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to do. so let me find out pence let me find out myself that you treasoned the country. meanwhile, the republican national committee censured congresswoman liz cheney and adam kinzinger for, quote, participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in, listen to this part, legitimate political discourse. that was discourse? the moments you are looking at right now, legitimate political discourse. the rnc later had to clean that up. senator mitt romney ripped his party s desession to censure the pair saying, in part, shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscious that speak truth in the face of vitreal. and on top of all this, new details about when trump loyalist, republican congressman jim jordan spoke to the president on january 6th. two sources are telling cnn that president trump spoke on the phone from the white house residence with jordan for ten minutes on the morning of january 6th. let s start with that forceful rebuke ....
ignored but he also said diplomatic talks should continue. as we speak, members of two key senate committees are gathering for a closed door briefing by defense secretary lloyd austin, and secretary of state, antony blinken, we re expecting russia to be a very big part of it. in ukraine, the country s foreign minister is kicking off a news conference, one day after president zelensky warned if a conflict breaks out, it will not be just between ukraine and russia but a full scale war in europe, the likes of which we have not seen in 80 years. i want you to look at this new satellite imagery, it shows the build up of russian forces. this shows tents and equipment in belarus, to the north. and this one in crimea, you can see the massive numbers of fighting vehicles lined up, ready to go. on the other side of the border, ukrainian forces are digging in, getting ready for a fight. i want you to look at this picture, it says it all. the ukrainians are now using vladimir putin ....
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to separate their cases. an nbc news exclusive report finds hundreds of active duty u.s. troops will stay at the southern border through the next month. and right now, we are keeping a very close eye on the white house, where president biden is scheduled to speak about the august jobs report any minute now. we ll bring you those remarks when they begin. this comes after the government reported that employers added 187,000 jobs last month, more than the 170,000 economists had predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, and let s break it down by race. the hispanic unemployment rate rose half a percentage point to 4.9. the black unemployment rate fell by half a percentage point to 5.3. with us now to talk about this is cnbc s seema mody. good morning. so what else did we learn from this report? the takeaway is this is a resilient jobs market with 187,000 jobs added in the month. yes there are some cracks that are emerging with the higher than expected unemploymen ....
and happening right now at a d.c. court, a member of the proud boys facing sentencing for his role on january 6th, how long he could face behind bars. good day to you, it s 10:00 this friday morning eastern time. i m peter alexander reporting from washington, we are going to begin with that breaking economic news, the u.s. economy adding 187,000 jobs in the last month, in the month of august, nearly 20,000 more than what the analysts have been predicting. the unemployment rate, as you note, it went up about, well, 0.3% to 3.8%. the highest place it s been since february of last year. we want to get to nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung. he is at the big board with the very latest on all of this. brian, walk us through these numbers and what you find significant. yeah, good morning, peter. there s a lot of numbers in here. let s add a little bit of context to help us understand exactly what it is we re looking at. as you mentioned, 187,000 jobs. that ....