Lebanon’s President Criticizes Iran, Strong Jobs Report, Anthropic's Eerie Warning and more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm Aaron Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Friday, June 5th. |
| 0:07.0 | As peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran remain uncertain, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is openly criticizing Iran. |
| 0:15.0 | In a rare and exclusive interview with CNN, Aoun accused Tehran of using his country as a, quote, bargaining chip in its conflict |
| 0:22.2 | with the U.S. and Israel. |
| 0:23.9 | For the Israeli government, it's the time for the power of reason to prevail over the reason |
| 0:29.1 | of power. |
| 0:30.0 | Our people along the border are fed up with wars, but you need to show some willingness |
| 0:35.8 | and commitment to end this war for the sake of both people and on both sides of the border. |
| 0:42.9 | We are ready. We are willing. We are committed. Are you? |
| 0:47.9 | Coming up, you would have never known there's a war breaking out or an energy price spike looking at the latest jobs report. |
| 0:53.6 | That's next, along with Anthropics' eerie warning about AI. Stick around. |
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| 1:25.2 | The latest jobs report is out and it's blown past expectations. |
| 1:29.3 | New data from the Labor Department shows the U.S. economy added a much stronger than expected 172,000 jobs in May. |
| 1:36.3 | Economists thought it would only be 105,000, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. |
| 1:42.3 | This marks the third consecutive month where employment gains |
| 1:45.7 | topped 100,000. Now, you might be hearing this in thinking, this doesn't feel like a good |
| 1:50.4 | economy, though. CNN's Matt Egan explains why. What people are experiencing is the fact that |
| 1:56.9 | their paychecks are just not keeping up, right? We have a situation where wages were up by |
| 2:01.6 | 3.4% in May. That's a solid number. That's okay. But the problem is that prices are going up much |
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