good morning. welcome to morning joe on this monday, july 1st. this morning, we are waking up to a sea of headlines and opinion pieces from major news organizations, former party leaders, and very loud whispers, mostly behind the scenes, from present leading democrats who say it is over. here s a taste of the global call for president joe biden to get out of the race. the new york times editorial board says biden is not the man he was four years ago, calling his candidacy, quote, a reckless gamble. editors at georgia s largest newspaper, the atlanta journal constitution, echoed that take, demanding the president pass the torch. quote, biden deserves a better exit from public life than the one he endured when he shuffled off the stage on thursday night. then there were the headlines, sneering, mocking, jeering all at once. this was the performance that has gotten us to this point. we had a thousand trillionaires in america. i mean billionaires. what s happening? they r
in this case, the fisa courts that are supposed to be sure where the credible threat is vitally necessary to protect us, there is probable cause and a court order to allow for the gathering of that information and that is what i am saying, thomas, i want to make sure it is not endless or infinite and the fisa courts, themselves, that we understand how they are operating and more transparent than they have been. congressman steve israel, thank you for making time for me, i do appreciate it. developing now,)q debate over where the economy is standing after the jobs report has been released today for may and showing that employers added 175,000 jobs which is slightly higher than expected, but the nation s unemployment ticked up to 7.6% because more people began looking for work up 0.1%. the big picture, we are continuing the dig out of the deep hole that was caused by the great recession that began in 2008. this is progress, but more work needs to be done. so house speaker john b
out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession. end quote. christine romans has been crunching the numbers in new york. it s a hard report to spin, christine. it really is. you can t spin it. 69,000 jobs created in the biggest economy in the world. that is really disappointing, half what they thought. 8.2% is the unemployment rate. it went up a little bit, because, keira, more people were getting into the labor market. they ve been discouraged in months past, trying to get back in to try to find a job and unsuccessful. when you look at the trend, you can t spin the trend, either. you have three months of more than 200,000 jobs created right there. and then this is the slow down. one, two, three. that is the slow down there that shows you, quite frankly, that things are not as rosie as they should be at this stage of an economic recovery. and it looks an awful lot like it did last year. one last thing i want to show you, keira. this is how many private sector j