can america shakies habit of toxic male leader? good evening. it has been a long week. a 15 up-day week to be precise since former president trump declared infrastructure week. tonight under a new president we are inching closer to an infrastructure deal on capitol hill, and with it a new generation of public works in america with mended bridges and decontaminated water and steadier wi-fi. any moment now the senate is set to vote on a pair of key procedural motions. the first on an amendment that adds the final text of the bipartisan bill and the second vote is on cloture to end debate on the bill. if all that have happens we should expect to see a final vote on tuesday morning and if all 100 senators agree to move things faster, we could see a final vote even sooner, and we ll let you know if that happens and coming up i ll ask congressman jamal bowman about what happens next in the house. but, first, this was supposed to be our hot advantagesed summer. instead, it has bec
good evening. it has been a long week. a 1500 day week to be precise. since former president trump declared infrastructure week. tonight under a new president we are inching closer to an infrastructure deal on capitol hill, and with it a new generation of public works in america with mended bridges and decontaminated water and steadier wi-fi. any moment now the senate is set to vote on a pair of key procedural motions. the first on an amendment that adds the final text of the bipartisan bill and the second vote is on cloture to end debate on the bill. if all that happens, we should expect to see a final vote on tuesday morning and if all 100 senators agree to move things faster, we could see a final vote even sooner, and we ll let you know if that happens and coming up i ll ask congressman jamal bowman about what happens next in the house. but, first, this was supposed to be our hot vaxxed summer. instead, it has become a summer of chilling omens. wildfire smoke wafted from s
across the entire country. the u.s. is averaging over 109,000 new covid cases a day. but we start with that new jobs report. josh letterman is at the white house. i also want to bring in stephanie ruhle, and jim mecina. thank you all for being with me. by the way he was also serving as president obama s campaign manager. let me start with you. we heard that the president will be speaking any moment now about this block buster jobs report. what will we hear? the white house is certainly breathing a sigh of relief today after fearing this report could have been worse than it was. i think you will hear two mayor themes from the president. the argument that his build back better approach is working. they have succeeded and now is the time to keep the foot on the gas when it comes to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, when it comes to the democrats 3.5 trillion spending bill, and other measures to try to make sure the economy is able to overcome some obstacles. the other key th
senate asking for world solidarity on cuba and the release of political prisoners. plus right now the number of coronavirus cases is up in all 50 states and that puts new attention on a question that a lot of people are asking. will people need to prove their vaccinated to go to work? or to go out to eat? we re getting early answers this morning. they are now requiring vaccinations. today president biden is expected to announce a requirement for federal workers. we start with the latest on this pandemic and the major vaccine announcement. monica is at the white house for us. josh is talking to washington dc workers affected by this, and i want to bring in a doctor who is a senior scholar at john hop kins. in just a few hours they announce a federal vaccine requirement. what more do we know about this? they are laying out essentially a choice for more than two million federal workers. they will have to prove they are fully vaccinated to go to work or submit to what the whi
mained an anti-mask stance especially in schools. experts have raised legitimate concerns that the risks of masking outweigh the potential benefits for children. fortunately, the data kaet that covid is not a serious risk to healthy children. but there is no evidence that the risk of wearing masks outweigh the benefits. and cdc evidence shows covid can be a serious risk to children. if you look at the mortality rate of covid, just this past year for children it s more than twice the mortality rate that we see in influenza in a given year. we have a panel here today. reporter: desantis defiant on the facts, holding a private roundtable discussion this week with hand-picked out-of-state experts, parents and students who effectively reinforce his anti-mask ideology. the press was not invited to the event. and when cnn asked why, his office didn t respond. thank you again, governor. reporter: so we tracked down the governor at a press conference today. but after the las