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unilaterally subvert democracy. >> also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. you'll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. >> i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps even killed him. so this was a close call. >> that was congresswoman zoe lofgren who sits on that sele...

Terms of recession worries, and in terms of whether the fed can actually execute what we call a soft landing. we just don't know how it is going to work out. we know what the fed did yesterday was pretty historic, first time since 1994, that was basically three rate hikes in one move, and na shows you how serious they're taking the inflation threat here. we saw the jobless claims numbers earlier this morning, this is a weekly reading. look, this is a number that is now back above prepandemic average. it is a proxy for layoffs. we'll watch this very closely to see if you start to see layoffs pi...

To 4%. that's largely because of labor force participation growing since february 22. climbing to 6.2% and wages climbed to 5.7% in january from the previous year. that's nearly double the prepandemic average. a lot of those gains in wages have been eroded by high inflation. it's the hottest in 40 years. every day prices for food and gas have been going up. gas at a seven-year high. the administration here at the white house does not seem to have any plan to bring down again prices. >> we need to keep that wage growth up and get prices down. that's actually what our focus is. it's important th...