Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
chris janson is going to come today. we were going to have lynyrd skynyrd who was going to come but two of the members are sick now we have. saying buy mom and drunk girl. talking about doing the right thing and taking the drunk girl home. her house. not to yours. brian: right. for correction. he takes her to his house but he puts her on the couch. pete: taking care of her. also saying i don t have the keys to the city but i do have the keys to the country. not quite sure how you keys to the country. might ask him though. brian: i love when we have an artist on one song. and then you look at the list. he has got some hits and going to be with us and we are going to talk to him in an hour. we are going to have mclemore smoking barbecue on the fox square. it was smoking this morning when i walked in at 3:45. ainsley: can t wait to taste it. we know pete is going to taste it ainsley, brian, pete, thank you for having us here. mclemore boys are cooking with master built
That as Senate Democrats went into the wee hours of the morning holding a marathon series of protests against republicans efforts to repeal the Affordable Care act. Theyre accusing republicans of trying to repeal and run. With trump cabinet confirmation hearings set to start, both sides are bracing for a fight. First up, trumps pick to head homeland security, general john kelly, and his choice for attorney general, senator Jeff Sessions. But its sessions whos taking the brunt of the controversy as his civil rights record comes under fire with groups like naacp and aclu denouncing his nomination. Democrat cory booker is planning to come out against sessions becoming the first sitting senator to ever testify in opposition to another for a cabinet position. Still, trump says his nominees, particularly sessions, should fly through. I think every nomination will be theyre all at the highest level. Jack was even saying, i mean, they are the absolute highest level. I think theyre going to do
We are watching a crisis within a crisis unfold before us and our challenge is not just to expose it but to be sure when we rebuild and reemerge, we take strategic steps to rectify it. As we continue to grapple with this new normal and try to come together as a nation to battle this vicious pandemic, we cannot simply gloss over the toll that this who a this horrendous virus has taken on the black community. These disparities existed long before the virus, but they are magnified before us and while we mus flatten the curve, we must also flatten inequality and health care, the economy, access to nutritionist food and overall quality of life. It is the only way we can truly emerge from this tragedy with a semblance of home for the future. Joining me now, Democratic Congress woman robin kelly of illinois. She chairs the congressional black caucuss health brain trust. Thank you, congresswoman, for being with us tonight. Youre welcome. Thanks for having me. As you tackle this and we look at
Proposed. What trump said during the campaign was he wanted to focus particularly on applications of asylum for people coming from countries with high terrorist activity, which strikes me as perfectly sensible. But new comments from trumps top advisers raise more questions than answers. Well lay out for you the twists and turns of Donald Trumps potential immigration policy. Plus a new scathing report from the House Intelligence Committee calls Edward Snowden a serial liar. Lots to get to today, but we begin with our top story. Donald trump calling for an expanded Nuclear Program today. Tweeting earlier this afternoon, the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. Trumps tweet comes just hours after Vladimir Putin made up his own vow to beef up russias nuclear readiness. Here in the studio is our own hall hallie jackson. Hallie, what is this about . Its not like there was a big discussion hap