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>> everybody expects a hell of a lot more. >> my kids say are the people safe? is the future of this community safe? >> the head of the epa is actually set to arrive in east palestine today to assess the disaster and the cleanup. we are expected to hear from him. the train was carrying vinyl chloride which has been associated with liver cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, and brain and lung cancers. the mayor says he wants to know this are from the epa administrator. >> i need help. i am not ready for this. i wasn't built for this. i always thought of myself as a leader of men, and i have the village on my back and i will do whatever it takes, whatever it takes to make this right. >> powerful words there as the railroad company norfolk southern pulled out of last night's meeting. they ydidn't go they say becaus of physical threats against their employees. in a statement the company says
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they are vowing to get the job done saying, quote, our people will remain in east palestine respond to the situation and meet with residents. we are not going anywhere. cnn's jason carroll was at last night's meet being. jason, you can understand why people are frustrated here. they want answers. these are people who have been living in east palestine in this area so long and now they have major questions about how long they can continue to live there. >> reporter: kaitlin, you are absolutely right. . so questions that they have, who is going to be here a year from now, who will be here two years from now, five years from now? is someone going to be monitoring their health years from now? who is responsible for that? what about the cost of their homes, depreciation no home values. a lot of questions the residents had and quite frankly a lot of them felt they didn't get their questions answered. they feel like it will take more than one holocaust.
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one of the representatives they wanted to be there, norfolk southern railroad. they bailed out at the 11th hour simply because they felt as though their employees would not be safe. i have to tell you, the people that i spoke to felt like that was adding insult to injury. listen to what some had to say. >> okay. well, if you are afraid that somebody from palestine is going to hurt your employees, what exactly did you do to us? >> do you feel the anger and frustration? >> i'm scared. for my family, i'm scared. i'm scared for my town. i grew up here. i am related to 50% of them. >> do you trust them when they say that the air has been tested and safe and the municipal water is safe? >> i don't trust them. >> reporter: so the cleanup effort is underway here. i want to she you some of what is happening here. this is along an area called leslie run.
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this runs throughout east palestine. down here along this creek here you can see what they are doing is they are aerating the water, pumping more oxygen into this waterway with the hope that it will break down some of the chemicals. i want to show you some of these tankers over in this direction. so what we are told is some of these tankers could end up containing some of that contaminated soil that they are going to be digging out bringing it here and then taking it to another location. so the cleanup effort out here continuing, and a lot of people out here feel as though they are wondering how long is this effort going to take? who is going to be responsible years from now? a lot of still unanswered questions. kaitlin. >> the company saying their employees were scared to go, but the residents are just as scared. they don't know how long that cleanup will take. thank you. >> let's talk to one of them now. joining me is east palestine
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residents jamie who lives near the train derailment. she and her daughter fleed their home just steps away from the creek. she attended the town hall last night. this is what she said at the town hall. [ inaudible ]. >> i insisted on having water and soil samples taken. >> jamie, thank you so much for joining me us pt /* /* us. after two full weeks since the derailment you are not in your home. the frustration is clear. how are you guys doing? >> we're holding up. we're still at the hotel here. luckily, west virginia, the
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holiday inn they are treating us really good. but the baby is getting a little tired. she is 3. she keeps saying she wants to go home, crying, is her house broken? how am i going to get my toys? all the natural stressors of a 3-year-old. >> the frustration is you don't know. there are so many unanswered questions, right, and you have officials saying, well, it's safe to go back, it's safe to go back, i am not sure with the governor announcing i wouldn't drink the water. but how do you explain to people what that is like because you want to be back in your homes? but you can't. so what do you do? >> it's not just our homes. i feel like i can't be back in my town. and that's what -- someone just messaged me on facebook. i'm stuck in my home because i have -- people feel like they are force pd back because they don't have money to go anywhere else. she shared with me where would i go? i said, we're not sure where
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we're going to go, you know. my family has been in that area for generations. it's home. i don't know where else to go. what i do know is i can't go back there. >> what is it going to take to make you feel safe at this point? is there anything? >> i think at this point that there is, you know, they did tell me yesterday the railroad offered to pay all of my moving expenses. my house is not safe to be in. the only reason why i know that is because when they came to do air testing i was demanding to know about the soil and the water that's seven steps from my porch. so the railroad sent out a toxologist, who deemed my house not safe. but had i not used my voice, had i not thrown a fit, i would be sitting in that house right now when they told me that it was safe. and my concern is, how many of those kids are laying in their
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bed in east palestine right now that are not safe, who is not afforded the same, you know, special attention that i got from the railroad? you know, they told me that it was safe to go home. had i gone home, would i be here right now to talk to you? i absolutely do not trust them. you know, the first thing i did was reach out to a friend of mine at the non-profit river valley organizing. we are having a meeting next week. we are bringing in scientists from the university of kentucky in pittsburgh. they will be offering free soil and water samples to anyone in our town. you know, that's what needs to happen now. we, as a community, have to fight this or no one else is. >> listen, all of this has taken you more than outside of your routine. i mean, there are things you have to do now that you didn't have to do before because you were comfortable play in your home. this costs money.
