congratulations to the rangers. i wish my wife felt the same way. dana: have a great show, bret. bret: see you. secretary of state antony blinken israel to ensure more humanitarian aid to do more to protect palestinian civilians inside gaza or else there will be no partners for peace in his words; however, israeli prime minister benjamin meth is ruling out a temporary seas fire or pause in the gaza strip until hostages held by hamas are released. israeli officials meantime say the country is on high alert for attacks on its border with lebanon. hezbollah s leader gave a first his first public speech since the war started saying his group had entered the battle though he stopped short of saying it is fully engaging in the war. here at home more concern about who is coming across our southern border. a 20-year-old palestinian man in the u.s. illegally is charged now with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. the u.s. attorney s office and the southern dist
180-point dive is directly related, right? yeah, some relation. we started out 180 points. a big gain due to the adp report. why is it so important? it s really the crystal ball friday s job report. the numbers, the biggest gains since december 2014. all eyes on the report today. couldn t hold the gains, not at all. let s take a look at the sectors doing well here. professional services. by that, i mean white collared jobs, back office jobs, up a bunch. hospitality looking good here. that speaks well to tourism. healthcare up. typically is. typically does well. the shocker. manufacturing up 30,000. that s the sector that trump talks about over and over and over again. of course, we talk about the leading sectors, we ll see more detail friday because that s when we get private and public sector jobs together. we ll see both coming in.
tech equipment supplied by iran. let s go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara also seeing reports of high-level defections including at least four generals. do u.s. officials think that s significant? reporter: right now, john, senior u.s. intelligence officials are telling us no. and that s the problem. they are seeing no cracking in the inner circle around because char bashar all assad. they are seeing no evidence his powerful inner circle is cracking. and that imagery that has now been declassified and released today is also critical. because what it s providing the u.s. intelligence community is very specific information about where syrian forces are on the move, what they are shelling, the destruction of mosques and hospitals in critical neighborhoods. you have the video on the internet. but this is the kind of key intelligence that they are pouring over right now to get a better idea of what the syrian military s really up, to john. as the