publicly blaming pence for not intervening in the 2020 election, trying to overturn those results, and so pence felt like he needed to get on the record and say, that is not something i am able to do. trump now responding in a statement, saying that pence, in fact, does and should have had the authority and gone ahead to intervene in the election, saying, i was right and everyone knows it. and while this was playing out between trump and pence, we had this remarkable vote at the rnc meeting in salt lake city to condemn and to rebuke these two lawmakers who now cannot get any official gop support. the rnc is now free to support primary challengers, for example, to liz cheney, who is running for re-election, and this resolution, yasmin, which was adopted on a voice vote with no debate actually described what happened on january 6th as legitimate political discourse.
more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. all right, josh lederman is joining us from wilmington, delaware, where the current president is spending the day. walk us through this. this was quite a day. quite a moment. you got pence saying this on the same day the rnc is censuring liz cheney and adam kinzinger. talk us through it. yeah, talk about a split-screen moment for the gop, yasmin. friendly fear erupting for republicans on multiple fronts, first with these new stunning comments from mike pence, who s really avoided distancing himself in the past from former president trump. his boss for four years. in fact, about the farthest he d gone before this was to say, well, you know, president trump and i may never see eye to eye on january 6th, but now, the former vice president really rebuking his former boss and a former pence aide tells us that one of the reasons he felt he needed to do this now was because president trump, former pr
and the administration are certainly trying on the inflation part. the white house has been talking frequently about what they are trying to do to show that they care that americans are seeing higher prices, and that they are trying to address some of the supply chain bottlenecks that we have seen over the course of the pandemic. but if you look at the labor market, there are a lot of signs of strength in the labor market and i think you can see that jobs numbers yesterday. economists had forecast that it was going to be a very weak report, and that perhaps we would have even seen a net job loss for the month of january. but instead, we saw an increase, and i think economists would say that just points to the fact that there is momentum in the labor market, as you mentioned, those revisions show that the economy added more jobs than previously thought in those last few months of last year, and that momentum seemed to carry on into the new year despite the headwinds from the omicron var
the cost of defiance. former vice president mike pence s public rebuke of trump s false election claims fuels discord in the republican party. but why now? and what it means for the gop as it punishes two of their own for splitting with the former president. olivia troye, former top aide to pence, joins me live after the break to answer some of those questions. we ll be right back. r some of t questions. we ll be right back.
testimony is. there was a lot going on at the department of defense after the election. trump put in place a new line of acting officials who were loyal to him, a new secretary, a new chief of staff, some of the undersecretary jobs, particularly in the areas of intelligence and security were filled by trump loyalists. and of course, as say, there was that obvious gaffe on january 6th itself where reinforcement troops did not show up for hours. so now, we have this testimony from the secretary of the army who served trump throughout that point in time, but who was the person in the direct line of command to understand what orders were and were not being given. there have been varying versions of his own conduct. we don t really know yet what the truth is. the important thing here is that the committee is driving hard to get the truth. driving hard to get the truth. as you always are as well, joyce advance. thank you. great to see you.