charles. that s right. listening to the president speaking just now, you d think that we got all good news in the jobs report today. in fact, i was reading his statement from earlier on the jobs data. the first line, this is bidenomics in action. but charles, you ask the average american how they feel with what they re bringing home, when they have to pay for groceries. seems to be a disconnect versus the rosy picture coming out of pennsylvania avenue. i want to dig into the numbers that we got today. the economy added 209,000 jobs in the month of june. that is the lowest addition that we have seen since december of 2020. it was significantly below expectations as well. if you listen to the labor secretary, she says it s good news. this is very much a part of bidenomics. creating good jobs in every community across the country. we re seeing job growth and wage increases in a tight labor market, workers have more power to choose and to look for better working conditions and
missed the vote last night. he of course was in the hospital a week ago after feeling lightheaded after a democratic retreat. everyone of course is cautious about his health months after he suffered a near death stroke. of course that could lead to more episodes of seizures and other things that require urgent medical attention, but here it is his mind, his emotional state. here he is saying that he s been feeling depressed. he suffered from bouts of this during his life, his chief says. he met with the capitol physician on monday who urged him to go and check himself in and do some routine tests. at the end of the statement, it says after examining john, the doctors at walter reed told us john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. obviously a rocky start for the senator, freshman from pennsylvania who came off the heated victory in november, just in the senate for a little over a month now, but already having missed days of votes in the hospital, in
required during a caucus, the engaging with voters and going out into the field and having these conversations about policies but also getting folks out to caucus for you and getting them to tell others, the weather has really disrupted that. it s just blizzard like conditions here in iowa today across the state and it s caused a lot of problems for voters to be able to go to events and also for candidates like nikki haley and ron desantis specifically who really have needed to make up ground and tried to close this massive gap between themselves and former president donald trump and that s just requiring them to talk to voters, you know, nikki haley had several town halls today, governor desantis had a number of events where he talked to volunteers but also had to scale them down also and it s caused a lot of problems in this critical stretch of campaign time and also given them some things to look forward to in terms of clues if people will turn out in these same numbers that we onc
trace: i m not sure why everyone is writing him off. but they to. but guys,2024 gop presidential candidate, nikki haley has held two town halls today. she s in fourth place behind chris christie. bob, how important is it that she gains traction here and makes some time of breakout in the early states? oh, very important. i think it is for all of these people who are struggling past desantis and trump. especially for campaign. remember, kamala harris did not make it to iowa in a presidential campaign. you need money. she s a very good politician but she needs to general momentum soon. charles: thanks to you both. talk soon. the question is of course what does nikki haley have to say about this uphill challenge? you re go doing find out tomorrow. she s going to join cavuto live at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. former president jimmy carter
without college degrees, while desantis has republican leaders and whites with college deed of release. after the two of them, the person who polls best is nicky haley. best is relative. haley is trying to plant an early stake in new hampshire, fielding questions from voters at a number of town halls today, while also trying to dodge fresh attacks from her former boss donald trump. here she is in an exclusive with an nbc s craig melvin. when i first said i wouldn t run against him, afghanistan hadn t fallen, we didn t see the rise in inflation. we didn t see what was happening in our schools the way it was, and we didn t see the results of the midterms that we just had. it is time for a new generation of leaders. you shouldn t have to be 80 years old to get to washington, and we ve got to start righting the ship. we need new blood. joining me now is nbc news senior political editor, mark murray, thanks for being with