welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the fbi investigation into new york city mayor eric adams, his connection to the turkish government and what the feds might have been looking for when they seized his cell phone and ipad, a reporter following the money will be here. one of the most upsetting videos from october 7th, which says a lot. it shows a kidnapping victim being taken out of a hamas jeep. her pants are bloodied. her mother will talk to us about why that video was so important for the world to see. leading this how, the world s reaction since the mms attacks, divisive, ugly, even leading to deadly demonstrations. some people ripping down posters of children kidnapped. anti-semitism reaching dangerous alarming rates worldwide. also a spike in islamaphobia, anti-arab and anti-muslim incidents. not just in the united states. let s start with the ongoing conflict fueling this. a u.s. official telling me american intelligence backs israel s showing terrorists are usin
Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind the numbers, we turn to
By a housing rebound. Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind t