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Giles Snyder
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump took his economic message on the road Friday, visiting Rocky Mount, North Carolina, last night. NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports. His remarks come as his administration is fac vicarious polling.
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Deepa Shivaram
Trump is facing pushback from voters who aren't happy with his economic agenda. An NPR PBS News Marist poll from this week showed just 36% approve of his handling of the economy. But in North Carolina, Trump mocked the term affordability and once again blamed Democrats for high costs.
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President Trump
You talk about affordability, you know the Democrats, they're the ones that got us into the mess. They're the ones that cause the high prices.
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Deepa Shivaram
The president spoke about 90 minutes in a long winded campaign style rally speech that included attacks on Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was once an ally to Trump, who now says Greene is a fake. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
Also in North Carolina last night, President Trump called Friday's US Military attack in Syria a massive blow against the Islamic State group. The military says it hit dozens of targets across central Syria. Trump had pledged to retaliate following a suspected attack that killed two U.S. service members and an American interpreter. Trump is now in Florida, where he is spending the holidays. New Mexico Representative Teresa Legend Fernandez is among the House Democrats who are not satisfied with the Justice Department's partial release of the Jeffrey Epstein file. She spoke to ABC News.
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Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez
They knew this was coming. They have been looking at those files since February. It is shameful that they have failed the American people, the survivors and women across America this way.
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Giles Snyder
The Justice Department faced a Friday deadline under legislation that required the release. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch acknowledged the release was incomplete, but that he expects to complete the process by the end of the month. Many of the files released Friday have already been made public. Others heavily redacted. A mixed week on Wall street as investors got some long awaited news on inflation in the job market. NPR's Scott Horsley reports that major stock indexes moved in different directions after a.
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Scott Horsley
Lengthy data drought caused by the six week government sh. This week brought a deluge of new information suggesting the job market is cooling off and so is inflation. The unemployment rate ticked up in November to 4.6%, the highest in more than four years, while the inflation rate fell to 2.7%. Economists note both reports should be treated with caution, thanks to data collection challenges left over from the shutdown. Investors think the combination of a weaker job market and slower price hikes could clear the way for the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates next year. For the week, the Dow lost two thirds of a percent. The S and The S P 500 index gained 0.1%, and the Nasdaq jumped 0.5%. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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Giles Snyder
And you're listening to NPR News. Police are giving a social media tipster credit for helping them crack last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University. David Wright is a reporter with Ocean State Media.
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David Wright
The turning point came after a witness came forward with a dramatic story to tell. The man, identified in court papers only as John, was with somebody whose face had shown up in some of that doorbell camera footage that was taken before the shooting. Police released his picture Wednesday evening, saying they were eager to talk with him, and he walked through the door an hour later. Before this guy showed up, police had noticed a Reddit post covering some of the same ground that he did, and they were intrigued by it. Turns out the witness was the Reddit poster.
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Giles Snyder
Authorities say the Reddit poster helped them link the suspect to the fatal shooting of an MIT professor. Today's college football playoff games will feature miam, Texas A and M, Ole Miss, James Madison and Oregon. The University of Alabama, the first team to advance. Alabama Public Radio's Pat Duggans has more on last night's come from behind victory over Oklahoma.
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Pat Duggans
Oklahoma was on its way to be the first team to beat Alabama twice in one season since Grover Cleveland was president. The sooners led by 17 in the second quarter. That's when the Tide came to life, tying the game by halftime. The final score was 34:24. Quarterback Ty Simpson says the naysayers among the press helped.
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Ty Simpson
Uh, yeah, I guess we can thank you guys for that. I mean, y' all kind of wrote us off, you know, in a sort of way. So appreciate that.
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Pat Duggans
Alabama now faces Indiana in the rose bowl on January 1st. For NPR News, I'm Pat Duggans in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Giles Snyder
And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.
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