showing another 372,000 jobs added, a sign that that part of the economy remains strong. today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. i m not suggesting there s a lot more work to do, but i am suggesting we are making significant progress. in fact the biden presidency has seen extraordinary job growth, a half million jobs added every month. the president said all of the jobs lost in the pandemic have been recovered and then some but that s not what people are feeling. they re feeling the spiking gas prices and the sky high inflation numbers that for many americans have made things like summer vacations now simply unaffordable. which is why the latest a. p. poll found the number of people who think inflation and gas prices should be the government s top priority, has roughly tripled in the last six months. one very interesting note, those two issues ranked one and two among independent voters. and those numbe
Will be the next speaker of the house. But who can get the votes needed to seal the deal . Right now, the biggest Healthcare Strike in u. S. History is now in its second day. How it is already affecting patients. And in new york city, day four of the trump Civil Fraud Trial under way. What his lawyers just did in an attempt to get the case dismissed. We begin this morning with a major update at the southern border. Overnight, the Biden Administration announced it will wave 26 federal laws in south texas to make way for the Border Wall Construction there. A move marks a significant policy reversal for the white house, which is called the border wall, quote, not a serious solution. Here what he is then candidate biden said about the wall in 2020. There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. Joining us now, nbc news senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez and nbcs guad venegas. So, gabe, what happened at the white house overnight . Why is this happening
Read out loud at the World Trade Center here in new york. We are just minutes away from a Moment Of Silence at 9 03 a. M. Eastern, 17 minutes after the first plane struck, a second hijacked plane, flight 175, it hit the south tower. We will also be taking you live this morning to Commemoration Ceremonies at the pentagon and shanksville, president. As for President Biden hes observing the anniversary . Alaska in anchorage as he travels back from washington, d. C. From his trip in asia. Lets go to Brynn Gingras live standing by at the 9 11 memorial plaza. Brynn . Reporter sara, you guys said that Moment Of Silence coming up at 9 03. I want to mention that we dont even want our cameras on out of respect for what is happening behind us. So that is why i will get out of the way right at that 9 03. Before then let me give you a sense of where we are. We are right by the south reflective pool where the south World Trade Center tower once stood. All morning long we have been seeing Family Memb
Culture, but also, i don t think there s an accident, chris, between the increase in gun sales, and the increase in gun fatalities. it is the access to guns that make them so dangerous in our country. and the fact that we have more guns, or we have a gun for every american, that s more than 300 million guns that are out there. 400 million now. almost 400 million, right. and so you ve got that many guns, in a country with sort of swiss cheese-like, from a federal system, the 50 states, all having different rules and regulations, no federal assault weapons ban anymore, and what you end up having happen is a proliferation of guns, a rise in gun fatalities and let s also keep something else in mind, chris, the popular imagination is fixated on understandably so,