Most forceful rebuttal of trump yet, saying that trump was wrong and could have overturned the election. Plus were Learning Details about who trump was speaking to in the hours before the insurrection. Also a jobs report provided a much needed boost for the biden administration. What is meant for the overall strength of the economy more than two years into the pandemic. Plus, the nfl is under fire and in legal jeopardy following allegations of discrimination from one of its former head coaches. And now others are speaking up. What this could mean for the league moving forward. And the Winter Olympics, theyre going on in beijing, but diplomatic delegations from around the world, theyre sitting out. How chinas Human Rights Issue is looming large over this years winter games. Saturday, february 5th. Youve made it to your weekend. Thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. We always appreciate it. Thank you, boris. Hey, christi, always great to be with you. Yes. So, lets talk about something that a lot of people were not quite expecting from former Vice President mike pence. He called out his former boss by namely, saying that, quote, President Trump is wrong. In claiming that he, meaning the Vice President , could overturn the 2020 election. Now, pence has previously defended his actions on january 6th. But since trump has ramped up his push of the big lie. And even suggested he might pardon some of the insurrectionists if hes reelected pence has come back with his most forceful pushback of the former president yet. Listen to this. I heard this week that President Trump said i had the right to overturn the election. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People. And had the American People alone. And frank list, theres no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. Under the constitution, i had no right to change the outcome of our election. Meantime, the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection now has records that provide new details about a phone call that former President Trump made to republican congressman jim jordan. And the committee is really drilling down on the many ways that trump and his allies including those in congress tried to overturn the election results. Glyer is with us. What did he tell you . Reporter before i get to what i talked about with Congressman Jordan specifically, i want to give key context. We reported that the committee had white house call records that show that donald trump requested to speak with jim borden on the morning of january 6th. That the pair spoke for ten minutes that morning while trump was in the residence of the white house. This is significant because jim jordan is a key ally of donald trump on capitol hill and was helping the former president in his mission to try and stop the certification of the election. So the fact that the pair spoke for an extensive period of time that morning, before congress meant to certify is really significant. Now, jim jordan has said himself that he spoke with donald trump that day. But hes been very unclear with his answers. Hes ranged from saying he cant remember, to saying he only remembers speaking with trump later in the day. And i asked jim jordan directly to try and nail down when he spoke with the former president yesterday. Take a listen to what he had to say. As i said, i had a number of calls with, i talked to the president A Couple Times a day but i dont know the times. So i dont remember. So, you dont remember if it was the morning . If theres one in the morning . Before i dont recall. But i know i talked to him after we left off the floor but i dont recall. So, you dont remember if there was one before the violence started . I dont. And that it was ten minutes . I dont. Reporter so, as you can see, jim jordan is not confirming the records that is on file with the January 6th Committee. But it is significant that he told me that he spoke with trump after he left the floor. Thats the most specific hes been until any answer hes given. But clearly, you know, jim jordan has key details that are of great interest to the committee which is why they asked jim jord ton speak with them. But that request is voluntary. And jim jordan has not accepted it. So, now the committee is weighing whether to subpoena jim jordan and take that unprecedented step. The big picture here that the January 6th Committee is building a key time line of the events leading up to and specifically on the day of january 6th. And this tenminute phone call say new piece of information for that time line. And, of course, it leads to questions about what they discussed. And Smefl What Trump was trying to relay to jordan at that time. Annie grayer, thanks so much for the reporting. The Republican National committee has voted to sentence sewer representatives list cheney and adam kinzinger, the two republican members of the January 6th Committee. Yeah. The attack on the capitol has led the largest investigation in fbi history. There have been more than 700 Arrests Hundreds on the run, several people died. Organize to the rnc resolution representative cheney and kinzinger are participating in a democratled persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in