a legal case, and it s important to remember the context of all the cliches we hear, donald trump fought this and lost this, the video you see on your television screen is something he spent a long time trying to avoid, but he lost and cooperated with this new york attorney general probe, and here s what he said at the start. anyone in my position not taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool. i respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the united states constitution. this will be my answer to any further questions. as. as to the second part he said, fact check, true. we ll get into. that a.g. james drew these answers into what is a civil probe into his taxes. he infamously attacked others who availed themselves of this same right of pleading the fifth. he went from that to himself pleading the fifth over 400 times across apparently four frustrating hours. i decline to answer the quest
gavel and his party has passed the rules. leaving preview of what the next two years of divided government could look like. then, brazil s big lie. chaotic scenes as far-right supporters to former president bolsonaro storm the capital. while he appears to be in florida. the direct line from there to january six. and damar hamlin it s recovery gets even better, he is back in buffalo tonight with a massive outpouring of support when the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. after a marathon election, now, speaker kevin mccarthy has gathered the house into for the rules vote tonight. the house will be an order. since the speaker election took a total of four long days, the rules vote became a test of unity for house republicans and they managed to pass it with just one single gop, no vote. the rules package includes many of the concessions, the far-right demanded of mccarthy. things like one member being able to force a v
hello, and welcome to inside politics, i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. welcome to the new house. kevin mccarthy starts his speakership with a giant fight over the rules. republican hopes to stop fighting and start governing clouded by the same math problem that dogged mccarthy s battle to win the gavel. plus, a summit surrounded by tension. president biden is in mexico for a big meeting of the three amigos. he is there one day after his first up close look at a persistent humanitarian and political problem, the southern border. and rioters stoked by lies about an election breach barricades, ran sack offices, and set fire to a democratic institution. brazil s far right copies the january 6th model with its own attempted coup. we begin today with kevin mccarthy s first big test now that the gavel is finally his. house republicans today returned to the capitol to adopt a rules package, a blueprint designed to govern the next two years
clearly went awry and led to pena s arrest, when you listen to the details laid out by the lawmakers of the bullets that struck their homes, one of them detailed that her 10-year-old daughter believed she had sand in her bed. that sand was dust from the sheet rock from where the bullet holes wentet through in her daughter s bedroom. the details are very difficult and lucky that nobody was tail lightly harmed during these four different incidents. vaughn hillyard, thank you. now to capitol hill where some controversial lawmakers are getting committee assignments that will put them at the center of investigations and policy debates. house republicans haveit assign marjorie taylor greene to the homeland security and oversight and accountability committees. she was removed from those committees in february 2021 after her social media posts revealed she was spreading racist conspiracy theories. arizona congressman paul gosar will serve on the natural resources and oversi
u.s. economy added some 261,000 jobs in october, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7%. that jobs figure lower than the month before, however, still higher than economists had forecast. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us to break down the numbers. you always say wisely the trend is your friend. so what do these latest numbers show us about the trend in the job market and is this what the fed was looking for? so first i would call this resilient but slowing the rate of job growth here. 261,000 net new jobs added, you know, that is a strong showing in any economy, but the trend is important here. we re averaging about 400 and change a month this year and this is the slowest pace of job creation in almost two years. so still strong, still resilient, but starting to slow here. the government noting that that unemployment rate has been stuck in this 3.5 to 3.7% range since march. it s still stuck in that range, even after six months now of the