Mixed Signals in Jobs Report, Senate Showdown on Women's Health, and Hunter Biden's Federal Trial

Discover the mixed signals in the latest jobs report and what they mean for the economy. Did the Labor Department's numbers indicate growth or stagnation? With a gain of 272,000 jobs in May and an uptick in the unemployment rate to 4%, we dissect the implications for the Federal Reserve, market reactions, and President Biden’s optimistic viewpoint. Understand why the disparity between household and employer surveys complicates the picture and what this could mean for your investments and the broader economic landscape.

Next, we turn our attention to the strategic maneuvers within the Senate as Republicans and Democrats clash over women's health issues. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's tactics aim to force Republican opposition on bills related to IVF and contraception into the spotlight. Key GOP figures like John Thune and Rick Scott wrestle with their best responses, while Steve Bannon’s legal troubles add another layer of intrigue to the political chess game. Get an insider look at the GOP’s internal divisions and strategic debates that could shape the upcoming elections.

Finally, we explore the high-stakes federal trial of Hunter Biden. With First Lady Jill Biden showing her support and President Joe Biden committing not to pardon his son, the trial's political and legal ramifications are profound. How does this compare to former President Trump’s legal battles, and what could it mean for public perception and justice? To wrap up, we introduce "Trauma Bonding with Jamie Kilstein," a refreshing new podcast that promises to deliver news without despair, focusing on community and the often-voiceless citizens. Join us for an episode packed with critical insights, thought-provoking analysis, and a touch of hope for a more informed world.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:10

Welcome to the Darrell McLean Show. I'm your host, darrell McLean. Today is 6-7 of 2024. It is a Friday. I am recording out of the lovely area in Norfolk, virginia, off of the beaches of Ocean View. You are listening to episode 409. And let's get into our episode.

Speaker 1: 2:32

Independent Media that Will Not Reinforce Tribalism. You have one planet. Nobody is leaving, so let us reason together. Dueling months. This month, as we start off the show, some people will say it is Pride Month. Whatever you would like to celebrate, happy, whatever month you want to be participated in.

Speaker 1: 3:02

Now we're going to get to something that happened on today, and that is the jobs numbers that have now come out from the labor department. So the pace of hiring was unexpectedly robust in the month of May, showing a gain of 272,000 jobs. But it wasn't all good news. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4%. Now what to know about the latest jobs report? The American labor market delivered a robust job group in May, the Labor Department reported Friday. Even as the unemployment rate ticked up, the unexpectedly strong hiring shows that employers remain undaunted despite pressures from high interest rates and slowing consumer spending. But there were some mixed signals in the report, with the results from a survey of households, painting a weaker picture than a survey of businesses. So here's what we should know. So service powered gains. So, overall, the US employers added two hundred and seventy two thousand jobs last month, with the health care again accounting for most growth, adding 68,000 jobs.

Speaker 1: 4:20

Government hire rebounded from April with 43,000 jobs and additional jobs, as did leisure and hospitality work, which had 42,000 jobs. Wages were also strong. Average hourly earnings rose 0.4% or 4.1% from a year earlier. That was also stronger than expected, since wage increases have been easing since early 2022. Wage growth isn't the primary reason that inflation has been high, but economists worry that it will be difficult to bring inflation fully under control if pay keeps rising at its recent pace. But the unemployment rate also rose. The jobless rate hit 4% for the first time since January of 2022, any one of the longest streaks of the sub 4% unemployment record. A mixed message is what we can see this as the household survey, from which the unemployment rate is drawn, flashed warning signs showing that 408,000 fewer people working in May than April.

Speaker 1: 5:28

The data has been out of joint for some time with a survey of employees and employers from which the job growth figures is tallied. So what it means for the Fed. The report was not what the Federal Reserve officials have been hoping for. The Fed would like to see slowing job and wage growth and continued low unemployment. Instead, the report showed accelerating job and wage growth and continued low unemployment. Instead, the report showed accelerating job and wage growth and rising joblessness. In the end, the data is unlikely to affect the Fed's decision next week on interest rates, when most economists expect policymakers to leave rates unchanged.

