Finances were in a dire state. Hang on. There was this 22 Billion black hole. We spend 1200 Billion billion black hole. We spend i200 billion pounds every year in this 22 Billion so called black hole, a mere accounting device. In this whole debate, what the Labour Government are trying to do was to make the political point that the Conservative Party ran the country into the ground and therefore weve got to punish therefore weve got to punish the pensioners. It is absolute and complete rubbish. And what those we represent cant understand, these people who worked hard all their lives, have done their bit for the country, their total package is perhaps 13 or £14,000 a year. What they cant understand is that this so called saving of public money is actually going to go to Train Drivers who own £70,000 a year. Theyjust dont understand it. So for god sake, lets have a serious debate. Lets try to unite on this issue and lets not keep taking away benefits from people just above the Pension
Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
Brief so a lot more to come on that front. Also on capitol hill, democrats are moving ready to move ahead with the 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package with or without republicans. President biden sat down with a group of republican senators last night for two hours to break the ice it appears on a potential bipartisan agreement. You see video from the Photo Opportunity in the oval office right there. But both sides level the room saying there wasnt a deal and no clear path really to what happens next. At the very same time, President Biden is pushing ahead today with more Executive Orders focusing this afternoon on reversing some trump era Immigration Policies. Well have more on that In A Momentch but let us start with the Impeachment Trial and donald trump and the breaking news coming from capitol hill. Manu raju has been combing through this brief, coming from the house Impeachment Managers and joining us right now. Manu, what is the case that theyre laying out against donald trump .
Were ready to go. Thats the quote from the Fulton County d. A. , saying the work is done in the investigation. An Indictment Decision could be announced at any time. It also comes as the classified Documents Case against the former president moves forward. Were on top of all those moving details. A lifeline for student borrowers. The white house outlining a new plan that could lower monthly payments,ing reduce the total amount borrowers must pay back. Well break down exactly how it works. Plus an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. How u. S. Officials are working to get them home. Were following these major developing stories, all coming in right here to Cnn News Central. This is maralago property manager, now codefendant, in former President Trumps Documents Case, Carlos De Oliveira. De oliveira was indicted last week on four charges. He did not enter a formal plea during this brief hearing, and was released on a 100,000 bond. He will be formally arraigned next week. He,
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of