it is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead this hour, the welcome surprise from the december jobs report showing the u.s. labor market closed out 2023 with a bang. plus, former blade runner, oscar pistorius out on parole after serving almost a decade in prison for murdering his girlfriend. how her family is responding. the latest from iowa where that horrific school shooting has rocked the community of perry. new reporting on how the school s principal acted to save his students. and house democrats and their push to get supreme court justice clarence thomas off the key 2024 ballot. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that new jobs report. nbc senior business report christine roman is with us. give us the big adnes. look, it was a sol i woul - solid end to the year, 216 new jobs in december. they eected the job market to keep slowing because of the fed rate increases, and the job
trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani was just trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani wasjust hit trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani was just hit with a million dollarjudgment for cruelty and affirmation that he infected against them. other state and local effect elected officials faced similar personal attacks. in addition, fox news agree to pay a record $787 million to the dash for the lies they told about voter fraud. let s be clear about the 2020 election, trump exhausted every legal avenue to overturn the election everyone. but the legal path just took them back to the truth. that i had won the election and he was a loser. knowing how his mind works, he had one x left, one desperate act available to them. the violence of generous asked. since that day, more than 1200 people have been charged with the assault on the capital, nearly 900 have been convicted or pled guilty. collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison. s and what h
i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and making good old fashioned english fishermen where her nets. there was even a column about the evil making condoms too small. none of this was true but he seemed to think it was all great fun. he told an interviewer quite, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to the amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over an england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the conservative party. it really gave me this i suppose rather weird sense of power and quote. his right-wing newspaper would splash its headlines over the front page of the secret evil plans of european bureaucrats to take over british life and rule the u q k from afar. and this newspaper for readers learn to distrust and hate the eu. those readers included a lot of your conservative lawmakers and he watched with glee a civil war broke out in his own party about how anti europe they
the artist who painted the portrait memorialized this moment because he said it was one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world. george washington was at the height of his power having just defeated the most powerful empire on earth. he could have held on to that power as long as he wanted but that wasn t the america he and the american troops of valley forge had fought for. what do you think of that? i think it s a very well written sentiment, and of course very true. i mean, we honor george washington for a lot of things, but one thing in particular is that he stepped down. i mean, they begged washington after two terms to serve a third term, and washington said it won t be a democracy. i ll be a tyrant if i keep clinging to power even if the people want me. so biden is reminding people of what happened on january 6th, and the way that donald trump behaved reprehensibly, that he encouraged a mob and an