Evening Wire: G7 Allies Agree to Open Oil Reserves & Job Growth Comes In Low | 10.2.26

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New jobs numbers for September have come in a bit below the projected goal, and US and G7 allies are set to release 100 million barrels of diesel from reserves. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Friday, October 2nd, and this is Evening Wire.

The Lindsay Clancy legal saga continued this week after the judge overseeing the case denied a motion that would have stopped her from facing retrial. The motion argued that prosecutors did not present enough evidence in court to convict and asked the judge to rule her not guilty. Clancy's defense attorney still has one more motion filed to block a retrial that has not yet been ruled on. Either way, prosecutors in Massachusetts have not said whether they intend to try Clancy's case again, so the motion may not be necessary. Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial last month after the jury deadlocked 11 to 1

John Bickley (2:10)

The US economy added fewer jobs than expected in September at just 29,000. The new numbers released today fall well below the projected 90,000, while the unemployment rate ticked slightly higher than expected to 4.2%.

Meanwhile, downward adjustments for August and July show the numbers at about 60,000 lower than previously reported. But the disappointing numbers come amid some pleasant surprises on the economic front, including a better than projected 2.2% GDP growth last quarter and slightly falling gas prices over the last week.

Georgia Howe (2:44)

The US and its G7 allies have agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude from strategic reserves over the next four months as fuel prices soar amid the war in Iran. Associate producer Garrett Van Team has the latest.

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The coordinated release, which begins immediately, is intended to ease shortages after strikes on energy infrastructure damaged refineries and reduced the world's capacity to produce diesel. US diesel prices recently approached $6.50 a gallon, while the price of futures fell 8% Friday after the announcement. The move also comes as President Trump considers banning US diesel exports, a proposal opposed by American oil companies and European leaders who say Europe relies heavily on American fuel. French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump had committed to not imposing an export ban on diesel to G7 countries.

John Bickley (3:33)

The heroic FlyDubai pilot who helped save the plane and its passengers from a Muslim terrorist opened up for the first time about the moment his own co-pilot turned on him. Foreign affairs reporter Cassia Kiva has more.

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In an emotional call with India's Prime Minister today, Captain Smith Macha said, I was fighting for my life. I had suffered so many wounds, I had fallen down. But when I was lying down there, I could hear the aircraft was going down. I knew absolutely that this was the one last push. The door was right there. I just opened it, sir. Everyone else came in.

Macha's split second decision saved 174 lives.

We've also learned more about the attacker. The heroic passenger said that after they were able to subdue him, that he then told them to kill him, meaning that he, quote, failed at his mission and preferred to die, said one of the Israeli heroes.

Israeli authorities believe that the co-pilot had undergone Islamic radical indoctrination, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that if somebody sent him to commit the terror attack, they would pay a very heavy price.