so again, apologies for things looking a little higglty-pigglty. no reason to worry. i will be back in the studio tomorrow night. okay, january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression, when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very scared. and one of the reasons people had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 million-vote margin, and also given democrats control of the house and the senate, by huge margins, was that americans really desperately wanted the new government to dig the country ou
a, quote, cancer to the republican party. question is, will we see action against her in the house? and a key day in the second impeachment of donald trump. today is the deadline for his formal response to the charge against him. question is, what s his defense? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that has some fond memories of bayside high. we ve really missed you, screech. i m kasie hunt on this tuesday, february 2nd. we ll start with the news. it s looking more and more likely that democrats will push through the biden administration s nearly $2 trillion economic relief package with or without republicans. the president met with a group of senate republicans for about two hours in the oval office yesterday to pitch their much smaller $600 billion package. but the message from the white house is that it doesn t meet the moment. senator susan collins said the meeting was very productive and cordial, but when it comes to s