judge blocks the fda approval of a key abortion medication. how the biden administration is planning to respond and china simulating strikes against taiwan after the nation s president visited the us we re live in beijing as tensions escalate. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. this is early start this morning. justice department officials are racing to find out how top secret u. s military documents were leaked online. the information is intended only for those with the highest levels of us security clearance documents cover a wide range of topics from assessments of ukraine s military strength and casualty figures to intelligence on american allies like israel and south korea. the documents will reportedly first posted on obscure internet gaming sites. but have now turned up on twitter and youtube in recent weeks, democratic congressman ruben gallego, raising concerns that this leak could jeopardize sources and
dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
reaction. we can have to, um to the jobs report. what does this mean for the fed and its crusade against inflation? is this a sign that the strong american job machine is slowing down a little bit? that s exactly right. the jobs machine is, in fact slowing down again. i do think that s consistent with, you know, we we ve had a prolonged period of elevated jobs growth really, since the you know the pandemic lockdowns ended. and so it s not surprising me that that rate of growth has started to slow. i think what is surprising is that jobs growth has remained positive. despite all these negative shocks that the u. s economy has had to absorb so starting with the russian invasion of ukraine, and then more recently, you know, we have this opec supply. my shock and the banking crisis. and across all these different incidents and over the last 2.5 years, u. s economy has continued to add jobs. that s me, i think underscores the resilience of the of the demand for labor
but but yeah, i think you re absolutely right. i mean, this is at a time whens polling shows that the government s performance is at an all time low and thes o number one issue that americans care about is , is howthat s our government is performing. te that s above inflation and it s above the economy. and so at the same time, it s just business as usual at wit the biden white house. and so they re just completely out of touch with what americans care about today. s sean, i almost seems like ite almost like a daily occurrence where we see these headlines ofu these are big companies.ge these aren t mom c and pops.om these are huge companies.uncing mannouncing mass layoffs. but here s what the democrats think about this.uarter s we ve had two quarters lasa six months of last year.ance we had very substantial growth. there is a chance we mighte migh avoid recessiot n. the jobs machine continues. hopefully wage increases and it s not perfect. bu dt life is decent for average american
talked about that this week, is you have to watch wages, which is the right side of this. we all want wages to go up. if wages go up too fast, it makes inflation go up. wages need to continue wage increases need to moderate, unfortunately, to get inflation down and make real wages go up. it s been happening. they re still in the 4% to 5% range. they need to get down closer to 3% for inflation to get down closer to 2%, which is the fed s target. steve, we heard a lot of economists talk about the recession, and we kept waiting for the bottom to fall out with the recession. now, we rebetter economic forec that we may avoid a recession. what does that mean to the average person that becomes concerned about the price of eggs and the price of gas, the fact there may not be the recession we were afraid of? what does that mean to me at home? to the average person, not