new information this afternoon as two candles continue to escalate around the new york governor andrew cuomo. he s seen as the hero of the pandemic. he reportedly had staff who were actively changing numbers on how many new york state nursing home residents were dying. the governor s most senior aide rewrote the report to take it out. it, being the all right 9,000 nursing home residents that were dead. the report was released july 6. 4 days later, cuomo said he was writing a book about his leadership in the darkest days of the virus. we ll dig in to the timing of that as well as the accuser that calling him a textbook harasser and groomer. i was terrified. i was shaken. i thought any moment something could happen. martha: more on that story to come with leo terrell. we begin with ron kim, assemblyman. he s chair of the state s aging committee and he has been blowing the whistle on this nursing home scandal since day 1. he lost his uncle in one of these facilities. thanks
white house with the president saying don t get too enamored with what is happening on the economic front. peter? the white house says it s jobs day. despite the positive economic news this morning from that jobs report of biden s first full month in office, they still want that $1.9 trillion worth of stimulus. last month, job growth is the result of the december package. without a rescue package, these gains are slow. the white house chief of staff writes this. if you think today s jobs report is good enough, know that 379,000 jobs it would take until april 2023 to get back to-with we were and february of 2020. republicans are arguing the opposite. more jobs are being created because more businesses are reopening as states eve covid-19 restrictions. so the republicans are arguing this report is proof, $1.9 trillion in stimulus is not for right now. the economy is ready to take off. disposable income is up, savings is up. there s pent-up demand. this will spark inflat
washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the first t