$4000 a year in income since the president took office. lucas tomlinson s life for us in wilmington, delaware with the very latest, lucas. good afternoon aishah. the dow is down below when present biden took office inflation is up 40 years i the s&p 500 is down 17% this year for president biden s top economic advisor acknowledging the squeeze many americans are feeling. food prices are to hyperinflation is still too h high. the president understands that because his whole focus is defending working families. he knows even with the stronger job market, lower unemployment, he knows of people getting hurt at the grocery line. and present biden took office, inflation was not just 1.4% rate today it is 8.3%. it was already at 7.9% when russian forces invaded ukraine as you can see here. more than half the country says inflation is causing them financial hardship and heartburn. one in four american families are cutting back on spending. some even going down to two meals a day
former presidents are no different. all right, good morning, everyone. welcome to the cross connection, i m tiffany cross. as you just saw, to cap up the week, donald trump is feeling that heat, because his legal woes are piling up. from being sued by the state of new york, for 200 and $50 million for a large business fraud, to an appeals court siding with the justice department and allowing the doj to review classified documents seized from mar-a-lago, too, of course, now the special master demanding that trump backed up his claim that the fbi planted evidence during the search of mar-a-lago. trump has until next friday to prove that the judge is essentially like, we don t believe you, you need more people. you can guess how inspiration as inspiration as our reacting. of course, by throwing a fit online. you re with me is political contributor, jason johnson, who was like this morning, i will tell. you also joining me is msnbc legal analyst and civil rights attorney, charl
may have we may lose the ability to leave. the agents text each other afterwards about what they went through? were they texting before the fact about their concerns about what happened that day or what the president was saying or doing? we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight, multiple sources familiar with the matter, tell cnn that the inspector general first learned of the missing messages back in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general, joseph ka far ri, knew in december of 2021. and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. the secret service, as you know, says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three w
we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight multiple sources familiar with the matter tell cnn that the inspector general for the department of homeland security which oversees the secret service first learned of the missing messages in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general joseph kafari knew in december of 2021, and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. now, the secret service as you know says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three weeks after the capitol attack. it s also a week after several house committees directed dhs to produce all documents or materials relevant to it so they knew congress wanted to
the last ten years, the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds. my god, somebody fired a shot! these tragedies keep getting closer and closer to home. i m afraid to let my kids walk out the door. the interurban crime wave has touched off a new round of gun buying. step out, mr. bundy. i ll plead not guilty right now. there has been a disturbing growth in cult phenomenon in this country. i shall be god. and beside me there shall be no other. all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in the glare of hollywood publicity. young girls supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. the 70s is a decade of just brutal violence on every front and anywhere that you look in america. at the time of a mass murder, there s a lot of media coverage. but usually after a brief period of time, the identity of the perp