critical nato summit with ukraine s longstanding request for nato admission dividing the allies. it s been 100 days since russia detained reporter evan gershkovich whose mother is hoping for the best as her son sits in a russian prison. i rely on president biden s promise. bringing him back, i think, it s a team effort. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where today s monthly jobs report shows payrolls rising by 209,000 in june. indicating the labor market could be losing steam. the unemployment rate barely ticking down to 3.6%. this with treasury secretary janet yell. announcer: yellen in china trying to ease tensions between the two largest economies while criticizing beijing for its treatment of american companies. joining me now, dominic chu. first the jobs numbers. does this increase the possibility we could avoid a recession, even achieve a soft landing? the elusive soft landing. the jobs numbers just add more confusion to the american eco
with russia. watch. very clear from the very beginning about two things that have been unwaivering. first, the united states is not going to war with russia and the ukraine. second, the united states is not providing weapons to ukraine to attack russia. we do not enable attacks on russia. let s bring in a fox news contributor, brett. great to have you on. i want your thoughts on these clustering munitions once deemed war crime stuff and now they re sending them to ukraine. you agree? trace, look, there s no obvious that this is a very controversial weapon. at the same time, i just returned from ukraine. the russian government is using much more dangerous weapons, this pales in comparison to what they re using against civilians. look at the battlefield right now. it s brutal and horrific. most ideas have know idea the damage that the russian government have done to civilians that have never asked to be a part of this war. you have wagner mercenaries that have already u
but first, we go to america s crime crisis. the biden administration is challenging congress to act once again calling for gun control measures after a scourge of fire are violence tormented cities across the nation over the extended holiday weekend. three mass shootings in the major cities over the last three days claimed at least 13 lives and injured thousands. from new york. good evening. good evening to you from new york city and all the way to fort worth, texas. dozens of families are reeling tonight. they are making funeral arrangements as democrats lash out at republicans and the call for a stronger. republicans in congress need to act. the white house going on republicans to pass gun reform once again after a long weekend of violence across the country. in philadelphia, police arrested kim brady for gunning down five people and injuring five more monday night. the youngest victim a 2-year-old boy shot 4 times in his legs while sitting in a car. it is time for
second trump presidency. the first clips of that will roll out this hour on the lead. and leading this hour, nikki haley has a bit more momentum with ron desantis now out of the race. but are desantis voters willing to back her? or are they going to side with the gop front runner? chris sununu will join us this hour. first we start with kristin holmes in new hampshire where trump is expected to speak tonight. kilie atwood is in salem, new hampshire. a big three days for donald trump. he picked up the endorsements of former competitors, tim scott, ron desantis. what is the trump campaign s message? has trump spoken to desantis since danys dropped out of the race yesterday? yes. that s what we ve been hearing from senior advisers all day. they want the message to be that republicans are coalescing around donald trump. that s what you ll see tonight, when tim scott, vivek ramaswamy take the stage with donald trump. republicans are joining together. these were my opponents. n
collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou