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hello, everyone. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> good to be with you. president biden is touting the just released better than expected november jobs report saying the u.s. economy is moving in the right direction. >> we continue to create lots of jobs and today we have learned that the economy added 263,000 jobs in november. we have now created 10.5 million jobs since i took office. more than any administration in history at this point in the presidency. americans are working. the economy is growing. wages are rising faster than inflation and avoided a catastrophic rail strike.

>> 263,000 jobs added. it is a robust number but still the lowest all year. unemployment rate at 3.7% and americans taking home bigger paychecks but are the good numbers too hot for the federal reserve? with us now is cnn reporter matt egen and political commentator katherine rampel. does this affect what the fed does next? >> in normal times this would be great news. 263,000 jobs added last month despite the layoffs in the tech sector. we saw across the board strength from sectors. leisure and hospitality added almost 90,000 jobs last month alone. government, construction up.

none suggests a recession and the unemployment rate at 3.7%. that is just a little by above the half century low set earlier this year. down dramatically from the spring of 2020 but not a normal time. the economy is not dealing with a problem of too few jobs. it is too much inflation. so that is why the federal reserve, wall street and the white house was hoping for a goldilocks number. not too hot that it fans inflation. not too coal to speak to a recession. we didn't get that. this is going to be looked at too hot by the fed. in particular wages. wages were supposed to cool off. they heated up. 5.1% year over year. if you are a worker your paycheck is hammered by inflation and trying to catch up

but the fed is trying to cool wages off. so this does suggest that the fed has to continue to slam the brakes on the economy. trying to cool things off raising borrowing costs and have to continue to raise interest rates. not gist the meeting this month but into next year and the worry is longer to raise rates and the higher the greater the risk to cause a recession. >> the fed chair said moderating could come soon. katherine, the president said this is evidence that the economy is moving in the right direction. is it? >> overall the report looks good on the surface. the numbers were stronger than expected. unemployment near record lows. job growth in most sectors.

but the problem is a few things. one is that the labor force participation rate fell. american adults looking or looking work. it's been down quite a bit since covid hit. it had been recovering. it is going down. not good for labor shortages. we have a lot of openings. that in turn will feed into inflation. it has in the past. we have seen hotter than expected wage growth. you think that's a good thing. right? but the fed is concerned that the level of wage growth seen to date is not consistent to use fed chair jay powell's term with target level of inflation. hoping to see wanl growth cool off and now how does the fed react? how does the fed react to that?

do they have to overcorrect so much that we are in a recession next year? >> phil, what is the white house doing? >> reporter: what's interesting, not pausing because i don't have a good answer, there are so many different element frsz the white house perspective that they try with the acknowledgement there is no silver bullet. the fed is the place where inflation will be reined in. taken longer than i think people expected. it complicates the poerms and the gains that the mrgts seen in the two years could be set back significantly if the fed goes too fast for too long and a concern. you have heard quietly. it's an independent entity but in terms of the underlying elements of the jobs report. but the other issue is you heard

the president talk about it. i don't know that i remember but a better week of economic data for the administration overall. not just jobs number top line but gas prices at a level pre russia's invasion of ukraine and gdp revised upward and moderation starting to give a trend line that might be headed in the right direction. until today's jobs report. what are they grappling with is an economy in a strange place. what didn't happen? this week in large part because of capitol hill. the ability for the president to call for and get action to avert a rail strike. didn't have a critical element that the union workers wanted. this is what the president said about that.

>> we have more work to do to ultimately getting paid sick leave for every american worker. that is a goal in the beginning and coming back at it. i know this bill doesn't have paid sick leave but every worker deserves but that fight isn't over. >> reporter: what i would say is this is something that the president pushed for since coming in office. it was in the legislative proposals initially. there's no clear pathway to be enacted. what matters most to the white house is avoiding economic collapse and what they did. guys? >> phil mattingly, matt, katherine, thank you. almost 1.5 million votes cast in georgia ahead of next week's runoff election between democratic senator warnock and republican challenger walker.

>> today is the last day to vote early. eva mccain is in atlanta tracking both campaigns. there is a long line stretched behind you that sometimes the wait is hour or two. what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: today it is not so bad in atlanta. about a 35-minute wait. earlier in the week two hours at another location. this is the last day to vote early in the state before tuesday. we are hearing senator warnock and herschel walker closing in on the final arguments. senator warnock said the contest is about character and competence and that herschel walker is devoid of both and spent quite a bit of time arguing that he is willing to work with republicans if that helps georgians. that is for voters crucial in

this battleground state of georgia. walker's closing arguments is maybe largely an economic one saying that warnock is too closely aligned with president biden. what we saw last week is a big boost of energy for democrats. former president barack obama returning to georgia to stump for senator warnock. take a listen. >> since the last time i was here mr. walker is talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of georgia like whether it is better to be a vampire for a werewolf. this is a debate that i must confess i once had myself. when i was 7.

