Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
Lesson about democracy. We thought it was an Important Note to end the week on. Sometimes we think the system isnt working, but its important to keep that struggle in mind. Thank you for doing that, we will pick up exactly where you left off. Have a good weekend. Have a good show. Rachel without putin. That was one of the chants shouted by the people who Alexei Navalny, thousands of people who knew that they were risking their freedom, possibly their lives to say that. Alexei navalny who was harassed, poisoned imprisoned, and ultimately killed is proof of what happens to those Who Defy Putin and russia. Navalnys widow yulia and their two children did not attend the funeral because of fears of their own safety, Russian Police patrol the funeral, they stopped mourners from entering the church, unable to view, as you saw the open casket where navalnys body was covered with Red And White roses. The New York Times reports that Cell Phone Service in the area had been reduced to the lower ban
not only that, he s been criminally indicted twice so far, he could face multiple trials in between campaign stops during primary season next year. essentially, on top of all of that, he appears to remain in control of the narrative and the eject cherie of this race. take for example the ways that those have responded to the criminal indictment last month, and how those responsive has a vault in the weeks since. have a promissory quickly made a pledge to pardon trump. tim scott said that the indictment is, quote, a serious case, but with serious allegations. at the same time, he condemned president biden and the justice department, alleging that they were targeting and hunting republicans. more interesting is how the talking points of a vote for trump s own former vice president, mike pence. shortly after the public learned about the indictment, pence said that he was, quote, deeply troubled but that no one is above the law. then, after the indictment was unsealed, he told cn
majority so now might north carolina lawmakers have a chance to rethink their stance on all of this. the question is, will they take it? that is the show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. they didn t take their last opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on i loved your conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you re worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. i believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doe
opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on y to another conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consecutive degrees at a, time which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. and blew the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn t mean it s not worth talking about. one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces. the police chief, the george floyd,