is that bioweapons that? balloon did that blew take off from wuhan? a roaring american economy is drowning out the noise ahead of the state of the union. the u.s. adding 517,000 jobs last month. unemployment drops to 3.4. that s the lowest since 1969. wow. then the disgraced ex president made an absurd question. a republican primary litmus test. did you think ashli babbitt was murdered? do you think the police officer was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. do george santos allegations outpace allegations? i ve always said i knew it. i ve always been that joke. a new report on the creams queens crime fighter setting off spider senses everywhere. you know, i guess one person can make a difference. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on tuesday of next week, president joe biden will be making his very first appearance under the big top. the capitol dome a housing the utter circus that is the
act, sweden and finland s asession to nato, gun control and reconciliation were all passed over the last two months, many with big bipartisan majorities. if it gets to his desks, the president will have pushed through a $3.7 trillion agenda. how is this all going to play in the mid terms? that is the big question. there are a lot of variables, including record inflation and abortion and that stubborn political precedent that the party in the white house almost always loses in the mid terms. joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news, susan page, washington bureau chief and peter baker, author of the divider. jake, i want to start with you because you re on capitol hill. there was a vote-a-rama over the weekend. it s in the house now. what are the big headlines? the big headlines is that they got it through after 18 months of tortured negotiations over this package and the will he or won t he of joe manchin a
american rescue plan, run the economy hot, and then inflation went high and folks fight like larry summers and others were saying ceo, bumped up against the boundary. you libs, you want to throw money around, this is what happens. and they had some data on their side. it wasn t like a crazy argument. what s the significance of today s job report that shows you re still adding jobs while inflation is coming down? that s exactly it. how can you have 517,000 new jobs added while inflation is coming down? every economist i know today that i have contacted are scratching their heads. this is impossible. this goes against every textbook. well, i suggested to them that maybe the textbooks it s wrong. maybe they actually ought to look at biden onyx as a different kind of economics. and economics that is based upon what real people need and