Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 7/2/2026
7/2/20261 hr 10 min
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on breaking news from the day.
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First 90 secondsJay Leno0:00
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Ben Meiselas· Host1:00
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Meiselas, and this is your breaking news. We've got a lot to discuss. Donald Trump burning down the United States and frankly burning down the world. This morning, we got a terrible jobs report, only about 57,000 new jobs created, and there were big revisions to the April and May job totals as well. I've been saying this before, we are clearly in a