election defense fund that never existed and how he repeated his own top officials, even as they investigated one wild fraud allegation after another and found nothing. he said dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote and he meant people on native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. there were instances where the president would say people are telling me this or i heard this or i saw on television this impropriety in atlanta and we were in a position to say people already looked at that, you re getting bad information, that s not correct. i told hmm the stuff his people were shoveling out to the public were [ bleep ]. right now i want to bring in jonathan lemire, paul butler, barbara mcquade, great to have this all-star panel. ali, i think there s a pretty clear through line here all about the fact that the president was told over and over that the allegations of fraud didn t hold up and he went out and spread them anywa
hours before takeoff. reports claim at least 36 flights have been canceled this morning as some passengers camp out at the airport claiming there is no available hotel reservations nearby. a worse situation there delta has not yet commented on the unfolding incident. a new report is warning americans to brace for millions of job losses in the new year, the 2023 outlook report from city global wealth investments predicts the unemployment race to climb to 5.2% resulting in the loss of 2 million jobs. predicting the federal reserve will help trigger a recession by further raising interest rates in an attempt to fight inflation. to the nfl we go, starting with the last pick of this year s nfl draft. brock purdy leading the 49ers to a stunning 35-7 win over tom brady and the buccaneers. over in buffalo, the bills beat afc east rival the jets 20-12.
in oregon, they re paying more than the national average there. gas prices will remain tight, demand replanes low. and another big week for the federal reserve. what do you expect to see in. the federal reserve is going to raise interest rates. the worry is they put the economy in a deep freeze if they raise them too fast and then we could go into a recession. i heard how it could affect the unemployment race. no it raises the for businesses that borrow money to expand, to hire people, to raise wages. we could get that destruction where rates get so high that nobody wants to borrow money, including abouts. i think one of the things
i have got to tell you that 500,000 number, that was a sandbag. a lot of people privately thought it would be a million. nrvelgt, if you go back four months ago, overwhelmingly on wall street the consensus was we were going to have several months in a row of million months of job gains. several months in a row. we hit that once. that was great. but something has gone wrong, something has gone dramatically wrong. and for the president to cite this unemployment race as progress. 138,000 people left the labor force last month. if i use the president s logic if 2.2 million people leave the jobs market our unemployment rate would be zero. of course, that wouldn t help those 2.2 million people and the other 5 million people who are still unemployed since february of last year. so, you know, listen, okay, he wants to sell it, fine. but someone behind the scenes should be frantic. someone in this administration should be frantic because something is wrong and that s what we have got to figure
and new york versus florida and texas. let s see who prospered and who did not. let s start with this. deaths per cap attachment new york has some of the most terrible results can you see on your screen right there. texas and florida doing better than new york and california quite honestly slightly less deaths than all three. but you have to thread a needle. you have to balance risks of covid-19 against shutting down economies. so what happened to these four states economies, california s unemployment race has nearly doubled the same goes for new york while florida and texas they re still seeing an increase in employment. it s not nearly as drastic as the blue states are it did much better. i thought lockdowns didn t hurt local economies? but you have to balance every aspect of this pandemic including mental health, school closures, and obesity and the data doesn t lie. when that is balanced out nearly one year later, can you look back and give grades to these four governors, how did