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The hunt for variants. The house Impeachment Managers laying out their case against former President Trump a week before his trial democrats saying he summoned a mob and aimed them like a Loaded Cannon at the capitol. How trumps legal team is responding. The 9yearold Pepper Sprayed by police her mother speaking out to us about the action shes now taking paying tribute to the 100yearold world war ii veteran who inspired the world announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, e...

Group of people who believe t t ththa that -- i will vote for the person who can make sure i have a job and my kids are fed, that i have decent schools to send my children to, that my streets are safe. i think its a complex question, but i think overall people are going to vote for the person that they believe most has their interests at heart. >> before i run out of time, i have to ask you this. youre chairwoman of the agricultural subcommittee on nutrition. earlier this week the trump administ...

Looking at the national unemployment rate and see that its coming down, which it is overall, but there are pockets in this country that are not coming down and they are high unemployment areas and this is the areas that people will, in fact, be impacted. areas between lets say 4 and 6 or 6.5 percent unemployment where its very difficult to get a job and, again, a lot of people moving in, veterans, veterans families, rural americans and theres just no reason to do it right now. by the way, congre...

>> i think for me the other thing that is critical in our part, sasha, and moving forward, the number of people who are working and poor. those looking at s.n.a.p. households, those getting the supplemental nutritional benefits, working-annal, nondisabled adults, they have a high work rate so those employed within the past year 87% of households where people receive s.n.a.p. assistance have people who have worked in the past year. you know, this idea that people can, in fact, be in poverty poten...

And we have 6 million people whose only income was from food stamps. thats astonishing. >> now, the average household food stamp or s.n.a.p. assistance is $287. 75% of those households include a child, a disabled person, or someone older than 60. so were talking about people who are either elderly, disabled, or children in large part that would be affected by these cuts. >> thats absolutely right. and so just thinking on an annual basis, a family of three that has no other income, $6,000, a thir...