was like for him. plus, a huge jobs report raises the question, are recession fears overblown? it depends on who you ask. you re in the cnn news room. u.s. senators are expected to vote is tonight on the democrats sweeping health care, climate, and tax bill, and in turn, score president biden a massive legislative victory. the bill represents the largest climate investment in u.s. history. $369 billion in all four measures that are estimated to reduce carbon emissions by as much as 40% in less than ten years. and it gives medicare the power to negotiate drug prices and ensures medicare recipients will spend no more than $2,000 of their own money each year. to help pay for all of this, the legislation will establish a 15% minimum corporate tax on any u.s. company reporting more than $1 billion in earnings to its investors. now, this would impact companies like amazon, which paid zero federal income taxes in 2018. we are monitoring all of the action on capitol hill for you ton
$4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he won t be forced to fork over quite that much yet. he s still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attorney for the sandy hook family. we ask that you send a very, very simple message. and that is stop alex jones. stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. estimated to the jury that jones may have a net worth as much $270 million but has been trying to hid his wealth with personal loans and shell companies. now, jones said at trial he faced financial ruin if there was an award of more than $2 million. more lies on top of lies, perhaps? the mother of 6-year-old jesse lewis who was kill
fine, despite persistent fears of a recession. the u.s. government released the latest jobs report this morning. and it far exceeded what economists expected. it showed the economy adding 528,000 jobs in july. that s more than double the number analysts expected. on employment, falling to 3.5%. and these numbers present a new complication for the federal reserve, which has been hoping to cool the jobs market, in an effort to bring down inflation. at the same time, senate democrats now poised to pass a massive bill that could impact everything from the price of prescription drugs to the fight against climate change. we re going to have more on that in just a moment. we start first with the strong jobs report and cnn s matt egan is live with us in new york, cnn s john harwood is live at the white house. matt, we ll start with you. break down the numbers for us, tell us what these numbers are showing. jessica, this is a hot jobs market that just defied all expectations but get
late word that the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes gaps in how it retains these messages. first, though, what could be far reaching repercussions from primary elections in five states last not. in kansas, a ballot measure to strip abortion rights from the state constitution lost by a wide margin. here s president biden say hailing it as a bellwether for november. in a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made it clear that politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. the voters of kansas sent a powerful signal that this fall the american people will vote to preserve and protect the right and refuse to let them be ripped away by politicians. well, tonight, we ll look closer at whether that is likely to be the case based in part on who turned out in kansas and what polling. in the wake of last night the former president s clout on the republican party. in michigan, congressman peter meijer, one of
your show, alex jones on the stand today, when he found out, he was like, do you know how we got your text messages? and he was, like what? man that was some you know what. if this script scripted, i would have been like, that s not gonna happen. but then you look back to the lawyers who were sort of like chewing on a thumb nail at that moment. i want to know what that conversation was like after, but not because i m sympathetic in some way to somebody who would torture those families in sandy hook for so long. kyrgios is one thing but to catch him in the lie the way they did unbelievable. amazing to watch. thank you, laura. i ll see you tomorrow. have a good one. goodnight. this is don lemon tonight. we will have more on the fallout from the scandal over those other text messages they were talking about, those missing secret service texts. sources telling cnn the secret service may disable temporarily text messages or the firestorm over missing texts over january