time off of work, not only will you not get paid, you actually could get fired. and that is precisely what is happening today in the rail industry. bernie sanders laying out the major issue that could have rail workers own strike by midnight tonight. we ll have the very latest on the negotiations and the massive impact that a strike could have on the economy. plus, the january 6 committee is sifting through thousands of pieces of new evidence. the where it came from and what members are saying about its significance. also ahead, federal welfare money, a college volleyball stadium, and brett favre. we ll explain how they re a connected and why it doesn t look good for the nfl hall of famer. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin with the 11th hour negotiations to avoid a railroad strike that is threatening the u.s. economy. workers could walk off the job as early as tomorrow if rail carriers and unions fail to reach a deal. amtrak has already suspended long d
around the nuclear plant. no signs of what putin called systemic shelling at the plant. video from inside shows russian vehicles in a turbine just a few hundred feet from the reactors. cnn did confirm the authenticity of the video but not the date it was taken. let s start with david mckenzie in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. david, obviously a very worrying situation. he s just visited kyiv and warned this could be another chernobyl, and now we have the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for these attacks. there s very little visibility into what s going on there. please lay out what we do know. reporter: well, what we do know is it s a very worrying situation. this is europe s largest nuclear power plant. if you look at where it is of that industrial zone and that nuclear power plant, it s right on the front line between russia and ukraine. on one side of the river, it s russians okay pig that nuclear power plant, on the other side of the river, it s ukraine. and
pat cipollone has corroborated almost everything that we have learned from the prior hearings. and he had clearly tried to talk president trump down from his efforts to override the election. reporter: cipollone speaking to the committee after bombshell testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. he said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. reporter: meanwhile, in a stunning reversal, steve bannon now saying he is willing to testify publicly before the january 6 committee. after spending months refusing to cooperate. on monday, a judge ruled bannon s new willingness to testify will not delay his trial next week. for contempt of congress. charges brought because bannon stonewalled the committees s repeated questions. federal prosecutors calling it a last ditch attempt to avoid accountability. the main
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
capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi