President Trump takes an extraordinary step and triggers a sell-off on Wall Street after a worse

than expected jobs report. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza, and Israel finds

itself under enormous pressure as America's historically rock-solid support seems to be wavering.

Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. I'm Franklin IV in tonight for Jeffrey

Goldberg. President Trump fires the messenger. The markets plummet. Nuclear submarines are

redirected towards Russia and the debate over the crisis in Gaza rages on here in Washington.

Joining me tonight to help us make sense of it all,

Leanne Caldwell, the Chief Washington correspondent at Puck,

Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Washington and Foreign Affairs correspondent for NBC News,

Alexander Ward is a national security reporter at the Wall Street Journal,

and Nancy Yusuf is a national security reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and Nancy Yusuf is a national security correspondent at the Atlantic.

Leanne, whenever Trump doesn't like an outcome, he describes the process as rigged, and today he fired the head, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because that Bureau had

redefined, sorry, defined downward the job numbers from the past couple months. It sounds

pretty grievous. What are the implications for the U.S. economy? Does this risk losing confidence

in markets?

Yeah, well, you know, the job numbers were not as good as the Trump administration wanted,

and as you said, that they revised the job numbers down from the last two months as well.

And looking at this woman who was fired, she was confirmed just last year by the Senate.

There was just eight senators who voted against her.

She had the support of more than 80 senators.

And this is a continuation of a pattern of this president.

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