spending to the party s latest overall $928 billion proposal. well, here s the reaction from the white house and we quote. the current offer did not meet the president s objectives to grow the economy, tackle the climate crisis, create new jobs. biden added they ll keep talking on monday. this all comes, of course, as the latest jobs report shows 559,000 jobs added to the u.s. economy, better than last month. not as high as some economists had projected. republicans say ux tended unemployment benefits in biden s covid relief bill were too generous. they re keeping people who need jobs from taking jobs. half of the states all led by republican governors are cutting off or cutting back benefits before the september expiration date. today biden defended his economic strategy. as we continue this recovery we re going to hit some bumps along the way. of course that ll happen. you can t reboot the world s largest economy like flipping on a light switch. there s going to be ups an
but it cannot be ignored ten miles down the road another officer s trial is being conducted. experts being called this afternoon telling the jury that george floyd did not die from suffocation. also this hour, we expect to see the president of the united states making this huge announcement that he plans to end america s longe war and that u.s. troops will be withdrawn from afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. as soon as we see the president, we ll take it live. but first to brooklyn center, minnesota. officer kim potter has been charged, arrested, booked into jail for the death of daunte wright. the charge of second-degree manslaughter. potter abruptly resigned yesterday, citing, quote, the interests of the community. meantime protests continue for a third straight night, demonstrators chanting things like stand up now and i believe we can win. there were violent clashes. police made more than 16 arrests. a adrienne broaddus is there for us
to overturn the election, being involved in the so-called war rooms at the willard hotel, and we need to find out everything they said and did. some subpoenas in this latest batch focus on the reported use of the willard hotel near the white house as a so-called command center for staging the effort to keep trump in power. it s in the woodward and costa book called peril. the committee s letter to attorney john eastman notes that he was, quote, at the willard hotel war room with steve bannon and others on the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection where the focus was on delaying or blocking the certificate of the election. committee also says he reportedly, quote, wrote two memoranda offering several scenarios for the vice president to potentially change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. like that s a thing. the subpoena also mentions eastman s appearance at the rally that took place just before the insurrection. we know there was fraud, traditiona
me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, search crews and loved ones fearing the worse for the five people on board the small submersible with the coast guard discovering a debris field within the search area. i ll speak to former u.s. commander in just a few moments. a district judge is about to unseal documents revealing just who paid the $500,000 bond to keep disgraced congressman george santos out of jail after he turned himself in on federal criminal charges, including money laundering and wire fraud. and president biden is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with india s prime minister modi as the administration hosts a controversial leader, an ally they hope could be a military and economic counter weight to china, but closely tied to russia, accused of widespread human rights abuses. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington, we ha
tonight on $360, the the latest moves and the former president s attempt to avoid any accountability in january 6 in two cases that could make any president immune from anything they do in office and alexandria ocasio-cortez on her calls for clarence thomas to recuse himself from the former president s appeal to stay on the colorado pat skwuks and reports of loose bolts on boeing max 9s. there s still very few answers how it happened we begin tonight for joining us in the former president s push to pick any criminal charges against him disappear. he ll in washington tomorrow in court by choice, we should add, as a federal appeals panel hears oral arguments on his claim of presidential immunity in the january 6 case. today he filed a similar immunity claim on similar state charges in georgia. now if they go his way, especially in the federal case, it could make him and any former president legally unaccountable for any crime they might commit while in office. it s the same n