bracing for an influx of women from neighboring states with fewer access. fewer access good friday to you. welcome to meet the press daily. i am chuck todd. the biden administration faces difficult questions from voters which continues to be the economy. how does it slow inflation without slowing down the economy? how does the administration sell a cooler economy when it struggled to sell the hot one that it began with. this morning the labor department reported that 428,000 new jobs were created last month, beating economists estimates with the rate, and this is a robust jobs market, folks, and right now president biden is on his way to the cincinnati area to sell his economic agenda, and the fed took a major step raising interest rates by half a point. it s the largest engel increase in two decades, and efforts to slow down the economy could trigger a recession. it s leaving the party in a perilous position, as they face the prospect of a cooler economy and voters unhap
i can t see my brother anymore. i fell, and i don t even know how i woke up and started pulling myself out. i m all scratched and battered. i yelled vita, vita, but he was gone. her home was flattened during the battle for rubisnic which is now in russian hands. putin s forces have been driving southeast along the donetsk river and south from izyum. russia s stated aim is to capture all of the donbas. that includes the luhansk and donetsk provinces. they say they can hold the russians back for now. but he says we need powerful long range artillery, and that unfortunately is not here yet, and it could completely change the whole war. without the heavy weapons already promised by the u.s. and other western allies, he says, the russians will destroy everything with artillery and mortars. they destroy with aircraft, they use helicopters. they are just wiping everything off the face of the earth so there s nothing left to hang on to. for ukraine, this is an existential battle. r
authentic, but not final, obviously. the president s already talked about this in a more informal setting. this is before the flight to alabama. concerns me a great deal that we re going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have a right to choose within the limits of the supreme court decision. if this decision holds, it s really quite a radical decision. we re going to have a lot more on this including new reaction and reporting from capitol hill and analysis on where this fight goes from here. i m hallie jackson and it s good to be back with you here in washington. i want to bring in josh letterman who is in alabama with the president who s set to speak any minute now after touring a weapons factory there. we ve heard from the president on this potential seismic shift as we ve called it. it is entirely possible as the president takes a stage that he could maybe bring it up again although it seems unlikely given he took some questions about this earlier today. t
share one of their son s most outstanding requests. and cnn exclusive, fox in the white house. text messages revealing sean hannity telling trump s chief of staff he was, quote, fed up with maga, quote, lunatics in the days before the insurrection. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and a desperate renewed attempt to evacuate ukrainian civilians from the besieged steel plant in mariupol, ukraine, now blocked by the russians. that s according to ukrainian officials who had announced plans for a rescue operation early this morning. the need to evacuate made even more urgent after russian forces dropped bombs on a makeshift hospital inside that steel plant complex. injured more than 400 people according to the mayor of mariupol. while fighting intensifies in the east and south, a reminder from russia it can strike anywhere in ukraine. this is the damage after russian missiles hit residential buildings in the capital of kyiv. cnn has also lea
equipment that is being promised and indeed delivered from nato and from the united states and other nato countries coming to this arguably the most important battlefront in terms of the ukrainian defense against the russian invaders. so they re going after those very important railway lines with these bombardments. i have to say on top of that, though, the railway bridge that links leman to the other side of the donetsk river was also blown today. it s not clear, though, jake, whether it was the ukrainians or the russians that blew it because we do know that the ukrainians do have a tactic of blowing bridges in order to slow russian advances. they are going to use in all probability the donetsk river as a line of defense if it comes to that. there have been very substantial troop movements among the ukrainians on the ukrainian side throughout this region over the last 24 hours. and clearly an effort at least at re-enforcement is under way. a lot of movement of troops. a lot