Of you for being with us. Ac360 begins now breaking news and a possible campaign, stop at the southern border for vice president harris is new polling gives him a boost in arizona and two other battleground states. Also tonight she says, yes, to a second debate, the former president says, no political power couple paul james carville and mary matalin join us for their take on the campaign plus the latest from israel and lebanon after the deadliest israeli airstrikes on hezbollah targets in a generation good evening. Thanks for joining us, the former president is holding the second of two events today in western pennsylvania, his trip through the commonwealth shadowed by a mobile billboard for the democratic national committee many reading, there s no debate. Donald trump s a chicken. The message alluding to his decision to opt out of a second debate with vice president harris, the faceoff would err on october 23 on cnn again, she s already said yes and invited him to do the same joinin
u.s. economy added some 261,000 jobs in october, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7%. that jobs figure lower than the month before, however, still higher than economists had forecast. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us to break down the numbers. you always say wisely the trend is your friend. so what do these latest numbers show us about the trend in the job market and is this what the fed was looking for? so first i would call this resilient but slowing the rate of job growth here. 261,000 net new jobs added, you know, that is a strong showing in any economy, but the trend is important here. we re averaging about 400 and change a month this year and this is the slowest pace of job creation in almost two years. so still strong, still resilient, but starting to slow here. the government noting that that unemployment rate has been stuck in this 3.5 to 3.7% range since march. it s still stuck in that range, even after six months now of the
in the tampa bay/st. pete area. the dynamic between those two certainly something to keep an eye on. mark your calendar potentially for the week of november 14th for a potential third bid for the presidency. never mind the fact all the investigations and other things still looming out there. mr. trump sounded last night to me like he is going to jump in, jim. does it clear the field for some? does it encourage others? potentially republicans or make them more likely to run against them. thanks so much. turning to the state of georgia one of the most closely watched senate races cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher is in atlanta. diane, tight race there. we ve seen them before in georgia for those senate seats. where do things stand this morning? reporter: and we re seeing them sort of get their message out today, especially because it is the last day of early voting in the state of georgia. they have seen record-breaking numbers in this state for those who are coming out a