ready to discuss a prisoner swap. former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul and the executive director of the wnba players association will join us to break down the latest. also ahead, democrats reach an agreement on their economic package helping president biden make good on a major campaign promise. we ll have the latest from the white house. that is because, and willie, my gosh, our economy later job numbers have just come out. you talk about a resilient economy, man. it keeps rolling. this is an incredible jobs number. the july jobs report is in and much stronger than expected. the u.s. economydded 528,000 jobs last month. with the unemployment rate ticking down to 3.5%. that jobs number notably higher than what we ve seen in recent months. economists are expecting gains to slow this month and in months to come. let s go right to nbc news senior business analyst stephanie ruhle. by my count, this is about twice as many jobs as most analysts expected to be added
and that these were amendments presented by others like bernie sanders, trying to put them back into the bill. asking about the vote-a-rama, all these amendments, is this normal, all this independent voting? it is very unusual. you only really see vote-a-rama as they call them, during these massive budget reconciliation package is. we saw one last year when democrats pass the american refuge plan, another democrat-only reconciliation package. and it is a lot. you think it is really interesting about these vote-a-rama is it is a series of unlimited as we see playing right now, most of these moments are from republicans, and their messaging points. democrats, there are dozens of these amendments being put forward. democrats are really help to firm their unity and striking those amendments down. they really seen the messaging talking points, and that is why we suspect the vote-a-rama
with the bird rule which is essentially just a rule that is necessary for any sort of budget reconciliation package. so some things could be changed depending on what she decides and we should know what is happening there in the next few days. they re also going through what we call a vote-a-rama. a lot of senators will have a chance over the weekend to offer an unlimititied amount of amendments. this is something from republican senators who are trying to minimize as much of this bill as possible. so, there could still be some changes and there are people as well on the left, people like bernie sanders who said that sure, he ll vote for this pack beijing but he doesn t think it goes far enough and wants to make some changes as well. but by enlarge, what we re seeing now and having sinema on board with the key crucial different components really shows that they re going to succeed here and it caps off, i have to say, an incredible week
Also big new developments, we are following with the Trump Organization as it braces for criminal charges that could come as early as next week. What we know about those charges, the legal implications and what we can expect when, in fact, they are announced. And former President Donald Trump trying to keep the republican spotlight with him with a rally in ohio. What is he rallying for . Plus major action on the Voting Rights front. The doj announcing it plans to sue the State Of Georgia over its restrictive voting law, the first of its kind, Major Federal Action Against republicanled voting laws. We do, in fact, want to start in florida where rescuers and residents are clinging to hope that more survivors will, in fact, be pulled from the rubble of the champlain towers condominium as the mayor of miamidade orders a massive building inspection effort. I want to go now to surfside florida. Thanks for reporting for us on this. What more are we learning about the possible cause of this co
Also big new developments, we are following with the Trump Organization as it braces for criminal charges that could come as early as next week. What we know about those charges, the legal implications and what we can expect when, in fact, they are announced. And former President Donald Trump trying to keep the republican spotlight with him with a rally in ohio. What is he rallying for . Plus major action on the Voting Rights front. The doj announcing it plans to sue the State Of Georgia over its restrictive voting law, the first of its kind, Major Federal Action Against republicanled voting laws. We do, in fact, want to start in florida where rescuers and residents are clinging to hope that more survivors will, in fact, be pulled from the rubble of the champlain towers condominium as the mayor of miamidade orders a massive building inspection effort. I want to go now to surfside florida. Thanks for reporting for us on this. What more are we learning about the possible cause of this co