Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o
new york courthouse very soon after prosecutors filed criminal charges against him. the biden administration rolling out unprecedented measures to address a flood of migrants at the southern border. as title 42 is set to end in less than 48 hours. brand-new numbers just in, new welcome signs that inflation is cooling. all this right here on cnn news central. republican congressman george santos almost better known for his lies than his work in congress, he is expected to arrive at a long island courthouse very soon to face federal charges. the department of justice filed those charges under seal overnight, meaning of course that we don t yet know what he s really facing. we do know public integrity prosecutors with the fbi and doj have been investigating allegations of making false statements in his campaign finance filings. of course, other claims. santos has a lengthy history of making false at the same times as you know. he has claimed that he worked for citi gro
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. [ cheers and applause ] on the other side the woman who beat her, harriet hageman, spoke in trumpian terms about what this win means for her state. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us and you will do what is in our best interests. and if you don t we will fire you. donald trump also took a victory lapp that he d been waiting to make for more than a year, claiming he helped send cheney to the, quote, depths of political oblivion. but did he? you have to consider that question in the context of what surely is a fateful moment for the former president. despite federal and state investigations seeming to close in on every side, he
night, the president said we are way ahead of schedule in building up vaccine supply and getting shots in americans arms. he said every adult in america will be eligible to get in line starting may 1st. and that there will be enough vaccines for everyone by june 1st. and he said if people take advantage and actually get those shots, that could mean putting this virus in our rearview mirror by summertime. watch this. if we do this together, by july the 4th, there is a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. the president made that speech just hours after signing the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill into law, delivering on a promise he made befo