what trump s innermost circle thought of his election fraud lies. detached from reality was the polite way of putting. president biden wrapping up a speech in philadelphia to the aflcio convention. the president s argument, times are tough, but he should be trusted to get us through the economic pain. and the president got political saying a republican wave in november would bring a renewed attack on two sources of security. the president says republicans would put programs like medicare and social security at risk. our cnn white house correspondent is traveling with the president in philadelphia. john, the president was relaxed because he was among friends. talked about the economics, but he also talked politics. he did. look, this was a president, john, who was reveling in the applause of his friends in the union movement. he s always said from the beginning of his presidential campaign that he s a union guy. so he talked about the positive aspects of his economic record.
learned trump s inner circle told him the fraud claims were false. within the committee, a significant public split over whether to send a criminal referral to the doj, and so that s where we want to begin today with democratic congresswoman of virginia who is on the select committee. she s joining us now. thank you so much for taking the time, congresswoman. the chairman says that a criminal referral is not going to happen. i know you and other committee members say that s not been decided. why isn t everyone on the same page? well, what i d say is it s correct that this hasn t been decided. we haven t got ton that point yet as far as the committee making a formal decision. the chairman says it s not going to happen. he went that far. well, we are continuing to have discussions within the committee, and i would say that this is something that is a very important topic for us to decide and decide as a whole committee, and we will make that decision and that announcement
pressure. you ll remember a man was arrested last week near the home of justice brett kavanaugh and charged with attempted murder. house democrats wanted to include security for clerks and staff, too. we ll be back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. thank you for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. wall street reeling. americans paying more and growing fears a fed rate hike will send the economy spiraling. what does it mean for you on main street? we break it down. plus on the ballot, voters heading to the polls in five states today. former president trump s election fraud claims. the insurrection investigation on capitol hill one day after we
for anyone. and then on top of that, it was really a triple whammy. we got these jobs numbers this morning that were so much lighter than what everybody expected. all of that combined really has sent wall street reeling. we re down 273 points on the dow jones industrial average and not only the dow but a number of the key indices have moved into what is called correction territory. that is not good for the market and for investors. it is a really tough day down here on the floor. and sue and a.b., the president and governor romney both re. first let me play what president obama said regarding the head winds the country is facing. we had high gas prices, a month, two months ago and they re starting to come down. they re but they re still hitting people s wallets pretty hard. that has an impact. and then most prominently, most recently we ve had a crisis in europe s economy. so a.b., that s the point sue
the european space agency has extended its life. and astronomers say they ve discovered the earth s first trojan asteroid, a 1,000-foot wide space rock that dances 50,000 miles in front of our planet along its orbital path around the sun. now the first look at wall street, the dow opens at 12,302 after tumbling 198 points. the s&p sank 27 points, and the dad s plunged 75. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 145 points, but in hong kong, the hang seng added 29. down data, weak earnings and no movement in washington sent wall street reeling. the major indexes all gave up their gains for the month. the index of small companies