to help us lower inflation. what a week of contrast as president biden was racking up win after win, republicans were pushing abortion bans, social security cuts and election denial and watching their mid-term prospects begin to fade. and a texas jury just delivered a massive blow to alex jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages for a first grader killed at sandy hook. i ll be joined by andrew warren, the democratically elected state attorney general who is the victim of an abuse of power by governor ron desantis. it was a great week for democrats, one that will be poised to get even better. first up the economy. after months of criticism of president biden for everything from gas prices to inflation to you name it, today we got proof that his economic policies are working with the latest blockbuster jobs report. in july job growth soared. u.s. employers added 528,000 employees, smashing expectations. and the unemployment rate
their comeuppance after a long time of people avoiding it. absolutely. there was 3%er who got seven years. i thought it was too long. didn t get the terrorism enhancement, prosecutor asked for 15 but we re starting to see the law of consequences kick in and that s nowhere mo true than in kansas than the arrogance of alito to go out to rome and applaud himself, like this close to doing rallies like trump to sort of get himself to be more lauded and famous. after that kansas literally slapped down this attempt to strip abortion rights in that state, so it does feel like, tim is right, that there s a momentum now to the arc of the moral universe actually starting to bend towards justice. so before i get into, that when you pan to both our faces after we saw the cpac, it was we couldn t believe it, like is this real or snl driving? i have to acknowledge that both of our faces were like oh, my god, so your produce remembers doing an excellent job cutting
legislation of our time will succeed. but i m not just going to count on it, we re gathering tomorrow in austin in the state capitol at 5:30 p.m., this sunday, to gather in as large a number as we can, to push that bill. because i think that s what it took, when the 1965 voting rights act was up for a vote, and many thought it would never pass, there is no way you re going to get democrats in the south and the senate to vote with that bill in 65, but with another pressure and people getting at it out there, president johnson and the members of congress felt the political will and moved forward and got that passed. and it s that bill, and it s that law that is now under attack in 47 different state legislatures across the country, nowhere mo so than in texas, which is already the toughest state in which to vote, and they have voter suppression bills coming through in a special session that will make it even harder. so alex, there is no plan b. we need the senate. we need the president