effective. yeah. stephanie stanton, thank you. we appreciate it. by the way, coming up in our next hour, we re going to try and get some things cleared up with our medical contributor, dr. kavita patel, joining me live to address concerns about vaccinating your kids 2 to 5 years of age. so the white house has something to celebrate this weekend. the january jobs numbers are out, and are a lot higher than any prediction, even the president s. 467,000 jobs added, and unemployment remaining in the 4% range, which is close to pre-pandemic levels, by the way. america s job machine is going stronger than ever. this morning caps off my first year as president, and over that period, our economy created 6.6 million jobs. 6.6 million jobs. you can t remember another year when so many people went to work in this country. joining me now, reporter on
she is pushing back on this move from the rnc with a series of tweets in the last few minutes, saying that we must not legitimize january 6th and going on in another tweet to say to suggest that it was legitimate political discourse is just wrong. of course, lisa murkowski was one of just seven republicans who voted to impeach former president trump in those weeks after the january 6th attack on the capitol. she is running for re-election. she is facing some headwinds from republicans who want to punish her for the fact that she did vote to impeach president trump. josh lederman, as always, great to see you. good coverage on that. we appreciate it. i want to bring in now nbc senior national politics reporter jonathan allen to speak more about all that s happening within the republican party along with vice president mike pence and what he had to say yesterday. so, i want to dive into a few things first, jonathan. and of course, i brought you on here to talk about the vice preside
would love to hear his side of the story but they have hesitated to send an invitation. does now seem like the right time to do just that? one suspects that there s a little behind-the-scenes dance going on because the former vice president s aides have testified. we ve seen reporting from the committee that they were willing to share communications and talk about impressions, but they drew the line at talking about the former vice president s and perhaps their own actual communications with trump. and they gave a reason for that. they said that they did so at the request of the former president s lawyers, asserting executive privilege. so, it sounds like that subtext for saying that they will want to have a court determination on this executive privilege issue since the supreme court has already ruled that trump s documents themselves, his white house papers, aren t privileged. it seems like that sort of an
quote, legitimate political discourse, is just wrong. murkowski, of course, one of trump s favorite 2022 midterm election targets. we know he s got a list of them and liz cheney is also on it. in terms of how this impacts the work of the january 6th committee, it really doesn t. there are other things here, though, that it may have an impact on, specifically a bipartisan group of senators who are working to reform the electoral count act. that s an old law from the 1800s that governs the way that vice presidents certify election results. i asked several senators who are part of that bipartisan effort on the republican and democratic side if they thought that trump s latest round of comments about what he thought pence could have done, even though pence couldn t have overturned an election, i asked if trump s comments made their work harder. all of them, from both parties, said, no. so the former president here, of course, muddying the waters and the national party, by and large, going
donald trump, and saying that he was wrong. i know you have some reporting on the why now of it all. talk to me. well, look, i think vice president pence has been upset about what former vice president pence is upset about what former president trump has said in terms of recently of the idea that pence should have been able to overturn the election in his role as vice president. when you talk to folks around pence, when you talk to folks around trump, it s pretty clear that the animosity here is has been growing for a while, and i think pence sees, in his mind, at least, an opportunity. i m not sure that punditry or the republican voters agree with mike pence, that he s the next great choice for the republican party, but he s certainly going to take a whack at basically having trumpism up until about january 6th at noon. you know, as his platform. so, in a way, this was personal to the former vice president?