Died at the age of 85, just one year after retiring from nearly 50 years of bringing big bird and oscar the grouch to life. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 9th. Good morning, everyone. Great to have toni in from espn. Hey we do begin this half hour with democrats wasting no time setting the stage to unveil articles of impeachment against President Trump this week. Another public hearing is getting under way today to lay out the case for removing the president from office. The president is crying foul tweeting quote no president in American History has been treated like this. Abcs david wright has more. Reporter on the eve of historic impeachment hearings, congress has been burning the midnight oil. We have to act now, you cant wait for the next election because hes trying to interfere with the next election. Reporter the House Judiciary Committee is now charged with drafting specific grounds to remove President Trump. The president leaves us no choice. Report
the same claims. the claims that were debunked and disproven years ago. they are going to use lies, misinformation, and outright conspiracy theories to attack the president and advance a dangerous maga agenda. also this hour, the latest reporting on the doj subpoena for mike pence,, trump appears to be ready to fight it. five years ago this week, a tragic school shooting. students saying enough is enough. when politicians send our thoughts and prayers with no action, we say no more! david hogg survived the shooting and emerge from it a leading voice in this country on the need for gun control. i will talk to david later this hour as he prepares to mark a very difficult anniversary. we begin with the latest in turkey and syria where the death toll continues to rise. now topping 33,000. rescue teams still miraculously pulling survivors from under the rubble six days later. the turkish government has also announced arrest warrants for those they re holding responsible for th
president and vice president hit the road. and wisconsin, biden talked about jobs in the economy. we treated 12 million new jobs. just a half million last month. we ve created more jobs in two years than any presidents created in a single four year term, inflation is coming down, take home pay and workers are going up slightly. as a matter of fact, it s rebounding, the fastest rate in over 40 years. economy is going at a solid clip, folks, i hate to disappoint you but it s working. it s working. in minnesota yesterday, vice president talked about jobs and the climate crisis minnesota, this is a transformative moment, climate crisis has presented a historic challenge to our nation, into the world. they ve also presented a historic opportunity to create good jobs, to drive innovation, to generate posterity in all of the communities the president talked about defending entitlements from republican senators who won t stop talking about it. you know a lot of republican
today, the white house announcing the president joe biden will travel to poland later this month to reaffirm the reignited state support for ukraine. it caps off a truly excellent week for president biden, focused on governing and trying to make peoples lives better. after a successful state of the union address on tuesday, the president and vice president hit the road. and wisconsin on wednesday, president biden talked about jobs in the economy. we created 12 million new jobs, half 1 million jobs just last month. [applause] we ve created more jobs in two years than any presidents created in a single four year term, inflation is coming down six month straight. inflation is coming down, take home pay with workers is going up slightly. , manufacturing is rebounding, at the fastest rate in almost 40 years. economy is going at a solid clip, folks, i hate to disappoint you but it s working. it s working. in minnesota yesterday, vice president talked about jobs and the climat
authorities say they are not ruling out that this was possibly a hate crime. president biden has ordered all federal flags to be flown at half staff in honor of the victims, and he will head to georgia tomorrow. and as the president said, as vice president harris said, as atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms said, whatever the motivation here, the fact is attacks on asian americans are on the rise. people are rightfully scared and we need to do more to combat that bigotry and violence and stand together. to that point, today in congress a house committee held its first hearing on the rise of anti-asian discrimination in more than 30 years. but things quickly took a turn when republican congressman chip roy of texas first said that all americans deserve protection and to live in a free and secure society. then he said some more things, and i want to warn you, some of this language is offensive. we re only going to play it once, and we re going to play it once because it not