>> reporter: something that jumped out at me about the demonstrate grachblgs here of seeing the early tonout, 33% is black georgians. that could spell trouble for republicans. we know that by and large that black voters tend to vote in big numbers for democrats but listen. democrats have really focused the ground game on the early effort. we don't hear republicans talk about it as much. republicans will be coming out on tuesday. >> okay. eva, thank you. join cnn for special coverage of the georgia runoff. our coverage starts tuesday at 4:00 p.m. one of the crucial white house attorneys with testimony in the doj investigation. what that means next ukraine's foreign minister

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dave is the state attorney for palm beach county. let me start with this decision that patrick phillin, cipollone have to speak. how big of a loss is this? >> big but i think trump knew he would lose. they gave trump the right advice but trump didn't listen so i think they will testify and may want to do this. they know snitches get stitches so i think they want to be compelled by a court that my hands are tied. we have to do this. >> do we know what they can offer? >> there are questions they never answered to anyone in this investigation. they were both interviewed by the house select committee and declined to answer some questions. they were in to the grand jury once before.

probably very much similar to what they were telling the house happened on days but certain things, legal advice to the president and conversations with president trump maybe on january 6, leading up to that day. those are the things to decline to answer because donald trump trying to block them from answering it and that they now will have to answer to because of the judge's decision. >> what should we expect from the final report coming from the committee, katelyn? >> this final report is going to wrap up everything and a bunch of decisions that the house select committee still has to decide upon. are there contempt referrals to make? were there people they subpoenaed for information, including other lawmakers in congress that never responded to them? what do they do with that? what do they do with donald trump's unwillingness to be

responsive to the subpoena for testimony and documents? what about criminal referrals? we never expected a resolution on that today and a delicate issue and could be more things they learned but they have to finalize the final report and what else they say to the public and to the justice department. >> dave, we have a graphic of the five republican lawmakers that flouted the subpoena from the january 6 committee. didn't respond to the subpoena and the committee is trying to decide what to do about that. if we regular people flouted a subpoena wouldn't there be some consequence? what is the argument for not referring them for criminal charges? >> the legislators themselves think they above the law but it is up to garland to make the

decision. he came through with steve bannon and not coming to dan scavino and mark meadows. it is uncertain if a referral means anything but it is up to merrick garland and not always had the commit tee's back. >> i know that criminal referral is not necessary for the charges relating to january 6. doj has an investigation. but for this defying a subpoena, would they need that referral from congress to file those charges or could the doj do it without the referral? >> coming a congressional subpoena, the committee has to vote and it goes to the full house and the house has to make the referral to doj. despite whoever controls congress, once doj gets it the horse has left the barn but you got to get to that stage.

we'll see. he's been reluctant to be seen as political and going over mccarthy and others he may look political. i wouldn't expect them to file more charges for contempt against members of congress. katelyn, house democrats now have president trump's taxes after years of him refusing to show the public and anyone. they have gotten the hands on it in this special committee. what will they do with those? >> it has been years. house ways and means committee has access tax returns requested years ago. the ones that we know that they were interested in when president trump was in the presidency. personal irs federal tax returns and related to eight of

businesses. however, there is a very delicate dance. a lot of legal issues around tax returns generally. privacy laws. so we know that the committee is getting legal advice right now about what they are going to do. they don't have a lot of time but they have to make choices and has to be within the law so it remains to be seen whether we the public would be able to see anything from the tax returns. >> all right. thank you. president biden is in boston getting ready to meet with prince william and we'll bring that to you live. a man is telling the amazing story of surviving after falling from a cruise ship and treading water in the atlantic for 15 hours.

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>> reporter: yeah. it is very strange, very disturbing. it is why the foreign minister invited me to the ministry a few hours ago to talk about this issue. clearly very disturbed and believed it is about sowing terror among craw diplomats around the world. >> it started with an explosion at the embassy of ukraine in spain. but what followed was this explosion was more weird and i would even say sick because we started receiving letters with eyes, animal eyes cut off. in some cases, one case most probably an eye of a cow. and an eye of a pig in another case. >> reporter: who do you suspect, who does ukraine suspect of

being behind this? >> well, of course i feel tempted to name russia straightaway. because first of all who benefits from that? it's definitely this campaign is aimed at sowing fear and terrorizing ukrainian diplomats. either russia itself or someone who sympathizes the russian cause. >> reporter: somebody who sympathizes with the russian cause or russia itself. russia did not respond to those allegations epa he made the point that there is an investigation in all the countrieere these letters have been received and determined they say to get to the bottom of it. >> stunning. matthew chance there in kyiv, thank you. so the unprecedented

