stalled on a lot of the big biden agenda items, including human infrastructure, gun legislation, and voting rights. a bright spot for the biden administration, however, is the economic numbers we saw on friday, where we saw 431,000 jobs added to the economy in march and an unemployment rate down to within 0.1% of what it was in pre-pandemic levels. the white house chief of staff said on abc this morning that the biden administration had solved the jobs crisis. here s what else he had to say. we have done a lot of work to bring the economy back from dead in the water when we got here. thanks to the success that president biden has had in vaccinated over 225 million americans, boosting over 100 million americans, america is back to work. as i said before, the unemployment rate is one of the lowest months in the past 50 years. there are a lot of encouraging science in terms of this economy coming back to be a robust jobs and business-creating economy.
interesting look. that will do it for us this weekend. we hope you have a great week ahead. we ll be back next weekend at 6:00 a.m. velshi starts right now. today on velshi where the former president s inner circle gathered to plat to overturn the results. brand-new bombshell reporting from the washington post. i ll be joined by a reporter that broke that story. meanwhile, the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is moving as fast as ever. pete aguilar is here in studio to talk about what is happening and coming next. plus, as democrats reportedly near a deal on the two big biden agenda spending bills, ohio senator brown joins me to talk about what is getting cut and
close deals, that has been in a position where he has only 50 votes in the senate. and a bare majority in the house. it s a process. it sounds like you re putting the blame squarely on two u.s. senators for your inability to close that deal. senator sinema and senator manchin. am i incorrect? is that who the blame lies with? look, i need 50 votes in the senate. i have 48. of course left unspoken were the names of those two votes he needs. senator joe manchin of west virginia. senator kyrsten sinema. that s the reality the president is in. he simply cannot get this program forward without those two votes. some frustration there, but also a reality check to other democrats as well. they re all going to have to come together and work on a compromise if they want to get anything accomplished on this big biden agenda. boris? manu, last week we saw a self-imposed deadline to get these two bills passed come and
looking for partisan gain. there s every evidence that parties giies get blowback when do that. but this is a congress that is so deeply divided, that they re willing to take this to the brink. this is a huge week for the biden presidency going forward. this is a big week for the country, and we should be focused on that frankly. you know, the big lie we re going to have with us. donald trump is rallying the base to denial. but to the extent he s causing the republican party to further abandon its principles of fiscal responsibility, this is just a symptom of that. all right. i suspect you re both right on all of those counts. thanks so much for all of your insight. good to see you, jim. thank you. speaking of that big biden agenda, president biden just weighed in again as negotiations continue on key parts of his agenda. we ll bring you that next. i need this recipe. mmm everyone thinks i made them, but it s actually d-con.
european allies and the president needs to reiterate that and back that up a little bit. the president tomorrow in his remarks will not run from what occurred in afghanistan. in fact, he ll address it head on and say getting out of afghanistan out of a 20-year war was a critical component of what he sees as kind of an intensive effort of personal diplomacy that you ll see not just in the coming months and years but also in the coming weeks, a sires of bilateral meetings over the course of the next couple of days. one thing we don t know that will happen is a call with french president emmanuel macron. wouldn t mind listening in on that one. a very, very, busy, consequential week ahead for you. the senate parliamentarian delivers a blow to the immigration bill and that s only one of the party s headache as we hit crunch time for the big biden agenda. from liberty mutual!ized ce nothing rhymes with liberty mutual. only pay for what you need.