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who is paying for all this, the hotel, et cetera? >> the railroad has been paying for the hotel since day one. the issue with that is the closest hotel we could find is a 60-mile round trip. we are a very rural area. we were being told we had to come back to east palestine each day to turn in the receipts so we could afford the next night in the hotel. you know, since then they have moved those outside of town. saturday we waited six hours to get our reimbursement. so the railroad is dealing with that part of it. but to me there is a bigger issue. it's not about the money. it's about our health. they can give me as much money as they want. it wouldn't have brought my daughter back to life had i taken her into that house when they said it was okay. >> jamie cozza, be well. thank you for joining us. keep us updated.
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>> could i say one more quick thing? >> absolutely. >> that community meeting on the 23rd at 6:00, it will be at studio 25, which is at 25 north market. if you want independent -- please come to that meeting and we are going to get you the testing you deserve. >> thank you, jami. >> thank you. >> poppy. >> what an important conversation, don. thank you for that. an emotional vigil last night on michigan state university's campus where hundreds of students, faculty, staff, people from all over that community came with flowers to honor the victims. arielle anderson, alexandria verner brian fraser killed in the attack. the governor also an msu alum called for change in gun laws. >> we shouldn't have to live like this. we shouldn't have to subconsciously scan every room for an exit. go through the grim exercise of figuring out who our last call
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would be to. our campuses, church, classrooms and communities should not be battlefields. so it's okay if you feel frustrated or angry or sad because we are the only country in the world where guns are the number one killer of young people. >> we have also learned that the killer was previously charged with a fellny but pleaded out to a misdemeanor and, therefore, was still able to buy new guns. with me democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, he has made gun safety legislation his life's work since the tragedy at sandy hook elementary. today he is reintroducing legislation to expand federal background checks to all gun sales. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> let's show people this picture, last year you went to msu. you spoke to students and you have tweeted about gun tragedy after gun tragedy. look at michigan, right,
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kalamazoo, oxford, now msu. could you speak about what you are reintroducing again, the background check expansion act, and do you think it could have saved these three students' lives? >> i was proud to be at michigan state last year. part of my work is trying to help build a national anti-gun violence movement that will make our kids safer. i was there in part to thank a small group of michigan state students that were starting a chapter of an anti-gun violence organization. it also pains me that children have to spend their time trying to convince adults to just do the right thing. the fact that my 14-year-old has to talk to his friends about how they can organization to make sure that their schools are safe. it just says that there is something deeply wrong about this country. what we are introducing today is a measure that is wildly popular in this country. it's a requirement that every commercial sale have a background check attached to it. if you want to buy a gun, you
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should have to prove you are not a criminal, you are not seriously mentally ill. the problem is many states have chosen not to apply pack ground checks to internet sales and at gun shows. the criminals know how to buy guns without being detected as a criminal. all of the crime guns that get used in places like new york and connecticut, the majority of crime guns, are bought in states that don't apply universal background checks. so the quickest way to make our country safer, the quickest way to stop a lot of gun crime in our cities is to have a universauniverse background checks requirement. it's supported by 90% of the american public. >> you introduced this multiple times before, including when democrats had control of both chambers of congress. and i know you have got congressman brian fitzpatrick on your side, introducing companion legislation. i wonder if you couldn't get it
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through then when democrats had more control, how do you get it through now? >> i think it's a good point. we don't have republicans at the numbers we need to pass something like this, which is wild. i mean, 90% of americans think everybody should get a background check before they buy a gun. why aren't republicans supporting this? there is a legacy of nra power, gun lobby power that is being eroded but it's not completely gone. your question is are things changing and they just are. last year we passed the most significant gun safety bill in 30 years, really the first in 30 years. it expanded background checks. people said that couldn't be done. a whole bunch of republicans voted for that measure that just frankly six months earlier had opposed many of the things in that bill. the politics are changing really fast. a lot of republicans are changing their minds because they actually realize that the gun lobby isn't as powerful as it used to be. so, yes, this looks like an
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uphill battle, especially sw a republican house. a lot of people said we wouldn't be able to pass the bill we papass last year where red flag laws and bans on guns to domestic abusers but we did because the issue is moving fast. >> i should note encouraging states to adopt red flag laws, one that michigan doesn't have. before we move to china, senator, the shooter, a anthony anthony bought two guns after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. because it was a misdemeanor, he was able to buy the guns even though the ag's office in michigan says he shouldn't have been able to. i wonder if you believe that even though a misdemeanor firearms conviction doesn't prevent someone from buying a gun federally, only a felony does, if that should change, if a misdemeanor firearms charge should prevent people from buying guns? >> so i don't think every
