Charge of the recovery act, and it was hard as hell to get the votes to begin with, and then it was hard as hell to get the numbers we got. One thing we learned is we cant do too much here. We can do too little an and sputter. The speech youll hear follows the jobs report this morning. Yes, the Employment Rate is down, but only 40 million jobs was added to the American Economy. That makes it clear that the impacted American Economy is still very much in trouble. The Senate Meeting ended early this morning with the Senate Passing a budget resolution. This morning the house will take up that resolution and it will clear the runway for democrats most likely to go it alone with a covid relief bill that is very much on top of the wish list. Theyre meeting with the president this morning at the white house, and the Committee Chairs said they will start Writing Details of the budget plan next week. With us to share their reporting and insights, phil mattingly, Christine Romans and sun moon ki
Time in a bipartisan way. And so i want to yield to the distinguished chair because the bill that the Senate Passed is identical to our instructions to the budget as we said to them. Get behind the microphone. Yeah. The speaker is right. We got the same amount in instructions back from the senate that we passed, so we can pass it with a simple vote today and intend to. Then the committees will draft the legislation that actually creates the assignment of those dollars, and well bring that back to the floor in just a couple of weeks. And, you know, we only lost two democrats in the vote. They just voted for 1. 9 trillion. So we dont anticipate a problem. Madam speaker, do you have any concerns that a package this large approaching 2 trillion might sacrifice progressive policies Going Forward . Absolutely not. One of the things that we always discuss is, as we try to address the emergency that we have now, to crush the virus, to save the lives and livelihood of the American People, were
hi everyone, i m alicia menendez. new evidence from the january six committee this weekend. revealing the trump administration spoke to a rioter during the capitol attack. ex committee staff refers to share details of that call. needing a real aha moment it is connected to the rioters phone it s a big aha moment, what s in the white house was calling one of the riders while the right was going on? and you know who both ends of that call? i only know one and of the i don t know the white house and. an aha moment indeed, the january six committee confirms that this happened. it s not possessing the investigation months ago. since the departure they have earned out all of the leads and landed that they tell it about the committee. it comes out just before the next hearing. joining me, now democratic congressman of calm california. he s a former impeachment manager. his member the judiciary committee. congressman, what are you expecting from this committee hearing?
of secret service communication. the agency admitted to the leading crucial tax from the day the capitol attack. the text messages themselves and many cases are gone. interesting. there are other forms of communication like teams messages, emails. i think if you look at what happened that day, you will see that there were secret service agents who were playing a hugely important very courageous role. i think that there are some who have not been forthcoming with the committee. we will learn more about that. joining me now is the congressional for the guardian and former u.s. attorney harry lippman. he is the host of talking feds podcast and legal affairs columnist for the l.a. times. your sense of how these new secret service materials might factor into wednesday s hearing? yeah, it s really interesting. we ve known for a couple of weeks know that the select committee got some microsoft teams group chats, they got more emails than they previously obtained earlier
we have fresh hearings, liz cheney and it is the colleagues that are aware between a rider and a warehouse the new york edges case against a trump ally, it is the one keeping the former president up at night. and later, fighting hunger in puerto rico. power trickles back in the homes on the island when jeff is on the ground making sure folks don t go hungry. when chef jose we asked how is feeding thousands every day. outrage with a 22 year old woman at the hands of the state has furious young iranians demonstrating in the streets the details of violent response. this is american voices.