protests in china appear to be having an impact. beijing is scrapping the negative test requirement for bus and subway passengers and the capital city is not requiring covid testing. and the top official in charm of the response said china will look to soften some restrictions saying it is time to tweak measures. let's talk about this and more with ian bremer. author of "the power of crisis." great to see you. so the fact the covid measures are softened does that mean that the protests have worked? >> had an impact, definitely. the same protests if occurred three months would not have had the impact because xi jinping did not get through the party

congress and secured the third term and packed the senior leadership with his proteges and loyalists. he is in a stronger position now to back away from a policy he has been very strongly identified with. but to be clear the demonstrations were not organized by an opposition group orr by students mobilizing across the country. this is spontaneous anger with extremely challenging conditions on top of poor implementation as you saw with the horrible apartment fire and the firemen couldn't put it out because they were locked out. i think that the chinese government is backing down a little bit. they have serious concerns about what happens if the hospitals are overwhelmed. the most recent and best studies they have done is if they just

run they would end up with 1 million to 5 million chinese dead. they they're not out of the woods yet. >> is it significant that president xi has been susceptible to public protests like this? >> i think it is significant. this is very different from what we see in iran where their demonstrations and the supreme leader said we won't listen to the people or russia where people get arrested and proceed with intensifying the war in ukraine. the chinese government definitely uses a stick when they see people demonstrating. the police visit the people and taken off the streets or told if you do this one more time. we have surveillance on the face, on the body. you will be arrested.

you won't see the demonstrations against next week. but it's meaningful that the chinese government shows they will respond. xi jinping won't say mea kulpa but blame overzealous officials for poor implementation of his policy and some officials may have to fall on a sword as a consequence but meaningful that popular pressure in china has an impact. >> that leads us to tiktok. everyone from treasury secretary yellin to south dakota governor saying that tiktok is a national security tlhreat and the chines government is trying to infect u.s. elections putting out the propaganda via tiktok on the popular accounts they pretend are regular people accounts. so is it time for every american

to re-evaluate the relationship with tiktok? >> i think it's too many for every american to evaluate the relationship with social media. the fact that you have children whose thought processes and relationships driven by algorithms that should concern us. on top of that you have a chinese owned app that has incredible ai, very, very addictive. it seems pretty clear that the chinese government can access to the data and has used that platform. the chinese government used facebook to deliver disinformation and the russian government. south dakota, to be clear, you start with south dakota and then north dakota could be banning, too. that could be the end of tiktok. i accept that. we are far from a ban of theic

tock in the united states as a whole and certainly president biden's personal approach as you saw in the meeting with president xi jinping in bali is the u.s. wants to go after issues of direct national security to the united states like advised semiconductors used in china. that's not all semiconductors. i think they take a cautious approach on an issue like tiktok. i don't think the u.s. government will suddenly ban tiktok nationally. >> thank you. a new study say it is stress of the pandemic not only had an emotional impact but appears to have physically changed the brains of teenagers. how, next. ♪ i got into debt in college

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a new study says that stress brought on by the covid pandemic caused teenagers' brains to develop faster than normal claiming the size of their brains changed. because of increased symptoms of anxiety and depression. >> dr. sanjay gupta is here. this is a first study to look at the physical changes in the brain that the stress and anxiety created. what does it show? >> yeah. a lot of people, this is going to sound family. the symptoms that the teenagers

have had. i have three teenagers at home. we have lived with this. the symptoms of anxiety and depression going up even before the pandemic and accelerated significantly. this is the study that looked at the first year of the pandemic. they found there were definitive changes in the brain but the study was going on even before the pandemic started. they were scanning adolescent brains every couple years and when the pandemic happened they continued the study. before the pandemic, in the pandemic, what happened? they found that the cortex which is the outer layer of the brain thinned. got thinner. that is what you see with aging and inside the brain with the brain stem this area responsible to regulate emotions for example that also aged more quickly so

there was these areas that changed out of proportion to what you might expect in that same period of time. the brains age, clearly, as we age but it was that accelerated aging of 2020 to get the attention of researchers. >> what are the consequences of a teenager's brain aging? >> there seems to be an association between those sorts of changes in the brain and some symptoms that are referred to as internalizing symptoms. again, some things were going on before the pandemic but anxiety and depression but also internalized problems mean things that are sadness, low self esteem, regulating emotions opposed to externaling symptoms.

aggression. they didn't see a change in internalizing sin toms as much as -- externalizing symptoms as internalizing. does this come and return to a normal state? in addition to the stress and anxiety of the pandemic and people being more isolated there's the virus itself and about 10% of the people in the study at 2020 had been infected with covid and we know it's an impact on the brain. so in some people at least it could be a combination of both. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. president biden is proposing a big shakeup to the political calendar. we have the potential impact next.

