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is yet to come and on day one of their re-election campaign, vice president kamala harris makes it clear she won't shy away from the campaign spotlight, so why are both her supporters and her critics cheering we're also keeping an eye on the white house where president biden will be holding a joint press conference with the president of south korea we are now hearing from the white house that should roughly start 30 minutes from now. we begin in new york where two trials involving former president trump are unfolding just blocks apart, and in both cases, prosecutors and judges ...

and we're also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don't like the idea i'm prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant -- i think it's $900 billion. don't hold me to that number, but it's well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for off...

able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements we're supposedly celebrating. let's start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesn't tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pandemic related job losses are hitting women of color especially hard. we talk about that a lot. comp...

Democrats really have? >> well, look, chris, there are not many options if democrats are going to stick with what president biden has said you know, ali knows, she's been on the hill talking to these folks. a number of democratic members now have been willing to say, oh, well, maybe it's time to negotiate. there's been whispers in various caucuses, amongst the democratic caucus on the hill the reality is though, you ask folks at the white house, they say the president's position has not changed. he has put a budget forward, and if speaker mccarthy brings his budget, then he is happy to talk bu...

There is a place for extended debate on legislative issues. i am hopeful that i can convince him that we ought to treat constitutional issues the same way we treat budget issues. we move the budget forward without this filibuster application so as not to threaten the credit of the united states of america. and we ought to move forward on constitutional issues when it comes to the filibuster. so the filibuster i think has its place, but not when it comes to voting and other constitutional issues. so we'll see where we go from here. i am hopeful that joe manchin will do what i know that he is ca...