Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who will fully violate the key existing laws and regulation. If you will fully sell a gun to someone whos prohibiting from processing it, if you will fully fail to run a background check, if you will fully falsify a record, if you will fully we will find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. We will make sure you cant sell death and made him on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises during the summer months. He warned things could get worse in just the
Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o
His shadow . Dana every groundhogs Worst Nightmare today running into Bill Deblasio. He dropped the groundhog in new york. Bill that was hedge hog sam. It wasnt the original punxsutawney. Dana no, he is protected. Bill i love the turtleneck. I forgot mine. Dana i think i might try to wear a turtleneck every day this week. Look, you got a lot of compliments. You didnt . I think so. If you wore a turtleneck you might break the internet. Well see. Lots more to get to this morning. Bill not indoors. Dana William La Jeunesse is live in san diego with whats going on at the border. Katie pavlich and Donna Brazile. Bill lets begin with david spunt. The president will sign those Executive Orders later this afternoon in the oval office in addition to the actions he took after coming into office of the presidency which halted construction of President Trumps border wall, also stopped that trump travel ban. One order biden will establish a task force that would reunite families separated at the bo
Trump cant quote, turn back the clock on climate progress. Also, things are getting weird in ohio. What voters are saying about the increasingly angry and now kind of strange gop Senate Primary. Let us get to the reporters starting in arizona. Vaughn hillyard is in maricopa county. Bring us up to speed on arizona. Reporter i just talked to kari lake, who is a u. S. Senate candidate, a close ally of donald trump. She just voted at this location behind me for donald trump. Of course that is the only thing on the ballot here in arizona. The next big primary is when she is on the ballot come this august. But you know, i was able to put the question to her about why donald trump and her would be able to pull off wins in november and she said she believes the choice will be stark between her and rubin gaego. I want to let you listen to some voters we talked to today who took part in the republican primary despite donald trump having the nomination wrapped up. Well, for one thing, i dont beli
Special counsel jack smiths team has now charged both with multiple crimes. Including conspiracy to obstruct justice. If convicted, they couldve face yearslong prison sentences. In the district courthouse in washington, d. C. , we will be awaiting for another possible indictment in the investigation into trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election. And two new developments today. First, according to the Washington Post, trumps pack to save america spent about 40 million in the First Six Months of 2023 covering his legal fees in some others in his orbit. Also, an internet for one of the maralago employees named in a superseding indictments alongside former President Trump said he had not secured a floridabased lawyer ahead of the First Court Appearance and miami on monday. Later on the show, two stories i need you to stick around to hear. One, a major milestone celebrated by one of the biggest black sororities in the country while a black fraternity is moving its annual convention out