Don mcgahn is being interviewed. Whats going on Behind Closed Doors . Why it matters. We will talk about it coming up. Welcome to friday. Its Meet The Press daily. Im Chuck Todd in studio two days in a row. Its nice. We saw President Biden react to a Jobs Report that showed above average but not dazzling hiring yet in may. The numbers came in slightly below expectations. Biden tried to use the positive economic numbers to force the issue on his legislative agenda. Now is the time to celebrate the process we have been making. Now is the time to build on the foundation we have laid. While progress is undeniable, its not assured. Thats why i propose The American Jobs Plan and The American family plan. For generational investment, we need today, we need to make those Investments Today to be able to continue to succeed tomorrow. For what its worth, the worst place to get analysis about this Jobs Report is from a Press Relief from an elected official. That i can promise you. The president pl
After a two year legal Battle Finally Of Itting in a closed door session. All this as the biden administration gets some positive economic news. Jobs numbers out today showing the economy added 559,000 jobs last month doubling aprils disappointing total. The Unemployment Rate ticking down to 5. 8 . This morning the President Saying the economy is at its strongest point since before the pandemic. Joining me now is Capitol Hill Correspondent leigh ann caldwell, ashley parker, Michael Steele and also barbara mcquaid. A lot to get to. But i first want to watch what the former Vice President said last night about January 6 and Donald Trump. This was at a republican event in New Hampshire. President trump and i have spoken many times since we left office. And i dont know if well ever see Eye To eye on that day. But i will always be proud of what we accomplished for The American people over the last four years. [ applause ] and i will not allow democrats or their allies in the media to use on
All forces are being withdrawn. What has changed . Leon pennetta will be here. Welcome to friday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. As President Biden tries to get a 4 Trillion multifacetted Spenting Spending Plan through congress, the response has been muted. It raises a question. What does this republican party stand for anymore . The answer to that question may not be found in washington. Instead, look whats going on in the statehouses. Republicans are abuzz with cultural warfare, trumpstyle grievances and really passing laws to deal with mythological problems. They dont exist. They were created in Prime Time on propaganda tv. After a 2020 election where the florida republicans bragged how smoothly it went. In arizona, republicans are looking to undermine the results of an election they lost nearly six months by holding this bizarre fly by Night Audit cheered on by former president trump, echoing the lie, using a company called cyber ninja. Thats all you need to know. Adding
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i am jim acosta in washington. good evening. tonight iowa voters are one week away, and looming over the republican field, donald trump has attempted to re-write january 6th, and casting those who were later convicted in court as hostages and called on president biden to release them from prison. they ought to release the j6 hostages, they suffered enough. they ought to release them. i call them hostages. some people call them prisoners, and i call them hostages. release the j6 hostages, joe. today that message was parroted by a member of the house gop leader, elise stefanik. i have concerns about the treatment of january 6th hostages. i have concerns. we have a role in congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners, and i believe we are seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just president trump but against conservatives and catholics. and harry dunn defended that. right now, they are in jail becau
their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the grand juro