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misdemeanor charge should or conviction should ban you permanently from buying firearms, but i think there are certain misdemeanor charges that should. i'll give you a quick example of how we found consensus last year. prior to the law we passed last year, if you were convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge you could still possess guns. what we realized is just like with this shooter, what normally happens with domestic violence is a really heinous act is committed, but in order to avoid a trial the individual pleads down to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, even though they beat the heck out of their wife or spouse. so we fixed that. now if you are convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge you can't buy a gun and republicans supported that. i think we should take a look at that when it comes to these gun -- illegal gun possession charges. i am not completely familiar with all of the variety of misdemeanor charges. we have precedent for applying the prohibition to misdemeanors. >> that's interesting. to china. you sit on the foreign relations
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committee. you had this briefing for senators yesterday about the threats broadly the u.s. faces from china. i thought it was interesting that the republican colleague in the senate josh hawley said the u.s. should be more forceful in its relationship with china and talked about and suggested sanctions and i wonder if you agree with him. >> i worry there are some members of congress who are rooting for a conflict and war with china much we have always had hawks and war mongers in washington that think the united states is better off if we are perpetually in conflict. obviously, what happened is absolutely unacceptable and there were repercussions. the visit by secretary of state antony blinken was canceled. but i also want to make sure that we don't sort of slip into conflict with china, a country with which we have $6 trillion worth of trade every year. so we need to continue to pursue
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a policy in which we are competing with china as an adversary, but we aren't making mistakes just because of something that shows up in the headlines. we have to have a thoughtful policy of managed competition with china. i think china is very embarrassed by this incident. i think there is evidence to suggest that is may not have been intentional, at least initially, and let's judge china by its actions as to how they move forward from this incident. >> okay. finally, i want to ask you because you also said on the health education labor and pensions committee chaired by senator bernie sanders, your committee wrote a letter asking starbucks ceo to come testify on march 9 alleging, quote, a lack of compliance with federal labor laws. this is about how starbucks deals with the unions and howard shultz has declined that request. starbucks says he is leaving in april and they would like to send someone else to testify.
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i wonder what you make of that. >> well, i think they are just trying to avoid embarrass a. . starbucks has been really involved in a super aggressive campaign to stop their workers from organizing. i have seen it firsthand in connecticut where workers are trying to organize in west hartford, and their ceo should come and testify. he actually has been overseeing and orchestrating this campaign. whether or not he is leaving, he is responsible for the conduct we are trying to investigate. these big corporations have too much power in america and unions are a way that workers can get an even chance at the negotiating table with giant mega corporations. so, yes, shultz should come and testify. he shouldn't be afraid of congress. once he wanted to be president of the united states. he has shown an interest in engaging in public policy all of a sudden he doesn't seem to want
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to talk to us when it's the, i think, potentially illegal actions of his company that are under scrutiny. >> quickly, will your committee subpoena him? is that important for you to hear from him? >> i don't know. i haven't talked to senator sanders about it. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you. >> kaitlin. so interesting to see what he has tried to do before, what he is trying to do now, and that reality about it get through congress. we will stay with that. also, we are tracking a judge in georgia about to release parts of a special grand jury report on trump's actions after the 2020 election. what are we going to learn? what are we not going to learn? that's next. unlike some others, aiairborne gives you vitamin c and so much more. it's an 8 in 1 immune support formulala. airborne. do more. (vo) businesses nationwide are switching to verizon business internet. (woman) it's a perfect fit for my small business. (vo) verizon has business internet solutions nationwide. (man) for our not-so-small business to
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any moment now a georgia judge is going to make public parts of a grand jury report on that investigation into election interference by former president trump and his allies , but most will remain secret as a local prosecutor is considering charges. joining us to talk about what we could see is former u.s. attorney from georgia's middle district michel moore. michael, good morning to you and thank you for being here. just how unprecedented is to get a report like this, even if we are not getting all of it? >> i am glad to be with you. thanks for having me on. we are in unprecedented times. georgia does not often use a special purpose grand jury. these reports don't come out as a matter of course anyway. we typically have a regular criminal grand jury. so the judge is going through some unchartered waters. there is not a playbook to pull this from. there is not a form book that the district attorney's office could have written the report or help the grand jury write the report from.
