White house is underscoring this troubling statistic. 2. 5 million women have been driven from the workforce since the pandemic hit. On the medical side of this whole thing we now have news on Johnson Johnsons oneshot vaccine. Its moving closer to authorization for Emergency Use so that is a step in the right direction. Also that i had Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene once again defending her controversial rhetoric one day after her colleagues voted to remove her from her committee assignments. Going forward ive been freed. I do. I feel freed because you know whats happening on these committees . You see, we have a basically a tragically controlled government right now, the democrat. How does her party move forward now that trump is out of office . Her response. It doesnt. And i want to tell you, republican voters, support him still. The party is his. It doesnt belong to anybody else. Lets start there with our cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean who had quite an
He criticized republicans for either wanting, and im quoting him now, to do nothing or not enough. Meanwhile, the new jobs report is out today, underscoring the severe Economic Impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Economy adding just 49,000 jobs last month, leaving the country still down almost 10 million jobs since the pandemic started one year ago. Lets begin our coverage this hour over at the white house. Our chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins is standing by. President biden is emphasizing the urgency of his massive pandemic relief bill. Reporter capitol hill appears to be listening because both chambers have passed this resolution, paving the way for democrats to move forward on this bill and making clear they want to do so quickly. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says theyll start drafting that legislation next week, potentially get this passed by the end of the month. Wolf, here is the catch. There are no republicans on board. Right now the white house and Presid
Telling his party to stick together, underscoring the agency, the cdc is out with a new forecast projecting that the United States will see as many as 534,000 covid19 deaths by the end of this month. Also this hour, exclusive interview with the new Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, first immigrant to head the agency at a critical time for our country. First, straight to capitol hill where theres Breaking News. Manu raju is joining us. This key meeting thats under way could shape the future of the Republican Party. Update us on the very latest. Reporter Libehind Closed Dos this meeting is taking place, efforts by a number of members in the republican conference to impeach donald trump, including the number three republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach donald trump on the charge of inciting that dead ly january 6h riot that occurred here on capitol hill. She addressed her conference as she has faced a backlash and push to oust her from the leadership spot. She made it
States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer here in the situation room. Significant breaking news, a potential vaccine against the coronavirus. A just released study found the vaccine being developed by moderna induced immune responses in all the participants without raising any significant safety concerns inasmuch some side effects but not really significant were told. Moderna is now set to begin late stage Clinical Trials involving 30,000 americans later this month. All this comes as the virus is infecting and killing many, many americans, hundreds every single day. The u. S. Death toll now above 136,000 over the past four months. All this comes as the virus is infecting people in all aspects of the country but especially in the south. 37 states are now seeing new rises in cases. Once again especially in the southern part of the United States. Were watching all of these developments very closely. Were also monitoring the president of the United States. Hes in the rose garden right n
First lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, the president s North Carolina rally begins very soon. So what more are you learning . Another very important day. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump is claiming hes done a, quote, good job, great job on the coronavirus, he says, as the number of dead in the u. S. From covid19 has reached approximately 190,000 people. The president s wishes for a vaccine by election, though, just got a dose of reality as dr. Anthony fauci just said, that is unlikely. The president is also doing damage control after revelations that he used crude language to describe fallen u. S. Service members. As it turns out, there is video from 2016 that appears to show mr. Trump describing military commanders as, quote, losers. In the meantime, Trump Supporters you were just showing this picture a few moments ago. Theyre gaths ring in North Carolina right now for a campaign speech. We can show you that video if we have it available to