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we ll talk to congressman joaquin castro about what we can expect. and breaking this morning, pfizer now says its data shows that its anti-viral covid pill is 89% effective at preventing hospitalizations and death. and remembering an american hero. this afternoon, a memorial service will be held for former secretary of state colin powell at the washington national cathedral. and we begin this hour with the state of the economy. the government says the employers added a better than expected 531,000 jobs in october. the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. the black unemployment rate held steady at 7.9%, while the unemployment rate for latinos dropped by 0.4%. president biden will talk about the jobs report in just a couple of minutes. we ll bring you that live when it begins. with me now to take a look at this, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, an msnbc anchor and nbc news senior correspondent and correspondent and the star of my life, stephanie ruhle, who is ....
something the president acknowledged today. well, uh, i think we should have it should have passed before election day. but i m not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were trump voters but maybe. more on the president and his agenda, shortly. as well as analysis obt what happened in virginia. but first, cnn s mj lee joins us with more on the still-undecided new jersey s governor s race. the democratic incumbent phil murphy narrowly leading his republican challenger, jack ciattarelli. mj, this was certainly a lot closer than a lot of people thought. reporter: yeah, that s absolutely right, anderson. certainly, a lot closer than what phil murphy and his campaign and democrats had hoped to see. the latest update right now from here asbury park, new jersey, is that the murphy campaign has announced just within the last hour that he plans on giving a speech tonight at around 10:00 in ....
top of a brand new hour. good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. as of now there is 72,057 people killed by coronavirus. the president is asking for new vaccine mandates. as of december 4, federal contract workers, employee businesses and health care workers must be fully vaccinated. they are talking about controlling the spread of the virus. what we re really talking about is control, and control has a wide bracket. you could have it under control where you have enough infections in the community where it isn t a pandemic phase but it still is interfering with what we would like to get back to what we used to know as normal. what we hope to get as it s at such a low level, it doesn t have an impact on the wait we live our lives. the president s new man date, we mandate, we know, is facing opposition. kaitlan collins has more for us now. kaitlan, first, the decision to enact this in january, is the white house explaining why? rep ....
are saying about the speaker s gamble. and the last-minute negotiating behind closed doors. plus, what about that bipartisan infrastructure bill? new details on a timeline for a vote on that. spoiler hope you don t have weekend plans. i m hallie jackson in washington. i definitely don t have plans this weekend. along with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, olivia beavers is joining us, as well, congressional reporter for politico. and pete, let me start with you and this hearing related to the documents on january 6th from the trump white house. you say the judge seemed skeptical about the arguments that were being made by those trump attorneys who were looking to keep those documents out of the hands of the january 6th committee. why? well, the trump lawyers are making two arguments here. first of all, they say that the january 6th committee has no legislative purpose that congressional committees don t have a freestanding authority to investigate, t ....
counting votes. and the biggest thing when you say, hey, what happened last night? and i just tell people, don t look at virginia look at new jersey. 1:00 p.m., the day after the election night, it s still too close to call in new jersey that in itself is a headline. biden won that state by 16 points last year, just a year ago. where democrat phil murphy won by 14 points in 2017, hillary clinton won the state by 14 points in 2016. you get my drift. this wasn t just a blue state. this was kind of a dark blue state. democrats expected virginia would be potentially very close but not new jersey. the vote count there so far means democrats can t explain away what happened in new jersey, as a result of any one problem. about this candidate trying to nitpick and deflect blame away from themselves. the big take away from last night, democrats have problems they have to face everywhere and it s all over the ideological spectrum. you don t think you re part of the problem and yo ....