattered expectations. employers added 329,000 jobs which is way more than the 190,000 that was expected. the jobs did tip up to more people entering the workforce looking for jobs. the federal reserve is looking to this report as to whether or not to raise more the interest rates. wow. this is more than was thought. you are looking at the big headlines of the big companies doing the layoffs, but small businesses can finally get their hands on workers and hire. and the hiring here is broad based and centered here. tech workers and hospitals and nursing homes and construction sites and everything but manufacturing, because there is a little bit of weakness in manufacturing, and it is showing strong hiring. it is showing the signs of resiliency in the signs of everyone taking the 39,000 jobs and new added, and christine, you pointed out new interesting numbers related to women. the workforce sales force of women 29-54, the biggest share of
what happened to it! access peddling, corruption, and shocking sexual assault allegations in a new lawsuit filed against rudy giuliani. this is going to be eventually a big case. tonight, andrew weissmann on the claims that rudy giuliani sexually abused his employee, and michael schmidt on the allegations that he conspired with donald trump to sell presidential pardons. then, representative george santos, b, and here by is, expelled from the house of representatives. congressman roger brings a resolution to expel george santos from congress, and congressman joe garcia joins us live. plus, senator elizabeth warren on the republican debt limit extortion. fresh off of her grilling of bank ceos. you are planning to return how much? the answers none. that s it? i m not planning to do so, no. elon musk, after a fire storm over the antisemitic tweets. he said he wants to erode the fabric of civilization, and hates humanity. when you do something like that
bank and signature bank are facing lawmakers who blame the poor management for the banks failures. the bank ran into trouble after depositors removed their funds causing a panic within the banking system. congress want to know what went wrong. it was the first time anyone had heard from the former ceo of silicon valley bank after the spectacular collapse of the financial institution, he ran for more than a decade. becker apologised what happened but did not seem to take any responsibility for the eventual collapse. in the former executives that were there were slammed for the millions of dollars they received compensation. they were asked if they had any intention of returning some of those funds. how much of the $40 million did you earn from loading up banks with this? are you planning to return to the fdic was yellow compensation, there s been a lot of talk about it long term and short term. i lot of talk about it long-term and short-term. lot of talk about it long-term an
to go above 30,000. japan has just released growth figures. asia s second biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicted. i spoke to neil newman from macquarie capital. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn t really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp number certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy now contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up 0.9 on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even private consumption was also up, 0.6% against the market consensus of 0.4. even though it appears the wage number we have been looking at, the last numbers were in march, they were not that impressive, in fact they were quite depressing. the next key one will be injune, april s numbers, and that s when we will start to see the increase in overall wages. of course it s notjust the wage number that contributes to all of this, it