us. i tell you, i think i got people in the studio paying extra attention to this segment. we all want to know, wouldn t we want to know? let s talk about this, of course, because you talk about the mass resignation, right, the great resignation that we ve been experiencing over the past few years when it comes to this pandemic and this is a way, to a certain extent, as you say, to retain workers. definitely. not only have people resigned in mass numbers, over 47 million americans have voluntarily left their jobs to look for better opportunities, but people are not rushing back. the reality is that after two years of pandemic, we re not asking how do we return to normal but how do we return to better? how do we have a better quality of life and more of a work-life balance, and this is one of the solutions and you have countries and businesses who are showing us that it s possible, but it s also good for their bottom line. okay, let me play devil s advocate here. and that is this.
certifying those election results in his favor. these almost 100 texts really show, they shed some new light on how involved they were in these efforts. one text from senator lee to meadows on november 7th specifically, the day the election was called for president biden, says we quote offer our unequivocal support for you to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy at your disposal to restore americans faith in our elections. another text that day from congressman roy to meadow says quote, we need ammo, we need fraud examples, we need it this weekend, and then the mood changes, it becomes definitely more hesitant, more skeptical as the evidence and proof that these two kept asking meadows in these texts, these requests for lack of a better word just go unanswered. senator lee says in one text on january 3rd, quote, i think this could backfire badly unless we have legislatures submitted trump slates. congressman roy becomes more skeptical, raises the alarm,
whoa. hang on, guys. we ve only gone an hour and 20 minutes. i ll keep going. but i m going to go, let me get something straight here. how long are you guys ready to go? you want to go for another hour, two? okay. i m going to go, tell you what, folks. i m going to go another 20 minutes until a quarter of. okay? yes, sir. president biden i want to thank my communications staff for the great help here. well, president biden, on the coronavirus, we re tragically approaching nearly 1 million americans who died and i d like to ask you why it is during your three and a half hour virtual summit in november with the
and so i don t think i have overpromisedal at all. and i am going to stay on this track. you know, one of the things that i remember and i will end this i was talking with, you know, jim clyburn, who was a great help to me in the campaign in south korea. and jim said he would endorse me. and there was a clip on television the last couple days of jim. and it said that we want to make things accessible and affordable for all americans. that s health care. that s education. that s prescription drugs. that s making sure you have access, access, to all the things that everybody else has. we can afford to do that. we can t afford not do it. so i tell my republican friends, here i come. this is going to be about what are you for? what are you for? and i will lay out what we are
nearly 9% on inauguration day to 3.9% now. all of that is what we are likely to hear the president play up today. he will also pace questions from the press on some of the low points of the last year. here is the president. hello, folks. thanks for being here. good afternoon, everyone. tomorrow will mark one year since i took office. it s been a year of challenges, but it s also been a year of enormous progress. we went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment i was sborn in to 210 million americans being fully vaccinated today. we created 6 million new jobs, more jobs in one year than at any time before. unemployment dropped, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9%. child poverty dropped by nearly 40%, the biggest drop ever in american history. new business applications grew