court will take on the case or pass and let this trump era public health policy expire. if that is the question at the heart of this and there are big implications depending on which way the supreme court goes i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent, julie. it s become an immigration policy, but the question is if the supreme court decides to pass and title 42 is lifted, the concern is this surge of migrants at the border there s a political context and backdrop to this as well talk us through it i ve been tracking bipartisan negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform on capitol hill for the better part of last year, but even with democrats in control of the house and senate, obviously not those 60 votes they need, they were not able to get that done. so what will make the next congress different with republicans in control of the house? that s where the fear comes down to here. and not only do you have this surge on the border potentially going forwa
plus the u.s. and russia debating a prisoner swap. antony blinken speaking with sergey lavrov. and a breakthrough on capitol hill. chuck shchumer and joe manchin striking a deal after a year of negotiations. there s a lot in this bill, including tax changes. we begin with major developments on the u.s. economy. the gross domestic product fell 0.9%, following a 1.6% drop in the first part of this your, blamed in part on the omicron surge, all of this adding to fears the u.s. could be in a recession. joining me to talk about all this, white house national economic director brian dees. good morning. thanks for taking the time this morning. happy to be here. two consecutive quarters of negative growth. every period since 1948 of two straight negative quarters of gdp has coincided with a recession. in every prior recession in the united states, we have lost jobs. and over the course of the year we have gained 2.7 million jobs. the unemployment rate is 3.6%. there s only be
this is what scalia testified to the committee. he said at that point, what i suggested to her, this is on january 7th, that i thought it would be constructive if we could have the president convene a meeting of the cabinet and explain to her that i thought it would be a good way for the president to publicly demonstrate his commitment to a transition and that would be a good way to have an interaction with the president and play a role in a smooth transition. he said that s the conversation he had with secretary chow some were trying to find a way through this for trump to try and tamp down the violence and rhetoric and chaos that happened the day before then make that peaceful transfer of power of course, a meeting loike that never occurred and as we read on is that maybe when these conversations about the 25th amendment occurred it s an interesting glimpse into
they did to come forward but they clearly, it seems, now starting to follow suit and are willing to participate more with the committee in light of her testimony. that s exactly right, bianna. it s been said many times and liz cheney, the vice chair of the committee said it quite explicitly that this young woman, who had a lot to lose, is in some ways showing more integrity and indeed courage than some of the senior male cabinet secretaries and other members of the administration. basically an attempt to shame them into cooperating. of course when you get a subpoena, shame is really not the issue, you really have a legal obligation to respond. but elliott was exactly right. there were questions on the table. two cabinet secretaries resigned for example. secretary chow and secretary voss. secretary voss said this is an inflexion point. what happened here on january 6, that s it for me. we know there were credible
decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew that i was leaving that day, once i read that tweet. ultimately members of the white house staff, sara matthews, cabinet members resigned as well. here is secretary devos s resignation letter. as you can see, in resigning on january 6th, being secretary devos said to the president there s no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation and it is the inflection point for me. let s also look at secretary chow s resignation statement. secretary chow resigned, spoke of the january 6th attack and said as i am sure is the case with many of you, this is deeply troubled me in a way i simply cannot set aside. miss hutchinson, in our prior interviews we have asked you