Democracy s hour of maximum danger. his concern is that thanks to trump and his band of liars, about a third of americans don t believe joe biden is the lawfully elected president of the united states. the problem is so many people who at some level must know better think he is not think somehow the election was stolen. they think is or they say they think it because an authoritarian has told them to think that. that s the beginning of the end. to play one more churchill card, he said, we re not at the beginning of the end, but we are at the end of the beginning. i think that what we face right now is a genuine crisis of citizenship. a genuine crisis of citizenship. i m joined by reena shaw, capitol hill staffer and strategist.
In december. that beat out estimates. maybe job numbers are contributing to america s spending mood. we can celebrate the robust increase in payrolls over the past year. 4.26% payroll growth since january. trump inherited the longest payroll expansion in modern times and he hit 1.37% for his first year in office. in fairness, biden did inherit a poorly performing covid economy from trump. so many of his numbers are going to look very strong initially. coming up, trump has gone almost a year. yet democracy is still in peril. some argue it may be in worse shape than while he was in office. we will discuss that next. office we will discuss that next. for driving safe and driving less. okay, what message did you hear this time? safe drivers can save using snapshot? -what s snapshot? -what the commercial was about. -i tune commercials out. -me too. they re always like blah, blah blah. tell me about it. i m going to a silent retreat next weekend. my niece got kicked out of one of those.
Legacy foundation. stay with us. another packed hour ahead. the build back better bill is on life support thanks to joe manchin. will talk to steve bullock who has a unique perspective being a fellow democrat in a red state. good morning. it s sunday, december 26. the future of president biden s sweeping build back better bill is in limbo thanks to a certain senator from west virginia. joe manchin s announcement he will not support the $2 trillion package that would expand the social safety net and combat climate change has thrown the democratic party into a tailspin. given how life changing this legislation could be for many americans, one has to wonder, what is behind manchin s opposition? despite being a red state, the latest polling from data for progress reveals the majority of virginians actually support the
Few. the growth in gross domestic products. it s one of the best indicators of a country s economic health. the economy is poised to grow 5.5% after biden s first year in the white house, during trump s inaugural year, it reached 2.7%. you see the s&p 500 performance from the last two presidents first year in office. so far, it s 23.4% for president biden who doesn t discuss stocks very much. president trump s stock performance which he talked about endlessly hit 18.5% in his first year. we heard from the failed former president about the stock market and how it would crash after a biden win. and yet here we are. consumer sentiment, this is important because it s about how you feel. even with the omicron variant spreading through the nation, people are feeling good about their money. they are out there shopping. consumer sentiment rose to 70.6
World inside of a decade. it is actually instructive to read that history about germany. reena, i want to point out that part in which john talked about how we evaluate joe biden within the construct of what jennifer just said. a republican party and a bunch of people who are working against democracy. listen to what else he said. when we talk about biden s bad week or biden s rough year, you know, it s not really a vocabulary that s similar to what we are facing. this is democracy s hour of maximum danger. we are as close to losing the constitutional republic that a lot of us have taken for granted for a long time as we have since fort sumpter. that s not hyperbolic. it s self-evidently true. reena, you are a conservative. i m not sure. i think you are still a republican. do you believe john s warning?