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London max foster has the week off. Were trading places. Just ahead on cnn newsroom what President Trump did not do is direct Vice President pence to do anything. He asked him. The president was talking about us rejecting votes, his lawyers suggested that we return votes to the states. They were asking to return the election. He said, daddy, is this heaven . I said no, its iowa. November 2024, thats not the end of the a campaign. Its the start line of a national revival. Yes it just shows how co...

Maintaining the right to abortion. lets take a look at our vote board right now, look at that, 61.8% to 38. 1%. 78% of the vote is in. still, i want to get to john king, nick valencia, abby philip, to digest this and talk about it. john, to you first. we were just talking about kansas at the top of the show, at the top of the hour. kansas is the first state to let voters weigh in on abortion post-roe. what are the results there? >> in the very first, its a statewide referendum, should we change ...

Reaching their lowest level in 50 years and then on the other hand, job openings at a record highs. what is going on here? >> this is a very interesting and unfortunate circumstance. for someone to share the numbers. first time claims for unemployment benefits, which is a proxy for layoffs, to be honest, l2 184,000 in the week that ended december 4th. lowest level since september of 1969 as you mentioned. lowest level in some 52 years. but here are some numbers i think will help bear out what is...

Today dr. anthony fauci said this about community spread of the new variant. >> theres community spread. and once you have community spread, then youre going to be seeing cases popping up all over the place because theyre under the radar screen, because we know from delta that a substantial proportion of cases can be without symptoms and can spread to another person even if you dont have any symptoms. >> today the labor department announced that the united states added 210,000 new jobs in novemb...

Cases of the new variant. today dr. anthony fauci said this about community spread of the new variant. >> theres community spread. and once you have community spread, then youre going to be seeing cases popping up all over the place because theyre under the radar screen, because we know from delta that a substantial proportion of cases can be without symptoms and can spread to another person even if you dont have any symptoms. >> today the labor department announced that the united states added ...

Today. he instead focused on the positive, yet employment dropped more than expected down to 4.2%, wages were also up, although by less than last month. labor force participation also rose, to 61.8%. >> the incredible news of our unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%. at this point in the year, we are looking at the sharpest one year decline in unemployment ever. simply put, america, america is back to work. our jobs recovery is going very strong. >> the tally used to calculate the number of new ...

Meanwhile, president biden today is listing that america is back to work after a disappointing job support so that hiring slow last month. the economy added a sluggish 210,000 jobs in november. the fewest in nearly a year. the unemployment rate, that headline number, did fall down to 4.2%. the force participation was largely untainted at around 61.8% for another month. our economic panel, mohamed el-erian, at all amps, and former chair of president obamas global development council, douglas holt...

Confusing. but why is this so confusing? >> honestly, when you look back in history, big events, pandemics, financial crises, wars, these are when economies and societies shift dramatically. one thing we can all see around us happening is the geography of work changing, right? a lot of companies arent bringing people back five days a week. it will be two or three days. folks have moved two or three hours outside city centers. indiana and texas are booming as opposed to coastal areas. all this wi...

Biden coming in next with 36.6% and 1.6 uncommitted. thats two people here who were uncommitted. those big picture trends, those early voting trends that david and dana and john were talking about before we went to break are being reflected here. this is just one caucus site. this is unusual because these were shift workers. there were no early results that were tallied in here. what you saw is what you got. the largest number of people coming out for bernie sapdsende. thats quite interesting be...

The united states legally. their status of the united states was not a determining point. to add to that, take a look at this global mark. a asylum seeker are permitted to make a claim regardless of where they enter a countrys territory. 148 countries signed this law. another thing, the asylum case that the united states has denied and gone up for five years in a row. keep in mind, the percent of those who asked for a asylum who are denied is 61.8%. fewer than a third and fewer than 30% of anybo...