1 million nearly hired last month. The Infrastructure Bill is a critical next step. What is indisputable now is this, the Biden Plan is working, boo Biden Plan produces results and moving the country forward. Brand new reporting on how the Big Lie is stoking Security Concerns for lawmakers heading home. We begin the hour, though, with the biden White House and its Kitchen Sink you might call it covid scramble. Todays Jobs Numbers are proof the economy is ready to soar, yet the new covid numbers raise the clear tHreat of another pandemic cliff. Team biden now urgently looking for new tools to boost vaccinations and today, word it is now considering what you might call a Hardball Approach to federal funding. If you want your check, do more to get shots in arms. Lets check in with our white House Correspondent Jeremy diamond at the White House on this important day. Jeremy . Yeah. John, we heard president biden take a Victory Lap as he was talking about this record Jobs Number in terms of
prince s authorization. the release of the report represents a shift from former president trump who, as you may recall, refused to fully accept or even acknowledge the assessment which had been leaked to journalists, that the crown prince ordered the assassination, which involved the use of a bone saw. it was included in bob woodward s book rage, bragging about protecting the crown prince saying, quote, i saved his ass, unquote. the biden administration has said the president will recalibrate the relationship with the u.s. ally. this afternoon the administration said it is banning 76 saudi individuals from visiting the u.s. and sanctioning those involved in the khashoggi murder, including the rapid intervention force except notably president biden is imposing no restrictions and no sanctions against crown prince mbs himself, even though mbs is the man that the biden administration says ordered this murder of a washington post journalist. mbs will not be punished, the bid
shear horror. day five of misery for millions. as brian williams put it, an act of god followed by an abject failure by men. dozens have died temperature a family died from carbon monoxide poisoning as their car idled in their garage while trying to keep warm. an 11-year-old boy found dead by his mother under a pile of blankets in their mobile home. authorities are reportedly investigating whether he died of hypothermia. millions in texas are under boil water alerts meaning no water to drink. others have no water at all meaning none to bill, none to bathe in, none to flush the t toilets with. and that also includes some hospitals. listen to this woman who is worried about her husband on dialysis. i know it is freezing, but somebody is responsible for this, you know? somebody is responsible for this. somebody needs to pay for it. you got people dying out here, you go hypothermia. i m scared for my husband. i really am. lord knows i m scared for him because he is really conge
cases has topped 262,000, surpassing the record that was set last january. short time ago, cdc director walensky defended her agency s decision to cut in half the recommended isolation time for people who test positive but are asymptomatic. she said the move was driven by the science not pressure from the business community. and dr. fauci acknowledged that more children are being infected with covid and that it s still not known how severe the virus, omicron in particular, is in children. unanswered questions as schools nationwide map out their plans for students to return after winter break next week. joining me now is nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, dr. william shaffner. mike, let s start with you. the white house task force briefed a little more than an hour ago. how did they defend the cdc s new quarantine and isolation guidelines? reporter: yeah, joe, this was an important opportunity for the country to hear from the president s top advisers on dealing
president biden: there s a lot of noise in washington. it seems to me that there s more than usual, anywhere from 40-80 years in america there is an inflection point where you have to choose what direction we are going to go. these bills are not about left versus right, or moderate versus progressive, anything that fits americans against one another. these are about competitiveness versus complacency. to oppose these investments is to be complicit in america s decline. jesse: after president biden, he said following a female senator into the bathroom is just part of the process. senator kyrsten sinema hound by activists while walking into an airport, then they got in her face once she got on the plane. dana, the democrats can afford to lose three votes in the house, zero votes in the senate. do you think joe doing this sales pitch is going to move anything? speefour i don t necessarily think so, dana: i don t necessarily think so, because he has to convince the senate.