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so it's an interesting time. he has been fairly solemnic in his decision about honoring the public's need to have some information about this investigation. at the same time, recognizing that the prosecutor needs to make a decision and potential defendants have due process rights and he doesn't want to get the cart ahead of the horse and let everything out. >> one of the ideas that we are not going to see all of it is they are still considering charges. why not release all of it? >> well, there could be reasons to keep grand jury information secret. and it is a secretive process. if you think about it, if your name was mentioned in the grand jury and you were not charged with a crime, you wouldn't want a report out there saying that you had been discussed. so it protects uncharged people. it also protects investigations to not have the investiformatio there and protects witnesses from intimidation or contact by the parties in a case to see if they could move their testimony one way or another.
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so the parts that he is going to release are pretty benign. he will talk about the introduction, allow the report to come out with reactions about some concerns the grand jury may have had with people who were less than forthcoming during the case. but, again, the ultimate charge is the meat, is not going to be with the potatoes yet in this case. >> also, you know, one person who was involved in the efforts in georgia was mark meadows, trump's former chief of staff at the time, he went down and visited an election, audit site, on the phone with raffensperger when trump was asking for more votes. the special counsel who has the grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed mark meadows. what does that indicate to you, signal to you that jack smith is now wanting to talk -- get documents from mark meadows? >> i think that it tells us that had his investigation may be coming to a head. he has subpoenaed the former
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vice president who has sort of taken the tack he should be able to write about it in his book and not testify in front of a grand jury, which i think is hypocritical. he is talking about mark meadows, the chief of staff, former chief of staff. he needs meadows to tie everything together. if you could imagine trying to describe a football game without talking about the quarterback. meadows was essentially the quarterback at the white house for the trump administration. his hands were on everything that happened. he was in immediate and close contact with the former president. he dealt with the aides, the secret service, he dealt with the staff at the white house. so he is the sort of the top of the pyramid when it comes to the knowledge about what went on with trump's planning and discussions that may have been around january 6th. >> if he tries to argue executive privilege to fight that subpoena, does it have any merit in your view? >> i think he ought to read the nixon case, the supreme court addressed it in these titans of circumstances. there is a need for executive privilege to have a deliberative
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process but you aren't allowed to use it as a shield to hide criminal conduct. and so a potential criminal conduct. discussions and grand jury inquiries, that's a time when i think the executive privilege will hold for him. i think it's a way to run out the clock, to be combative. at the end of the day, i don't have any doubt he will end up testifying about what went on in the white house. >> that's remarkable. michel moore, no one better to talk about this with as we are waiting for parts of that report to come out. thank you for joining us. love to have a fellow southerner on the program. >> it's fun to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> so interesting what he said. bringing up u.s. versus nixon and what the supreme court said, right? the shield only goes so far. >> he said meadows is going to end up testifying he thinks. any minute the labor department will release the weekly jobless claims. also, 373,000, what does it have to do with the job market? we will explain next. it's fine.
