tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of morning joe when you and mika at times had to duct tape me to the chair. we did. on an occasion or two, everything worked out okay. it didn t interrupt you. while we were doing it, you were still going. kept talking. we have the white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire and we have catty kay. something happened last night, like a haley s comet. the red sox won a game last night. i saw it. when tampa bay spotted us 19 runs going into the ninth inning it was hard not to blow it but we gave it the 6-1-7 chance. didn t we? blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while joe and we were able to get the win. we needed all 20 wins in the ninth we gave up more and more and more. we needed 20, they scored 7 or 8, i guess we missed the extra point. let s be clear here, joe. these are dark times for the boston red sox. this is bad. the surging new york yankees today playing in iowa, the fi
what that means most immediately for wimbledon and the olympics is anybody s guess right now. it shed further light on what she s been going through. and i think her team and those around her are also going to have to answer some questions now as to why it seems like she may not have gotten the support she s needed until now. you never know, you never know. carolyn, thank you. top of the hour. i m victor blackwell. alisyn is off. in ceremonies across the country, the nation is honoring its fallen heroes. those who fought for this country s freedom and the gold star families they left behind. memorial day also signifies the unofficial start of summer. and this year it s the first unmasked holiday for a lot of americans in more than a year. and now that more than 40% of the people across this country have been fully vaccinated, more than 51% of adults, today looks very different than where we were last year. crowded beaches and pools, restaurants at full capacity. strangers
us. let s start tonight by talking about jobs. today, joe biden made it sound like everything is great. america is working again. today another great day for our economic recovery. america is getting back to work. our economy is starting to work for more americans. thanks to the economic plan we put through in congress earlier this year, and a successful vaccine deployment, america continues to add jobs at a record pace. it is historically strong recovery. unemployment rate has fallen again today down to 4.6%. rachel: but joe is spiking the football too early when it comes to employment numbers because, in just a few months, those job numbers will go down the toilet when his private sector vaccine mandate take effect. thousands, perhaps even millions of people could be out of work. because of his quest for 100 percent covid compliance. and even the americans who will keep their jobs will feel like their paychecks are just getting smaller every week. thanks to bidenflation
after the most dramatic challenge to his 23-year rule. the mercenaries ended their march on moscow when they were about 120 miles away from the city. the revolt appears to be over for now. the fallout, likely just beginning. we don t know where the wagner mercenary group s leader is this morning, after he supposedly struck a deal with the kremlin to stand down and go into exile in belarus. these are the last images we have seen of yevgeny prigozhin, leaving a military headquarters that his troops had seized in southern russia. putin has vowed to punish him for treason. this is a look at moscow, a city that was preparing for a siege. the security measures imposed over the weekend are now lifted. meanwhile, ukrainian forces say they re making gains on the battlefield in their counteroffensive as president putin grapples with the fallout from the rebellion at home. matthew chance is live for us in moscow, tracking the latest developments. matthew, what are we hearing from the
their guns into the sky and cheers from the watching public his troops also departed the city just hours after they controlled a military building with further wagner troops moving towards moscow. travelling north on the m4 motorway passing the city of vuronezh and were spotted as far north as the region, which is around 300 miles south of moscow. then, in the early evening, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. sarah rainsford reports. mutineers cheered as heroes. cheering. this crowd are shouting wagner , the name of the mercenary group that vladimir putin had accused of treason only hours earlier. the fighters were clearly among friends here. just one bizarre scene in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, placing tanks on city streets and taking over a military