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cornerstone of american democracy, and, yet, republican governors and state legislatures across the country have spent the last year curbing it, from limiting how you can register to vote and where and when you can vote, to instituting changes that could result in your vote either not being counted or the will of the people being overruled. compounding the precarious state of our democracy is that fewer americans trust the electoral system, and a sizeable majority believes the nation s democracy is in danger of collapse. with voting rights on the line, president biden laid out in stark words the choice facing the senate in a fiery speech in atlanta. what we choose, democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice. i know where i stand. i will not yield, i will not flinch, i will defend the right to vote our democracy against all enemies, foreign and, yes, domestic. [ applause ] do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? do you wan ....
communications to coordinate actions leading up to january 6. and prosecutors say rhodes was planning for violence well beyond january 6. they say in the week after the attack, on the capitol, he spend more than $17,000 on weapons and equipment and ammunition and before inauguration day he tried to organize local militia to oppose by force the transfer of power. ed lavendera joins us from plano, texas, outside of the courthouse. what will we see. reporter: well stewart rhodes is scheduled to appear in the next hour. it is a brief hearing for his initial appearance. the day after stuart rhodes was arrested in a suburb of the dallas-fort worth area and according to the 48 page indictment he is facing five criminal charges including that most serious carnal of seditious conspiracy and federal prosecutors are saying that rhodes and others spearheaded an attempt to oppose the peaceful transfer of presidential power and plotting to prevent this transfer of power using for ....
brian: good to be with you all today. i want to do make a couple of months points on our current economic situation. happy to take questions you have. first, the context on our economic recovery. we have learned based on data that in 2021, our economy experienced the largest single drop in the unemployment rate on record, 3.9%. the most jobs created in any year on record, six 4 million. the strongest economic growth of any year in nearly four decades coming in between 5% and 6% over the course of 2021, and real household income, taking into account price increases, increased in 2021. to repeat that. largest decline in unemployment. most jobs created. strongest economic growth in 40 years. second point, we got december price data. i would note that we saw a welcome deceleration in the rate of price increases and a number of respects. in the headline data, we saw a decline month-to-month to 0.5% down 0.8%. it still too high, but moving in the right direction. as i think ....
brian: good to be with you all today. i want to do make a couple of months points on our current economic situation. happy to take questions you have. first, the context on our economic recovery. we have learned based on data that in 2021, our economy experienced the largest single drop in the unemployment rate on record, 3.9%. the most jobs created in any year on record, six 4 million. the strongest economic growth of any year in nearly four decades coming in between 5% and 6% over the course of 2021, and real household income, taking into account price increases, increased in 2021. to repeat that. largest decline in unemployment. most jobs created. strongest economic growth in 40 years. second point, we got december price data. i would note that we saw a welcome deceleration in the rate of price increases and a number of respects. in the headline data, we saw a decline month-to-month to 0.5% down 0.8%. it still too high, but moving in the right direction. as i thin ....
and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one o ....