Speaker 1: 6:09

Now what it means for politics and for the White House. So the headline of the job number a source for celebration for President Biden. He went on to say on my watch, 15.6 million more Americans have the dignity and respect that comes with a job. Now he said that in a statement, but Biden is trailing in the post, possibly indicating that Americans care more about high prices than they do about plentiful jobs. Now the markets reacted. Stocks were flat and the government bond yields rose sharply as a report raised concerns that inflation's gradual decline could yet stall. That has led investors to slash bets on the Fed cutting interest rates in the near future. That has led investors to slash bets on the Fed cutting interest rates in the near future, implying that historically high rates will continue to weigh in on the economy for the next few months Now.

Speaker 1: 7:06

The job report sent unusually mixed signals, and this is how, sometimes, the many numbers included in the government's monthly jobs report come together to paint a clear and coherent picture of the strifter weaknesses of the US labor market. This is not one of those times. Instead, the data released by the Labor Department on Friday was a mess of conflicting signals. It couldn't even agree on the most of the basic questions, whether the economy is adding or losing jobs. The report shows that employers added 272,000 non-agricultural jobs in May, far more than forecasters were expecting. That figure is based on a survey of about 119,000 businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. But the report also contains data from another survey of about 60,000 households, and that data showed that the number of people who were unemployed last month fell by 408,000.

Speaker 1: 8:03

Now, while the unemployment rate rose to 4% for the first time in more than two years, the two surveys measure slightly different things. The employer survey includes only employees, for example, while the household survey includes independent contractors, self-employed workers as well. But that doesn't explain the discrepancy of last month. Adjusting the household survey to align with the concept used the employer survey makes the jobless losses. It may look larger, not smaller. So that means that conflicting pictures come down to some combination of the measurement era and the random noise. That is frustrating, but not unusual. Over the long term the two surveys generally tell similar stories, but over a shorter period they frequently diverge. So economists typically put more weight on the employer survey, which is much larger and is generally viewed as more reliable. But they aren't sure which data to believe this time around. Some economists say and have argued that the household survey could be failing to capture the fully the recent wave of immigration leading into the undercount of employment growth. But others have argued that the employer survey could be overstating hiring because it is accounting properly for recent business failures, among other factors. So that has been our economic update for this week.

Speaker 1: 9:36

Now let's get into some domestic politics here. So the race to replace McConnell has actually started to heat up over responses of the Democratic Party's show votes. So the race to become the next Senate Republican leader is heating up as the GOP senators are divided over how to counter the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's, the Democrat from New York's messaging offensive on what they have labeled women's reproductive rights. So debate over the floor strategy has become an opportunity for the GOP senators running to replace Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky, to showcase their leadership and their strategic skills. Now this is within the Republican conference.

Speaker 1: 10:34

Senate Republicans face a tough decision next week, when Schumer will force them to vote on a bill to, as the Democrats call it, to protect access to in-virtual fertilization, so IVF. That has been written in a way that few, if any, in the GOP lawmakers could support without significant changes. Now Schumer is bringing the bill to the floor even though he knows that Republicans oppose it, so that Democrats can portray Republicans as extremists when it comes to women's health issues women's health issues and to highlight the ramification of the court overturning the national right to abortion in 2022. Now Schubert used the same tactic earlier this week and he did a what was called. He forced a vote on advancing the right to cut to contraception act, and that bill is sponsored by Senator Ed Markey, the Democrat from Massachusetts, and Amazie Harino, the Democrat from Hawaii, and Republicans said it's full of poison pill provisions. That would, of course, make them not vote for it. That failed with a 39 to 51, with only two Republican senators, and that was Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voting with the Democrats to allow the bill to move forward.