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president biden wants to reshape how the democratic party chooses its nominee for president. >> he is asking the democratic national committee to make south carolina the first state to host a primary againing in 2024. iowa has been the first in the nation since 1920. joining us now is former senior adviser to the biden 2020 campaign. make the case for us. why does south carolina deserve to be first and not iowa? >> it's time for black voters to have a say early in the process. no democratic president can win without majority of black voters and we see what happens in south carolina every year. in 2020 when i was part of the primary process with elizabeth warren's campaign we saw that

voters left without confidence in the first standing so if we want to make shoor particularly democrats want to make sure that the black voters have a say early in the process and show that we know who could be the next president of the united states south carolina has to go first. >> the current order is on the left. iowa, hrnnew hampshire, nevada, south carolina. them the proposal on the right. the if he's expecting a primary in 2024 to change the order. can this happen if he is running for re-election? >> i understand that correlation, however, if we think about it, those voters made the case for who they believe that the nominee should be, and it turned out to be president biden.

not only did he win the nomination. he won the actual general election and those states that you listed not only are majority black voters represented in those states, but you also have a lot of latino voters reprerepr represented in those states and young voters. it represents rural and suburban voters. the majority that makes up the democratic party is truly reflected in those states. in a state like michigan, for example, would be reflective of the midwest, but a lot more do diverse than iowa. >> here's an argument i want your thoughts on. do we want the first primary to be a lose chute straight to the presidency? isn't the primary process -- part of it is duking it out among all the candidates to see who is the most fit. so one person wins iowa. one person wins new hampshire. one person wins south carolina, and it's a process. >> i do agree that we need a process. we need a robust process.

the iowa caucus, i'm going to be very honest, in 2020, it was not the most, you know, positive experience for a lot of candidates, and that tends to happen and i'm on tv talking about this a lot, but a lot of us come out of the iowa caucus and have a conversation in media. a lot of pundits and news, anchors, a lot of journalists, we have this conversation about what voters may or may not want, and so by the time a candidate gets to a primary three or four weeks later down the road, the media has kind of already made the case for who the nominee should be, and that might influence voters. so if we shake things up a bit, have more diverse states go earlier, maybe we'll have the voters setting the tone and narrative instead of people like myself or the journalists, us making the case of who will be the nominee based on those early predictions on a state who doesn't have much say in a general election. >> you're right that iowa does not represent the diversity of the country, the diversity of the party, the economy of iowa

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the alabama man who fell off a cruise ship into the gulf of mexico the day before thanksgiving is now telling his story. >> and i have so many questions. james grimes said he was naked treading in high waves and wind for more than 15 hours before he

was finally rescued. cnn's nick valencia joins us now. how did he fall off the ship? >> reporter: well, he says this is a thanksgiving he will never forget becut he says he doesn't remember how he got into the ship. the last time he was seen was 11:00 p.m. the night before when he told his sister he was on his way to the bathroom. he was treading water for more than 15 hours in the gulf of mexico, and he described his will to live and how exactly he stayed alive. >> was there any point while you were out there that you thought, i don't know how much longer i can keep doing this? >> when it started getting towards nighttime again, the water started getting colder. at that time, i thought, you know, how much longer am i going to have to be out here? i done taken off my socks and everything, just waving them around my head trying to do something where they would see me, and when that light finally hit me, somehow i heard it.

we got him, and i seen a guy coming down from the helicopter, and it was coming towards me, and right then, i thought, man. i see the light. >> we have been calling this a miracle on thanksgiving, but this really has a lot of credit to do with what the coast guard did to rescue him. listen to the lieutenant from the coast guard describe what a mission it was to find grimes in the water. >> just to give perspective of how broad the search area was going to be, you know, the vessel had tracked about 200 miles into the gulf of mexico, and we kind of determined, you know, an approximate search area. we're looking over 7,000 square nautical miles which is essentially the size of massachusetts. >> the size of massachusetts, and they spotted him. grimes meanwhile says that he is willing to take a cruise again. just because he wasn't really able to enjoy the vacation that was joined with his family. he is consumed with gratitude telling "good morning america," he's grateful to be alive, and believes god was with him.

when rescuers got to him, he collapsed in their arms. >> he's getting back on the horse of a cruise ship? >> he missed the lobster. saturday was lobster. i never got to enjoy it. >> just like alisyn, i've got a lot of questions. right? there's a lot of questions about what happened that night that we still have blank spots. >> fill us in. >> i will. absolutely. >> thank you, nick valencia. top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good to have you along. i'm victor blackwell. i'm alisyn camerota. huge early vote turnout in the georgia senate runoff. almost 1.5 million ballots have been cast ahead of next week's decision day. >> today is the last day for georgians to vote early for either incumbent democratic senator raphael warnock or republican challenger herschel walker. dianne gallagher is in georgia tracking both campaigns. what are these final messages as we g