Certain oh, and welcome to all you watching us here in the United States, canada, and around the world, im Kim Brunhuber. This is Cnn Newsroom, former us president Donald Trump says, hes pulling out of the abc president ial debate and instead plans to face off against Vice President harris on Fox News whos this development comes as harris clinches enough votes to secure the democratic nomination. The u. S. Is sending more military forces to the Middle East as israel where greece braces for a possible retaliation from Iran And New Concerns for the u. S. Economy as stocks take a tumble live from atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Kim Brunhuber why are we begin with several new developments in the us president ial race. Donald trumps as the abc News President ial debate is off, and he wants a Fox News debate instead Kamala Harris meanwhile, is headed into a pivotal weekend a final candidate interviews as she prepares to choose a Running Mate now all comes after harris formally earned enou
Liesed in theres no shortage of people who still refuse to believe it. Down at the border last week i asked Donald Trump if hed ever apologize for January 6th. Trump, will you apologize about January 6th . It may or may not surprise you that those were gop members booing along with their staffers. But before all that booing, i asked some of them why they still associate with Donald Trump after he incited that violent insurrection. One of those congressman, north Carolinas Madison Cawthorne still believes the election was stolen. Of course, it wasnt, but listen to how some of these republican lawmakers still consider trump the leader of their party. What are your thoughts on associating yourself with the former president after he gave that speech on January 6th and provoked an insurrection at the capitol . Why associate yourself with him . Well, i think, jim, you and i both know that i disagree with that assertion. The premise is that he invoked an insurrection. I think he spoke at a ra
To doing. To unify the message, to earn the support of our republican colleagues, and fight for hardworking american families. Now, its not necessarily a bad thing to be a fighter, in politics. It can be a good thing. Its the fight, this party wants to have, that are the problem. Stefanik, herself, in that same interview, and for the secondday running on farright radio, said she backed the arizona and we use this term loosely, audit. A Giantblack Hole of crazy, that lacks any kind of transparency. But has pulled the republican party into its orbit, despite questions about the Auditor And Shifting standards. And wait until we tell you about the new Bamboo Theory around the audit. Im not kidding. And it would be funny, if it werent dangerous. Arizonas secretary of state, who has pushed back on the audit, now needs extra security provided by the state because the Death Threats against her are, quote, pouring in according to her press secretary. Nice, huh . And this is all because of the B
most forceful rebuttal of trump yet, saying that trump was wrong and could have overturned the election. plus we re learning details about who trump was speaking to in the hours before the insurrection. also a jobs report provided a much needed boost for the biden administration. what is meant for the overall strength of the economy more than two years into the pandemic. plus, the nfl is under fire and in legal jeopardy following allegations of discrimination from one of its former head coaches. and now others are speaking up. what this could mean for the league moving forward. and the winter olympics, they re going on in beijing, but diplomatic delegations from around the world, they re sitting out. how china s human rights issue is looming large over this year s winter games. saturday, february 5th. you ve made it to your weekend. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. we always appreciate it. thank you, boris. hey, christi, always great
to separate their cases. an nbc news exclusive report finds hundreds of active duty u.s. troops will stay at the southern border through the next month. and right now, we are keeping a very close eye on the white house, where president biden is scheduled to speak about the august jobs report any minute now. we ll bring you those remarks when they begin. this comes after the government reported that employers added 187,000 jobs last month, more than the 170,000 economists had predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, and let s break it down by race. the hispanic unemployment rate rose half a percentage point to 4.9. the black unemployment rate fell by half a percentage point to 5.3. with us now to talk about this is cnbc s seema mody. good morning. so what else did we learn from this report? the takeaway is this is a resilient jobs market with 187,000 jobs added in the month. yes there are some cracks that are emerging with the higher than expected unemployment rate