try to fill remaining positions. will also today president biden signed an executive order on abortion access following criticism within his own party. he s not doing enough to protect reproductive rights. white house correspondent peter doocy is following it all tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, mike. president biden s team pored over today s jobs report and filled up part of a speech with some numbers they think prove that things are going well and the president deserves credit. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. the reason to believe the president thinks that unemployment rate low and steady at 3.6%. recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. but more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled as hundreds of thousands have decided to stop looking. the labor force participation rate dropped another two tenths percent the labor force 300,000 people. fewer out there availabl
extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the panel told the doj about the contact by the former president. the committee focused on a late night verbal brawl in the oval office with trump loyalists fighting with white house attorneys, including pat cipollone who just talked to the committee on friday. i don t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. in the conclave, trump advisers challenged top white house aides that they needed to go to the mat for the former president. i m going to categorically des
biden desperately tries to deal with the skyrocketing inflation fueled at least partly, maybe greatly by record gasoline prices. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. today president biden brushed off a gloomy forecast from former president obama s secretary larry summers says it s more likely than not that we will see a recession by the end of next year. biden has a different outlook after he says he spoke with larry summers this morning. but the white house is finding creative ways to ease pain at the pump. with sky high gas prices, team biden is reconsidering aned in they first tabled sending americans rebate cards. also eyeing a gas tax holiday. i hope i have a decision based on data i m looking for by the end of the week. a short-term solution one industry ceo says runs counter to the administration s broader strategy. they were really focused on demand destru
everything he can to bring prices down. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. when the president gave the rousing speech about the economy today he never mentioned the federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates tomorrow. instead, he was looking backwards and talking about all the times that there were long lines of cars waiting to get boxes of food during covid lockdowns as he tried to make the point it could be worse. under my plan for the economy we made extraordinary progress. so dismal economic trends aren t the problem. the president thinks messaging is the problem. i don t want to hear anymore of these lies about reckless spending. three members of biden s inner circle head to the hill tomorrow. kate bedingfield, john o malley dillon and will talk messaging on the economy. inflation. it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. inflation is not isolated to the u.s. worldwide
Crowd was angry. he knew the crowd was armed. he sent them to the capitol anyway. bill: just a sample from the three-hour hearing a bit earlier today. bring in our panel. ben domenech editor of the transom.com and host of the podcast. morgan or taking gauze former state department spokesperson and juan williams fox news analyst. good evening to the three of you don t. morgan, ladies first, how much did they move the meter today during this hearing? if you look at the politico morning consult poll this morning, 69% of americans said that this these hearings would have minor to little affect on how they vote in november. a very famous democrat politician once said it s the economy, stupid. so i think as long as the shelves are empty and the food that is on the shelves is, you know, expensively priced. as long as you can t fill up your tank of gas and your grocery cart, these are the things that americans are going to vote on and the things that americans are going to focus on