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♪ barely getting by ♪ >> love the song, love the movie. that may have been true in the '80s. now that seems really like a luxury. a growing number of americans are working not one, but two full-time jobs and it's not just about a side hustle for extra cash. in many cases it's really to make ends meet. so harry enten is here to break down this morning's number. what's the number? >> this morning's number is 373,000. that's the americans who are two full-time jobs in 2022. that's up 61% since 2013. up 22% since 2019. so a massive jump. and what's so interesting about that massive jump is compared to other ways that americans might be working, full time is working 35 plus hours a week, look, the americans working just one full-time job is up only 1% since 2019. americans working two jobs one
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full-time, one part-time, that's down 4% since 2019. so the americans that are working two both full-time jobs up 22% since 2019 is truly an outliering, don. >> who are the people working two jobs? >> here is the question. who are the people working these jobs? people because they want to make toon of extra money, right? if we look at each workers median family income, one part-time job the income is 60 to $75,000. if you are working one full-time job, it's 75 to $100,000 on the family median income. it's the same for those working two jobs, one full, one part, and two working both full-time jobs, 75 to $100,000. the idea is not the people trying to make gobbles of cash. essentially, these people working two full-time jobs are basically trying to get back to the point of those who are making just one full-time job. >> there are different demographics? >> absolutely are. so take a look here. what percentage of workers are
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black? full time 35 plus hours a week. if you are working one part-time job, 10% of those workers are black, one full-time job about 12% of those, two jobs, one full, one part time, about 15% of those are black, but two both full time 21% are black. so black americans are making a much larger share of those working two full-time jobs than one full-time job and there is one other group. it's males. so take a look here. those americans working one part-time job 38% of them are males but take a look here. working two full-time jobs, 61%. a much larger share are males than they are of, say, the rest of the groups. >> very interesting numbers. thank you, harry enten. we are not just seeing shifts in how much people are work working, but also what they want from their bosses. i am talking about unions, labor organizers is popping up in industries that traditionally were not ones with the big union
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push. baristas, warehouse workers, grocers. what do they want? when do they want it? here is what our labor organizers told our audi cornish. >> the purpose of organizing and movements isn't just to win a particular issue or particular right. it's to win long-term dignity, sustainability and the ability to engage in decision-making for all aspects of your life forever. >> cnn's audie cornish joins us now, the host. assignment, a fabulous podcast. i am looking forward to that episode. i am fascinated by this, this sort of sweeping of corporate america with unionization movements. a lot of people would take issue with that statement i just made because the numbers are down from a decade ago. but they started popping in the last year or so. >> to putting it in perspective, overall, union participation, which is the number you are talking about, is still quite low. what's different is the number of union petitions and drives. that went up more than 45% last year, which means that people
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are forming small unions or at least nosing into that territory and reaching out to the national labor relations board to have that conversation. and it's happening in places that traditionally, the last couple of years, seem totally impenetrable. amazon, trader joe's, starbucks. you name it. there are these small union drives happening. tesla is dealing with one today, they are accused of retaliating against workers who had just begun a union drive. some companies are in the midst of a reckoning as you have this participation creeping up on their shop floors. >> >> is this -- it's not your grandmother or grandfather's union, right? is it different? >> we talked about that on the podcast. we spoke to a 23-year-old barista who is one of the so-called memphis seven. they had been fired by starbucks for unionizing and the federal government said that was unlawful and had to reinstate them. she said herself i only thought
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like sort of burly men and construction workers. she had a sort of limited idea who could unionize and why. i she said i didn't know me making a cup of coffee and eun eun yiz. it happened in buffalo and memphis. the workers out of the pandemic, which is another important issue here, are the ones who said we've got some conditions we don't feel good about and they started to organize themselves and you are seeing that over and over again. people organize themselves and reach out to the larger labor unions for infrastructure and support. >> and you have covered this so intensively. i feel like it seems like a new generation of what unions look like. but i guess a question i have is why. one thing i was reading is, you know, starbucks in chicago, the management told workers they should discourage people who aren't paying customers from using the restroom or spending time in the store and the employees didn't like that, they were pushing back on that, and that is part of what drove them.
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>> some of these ces, especially like your starbucks or trader joe's are like we are we are th nice guys, google the same thing. some of these workers are pushing for your typical wage, labor, benefit support and better conditions. after the great resignation, so to speak, when people moved jobs, when they got to their new jobs they were, like, i want to be treated well. i have different ideas about what it means to be in a supportive work environment. i want to speak up if i feel like i am being abused. it's a different generation more willing to speak up. >> point of fact is that i find it really interesting what's happening because it's this union push is happening at a number of really progressive companies. starbucks is one of the most if not the most progressive company. they have given health care to their workers before the affordable care act, right. one of the higher wages. free college tuition. so that's what the very of starbucks points to and says we have give all of this, right. what the union wants, starbucks
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workers united, in their word, power sharing and accountability. a seat at the table. they want to directly negotiate for that. so it's different than just saying we want a higher wage, we want this. >> that is a traditional model when you think of sort of, sorry, the carmakers and union people there. and we should note when it comes to starbucks, they implemented changes at the stores that apply to everyone but the union shops. the sort of i won't call it officially retaliation, but this is the year we will see some of these corporations fight back. >> yes. so this is why howard shultz has been subpoenaed. he is not -- excuse me, he has been invited to testify in march. we will see if there is a subpoena. he declined. starbucks is sending someone else. i spent a few days talk ing to him about this. you will see on the program next week. it's fascinating and really an important mofor all of these voices. >> issues are quite different especially out of covid, too.
