good morning. i m wolf blitzer in washington, and this is special live coverage of the funeral of former supreme court justice sandra day o connor, the first woman to serve is on america s highest court. the service over at the washington national cathedral is set to start right at the top of the hour. president biden left delaware for washington, d.c., earlier this morning. he is set to arrive at the funeral any moment now, we are told. and he is going to be delivering a eulogy along with chief justice john roberts. o connor first met them in 1981, and roberts helped her to prepare for her confirmation where biden was the top person on the judiciary committee. and she earned in 1952 a law degree from stanford university in two years, but despite graduating top of the class, her gender kept her from joining a law firm, so she opened up her own law firm. she was mostly known for being appointed to the high court in 1981, but she is quickly one of the most influential justice
served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
a year later, we have the real number. and the unemployment rate is a survey of 60,000 households. that jumps around and there s a big marchin of error. the stimulus did not work. we have a 1.3% gdp growth rate. we have 23 million americans unemployed or looking for work or if anyone had said in january of 2009 that we were going to spend a trillion dollars and end up with a 1.3% gdp growth rate, a high unemployment rate, labor force force participation rate equal to september 1981, congress would not the economy was not good. what would those figures have been without the stimulus? exactly. this is a question of a floor, right? i mean, this is a if you re falling and i catch you, and i put a floor under you, is that working even if i don t bring it all the way up. that s a debatable question. a third of what sorry.