safeguards to prevent fraud. but critics say, others don t. how do you see people use technology the phishing scams we have all seen but it s going to sound like somebody you know. reporter: going forward because you hear it, doesn t mean you should delete it. gadi schwartz, nbc news. that wasn t me very cool and creepy. we have a lot to cover in our second hour. let s get right to it. at this hour, high-stakes standoff, russia steps up its assault in eastern ukraine, as volodymyr zelenskyy says the stakes couldn t be higher. president biden getting ready to sign an executive order to increase background checks. relief rally it s been a good day for your retirement account stocks are posting solid gaines after a new report on inflation and easing worries on the nation s banks just ahead, we talk to a key member of president biden s economic team. our nbc news reporters are covering all of the latest developments that s where we begin with nbc news business and dat
by men that s nearly unchanged from 2002, when they earned 80 cents on the dollar. the pay gap persists where women make up most of the workforce. take schoolteachers. new research shows in k-12, women make $5,000 less per year than men i want to bring in ally vitale, ju ju julia boorstein. good to have you here. tell us about the paycheck fairness act there s been a push to get this done for a while what s happening now it s a new push for an old piece of legislation the people at the heart of this have regularly been murray have on the front lines for legislation like, not just for this, but paid family lead and medical leave. these are the women at the front
stretching their dollars to contribute to campaign. something a couple of dollars to me when they can. trying to make the world difference about democracy. and, so, when i see fraudsters who are often suggesting that they re supporting veteran candidates, that they re supporting certain kinds of causes that people like, and, then all of the money actually goes to line the pockets of consultants. that is fraud. that is ripping people off who are trying to simply support making change in our democracy and in our country. so, my bill to stop the it s with republican dan crenshaw, and i m hoping to get it over the finish line as a as i, can and if i don t do it this congress, count on me to be back in the next congress pushing for it. so, i know on legislation like, this there s so many ways that scams work that it s hard to trap every one of them within legislative language. but, there is one that i see every once in a while. people will send me an email they got. that includes my ima
actually believes he s going to get bob corker s support on legislation like, for instance, tax reform bills while he s insulting him, thinking somehow bob corker is going to give him the benefit of the doubt for a tax bill that bob corker has already said doesn t make sense and doesn t add up and would blow a hole in the deficit. you know, you look at the vote totals on some of these important bills that have come to the congress and your point can t be amplified enough. they can t hold all of their roof together all alone stand to lose anymore. the only part of that story, joe, the picture that really encouraged me was watching the president sit withing is kiss g kissinger. the fact that the president is on his way to asia at the beginning of november is probably not a bigger thinker and one with better relationships across the continent of the new secretary kissinger. hopefully the president listens, hopefully, his team is taking