aim at the gop for talking down the economy, as he touted the unemployment rate dropping to a new pandemic low. now, i hear republicans say today that my talking about this strong record shows that i don t understand. i don t understand a lot of people are still suffering, they say. well, they are. or that i am not focused on inflation. malarkey. i want to talk down the recovery because they voted against the legislation that made it happen. i refuse to let them stand in the way of this recovery, and now my focus is on keeping this recovery strong and durable, notwithstanding republican obstructionism. and the president taking on the gop on the economy, as he is facing skeptical conservative justices, i should say, on his covid plan and vaccine mandates for large businesses. that, as the republican party seems to locked into a never-ending game of how low can you go? here is exhibit a. ted cruz who is now trying to backtrack after getting caught doing something that see
Ahmaud s gone forever. i mean, we will get some sense of relief that we did get [ inaudible ] today. but as far as actual closure-closure, i don t think we would ever get that. you know, wanda, i have wanted to ask you about this. you addressed those insulting comments made by defense attorney laura hoge about ahmaud s toenails. she referred to them, and i am quoting, as dirty. why did you even choose to go there and include that today? the day that she she chose to describe ahmaud s long, dirty toenails was in her closing arguments, which i thought was very, very rude. i wanted to she she never made mention that when ahmaud was lying there with those dirty long finger toenails, ahmaud was also lying there with a big hole in his chess when he was shot with that shotgun, and she failed to mention that. so i thought it was very, very important to reiterate what she