was a person of color or a woman who could tell you about some circumstance in which their intellectual abilities have been questioned on the basis of their identity. lots more to discuss on this. i m out of time. thank you so much for your time and your work, jelani cobb and eddie claude jr.. i m back next weekend. inside with jen psaki starts now. well, we ve got a month s worth of news in the first week of 2024. the supreme court announced that it will hear a case on trump s ballot eligibility under the 14th amendment. president biden lays out the stakes of the election in the starkest terms today. jamie raskin is here with his reaction. he s coming up first. plus, maine secretary of state shenna bellows joins me after tossing trump off the ballot in her state, it decision which is now on hold while these appeals play out. also today, with just eight days until the iowa caucuses, i am going to talk to someone who spends a lot of time in focus groups with republican pri
what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j
conversations from the past month. we begin this morning with a discussion about the potential dangers of a second trump presidency. editor in chief of the atlantic, jeffrey goldberg, recently joined us to discuss the publication s special issue, which features 24 writers each outlining the threats they say a second trump term would pose to the united states and the world. we have a lot of writer at the atlantic who spent many years covering different aspects of trump and trumpism, and i wanted just to pull them all together in one, easy to read package. one copy of the print magazine, obviously it s online right now at theatlantic.com. mm-hmm. i wanted our writers to describe, as best as they could, what would happen in their areas of expertise if trump became president again. the next trump presidency will be worse. the restraints will be off. there won t be any quote, unquote, adults in the world. mckay coppins has a piece, who will get jobs in the next trump adm
folks, three days. three days man. until one of the most important elections, one of the most important elections in the lifetime is going to shape the outcome is going to shape outward the country for the decades to come. and the power to shape that outcome is in your hands. two years ago, two years ago, you use that power to make donald trump not only a former president but you made him a defeated president. president obama also urging voters to head out to the polls, worried about the future of democracy under gop leadership. fundamental rights are on the ballot. truth and facts, and a logic, and reason, and basic decency are on the ballot. democracy itself is on the ballot. the stakes are high! biden and obama rallied voters in philadelphia, former president trump also made a pitch to voters in the keystone state. he s in western pennsylvania stumping for his hand hit candidates. and as voters head to the polls, they re gonna determine which party controls congres
we are now just 22 days off in the midterms. and it is far from clear, frankly, which side is gonna hold congress next year. the baits in close races tonight as candidates try to push themselves over the top. and, former president barack obama, is giving his party a bit of an furnished advised on what to stop doing. the life i am leading. they today. how does politics even relevant to the things that i care most deeply about? ? my family, my kids. work that gives me satisfaction. having fun. not being a buzzkill vin sometimes democrats are, right? it sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. that all of us, at any given moment can, you know, say things the wrong way. make mistakes. join us now to discuss. cnn political correspondent former white house official will john doe. cnn political analyst, jonathan barton. i m glad to see you all here. what do you make of that comment? th