america reports on this friday. white house getting good news on the jobs market but will a massive spending plan send the economy into another tailspin, making an already bad inflation problem even worse? hello, everyone. i am sandra smith in new york. jon: i am jon scott info john roberts. the labor department says the u.s. added 528,000 jobs last month. the on employment rate also falling slightly to 3.5%. both numbers beating expectations. wages are still largely out of step with the rising inflation. now more than 200 economists, 230 to be exact, warning democrats their social spending bill will make high prices in this country even worse. jon: senior economic advisor jared bernstein joins us. first, congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest on the spending bill. good afternoon. democrats say this bill will help with inflation. more than 200 economists warn congressional leaders that the u.s. is in a dangerous crossroads. they argue the bill incre
series of steps to punish the u.s. for allowing house speaker nancy polosi to visit taiwan. which bay engine beijing sees a as a rogue nation. it is early morning in taiwan flight. as the region and the u.s. geared for more trouble with china. china firing with both barrels. as it continues its military exercises around taiwan. island air force jets scrambling as chinese war planes and warships crossed a median line separating china and taiwan. a key buffer zone. china says its forces is rehearsing blockade of taiwan. china has chosen to over react and use speaker pelosi s visit as a pretext to increase military activity around the taiwan strait. beijing went further. president xi regime says it they will cut contact with the u.s. on a range of issues. plus talks on everything from climate change to immigration to cross-border crime. s the chinese military muscles in on taiwan, it is warning the u.s. to stay away. we wish to issue a warning. united states do not act r
home to blame? welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. first to david spunt at the justice department on the supreme scare nor a supreme court justice. the suspect s name is nicholas roske. he s from simi valley, california. he s appearing before a judge right now in maryland, in federal court. he was in the custody of the fbi. he s charged right now, neil, with attempted murder of a u.s. supreme court justice. we know according to federal law enforcement services and the crime complaint that roske took a taxi cab to justice brett kavanaugh s home in maryland outside washington d.c. this morning at 1:05 a.m. two deputies that were watching kavanaugh s home, two u.s. marshals, saw him walk down the street. then we know at 1:42 a.m., roske called 911, said he was there to harm justice brett kavanaugh and that he was suicidal. police arrived to find him with a gun, a knife, pepper spray a crowbar and zip ties. he was booked at a local police station and the fbi took hi
with lester holt good evening i m savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman s ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation s gun laws what s on the table and will it make a difference nbc s gabe gutierrez leads us off reporter: tonight as the u.s. grapples with the dramatic surge in gun violence, relatives of those killed in the buffalo m
another witness announced for tomorrow s primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the attack. plus, we ve got the top headlines from last night s midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senators had hoped to reach a bipartisan deal on gun safety by the end of this week, but nbc news has learned that that timetable may slip. perhaps into next week. senators have hit a snag on how to expand background checks. two people close to the talks tell nbc news at issue is whether to add waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds and to enable the fbi to conduct background checks on their juvenile records. a spokesman for republican senator john cornyn of texas said he is not considering waiting periods but does support the provision on the juvenile records. democrats, howev