yesterday, the trump administration finalized new work requirements for food stamp recipients that could cost nearly 700,000 americans their benefits. under the current rules for the supplemental nutrition assistance program, snap, that s what food stamps are called. snap program. most unemployed, childless adults between 18 and 49 years old are limited to three months of benefits over a three-year period unless they work at least 20 hours per week or participate in a qualifying job training program. however, states could seek temporary wavers from that time limit for areas with high unemployment. but the new rule announced by the u.s. agriculture department, which administers snap, would only allow states to seek waivers for areas with an unemployment rate of 6% or higher. the national unemployment rate is below 4% right now. usda says about 688,000 people would lose access to food stamps as a result of the change. and the federal government would save $5.5 billion over five
including the impeachment hearings that the judiciary committee will move on to next week, this is all you ve got to play this. if i were donald trump, i would be playing this totally differently. but but if you don t show up and defend yourself, then you re allowing people like matt gates and jim jordan to defend you and they are the chest thumpers and the hand wavers and they are not going to be the people who will be persuading the audience that you need in the election to come your way. all you can t complain when you get two bites at the apple and you refuse to take it. thank you for spot analysis on breaking information. i m thankful to you both. the best to you and your families for thanksgiving. a big part of the defense for the president is this ukraine thing, we got to look at it, even the secretary of state, pompeo, says if there s information about ukraine messing in the election, we have a duty to look at it.
various destinations for the thanksgiving holiday. denver airport, nearly 500 flights canceled so far. a lot of the major airlines are offering free wavers so folks can change their plans, their travel plans free of charge. this snowstorm expected to die down by the evening but that s, of course, going to have ripple ferk effects across the country as folks try to get home. still have some time to get home but running out fast. cnn meteorologist chad myers now with the snowy forecast. chad? john, already 14 inches of snow in 7 boulder overnight from this storm. and they had 32 inches for the season. almost up to 50 inches. and it s going to be snowing all day long there very, very heavily. visibilities are down. watches and warnings are posted from michigan back into the desert southwest. here is, though, the radar simulation of what we re going to see today. by 6:00, the storm does move away from denver. although we ll have severe weather on the east side of the
so we ve had conversations with president macron and the finance minister and we absolutely understand they would need wavers from the u.s. to do that and that is not something we re contemplating at the moment. secretary pompeo and i have been executing the president s maximum pressure campaign. president trump has said that he would sit down with rouhani with no conditions. that s not planned at the moment. speaking to sources here at the white house, however, and asking the very same question about this $15 billion credit bailout for iran, i was referred essentially to the president s remarks yesterday in which he continued to sort of say it s some of this and some of that, but not ruling out the idea that iran wants a deal in exchange for denuclearization. back to you. okay. all right, joe johns. let s see where that goes. thank you for that reporting. we have a lot ahead.
today to go from 4.5% to 20%, 60 days basically two months from now, if they cross that line, what happens then? what would the u.s. do then? what should the u.s. do then? well, the problem is when you get to some 20%, it s very easy technically to get to 90%, which is what weapons-grade enriched uranium is. so at that point i don t see the u.s. or, frankly, the european allies just standing by and saying, well, you know, the iranians have a point here. so i think there needs to be some diplomacy in the meantime and some way to get them to step back from this while perhaps we could look to, to allow the europeans wavers. the problem is you have john bolton who simply wants a war, and i think the president needs to decide what he wants to do about this because it s tough to go with any middle ground, except perhaps to get some indication from the iranians that they ll talk about regional issues and then in return the