welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants in iraq and in syria. let s get right to an msnbc news correspondent, matt riley, in tel aviv. thank you for being with us this morning. matt, these airstrikes and these retaliatory met, these airstrikes and retaliatory strikes, how do they complicate things for secretary blinken as he heads to the region? well, i think that this is a perfect timing for secretary blinken. and what he will be doing, he ll be coming here to israel. he ll also be going to places like egypt, saudi arabia. these
griff: hour two, here we go, i m griff jenkins. aiming to keep the focus on the latest jobs report amid the fallout. lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn with the latest. reporter: good afternoon. all week the white house has refused to rule out the biden family from its list of suspects of who brought cocaine into the white house. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre even called it irresponsible to even can th. earlier you had a former justice department attorney asking the question that many americans are asking today. she s the one that s irresponsible in not giving a direct answer. it s very simple to come out and say no member of the biden family had anything to do with this cocaine, and the white house intends to insure that whatever staff member or guest put this cocaine in the white house is fully prosecuted under the law. we ve not heard that from the white house press office, and you have to wonder, why not? reporter: there s the question. now,
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you have to wonder, why not? reporter: there s the question. now, jean-pierre said the biden family had already left the white house when this cocaine was found. of course, there are millions of examples of someone leaving something behind when leaving a house. here is a map showing the crime scene. the cocaine was found on the ground floor of the west wing, x marks the spot there, near where visitors are taking tours and are supposed to leave their mobile phones, not cocaine, of course. in the last hour, we mentioned the 209,000 jobs created last month, that s the fewest since december 2020. coupled with high inflation, as you can see here on on the left side, not good news for the white house. with wage growth not keeping pace with inflation, this is a tax on the american people, of course. gop presidential candidate nikki haley spoke about this earlier today on fox. you got you ve got 1 in every 6 american families that can t pay their utility bill, and they re spending like