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there are things people -- >> that's a good point. >> white collar unionization movement as well. companies that previously we thought nobody would want to unionize and now they are there. >> thank you can't wait to listen to the episode. be here so tune in. the assignment with audie cornish available wherever you get your podcasts. and also special treat, audi will be joining us tomorrow. going to be on assignment from salt lake city. >> i have my hoodie at the ready. [ laughter ] >> i am here. i am here to leave your glasses behind. >> glass cleaner. >> this is a hot seat. you will be able to handle it i am sure. >> appreciate. >> i wish i was here to be with all of you tomorrow. >> you are going to be in utah, poppy. >> we are going to cover the nba all-star weekend. i will be interviewing three members of the iconic inside the nba crew, shaq, charles barkley, kenny smith. i can't wait. i am not going to try to dunk.
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not going to try to do anything fancy. but i can't wait to be with them, you know? they are never candid or anything, right? >> you should be sitting at the table with them. >> we are going to do that. you will see is tomorrow morning on the show. i sit down with the utah jazz owner. it's like 2:00 a.m. or something there that i have to get up. >> just into cnn new jobs data from the labor department. 194,000 first time applications for new unemployment benefits last week down a little bit from the week before. new unemployment claims continue to hover around historic lows. the fed has raised interest rates eight times over 11 months trying to get this under control, but the battle to bring down prices has not crushed america's white hot jobs market. also today, tiger woods is returning to competitive golf. the first time in seven months. he wants everytown to know he is playing to win.
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event since july. stephanie elam has nor from the pacific palisades. >> i would not have put myself out if i didn't think i could win the event. >> reporter: that a confident tiger woods making it clear he wants that win at the genesis invitational this week. an event he has hosted since 2017. held at the riviera country club in swanky pacific palisades, the tournament holds a special place in woods' historic career. at 16, he played his first pga tour event here in 1992. but he has never won it. now 47, woods will make his 2023 tour debut at the invitational despite battling pain from injuries he sustained two years ago in that terrifying car accident while in town for the same event. >> he is alive and well, it's good. it's nothing short of a miracle considering the damage.
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>> reporter: his right leg was broken in multiple places. his bone protruding through his skin. plus other injuries and several surgeries. >> the leg is better than it was last year. but it's my ankle. and so being able to have it recover from day to day and meanwhile still stress it, but have the recovery and also have the strength development at the same time, it's been a intricate balance we have had to dance. >> reporter: did you think he would ever play golf again after that car accident? >> i will be honest and say no. i he has been upfront about the fact he could have lost his leg. to play tournament golf is bonkers. >> reporter: tiger's success on the course may hinge less on the golf game and more on what his body would let him do. >> if you didn't know what you know, you would say tiger looks pretty good. the problem is getting to the ball.
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>> reporter: golfers are required to traverse the course themselves. no golf carts. for tiger the biggest challenge may be walking 72 holes in four days. yet some of his competitors are glad to see tiger return to his natural habitat. this being only his fourth official event in the last two years. >> we didn't know if he was going to be able to do this again. so just to have him on the grounds and see him around doing what he loves to do is a lot of fun for us. >> his golf game looks great. really good sign to see him in the field and feeling willing and able to get out here. >> reporter: while there have been injuries when injuries kept woods off the green, every time he does return fans clamor to see him. >> he is still like the biggest planet in the solar system. nothing really matters quite like tiger. >> reporter: as for that win, could he actually snag it? >> i would never say never with tiger. i think you do that at your own per.
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le. now, "star as far as that win it's highly unrealistic. if he makes the cut that would be a accomplishment, in and of itself. poppy, don, kaitlin, iyesterday much for this game, still does and he is very much doing so much for pga and that tour overall. the man is really an entity unto himself when it comes to this game. >> yeah. 72 holes in four days. only something that someone this their prime could do, stephanie. >> touché, kaitlin. >> that's not -- >> the whole point of this -- >> what is kaitlin trying to say? >> oh, just go back to the 6:00 a.m. hour. replay it. >> the point is that the -- the point of the package, oh, my god, i can't believe he is performing so well at his age and with his injuries. >> given what he has been through. >> yeah. there you go. thanks. >> i think because he almost died. maybe that part.
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