let s break down the data. the ism manufacturing number has come in at 43.1. that is shy on the consensus, which was 43.8, but ahead of where we thought things would be at bloomberg economics. the headline number is a bit of ordersaly because of the and the duration of orders component, which messes things up a bit. that number is coming in as expected. the employment numbers picked up as well, and the prices paid number picked up strongly. let s get a look at what this means for the u.s. economy. giving us that assessment is that she s shot is ashish shah. from goldman sachs. let s talk about the data we are getting from the u.s. economy. we have got the big payroll number coming up friday. my sense is these numbers are getting better, but not consistent with a v-shaped recovery at this point. they still look pretty bad and still indicate that while things are improving, the u.s. economy is still in a tough spot right now. give us your thoughts. ashish: i think that is exa
sophisticated serve-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. in our hearings you will see elements of each element of this plan. donald trump and his advisers knew that he had, in account fa, lost the elections, but despite this, president trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the elections from him. on this point, there is no room for debate. those who invaded the capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what president trump had told them, that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president. president trump, summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. republican congresswoman and committee vice chair liz cheney cutting straight to the heart of the case there that the panel will continue to lay out over the next several weeks, but you don t have to
president trump, was at the center of the conspiracy to overturn the election of joe biden. the committee says it will connect the dots between trump s lies and the violence at the capitol. aides have amassed a mountain of new information. lauren fox is live on capitol hill for us. what are you expecting? how are things going to be playing out? well, kate, this is all going to kick off with opening statements from thompson, the committee chairman, and the top republican on the committee, liz cheney. we re told from aides they are going to run this hearing. they will do most of the talking. there s three areas that they are going to explore tonight. some of which is unseen to the public previously. one of the areas, they are going to play some video from the private and closed door depositions and interviews they did with trump family members and campaign officials, white house aides. we expect that is going to make an impact here. we know there s going to be previous unseen f
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
cable up by .3%. hit sofutures, tech got hard yesterday, we are getting a bit of that back. david: oil traders around the world are heartbroken. you have thrown them over for going. it is all jonathan s fault. ok, parliament is debating president trump s controversial tweet. the president was wrong to retweet anti-muslim videos from a far right group, britain first. earlier, the president tweeted that prime minister theresa may s focus should not be on him but on the threat posed by islamic terrorism. the synod is moving toward a final vote on the massive tax overhaul bill as early as today. lawmakers voted along party lines to begin the debate. that doesn t necessarily signal that republican leaders have the authority votes they need. theenate republicans passed tax bill, they still have to hammer out differences with the house version. oil prices are edging higher hours after opec meets. the cartel and russia are ready to extend production curbs until the end of next year.