political discourse. To be clear, these two representatives are participating in a thorough investigation into what happened in the days leading up to and on the day of january 6th. Where there were 700 arrests. Dozens of convictions. People died. Capitol Police Officers were killed. In response, cheney tweeted this video from january 6th writing, quote, this was january 6, this was not legitimate political discourse. Well, there are signs of hope this morning that the surges of the Omicron Variant is over. Both covid cases and hospitalizations are declining here in the u. S. And some states and counties are now weighing whether to scaleback indoor mask mandates. Whether its over or not we dont know. But thats the greenest weve seen this country in a very long time. So whether its completely over, maybe in question, certainly slowing down. It is good to see the green on that map. President biden said yesterday that the country has, quote, come back stronger, despite the Omicron Variant as the economy added 467,000 jobs last month. I know that january was a very hard month for many americans. I know that after almost two years, the physical and emotional weight of the pandemic has been incredibly difficult to bear for so many people. But heres the good news. We have the tools to save lives. And to keep businesses open. And to keep schools open. To keep workers on the job. Lets bring in cnns Polo Sandoval for more on this, polo, that map we just showed, clearly, theres good news but yet we hit a somber milestone. 900,000 lives lost to covid for a couple years now. That grim number that you mentioned. And as you mentioned there is absolutely hope. Especially as you look at the new infections across the country that continues to plummet by more than half since that last number we saw. Hospitalizations are on the decline, giving the Health Care Workers who would be working tirelessly for the last couple years finally time to recover. Still, were losing 2400 americans a day. That is a number that declined significantly in the last couple of weeks. Reporter a somber marker of the pandemics impact on friday as the u. S. Surpassed 900,000 deaths from covid19. But still, there are signs of progress. As nearly every state in the country now seeing decreases in key covid19 metrics. New covid cases in the u. S. Now averaging about 350,000 a day. A nearly 39 decrease since last week. Covid deaths, however, remain high with the u. S. Averaging 2400 a day. Thats a 6 increase over last week. Every single death of these 100,000 is so tragic. And i also think about the fact that so many hundreds of thousands of deaths occurred after that became widely available. Reporter The Push For Americans continues Health Officials hoping full fda approval and cdc confirmation of the Moderna Vaccine could help americans finally get their shots. Cdc director Rochelle Walensky signed off on the Advisory Panel recommending the fda approve the Moderna Covid vax 17 adults after granted full approval on monday. Prior to fridays vote the vaccine was only recommendeddy the cdc on an interim basis. I still have a Sense Of Wonder on whats been accomplished here. That and a deep sense of gratitude. You know, we now have two vaccines against covid19 that are fully licensed in the u. S. Reporter the cdc also released Pressure Data on a Covid Surveillance Approach first announced in 2020. One that relied on waste water to identify high Covid Infection in communities. Its called the National Waste water surveillance system, 400 testing sites in the United States with more to come. Researchers say the new data flags possible covid surges to get resources in place and to warn hospitals. The rates of coronavirus in the waste water goes up before the attention in the hospitals or in the clinics outside. Really interesting. And the reverse is true, too. Those levels start going down even before the case levels start going down in the local area. So its really a great indicator of whats going to happen. The truth is cases are going to continue to decline. Reporter nearly two years later, a new analysis paints a clear picture of the human toll of the pandemic. More than 200 residents and staff at longcare term facilities died from covid19 since march 2020. Thats nearly a quarter of covid deaths in the u. S. Despite the global progress on the vaccination front, more than 100 countries are projected to fall short of the World Health Organizations goal set in december to vaccinate at least 70 of their population. The United States is among the highincome countries on the list as are many Central European nations. New york state governor kathy hochul with numbers saying weve seen a 19 drop in covid cases here in the state alone. The National Guard are still manning their posts at various facilities throughout the state with hospitalizations here also on the decline. Boris and christi. Polo sandoval, thank you so much for the report. Appreciate it. President biden is celebrating januarys better than expected jobs report. The United States adding nearly 500,000 jobs in january. A sign that the economy may finally be breaking free of the pandemic. Cnns chief Business CorrespondentChristine Romans has more in this private in job growth. Christi and boris, surprising strength in the jobs market even with the disruption from the omicron wave, the job market powered ahead in january. Adding back 467,000 jobs, almost 500,000, that crushed expectations. The Unemployment Rate rose slightly. Thats because more people searched for work. And wages jumped up 5. 