i m laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. and, look we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt thankfully. but homes were damaged. shot came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden ministration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to
and look, we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well, now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt, thankfully. but homes were damaged. shots came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden administration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to cooperate fully with the doj probe of
recession? because that is not the technical definition. in terms of the technical definition, it is not a recession? a much broader spectrum of data points? that is not the actual data of said mike recession but actual retraction over a few months. i would reject to the idea of two quarters of negative gdp growth is a technical recession is wrong. carley: griff jenkins is live with the technical definition and much, much more, good morning. good morning carley and todd appear the definition of braising is what americans are doing for potential bad news this week that we are in a recession after two consecutive quarters of dropping gdp numbers. but president biden said he doesn t see that happening. we are not going to be in a recession, in my view. the employment rate is still one of the lowest we have had in the history with 3.6%. my hope is that we go from this rapid growth to steady growth. and we will see some of it coming down, but i don t think we will see
rewrite the dictionary. griff jenkins has more in washington, good morning. griff: good morning, americans are bracing for nows we are in recession with dropping gdp numbers. the president says he doesn t see that happening? president biden: we re not going to be in a recession in my view, the employment rate is still one of the lowest in history, the 3.6 area. my hope is we go from rapid growth to steady growths. we ll see some coming down, god willing, i don t think we ll see recession. griff: white house message focusing on how well the economy is doing because of how many jobs have been created. if you look at the economic indicators, the labor market, the average amount of jobs that have been created, about 400 per month, indicators do not show that we are in a recession or even a pre-recession. griff: she s not the only white house official challenging technical definition of a recession. i covered the economy for many years, i was told by everybody i spoke
happened. he fired at people across the street and as he approached the school as he approached the unlocked wack door. carley: he walked in 11:40 a.m. and made his way toward the classroom and carried out his attack. four minutes later, officers arrived on the scene and were met with gunfire inside the school. they took cover to wait for backup and evacuate other rooms. an hour later a special unit entered by force and shot the suspect dead. ashley strohmier has more. ashley. ashley: a texas department of public safety rep said on tuesday the school resource officer had engaged with the shooter before he went into the school. that statement contradiktss what we heard in a news conference yesterday. it was reported a school district police officer confronted the suspect as he was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed. ashley: we are told there was no officer on site at the time of the shooting. officers didn t immediately go in because of gunfire and