immediate way that they could jump-start the economy, create new jobs, and that would be for the house to move forward with the bill that involves infrastructure that was already agreed to by the senate. >> you saw the president just last week go to the capitol again. he was supposed to close the deal, and instead he made it very clear that the tax and spend multitrillion dollars bill is tied directly to the infrastructure bill, and it undermines the whole process. >> of course the big question is, when will we see any sort of major progress here? if and when that does happen, we have heard from the speaker's office, they want to get this done by the end of the month. we also heard today that it could be by the end of the year. it's anybody's guess. the jobs report came out on friday showing in the month of september employers added far fewer jobs than what economists were expecting. claudia? >> mark meredith following it all from wilmington, delaware. thank you. eric? >> eric: claudia, we have some