is yet to come and on day one of their re-election campaign, vice president kamala harris makes it clear she won t shy away from the campaign spotlight, so why are both her supporters and her critics cheering we re also keeping an eye on the white house where president biden will be holding a joint press conference with the president of south korea we are now hearing from the white house that should roughly start 30 minutes from now. we begin in new york where two trials involving former president trump are unfolding just blocks apart, and in both cases, prosecutors and judges are going to extraordinary lengths to protect the ordinary people working on them their concern that those people could be singled out by trump or his supporters by harassment, intimidation or personal attacks. donald trump just got a warning from the jungdge for going afte the woman suing him on social media. we re not just talking about the civil case in trump s criminal trial, prosecutors filed
and we re also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don t like the idea i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, but it s well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for office at the time, you all may remember it that i had a big fight with the former president. and maybe future president. bless me father. anyway, all kidding aside, and here s the deal, what happened was the folks are really going after me for trying to, and by the way, 90% of all debt forgiveness for student loans will go to, under my plan, 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year. okay.
able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements we re supposedly celebrating. let s start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesn t tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pandemic related job losses are hitting women of color especially hard. we talk about that a lot. compared to this time last year, total employment for white women is down just over 5%. for black and latino women, that rate is nearly double. a bunch of factors continue to contribute to the disproportional impact on women of color, including an overrepresentation in industries that have been hit hardest such as hospitality and leisure. in addition, the coronavirus crisis is forcing an impossible ch
democrats really have? well, look, chris, there are not many options if democrats are going to stick with what president biden has said you know, ali knows, she s been on the hill talking to these folks. a number of democratic members now have been willing to say, oh, well, maybe it s time to negotiate. there s been whispers in various caucuses, amongst the democratic caucus on the hill the reality is though, you ask folks at the white house, they say the president s position has not changed. he has put a budget forward, and if speaker mccarthy brings his budget, then he is happy to talk budget conversations but on the debt ceiling, this is about america paying what it already owed and i think that s just where it is you look at if you look back, there s history for this you know, if you look at during the obama administration, president obama, he did negotiate with republicans on capitol hill, and you could talk to folks that worked for president obama during that time, they say t
there is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ought to treat constitutional issues the same way we treat budget issues. we move the budget forward without this filibuster application so as not to threaten the credit of the united states of america. and we ought to move forward on constitutional issues when it comes to the filibuster. so the filibuster i think has its place, but not when it comes to voting and other constitutional issues. so we ll see where we go from here. i am hopeful that joe manchin will do what i know that he is capable of doing and that is the right thing. hearing you say that you are hopeful about that is going to