others have as well. needless taking needless toll on our country. we have a lot of hard work left to be done. both to beat the delta variant and to continue our advance of economic recovery. and we have good news on the economic recovery today. with the government announcing that employers added 943,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate falling to a pandemic low. 5.4%. this comes as we learn the senate could vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as this weekend. and take another shot at passing voting rights legislation. we re expected to hear from attorneys for andrew cuomo hours after a former executive assistant who previously alleged that cuomo reached under her blouse now filed kranl complaint against the governor. we ll bring that event to you life when it begins. but we begin this hour with the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. so let s break down the facts as we know them for you at this hour. new vaccinations over the past week in a 44% in
texas democrats used to block a redistricting proposal in 2003, but the latest move is not without risk as jane reports the lawmakers could be arrested. she writes this. under the texas legislature, the quorum of 2/3 is required for the legislature to conduct business and they could be compelled to report to capitol and they could be tracked down. the white house press secretary a short time ago teeing up the speech by calling the republican push for voting restrictions across the country, the worst challenge to democracy since the civil war. and with that, we will bring in our guests, priscilla thompson in texas, and the digital reporter the aforementioned jane tim, and playbook political reporter eugene daniel. and priscilla on the ground, as i understand it, you have the lawmakers in the airport in austin ready to board planes ready to come here to washington. yeah, and that is exactly right. we began hearing the murmurings of this picking up yesterday and i was in the c
appeasement of our enemies will bring peace in our time. joe s cowardly response to the russian hack is embarrassing and self-disruptive. now only did he give them a free pass on the russians hacking the pipeline, five days later, get this, joe rewarded his pal, putin, by removing trump era sanctions on a key russian pipeline that hopes our allies in germany and elsewhere in europe. not only is america first s strategy gone, dead, energy independence is now gone. that is dead. now joe is literally adopted vladimir putin and russia first strategies and giving a waiver to vladimir putin to build his pipeline and turning down ours. finds out the real russian collusion, yeah, that would be leading democrats. remember obama, tell putin i ll have more flexibility after the election. hillary clinton paying for the dirty russian dossier and used as the basis to spy on a presidential candidate and a president with premeditated fraud on a fisa court. don t forget hunter biden s 3.5 mil
breaking out at a sushi restaurant in los angeles police investigating as possible anti-semitic hate crime amount right leaning consumer group launches a million dollar advertising campaign to shame a corporation for politics. which company made the list many we begin in israel with prime minister netanyahu defiant in face of increasing pressure to seek a cease-fire. greg is live again there as thursday morning begins to dawn in tel aviv. good morning greg. absolutely shannon early thursday morning here and more hopes of a possible cease-fire, just in the past few hours or so the dow jones news agency quoting egyptian officials as well as israeli officials saying we could see a cease-fire between israel and hamas as early as friday. we have no independent confirmation of that and have confirmation that all through the night fighting within on in fact, past 24 hours hamas rockets rained town on southern and central israel, some of them getting through the iron dome defense
you had four ruffle years in college. you now enter real life. real life is hard. real challenges, real difficulties. during most of our time in college, donald trump was the president. the economy was great. we have the lowest unemployment for african-americans and minorities. deregulation allowed businesses to prosper. the opening of the keystone pipeline aloud us to be energy independent, and a net exporter of gas. tax cuts allowed americans to take more money home. you had a lot to look forward to under donald trump. but now as you enter the real world america is a different place. under joe biden you better watch what you say or do because you can be canceled. not by a court or regulatory agency, but those who think they can block points of view they don t agree with. original thought is not valued the way it once was. i know you studied the first amendment. freedom of speech means you can say what you please. the supreme court even protected hate speech. it provides you