fighting. if her pants had cuffs she would have pretended to be a leg irons. real handcuffs, not so much. that didn t stop her from pretending. i hate it when people do this to me. when i asked people to put on handcuffs and they say i ll just pretend i have them on. i would be like short, and i will pretend to pay you after. [laughter] i think dana just went into an arrhythmia. yes, i pay people to wear handcuffs. she did this because she knew the media would obey. let s watch the tape. abortion rights are under attack. what do we do? greg: she would be a great mime. like the latina version of marcel marceau. here she is later in her jail cell. of course aoc was mocked on social media for imitating being handcuffed which is a change for her usual change from being mocked by imitating a congresswoman. that s not even being as close to as disgusting as i can be. she was gingerly escorted alert to a holding area. she raised her fists to supporters. then she crossed her wr
and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
glad to be here i m griff jenkins and this is america s newsroom. cheney is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach the former president and she conceded early last night and gave a concession speech comparing herself to abraham lincoln. rich edson kicks things off with us from the teton village in wyoming. good morning, griff. also in that speech she compares the times and divisions of the united states today to the divisions of the civil war back in the 1860s. congresswoman liz cheney will launch an effort to oppose any donald trump run for president. that s according to a spokesperson telling fox news that information this morning. that effort likely be ultimately be from outside the united states congress. she lost her primary last night. polls were barely closed an hour last evening and cheney called harriman to concede. cheney says two years ago she won her primary with 73% of the vote. that path was clear for reelection if she went along with the stolen 20
jobs report any minute now at a bill signing. but let s look at the numbers. joining us is rahel solomon and jeremy diamond. let s look at the gains. the fact that this was more than twice what experts were expecting. and so some experts have said that this was an uncomfortably hot jobs report, at the very least it was surprising. when you look at the report and where the jobs were, line after line, industry after industry, it was growth, growth, growth with some of the largest gainers in industries like leisure, professional services, health care. 57,000 jobs being added for government. and when you look at month over month sort of what we re seeing in the labor market, look, i mean, we are still on an upswing. you would have expected between some of the reports that we ve been hearing that maybe we would start to see some cooling in the labor market, that this number the july number would actually be declining. but that is not what we re seeing which leads me to when you
military talks. listen. china has a history of falling victim of foreign aggression, even today the u.s. and several of its side kicks grocery ininterfere in our internal affairs from time to time. china is not the old china of 120 years ago and we re not iraq, syria or afghanistan. we will not allow any foreign force to bully, suppress or enslave us. whoever wants to do so will be on a collision course with the great wall of seal forged by the 1.4 billion chinese people. we ll get the white house response from john kirby in just a moment. first, we go to greg palkot. he joins us from london this afternoon. hi, greg. hi, gillian. yeah, some tough talk from china and more tough action as the exercises around taiwan continue. first the action. taiwan air force jets scrambled as chinese war planes crossed the median line in the strait separating china and taiwan. it s a key buffer zone. that was pounded by chinese artillery yesterday in addition to the dozen misses that ch