Speaker 1: 11:59

Senate Republicans, with John Thune of South Dakota who is viewed as a early front runner to become the next leader, has argued that the colleagues that Republicans should block the Democratic bills from even coming up for a debate on the floor. He says that the voting to begin the debates on these bills still wouldn't guarantee Senate Republicans a chance to amend them. He argues that doing so would allow it to only be a drag out process and allow Democrats to inflict maximum political damage. According to other GOP senators, these are show votes. We've seen show votes before and historically practiced on show votes is the vote against show votes and to call them what they are. Is Senator Republican, a familiar with the internal debate, say it. Call them what they are and point out that they are political votes and they are not designed to become law? Thune is expected to argue again next week that Senate Republicans should block a motion to proceed to a debate on the Democrats' IVF legislation.

Speaker 1: 13:05

Senator Rick Scott, the Republican from Florida who is also running for McConnell's job, however, is criticizing the Senate GOP leadership for not putting together a plan to give Republican senators the option of voting to begin the floor debate, armed with a clearly divine strategy of counter messaging. We know Schumer is going to have the show votes. We know he's going to do contraception. We know he's going to do contraception. We know he's going to do IVF. What I think is important is we all get on one page of what our message is. Scott told the Hill in an interview on Thursday. It's important not just to say they're wrong. We should say what we are for. So you can do it in a variety of ways. You can do bills, you can do amendments, you can do resolutions, you can do statements. You can do all these things. He said we ought to get out in front of it and do it in an unfouled manner, in a unified manner, and that's what I'm trying to do. Scott has introduced a resolution expressing support for American stating families, the families who have had to start families through this IVF process, parents seeking to overcome infertility, and support our state legislative and regulatory actions to establish safety and ethical standards for medical facilities offering IVF treatments. Schumer on Wednesday disputed the claim that the vote on the Connie Shepson bill was an empty political stunt. This is not a show vote. It is a show us who you are vote and American people are watching. He said so.

Speaker 1: 14:52

I think I discussed this before that what Democrats are going to try to do for the next five months are a few things.

Speaker 1: 15:02

One, they're going to yell felon, felon, felon as much as they can for the next few months. They're going to yell convicted felon as much as they can for the next few months. They're going to yell convicted felon as much as they can for the next few months. They're going to try to wrap every Republican in the decision to overturn Roe v Wade. And they're going to try to make everyone Trump adjacent. And that is the Democratic plan to win the White House. Because ever since Donald Trump lost his reelection, the Democrats have been kind of on a high horse where they have been winning at every special election city election, governatory election, state referendums and so they are trying to repeat that model. And so uh, schumer is trying to help with that by doing all these very highly controversial ivf, slash, women, contraception bills. And the debate is going to be if the republicans come up with a coherent response to it or if they take the bait and lose the middle of the road. I guess she would call them moderate, independent or women voters.

Speaker 2: 16:22

A federal judge on Thursday told Stephen K Bannon, a longtime advisor to former President Donald J Trump, to surrender by July 1st to start serving a four-month prison term for disobeying a congressional subpoena.

Speaker 2: 16:35

Mr Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 on contempt of Congress charges after he refused to give testimony to the House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Judge Carl J Nichols, who has overseen the case, allowed him to remain free while he appealed. Last month, however, mr Bannon lost the first round of that challenge, as a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Washington decided that his guilty verdict on charges of ignoring the House committee's demand for his testimony was proper. Because of the panel's ruling, judge Nichols said he no longer believed that Mr Bannon could rightfully continue to postpone serving his sentence. I do not feel my original basis for Mr Bannon's stay exists any longer, he said. Lawyers for Mr Bannon have promised to ask the full appeals court to reconsider the panel's decision, and Judge Nichols said that Mr Bannon would have to start serving his sentence in less than four weeks unless the full appeals court took the case and issued its own ruling to pause the sentence from being enforced. Judge Nichols' decision seemed to catch Mr Bannon's lawyer, david Schoen, by surprise and he approached the podium after it was issued and started arguing with the judge. Judge Nichols dressed him down. One thing I think you need to learn as a lawyer is that when a judge has decided, you do not get up and yell at them. The judge shot back.

