it s 4:00 in washington d.c. a hail mary move by the disgraced ex-president that serves as an indication that special counsel jack smith may well be close to making a decision on whether or not to indict donald trump. we re at donald trump s dear attorney general, the special counsel is being mean to me phase. make no mistake we have been here before. late yesterday lawyers for the ex-president asked for a meeting with merrick garland. the letter itself was brief, filled with the usual trump rhetoric about being persecuted despite the fact that the ex-president is the one who has resisted handing over some of the nation s most sensitive intelligence secrets. documents he kept just one lock, one door away from hundreds of people at his pay for membership club to the government who rightfully owned the documents and asked for them back. the new york times says the letter asserts that trump is treated unfairly in the investigations led by jack smith. the washington post is r
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. surprisingly strong new jobs numbers are capping off what has been a big week for the biden administration. let s go straight to jeremy diamond. amid fears of a recession, the president has some momentum when it comes to the u.s. economy. at least in the short term. give us the latest. no doubt about it, this jobs report which the president called outstanding is more evidence that the u.s. is not in a recession. we saw the unemployment rate tick down to 3.5%. more than half a million jobs created last month. all of that painting a picture of a very strong and resilient jobs market. now of course, this strong jobs market doesn t do anything to address americans chief concern. and that is inflation. and the president and the white house very much aware of that. we heard the president talking about americans who may still feel they re struggling december fate st
gun-related bills, 56% expanded access to firearms or benefits the firearms industry. by allowing manufacturing in the state or protecting them from liability lawsuits. joining our coverage is the founder of moms against guns. i follow you on twitter. i see your thoughts. but i want to start with the the families of uvalde. some of them grieve privately, but some have shared their grief on social media. and it is a staggering reminder that while the media tends to move on, and come back on the anniversary, for these families, 19 children and 2 teachers, the world stopped one year ago. it hasn t picked up again. the blast radius of the tragedy of the shootings is immense and underreported in america.
jesse lewis didn t even exist. yesterday the jury awarded $4.1 million in compensation. today this is punitive, so this is the punishment is what the jury is saying of $45.2 million for mr. jones. now there is a lot of questions. because they have that forensic economist up, they went up to through all of his various companies, trying to understand how much money he actually had. that economist thought his companies were worth anywhere between $135 million and $270 million. but it is not clear that all of that money is there. he has nine different companies that he runs money through. and in 2021 he started moving money out of those companies as there were similar liability lawsuits that he lost regarding sandy hook in connecticut, also in texas. so it is the other thing that is complicating all of this is that
Some Democratic California lawmakers want to make it easier for people to sue gun companies for liability in shootings that cause injuries or deaths, a move advocates said Tuesday is aimed at getting around a U.S. law that prevents such lawsuits and allows the industry to act recklessly. In general, when someone is injured or killed by gunfire it's very hard for the victim or their family to hold the gun manufacturer or dealer responsible by suing them and making them pay for damages. A federal law prevents most of those types of lawsuits, which advocacy groups say is unique to the gun industry.