analysis they had was the problem americans are facing is that their groceries are still more expensive than they were. do you foresee grocery prices coming down? i think there s a simple explanation. that s part of it. the real key is this. people say, look, unemployment has been very low. the economy is doing great. what that means is that people are at work. but when they were working in 2021, they lost ground. in 2022, they lost ground. inflation was 1% higher than wage grown. in the second half of 2023 did they finally make up some of that. they worked really hard for two years and got further behind. they are not happy about that. it s going to take more progress to swing the needle the other way. it s not just an overnight fix. thank you very much. america remembers, my conversation with michael finone, one of the police officers who defended the capitol on january 6 ahead of
hundreds of times, thousands of times at the capitol. people expressing their first amendment right. we never thought earlier, you said, we ll debate, is this an insurrection? it s a violent uprising against a government, and that s what happened that day. it s important for all of us. i m glad my fellow officers, former officers, are here with me and standing up and pushing back against that narrative that a lot of people on the right are trying to rewrite, erase, or completely whitewash it. officer finone, it s been shocking to a lot of americans who agree, the vast majority agree that january 6th was a terrible day. we believe what we saw with our eyes, either in person for many people or on television, but also this narrative that s taken hold in certain quarters among trump supporters, in particular, that it actually wasn t what we saw that day. that s the one side of it. the other side of it is, you ve
overturn the 2020 election, fought to cling to power and, president biden will argue, remains a real threat to our nation s democracy. on the eve of the third anniversary of january 6th, we wanted to talk to some of the heros of that day who helped save our democracy. they are former members of the capitol hill police and d.c. metro police, part of the law enforcement teams that defended the capitol that day, and the lawmakers inside from the rioters who violently stormed the building following a trump building. joining us, harry dunn, the author of the book, standing my ground. former d.c. metropolitan police officer, michael finone. his book is, hold the line. and former capitol police officer, aquilino gonell, author of american shield, available in english and spanish. gentlemen, thank you for being with us again. three gentlemen and three heros we ve gotten to know well over the last three years.
ization of dangerous elements when donald trump has a platform, but i d rather see it now than hide from it and wake up to it when he becomes president in 2025. michael steele, i cover him here, so i don t have condemnation or wisdom, but i think fool us once, shame on you. fool us a second time, shame on us. and i want to put into the conversation michael finone writes cnn putting him on stage having him answer questions lee like a normal candidate normalizes what he did. it sends a message that attempting a coup is just part of the process that accepting a election results is a choice and there are no consequences in media or politics or anywhere else. he has a point too. he does.
investigating the former president, his associates for their role in january 6th and will make the final charging decisions. if you re wondering why they would release this criminal information this week, the holiday week, the committee is under a deadline here, they re trying to release what they know to the public before republicans take over next year when they re expected to dissolve the committee. let s bring in cnn legal analyst attorney general elliott williams and law enforcement michael finone. thank you very joining. the significance of these criminal referrals. number one they don t matter. but they re significant in that it s congress, which investigated over the course of a year and spoke to witnesses and issued subpoenas and so on it s congress making a statement if not the former president people around him committed