Speaker 2: 18:01

During his brief trial two summers ago, mr Bannon was similarly defiant, contesting the charges that he had snubbed the House committee both inside and outside the courtroom. At one point, he delivered a speech promising to go medieval on the prosecutors who had brought the indictment against him. After the hearing on Thursday, he remained recalcitrant, declaring that he would challenge his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, mr Bannon sought to portray the case against him as an attack on Mr Trump and his supporters. This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump, he said, adding there's nothing that can shut me up.

Speaker 2: 18:45

Mr Bannon's legal travails could continue after, or even during, his stint in prison. A couple of months after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress in Washington state, prosecutors in Manhattan accused him of misusing money he helped raise for a group backing Mr Trump's border wall. In his final hours in office in 2021, mr Trump pardoned Mr Bannon in a separate federal case that focused on similar accusations. Mr Bannon's a separate federal case that focused on similar accusations. Mr Bannon's fraud trial is scheduled to take place later this year in the same Manhattan courthouse where Mr Trump was recently convicted on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his 2016 run for the presidency. Another former aide to Mr Trump is already serving a prison term for refusing to take part in the House committee's wide-ranging investigation into Mr Trump's efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election, reported to federal prison in Miami to begin serving his own four-month prison stint after a jury found him guilty of contempt of Congress for ignoring one of the committee's subpoenas.

Speaker 3: 19:57

Donald Trump is now a felon. His campaign chairman was a felon. So was his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his national security advisor, his trade advisor, his foreign policy advisor, his campaign fixture and his company CFO. They're all felons, judged by the company you keep. It's a cabal of convicts.

Speaker 3: 20:17

If everybody in your social circle is a felon, I don't think it's rigged. I don't think the world's against you. And to get people to agree on anything, 34 counts, 0 for 34, I mean that's a batting slump. Even the New York Mets could be impressed with 0 for 34.

Speaker 3: 21:22

When you're constantly trying to sell me on an America that I don't see, I'm not saying inflation is not an issue, but I get on airplanes all the time and it's not a bunch of rich people. I don't fly private. I get on planes. There's people in normal clothes that look rich to me and the planes are all full and the hotels are all full and the freeways are all full. That means people are going to work. You're trying to sell me on this story and this narrative. That's just not true.

Speaker 3: 21:49

I have single people that live next to me, young families that live next to me. People aren't grousing. They're not miserable all day. Now they're not talking politics, but Trump's entire game plan is the country is in a free fall. Maybe in the Trump centric neighborhoods it is. It's not anywhere, for my sister who lives rurally, doesn't have a lot of crime in her neighborhood. I don't, my friends don't. We live all over Los Angeles in one of those big, scary cities that voted for liberals oh scary. But when everybody in your team, everybody in your group, your cabal, is a felon, maybe the world's not against you. But stop trying to sell me on. Everything's rigged, the country's falling into the sea. Maybe some of you are just unhappy.

Speaker 3: 22:40

Maybe you're only happy when you're unhappy, but the America that I live in is imperfect, but compared to the rest of the world, I think we're doing okay. And if you're not, is it possible? Just possible? I'm not even saying probable. Is it possible? If your life has just been miserable for the last four years, it's not exclusively the fault of somebody in 1600 North Pennsylvania Avenue. Maybe it's not all their fault, all their?

Speaker 1: 23:16

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Speaker 5: 24:42

Hunter Biden entered the courtroom for day three of his federal trial and there to show support for him once again was First Lady Jill Biden. Political science professor Todd Belt says that sends a message. What it does signal is the same thing that Joe Biden has been saying time and time again, which is he's not going to comment on it, other than the fact that he loves his son and supports him. Some of the more personal testimony came from Hunter Biden's ex-wife, kathleen Buell. She told prosecutors about the various times she found drugs and paraphernalia in the house and Biden's car. Hunter's attorneys asked the ex-wife did you ever see Hunter using drugs? Buell said no. Prosecutors hope to show the depths of Hunter's drug problem, which they say was still going on when he filled out a gun application.

Speaker 3: 25:29

If you're on crack, you can't purchase a firearm and you can't lie on the application, and that was what was going on there.

