Thomasgreenfield. First, the latest from washington. Joining me is Nbc News white House Correspondent Peter alexander, Lee Leigh Ann Caldwell and moderator. I want to talk about cyber attacks hitting Meat And Transportation sectors. The White House is Warning Leaders you have to take this threat seriously. What more can you tell us . Thats the bottom line in an open letter the White House sent to Business Leaders and executives. Notice the significant rise in these Ransomware Attacks. Here is part of that letter they note that no company is safe here regardless of their size and location. You will remember that just yesterday the fbi indicated that it was russian cyber criminal gangs responsible for the latest hack on jbs, the worlds largest meat provider. I asked Jen Psaki if she believed President Biden could stop it. Here is what President Biden said when he was pressed on the matter yesterday. Mr. President, will you retaliate against russia on this latest Ransomware Attack . I am
Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson with you. Stick with us. Its a big hour in the global fight to get people vaccinated. Right now, we have our eyes on the White House. Any second now, the Administrations Covid19 Response team will hold a briefing. The White House is expected to lay out its global vaccination distribution plan. We are hoping to learn how many doses, which countries would be prioritized and more. We will go to that live as soon as it starts. While people Around The World who want the Vaccine Cant get one, the White House is in an allout blitz to convince people here in the u. S. Who can get the vaccine to actually do it. This morning our nations top doctors are pushing to meet president bidens big goal, getting 70 of americans at least one Vaccine Dose by independence day. We dont want to say, we dont need to get vaccinated. You need to vaccinate as many people as you can if you really want to crush this. We have pockets in this country that have lower rates of vaccination
but job growth actually missed badly with only 210,000 jobs added, versus the expected 550,000. john: that is a big mess. it comes as they propose a potential new threat to the economy, as the biden administration considers tougher covert travel restrictions, which could decimate our already battle travel section. sandra: we got fox news coverage free to kick off the brand-new hour, senator roger marshall from kansas will be joining us in just a moment. we begin with white house correspondent, jacqui heinrich she is reporting live from the north lawn for us on this friday afternoon here and take away jackie. a santa good to see you. this was the smallest number of jobs added since december of 2020, making it the worst month for job creation, this entire year. economists were forecasting a strong continuation of the kind of recovery we have been seen. these numbers, disdain looks more like the prepandemic economy. the president though, largely glossed over all of that in
Today. he instead focused on the positive, yet employment dropped more than expected down to 4.2%, wages were also up, although by less than last month. labor force participation also rose, to 61.8%. the incredible news of our unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%. at this point in the year, we are looking at the sharpest one year decline in unemployment ever. simply put, america, america is back to work. our jobs recovery is going very strong. the tally used to calculate the number of new jobs is different from the self recorded household survey that produces the overall unemployment rate. highlight some key differences in the surveys. the jobs numbers have often been revised upwards multiple times this year, but the big concern for some, is that this job growth stumble came even before the omicron variant emerge. hitting industries with travel restrictions and lockdowns earlier in the pandemic,
good day. i m chris jansing in for andrea mitchell who is on assignment in turkey. we will have more on her reporting this hour. and a message, ramp up cybersecurity against a new group of cyber attacks who are hitting industries like oil pipelines, meat packing companies. officials say it is not a question of if, but when. and prime minister netanyahu seems to be on his way out. but he is vowing to fight. and andrea has an exclusive interview with linda