despite a huge interest in getting the money back, they don t think it s likely the government will recoup the stolen money. 17 new york city and state employees were charged with illegally obtaining pandemic relief loans. there s an effort to get some of the money back. we have no idea how much money was stolen in the first place. martha: i m glad to hear somebody this is a crime when you steal money. it s a crime. it s thiefery. it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, especially during a time of emergency when people need that recovery money. it s just absolutely what a disaster. they should be much more concerned about it than they sound in those sound bites. mark, thank you. so president biden today telling americans that the economy is moving in the right direction as he celebrates better than expected job growth in november with companies hiring 263,000 workers. today s job report shows that
together. legislatively, you can argue he s been the most important president since f.d.r. the infrastructure act, we heard about president trump saying weekly the infrastructure act i don t see any of those projects yet. it passed. it was bipartisan. 20% of republican senators. the chip act was incredibly important. republican senators. the inflation act, i know we can debate the name. for democrats the minor thing like the name. this is what newt gingrich is saying. he ebb doesn t agree with these policies but you have to look at the points on the board, right? you have to acknowledge. i think republicans did not acknowledge that properly going to the mid-terms. i remember president biden saying i think we re going to keep the senate and might keep the house, too. everybody thought oh, he s just saying that. that s what he s got to say. he was right, jason. he was right. unfortunately he did pass his legislative agenda. republicans should have said no, we have to put a
since the last polling there. biden versus trump, biden wins by 10%. since it s your party, i ll let you close. i think desantis helps lead the pack. they need a new generation of people out there. the contrast between a ron desantis who is like 35 years younger than joe biden would be amazing. similar amount younger than the former president trump. yeah. martha: thank you, guys. so why the founder of a collapsed crypto empire doesn t think that he will be leaving his bahamas penthouse any time soon for a jail cell in the united states. and what tik tok is now saying about reports that it helped china spread propaganda about american politicians ahead of the mid-terms. clay travis and joe concha next. specifically, the chinese state-run accounts criticize some candidates, mostly republicans, and favored others,
i mean, i covered the iowa caucuses. we after several hours in, we got laughing. we didn t know we had no numbers. the night before we had talked to the people running the caucus, we have this amazing computer system. they ll be sent to everyone on their phones. is it a good idea? yes. for the democratic party, the iowa caucus was a debacle. i d say number 2, south carolina has been pivotal for the democrats. look at obama versus clinton, clinton versus bernie sanders and look at biden. on each of those situations, it defined where the electorate was going. it makes sense. adding georgia and michigan to the mix, two of the purple states, it s a very smart approach for the democratic party. martha: if they go that way, what will republicans do? the republicans should stay their cost. i love going to iowa, new hampshire. all the eyes do to south carolina. you also have to pay attention to nevada. don t forget all the people out west.
iowa and new hampshire moving iowa way down the list and forcing the state to give up its caucuses. former republican congressman jason chaffetz is here. first to rich edson. usually american voters start the process of picking their president with caucuses in iowa and a primary in new hampshire. perhaps no longer for democrats, the democratic national committees rules committee is working on a plan this afternoon that would move south carolina to the first slot. then new hampshire, nevada, followed by primaries in michigan and georgia. this is president biden s plan. he argues democrats need more diversity atop their nominating calendar. in a letter, the president writes you cannot be the democratic nominee and win a general election unless you have overwhelming support from voters of color. we rely on these voters in elections but have not recognized their importance in our nominating calendar. it s time to stop taking these