Speaker 5: 25:35

Missouri Republican Senator Eric Schmidt says Hunter knowingly broke the law and calls this a slam dunk case. As a former prosecutor in AG, these gun cases are pretty open and shut. The first lady is not expected in court Thursday. She's scheduled to join President Biden in France for D-Day services. Reporting in Washington Rashad Hudson.

Speaker 1: 25:57

So I'm gonna go ahead and break some news here and this is gonna be shocking. But if you are on crack, you're probably also going to be telling a few lies. So this is somewhat a slam duck um case and I'm going to go ahead and say, uh the obvious, that if hunter's last name wasn't biden, this would not be national news. People lie on gun applications all the time and they are either convicted or given a fine. The only reason this is a big deal is because this is the son of the president of the United States. Now President Biden said on Thursday that he would not pardon his son, Hunter, and would accept the outcome of his son's federal gun trial, which is taking place in Delaware. Now Biden told Muir that if he would rule out a pardon in the White House, as previously said on multiple times, Biden would not pardon his son if he were convicted of a crime.

Speaker 1: 27:04

Hunter Biden's trial began this week in Wilmington, Delaware, where he is facing felony charges that he lied on federal forms about his drug use and unlawfully purchased a gun in 2018. If convicted of all three counts, Hunter Biden faces a maximum of 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. First Lady Joe Biden attended the first few days of the trial. The president issued a statement on Monday in which he voiced support for his son, but he said he would not comment on the trial. In a statement, Joe Biden said I don't want to comment on pending federal cases, but as a dad, I have boundless love for my son, confidence in him and respect for his strength.

Speaker 1: 28:13

Hunter Biden's trial is taking place just days after former President Trump was found guilty in New York on 34 felony counts of falsified business records in connection with hush money payment during a 2016 campaign. Trump has repeatedly claimed the trial was rigged and that Biden's White House has handed his prosecution, though as of yet there has been no evidence that the president or his administration had any role in the New York case.

Speaker 1: 28:48

He's trying to undermine it by and told ABC News on Thursday he got a fair trial. The jury spoke. So there we have it Kind of trouble all around the political spectrum when it comes to this court stuff. And you know, I just kind of say it is what it is Chickens are coming home to roost, these families are corrupt, etc. I always just think about trying to apply the same standard and ask the same questions, and the questions would kind of be this If Donald Trump was president currently and Don Jr or Air Trumper Ivanka came up from federal charges, do you think that Donald Trump would give his children a pardon? And whatever you think that answer is, just deal with that question. We're going to go to a old segment of ours to wrap up the show Blast from the Intellectual Past, and we will see you on the next episode.

Speaker 4: 30:00

Every heterosexual, mentally abusive, closet, racist fast food feeding. Let your kid run around a mall like a psychopath parent.

Speaker 1: 30:08

Why do you?

Speaker 4: 30:08

have like nine fucking kids. Yet you say that gay folk can't adopt because it might screw the child up, and I know America thinks that every time a gay couple adopts a child it forces otherwise straight and homophobic pastor Ted Haggard to hire a gay male prostitute and engage in a week-long meth-induced fuck spree. I know he didn't want to do it to you guys, but then a gay couple adopted and it forced him to take an injection of another male prostitute cock. I know I get it, but I say just because your man bits fit into some girl bits doesn't mean you have to have kids. Do you know how many straight parents shouldn't have children? Go to a movie theater or an IHOP on a Sunday and don't tell us that two men or two women in the bedroom may cause a child to question his sexuality. Any kid basing his sex life on the sounds coming from his parents' bedroom is already fucked beyond repair. If God designed marriage for a man and a woman, then statistics say that God is failing, that is, below failing. Just look at otherwise straight and homophobic Pastor Ted Haggard, who's married with children but hired a gay male prostitute to shame, fist him into a meth coma, to shame, fist him into a meth coma. But you say that being gay is immoral Really More immoral than shame fisting, because I would rather have my kids being raised by the flaming queer couple down the street than have them spend another night at the church with father-dignity hands. Is that why you want adoption restricted church? You keeping all the young ones for yourself, church.

