nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are now just waiting for the sign-off from the senate parliamentarian. majority leader chuck schumer says the final version of the bill will be introduced on saturday. the senate will take today off before a long day tomorrow a rare saturday. even rarer one in august. there will be up to 20 hours of debate after the first procedural vote. and then comes what is known as a voter-a-ra mr. a where senat
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
for air and breathing especially in the times. with that, tonight monologue. how about that monkeypox? [laughter] there s a transition you don t see. we beat covid and now we got monkeypox. let s go live to some monkeys. greg: practicing safe monkey pox i guess. we ve been monitoring this closely but not that closely. we re following cdc guidelines to keep at least six feet of distance from the closest chimp. but there are no concerns here. well, except for this weird rash i just got on my back. in all seriousness, 200 people are being monitored for infection in massachusetts after coming into contact with a confirmed case, and it s not liz warren. although she now claims she s 13% primate. but the virus may have been spreading for months. and experts claim there have even been suspected cases in salt lake city. so who was just in salt lake city? sunday actually. i never should have gone to the zoo. i also shouldn t have whommed the fence to hang now the encloser. but i
air and breathe, especially in ugly times. so with that, on to tonight s monologue. so, how about that monkey pox? there is a transition you don t see. we beat covid and now we got monkey pox. for an update let s go live to some monkeys. greg: practicing safe monkey pox i guess. we ve been monitoring this closely but not that closely. we re following cdc guidelines to keep at least six feet of distance from the closest chimp. but there are no concerns here. well, except for this weird rash i just got on my back. in all seriousness, 200 people are being monitored for infection in massachusetts after coming into contact with a confirmed case, and it s not liz warren. although she now claims she s 13% primate. but the virus may have been spreading for months. and experts claim there have even been suspected cases in salt lake city. so who was just in salt lake city? sunday actually. i never should have gone to the zoo. i also shouldn t have whommed the fence to hang now the
Happy monday, everybody [ cheering ] stop it okay. United flight out of germany bound for San Francisco was forced to turn around after feces flew in to the cabin. Which was unfair to the feces that it had both the ticket to see his family in San Francisco. It came from germany. The white house warned that sticky fingered reporters are stealing items from Air Force One. Hey, leave me out of this, says one man. [laughter] remember him . Masturbator. [laughter] a new study finds that 40 sentiment of adults well go days without facetoface interaction. I should be so lucky. For me its 100 phase ii asked. [laughter] thing that you found the pictures of us, clothes. Lizzo announced shes quitting the Music Business because shes tired of being dragged by everyone in her life and on the internet. Is that she plans to spend more time with her french. [laughter] the good news is your doctors is walking away from the Music Industry will be the most exercise shes had in years. It is intriguing that