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the fed announcement which could make buying a house or car more expensive soon. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start with breaking news in our politics lead. the supreme court justice stephen breyer, we re expecting him to announce his retirement as early as tomorrow. the 83-year-old who has served nearly three decades on the court plans to stay on until a replacement is confirmed. that replacement is now in president joe biden s hands. his first chance to nominate someone to the highest court in the land. today he refused to answer questions about breyer s retirement. kaitlan collins suggests, he is ready to fulfill a campaign promise on who he ll pick. reporter: with justice stephen breyer set to retire, president biden now has his first chaks to nominate a new justice to the supreme court. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he ll make and i ll be happy to talk about it later. repo ....
also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from sev ....
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. surprisingly strong new jobs numbers are capping off what has been a big week for the biden administration. let s go straight to jeremy diamond. amid fears of a recession, the president has some momentum when it comes to the u.s. economy. at least in the short term. give us the latest. no doubt about it, this jobs report which the president called outstanding is more evidence that the u.s. is not in a recession. we saw the unemployment rate tick down to 3.5%. more than half a million jobs created last month. all of that painting a picture of a very strong and resilient jobs market. now of course, this strong jobs market doesn t do anything to address americans chief concern. and that is inflation. and the president and the white house very much aware of that. we heard the president talking about americans who may still feel they re struggling december f ....
your government and the united states government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. did you feel that you ve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since you ve had those discussions with secretary tillerson? we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. and they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. we discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. we do think it s important that assad s departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so achieved. this is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. but i think the longer time goes by, it s p ....
Israel has sought to maintain relations with both countries even as it has condemned Russia's war on Ukraine and has provided humanitarian assistance. ....