house take its final vote as early as today. i will spend time this hour with the head of the black economic alliance. why he says these kinds of bills are bad for business. we start with more breaking news. a disappointing glimpse at the u.s. economy. the united states adding 266,000 jobs last month. any other year, that would be good. problem is, economists were expecting that number to be closer to a million jobs. it s a curveball for president joe biden. president biden set to speak in 30 minutes. this will be the first time we hear from him since these numbers dropped. that s where we will start this morning. shannon pettypiece is with us, so is senior business correspondent stephanie ruhle as well. shannon, i will start with you. the jobs report, way below expectations. economists expecting them to top one million. how is this landing in the white house? how are they going to try to explain this when we hear from the president this hour? right. i will add, we were e
who might be behind it? that s coming up. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead. and on his 100th day in office, president biden hitting the road to promote his ambitious and quite expensive new economic plans. any moment he s landing in gwinett county, georgia, suburban atlanta, with the first lady, meeting with former president jimmy carter. they will then hold a rally selling the american people on his nearly $4 trillion of new proposals. this is part of what the white house is calling getting america back on track tour. rallying public support will be crucial for the white house, given that just hours after his address to a joint session of congress last night, he s facing pushback, not just from republicans but also members of his own party. kaitlan collins is live for us in duluth, georgia. what are we expecting to hear from president biden at this rally this evening? reporter: jake, first i should say that the white house is
room designed to hold 250 people jam-packed with 4,000 people, some of them with covid. thursday nightht ace loan 2900 apprehensions with 300 known, quote, unquote ways this picture shows what the senator caused biden arrows pointing migrants towards border patrol to apprehend them. the processing machine is on. the trump administration used titletr 42 health emergency law and returned everyone who entered illegally one year later, word is out. that biden has made an exception for families with at least one child six years old or younger and just like groups matching that description at the border. and former head of the cdc confirms what senator tom cotton told us a year ago on this program. we do know that the virus did not originate in that food market or wet market or whatever you want to call it in wuhan even chinese communist party has now acknowledged some of that. all the way back in december, though, we knew that origin story was a myth. maria: coming up senator jo
announcer: this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. sun coming up in orlando where conservatives and former president trump are gathering today for cpac. we will get to that in just a minute. we want to tell you today that advisors to the cdc are meeting to vote on whether the agency should approve the distribution of the johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine. this is after the fda granted it authorization for emergency use. that vote is expected to happen this afternoon. once that is decided, the cdc director would give the final approval. nearly 4 million doses of that shot could begin rolling out to vaccine centers across the country as early as tomorrow. this will be the third coronavirus shot, remember, allowed to be administered in the u.s. so far, it s authorized for 18 years and up. it s a single-dose shot. it s not requiring any special storage. just ordinary refrigeration temperatures. that makes it easier to distribute across the c
officers charged with civil rights violations in the killing of george floyd. and in arizona, why one voting rights group is investing six figures to unseat democratic senator kyrsten sinema. uh. and we begin with the latest on the rising tensions between russia and ukraine. democratic aides tell nbc news there will be two classified briefings today for congressional leadership aides and committee staff on the situation in ukraine. full briefings for lawmakers are expected next week, as the house and senate are on recess this week. this comes one day after the u.s. put 8,500 troops on heightened alert, ready to join a nato response force at a moment s notice, but the pentagon says no troops have been deployed just yet. in the event of nato s activation of the nrf or deteriorating security environment, the united states would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade combat teams, logistics, medical, aviation, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, t