Speaker 4: 31:48

If you really think that a child should only be raised by a married couple, then I have an idea Let the gays marry, asshole. These are people who will raise a child for a better reason than the condom broke. You give me one valid argument besides. But God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, really, because by the looks of it, adam and Eve fucked up big time. Maybe Adam should have explored other options. So stop fucking telling us that the Bible says that being gay is unnatural. Because I've read the Bible and there is a lot of unnatural shit that happens in that book. I would say that a dude dying, then rising from the dead in a zombie-esque fashion, is far less natural than me sucking a cock, because at least cock sucking you can prove.

Speaker 1: 32:42

So the reason why I played that particular clip is for this. That is my longtime friend, jamie Kilstein. So Jamie is somebody who's been podcasting for a very long time. He has had several shows Citizens Radio, rear Neck Radio Comedians Are Fuck Up Sky to Self Help A comedian's fuck-up guide to self-help and he stepped away from podcasting for a while. Now he is returning to the podcast scene on next week with two podcasts. One will be called Trauma Bonding with Jamie Kilstein and it is a reader-supported publication, but it's also going to be a pod.

Speaker 1: 33:32

Now he goes on to say this we now know that things are changing. I have a plan, a vision and a team and I'm going to have I'm actually going to read it from the, from the beginning. So he goes on to say tribalism and why I'm starting new stuff. Let me put it there Aloha Misfits, a ton of people have asked me about my podcast. Jamie. You keep starting a podcast and then keep disappearing. They say, jamie, are you depressed? Jamie, please text me back, dad, etc. Well, now things are changing. I have a plan, a vision, a team and I'm going to have the boss to talk about everything that I have avoided for the last 10 years. So here's the announcement Alex and I have gone independent and are starting two new podcasts. We have a team, so all the stuff that was bad will now be good. Say hello to thumbnails and merch.

Speaker 1: 34:32

The first podcast is a mental health comedy podcast. We'll be talking about relationships, faith and being train wrecks who are trying to be good people, rock bottoms, losing it all and all to climb back without dying. Follow along our first year of marriage, our fights and our plans to fix them. We will be involving you a ton and we want you to trauma bond, as the kids say and the doctors say you shouldn't do. When it comes to faith, I have been on a ride of atheists, ramadas, jesus not fitting in the church, cursing God on TV, etc. He goes on to say I want this show to be a safe place where you can ask questions. Bring me gay christians, gay muslim. Bring me gays. Bring me atheists. Buddhists are people who just do drugs and say good riddings a lizard once I'm sorry that actually says and saw god riding a lizard once. We are all searching for something, but religion is so divisive you get kicked out of the church if you don't have all the answers faith, relationships, drugs being a good person. That would always be a flagship show. The second show will be on my youtube channel.

Speaker 1: 35:43

It is what I have avoided for a long time politics when I started talking about politics, it was because no one was criticizing the Democrats from the left. No one could talk about politics or make dick jokes. Everything was so damn serious and so corporate. He goes on to say that my life fell apart. I made a bunch of conservative friends and here we are still liberal, not a fan of corporate Democrats. I have more moderate conservative views. I still make jokes dick jokes.

Speaker 1: 36:09

If you think trump and biden are gross and extremists on both sides tweeting are silly, this is how this we know. This will be a show for you. I want this to be a way to get the news without wanting you to kill yourself. A way to hear how washington is screwing over both sides. A way to see that there are good people in every voting district. I've gotten over my political PTSD and I want to make a difference. I want to speak for people who don't have a voice, the ones that live in the gray. Both of these are coming in the next few weeks. Subscribe to my youtube, follow me on instagram or x. I'm going to be far more active and I will let you know when we launch. I know I will lose fans for those who don't want fans and do want a community. Thanks to all of you who have stuck around. I promise you it's about to get worth it. Trauma Bonding with Jamie Kilstein is a reader supported publication. To receive new posts, support his work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.