through sag after. hello, everyone, i am chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. it s friday, february 5th. what a week it s been. breaking news, the first jobs report of the biden administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. the unemployment rate came down to 6.3% from last month s 6.7%. but, and this is important, both november and december s jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and there s still a ton of economic pain that s devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. but help may be on the way after working through the night and into the early morning the senate just passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. the vote was 51-50. all democrats on one side. all republicans on the other. vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. we
sources who have spoken to trump about 2024, revealing he has been trashing florida governor ron desantis, who has been eyed as a possible contender for the gop nomination, saying desantis has no chance against him in a potential showdown. trump s lies made more dangerous by his parties work behind the scenes. state by state assaulting a score tenet of any democracy, the right to vote, using unfounded claims of election fraud to roll back voting rights piece by piece. senate majority leader chuck schumer says senate democrats will begin the process of debating and voting on voting rights legislation starting tuesday. a showdown over reforming filibuster rules likely to follow. the growing talking point by republicans, including senator mitt romney, claim democrats are taking oversight of elections away from the states. here s what house majority whip james clyburn had to say about that a short time ago on msnbc. look, read federalist papers 59. read what alexander hamilton
territory, so i will give it to him. lawrence, sorry. if you had given me another 20 seconds, that would have been helpful. rachel, you just broke that news about senator schumer. they actually kind of had to delay this until next week because of snow in washington, and one of the democrats is out now with covid, and that s a vote that senator schumer would like to have, which he hopes he can get on tuesday of next week. so we ll be watching the rest of the voting rights drama play out on tuesday. lawrence this is a technical matter, but i know you know. there is, because of covid, there is a proxy voting system in the house, so if somebody can t be present for a vote, they can give somebody their proxy and they can vote for them in the house. but there is no proxy voting in the senate, right? so senator shotz being out for covid, there is no proxy system for him to do so. right, the united states has taken no recognition of the pandemic. getting them to work things o
parenthood versus casey. the potential to overturn 50 years of precedent weighed heavily on today s proceedings, as mississippi argued that the court s 1973 roe decision was, quote, egregiously wrong and a poison on the law. the conservative justices in the majority didn t all signal an outright willingness to completely overturn roe. but many of their comments suggested a willingness to weaken it perhaps substantially. let s listen to justice kavanaugh s line of questioning with mississippi solicitor general, many believe a crucial vote in this case given his previous defense of roe as precedent on precedent. you re not arguing that the court somehow has the authority to itself prohibit abortion or that this court has the authority to order the states to prohibit abortion, as i understand it, correct? correct, your honor. as i understand it, you re arguing that the constitution s silent and, therefore, neutral on the question of abortion? in other words that the consti
first person to breach the capitol building, smashing open a window with a riot shield stolen from an officer. [crowd chanting] go, go, go! inside the building, pezzola and a group of rioters came within sight of senator joe grassley, then third in line to the presidency, as he was evacuated from the senate. pezzola also found himself in the capital, smoking what he called a victory cigar, though that did not turn out. pezzola was actually the third proud boys to be sentenced. yesterday, judge timothy kelly and it down a 15 year sentence to zachary who led 200 people to the capitol on january six, 17 years for joseph biggs, who is a prosecutor described as the tip of the spear throughout the attack. this afternoon, he also sentenced ethan already, the former president of the seattle probably chapter 2:18 years. they received longer sentences because they were convicted of the rare and serious charge of seditious conspiracy. dominic pezzola was the only one to be acquitt