Joins us now via zoo for zoom. Senior economist at the nonprofit Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in kalamazoo, michigan. Christopher oleary, lets work away backwards. Can you explain what president trumps executive action when it came to unappointed insurance he signed this weekend, what it did in how it compares to what was offered under the cares act . Guest good morning, john. Thank you for having me on. Pleasure to be on washington journal. Certainly i can address the executive order. I read it. Theink i understand objective. Up and talke back about this whole idea of supplementing unemployment. It is interesting. There have been eight recessions since the eisenhower administration. Every one the federal government has extended the duration of regular state on employment insurance benefits. There was a modest additional compensation added during the Great Recession in 2009. 25 added. Check. D to every benefit it went largely unnoticed. Recognized the existing unappointed i
biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. we have major news developments in the capitol riot investigation. this is including the public s first look at a documentary at the center of a subpoena of the january six committee. can we talk for minute about january six? yeah. you said before you did want to talk about the capitol insurrection. yeah, let s get the sixth. so what s trump and his children would and would not say as you saw there about what happened on that fateful day. plus, we re going to get into breaking news on trump die hards deep in and who may now want to talk to the committee. we re also following these wildfires and yosemite. these are threatening historic sequoias there. weeks of go oil and gas prices have people fear in some relief at the pump. more on that ahead as well. we want to start with the january six investigation. two days before the committee s next hearing a, highly anticipated trump documentary on the presidency. you saw a little bit
of personnel news dimension right off the top, it s good news. ownership say congratulations to alex wagner. who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime. this is just announced today by msnbc. it is great news. in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing. i am gonna be doing monday nights, from here on out, plus, i will be here for big news events, like i have been, things like a genuine 60 rings, and the big supreme court decision on friday on roe v. wade. nothing that i am doing is changing at all, but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it s gonna be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday, at 9:00 eastern. so, congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things that have been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months, that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot. great news. great to kn