Sweet when republicans took credit for legislation they didn t even vote for. Will it hurt any chances for future compromise? it is way too early for this. Good morning, welcome to way too earl. I m aly melendez. The vote is not expected until potentially later today. We ll have to wait until the senate wraps up their marathon debate. Republicans spent hours attack speaking on the floor early this morning. 60 votes are needed for the independent january 6th commission to move forward. So far only three republicans expressed their support. Senator murkowski expressed her decision appointment and the attempts to block the vote. It s important that there be a focus on the facts and on the truth. And that may be unsettling. But we need to understand that. We just can t pretend that nothing bad happened or that people just got too excitable. Something bad happened and it s important to lay that out. I think there is more to be learned. I want to know more and i m i want to know when i don t
Witnesses say the florida congressman did drugs with a paid escort. This as his former associate agrees to cooperate with the government ahead of an suspected guilty plea tomorrow. Gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. As we do say, good morning, everybody. It is saturday, may 15th. We re watching a number of breaking stories at this hour. Also keeping an eye on the situation in the middle east. We have a live picture out there of gaza. Relatively quiet after several mornings of exchanges of gunfire between the two factions there. We are going to get into the overnight details. I have a question for you, kendis. Okay. Mask or no mask? you know, i m a fan of amigos, mask off. It is so confusing. Everybody on twitter saying, i m still going to wear a mask. Not everybody, some people. It did not take long for me and some people, okay, you don t have to tell us twice. It s one of those things that s been really, really confusing for so long and it doesn t seem as if the pandemic is c
playbook. there s no blueprint for how to do this. and we saw companies hire much fewer workers than we had expected. and we saw the unemployment rate actually tick up. that 266,000 number, poppy is right to point out, that s the slowest since january and much far fewer jobs added back than we had expected. what we ve been hearing from different parts of the economy, especially leisure and hospitality and in manufacturing is they can t find the workers. now 331,000 leisure and hospitality jobs were added in the month. so they are those those reopenings are resulting in hiring there but not as many as we had thought. i think there s probably three things at play here. you still have, you know, thousands of people contracting the virus every single day. you have schools still closed and a lack of child care. and you have unemployment benefits at $300 extra a week that lasts until the fall. there s not a lot of incentive for some folks to come back into the labor market at t
failed a post race drug test. bob baffort as of today is banned from churchill downs. i don t feel embarrassed i feel like i was wronged. i would never do this because you can t do anything wrong. everyone should want to help small businesses. it was disheartening not to see the federal government do anything. martin truex jr. wins the darlington many. he doesn t get enough credit. brian: welcome, everybody, brand new week. i know one thing for sure it will be action-packed and you will be here all three hours all week long to get the latest and first. as much as i like nascar the big story as ainsley was talking about right before the show is clippers on the road. ainsley: long conversation about it. brian: did you break that down on the internet afterwards or do it today. ainsley: i will be happy to do it. right now get to news and wish all the mothers a happy mother s day i hope you had a wonderful day with your family. steve: absolutely. welcome back to an
counting the cost of coronavirus, more than 200 thousand people have died from covid 19 in india but experts say the real total is much higher. and, if a picture is worth a thousand words, what s a smirk like that worth? more than you might think, in this nft world of ours. hello i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. presidentjoe biden wants to dramatically expand the role of the government in the us economy, and tonight he ll present to congress his american families plan. it will be a muted affair due to coronavirus, with only 200 people actually in the chamber. aides to mr biden say he s rising to the challenge of this moment, when the pandemic has laid bare how families are struggling with child care and the lack of paid family leave. if passed by congress the proposal would represent the single biggest attempt since the 1960s to expand government support for working families in the united states. the american families plan would cost taxpa