7 from a year ago. The trend here is really important. The government relies higher job creation at the end of the year. In december, up to 501,000 net new jobs, instead of just under 200,000. And in november, jobs growth was almost triple the first read. For the first 12 months of the biden administration, 6. 6 million jobs added the most since the Great Depression when Record Keeping began. About 87 of the jobs lost in the covid crash has been recovered. Leading the way in january, leisure and hospitality, business and professional services, retail and trade and warehouse jobs, as the economy works through the supply chain mess. The strong reported surprise here, since about 12 Million People were out of work either sick, quarantined or taking care of family in midjanuary when the government collected this data. It shows an economic recovery resilience and companies eager to hire more workers. The strong jobs market puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep the economy from overheating and will have to raise Interest Rates. Christi and boris. Christine, thank you so much. The chief economist in moodys analytics, s mark sandy with us. Mark, good morning to you. Does inflation throw a stop into that do we know where this is going . Well, inflation is a problem, you know. But i think thats also related to the pandemic, particularly if you go back in the last summer fall when the delta wave hit, if does a lot of damage to the global economy, particularly asia where the Supply Chains begin. So as the pandemic fades and it feels like its moving in the right direction here, continues to wind down, i do think the Supply Chains will iron themselves out. Labor markets will continue to improve. Labor shortages will abate. And inflation will moderate. It will take some time. Its not going to happen next month, next quarter. But i think by this time next year, inflation will be in a place that still may be high but not a place top of mind where people are very upset about it. Hopefully, the pandemic fades, job market continues to improve, inflation moderates, that feels like the most likely scenario going forward. So, Interest Rates, obviously, we know are rising. In an atmosphere that were talking about, really uncomfortable with all of this inflation right now. I know the question that is looming in that regard is how high is it going to go and how fast are those Interest Rates going to escalate there. Two things i want to talk about. First of all, lets talk about the Housing Market. How would you advise sellers and buyers right now . Well, to the point about Interest Rates theyre going up, because the economy is strong. It is coming back to full strength, to full employment. And right now, Interest Rates, at least Interest Rates federa Reserve Controls are close to zero. That doesnt make a lot of sense in the context of the economy. So the fed needs to raise rates just to normalize them to get them back to a place where its more consistent with a wellfunctioning economy. As that happens, of course, parts of the economy that are sensitive to Interest Rates will have to adjust. So, housing, you know, home buying, is very dependent on Mortgage Rates and Interest Rates. And as Mortgage Rates rise, that will combine with the higher house prices that weve seen in markets. And affordability is more of an issue. So, the kind of the balance of negotiating power with the Housing Market is going to shift. I mean, throughout the pandemic when Interest Rates were low, it was really until favor of the seller. And now thats going to shift in the favor excuse me, it was more in the favor of the seller. Now, its going to start shifting. So buyers and sellers are going to have more of a difficult time adjusting to this and were going to see much weaker Housing Activity and house prices. Theres going to be a bit of adjustment, to make sure that the economy does not overheat as Christine Romans has described it. As you say that Interest Rates will go back to normal rates. What are normal rates because they were so low for so long . Good question, and a debate. Well have to see exactly where things land as Interest Rates do rise and the economy adjusts. But having said that, the Federal Reserve thinks that for the rates that they control, the federal funds rate which is now as i said at zero, in a wellfunctioning economy, in the long run, it should be about 2. 5 . We need to go from zero to 2. 5 . Historically, the fed has raised rates in times like these by about a quarter percentage point every quarter or so. So, if they kind of stick to that script, well go from zero to 2. 5 by mid2024. Over the next, couple, 2 1 2 years. A couple years, mark zandi, appreciate your expertise. Thank you for taking time for us. Sure, thank you. Sure. Coming up, an athlete from chinas Uighur Population was one of the torchbea