Mccarthy warns democrats the tide may turn against you in the future. You will regret this. You may regret this a lot sooner than you think. If thats the new standard, if people are held to what they have said prior to even being in this house, if the majority gets to decide who sits on other committees, i hope you keep that standard because we have a long list you can work within your own. Harris sooner than you think, he says. Also in focus this hour claims of hypocrisy against a major book publisher, rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel reacts. A new battle over whether taxpayers should be on the hook for 650 billion in student loan debt. Steve forbes will weigh in. First lets bring in florida congressman matt gaetz of the House Judiciary Committee to talk about our top story. I understand you did not vote with those 11 republicans to remove Marjorie Taylor greene from her committees, why . It wasnt an attack on Marjorie Taylor greene it was attack on the voerts. She got more votes than i
Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its 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 months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats 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 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
Stolen. He amplified these lies at every turn, seeking to convince supporters that they were victims of a massive electoral conspiracy that threatened the nations continued existence, but every single court to consider the president s attacks on the outcome of the election rejected them and state and federal officials from both parties refuse President Trumps increasingly desperate demands that they break the law to keep him in power. With his options running out, trump announced a save america rally. It was an january 6th. He promised it would be, quote, wild. Each of those facts cited by House Democrats is indisputably true. Goes on to draw on Donald Trumps exact words at the january 6th rally. Words we can just play for you because trump said them publicly in front of cameras. We won this election and we won it by a landslide. Were going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and were not going to stand for that. Were going to walk do
sunset monday to mark the massacre. he and vice president harris will be in atlanta tomorrow to meet with leaders of the city s asian-american community. earlier today atlanta police insisted the investigation is far from over. we are not done. we re still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts so we can have a successful prosecution. the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? nothing is off the table for our investigation. is there any indication the suspect visited those spas previously? it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. all we do know is he purchased the gun on the day of the incident. on that same line the fbi is assisting local law enforcement with the investigation. this was interesting. tonight the fbi director chris wray told npr, quote, it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated. the suspect who s charged with eight counts of murder waived an arraignment scheduled for today
the cdc now reporting more than 107 million people in this country have received at least one dose. and the average over the past week is about 2.3 million people getting vaccinated every day. let s begin with cnn national correspondent natasha chen for us in florida. visitors are there in huge numbers for spring break despite the pandemic. are people taking precautions? reporter: anna, most of the people we are seeing walking along ocean drive here are not wearing a mask. and you have mentioned there is not a lot of social distancing going on, especially with the evening crowds. here s video that someone took from friday night. this is an incident that happened a few blocks from where i am standing where there was a very large crowd. miami beach police tweeted about this saying two of their officers got injured in the situation as they tried to disperse the crowd with pepper balls. a couple of officers had to be sent to the hospital. that s just one example of the rowdines