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. today s 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. let s 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 n
the good economic numbers are also matched with warning signs, big ones. that it could be short lived. the number of daily cases and here is why the number of daily cases rose to 103,000 on wednesday and a surge that has not shown an end in sight with implications for all of us and everywhere. phil mattingly is joining me now for more on it from the white house. phil, what are we expecting to hear from the president any moment now? reporter: there is no question he will focus on economic report. they acknowledged that when you deg through the data of this report, there is not a lot that you could be uncomfortable with or worried about. the top line number was bigger than analysts estimates heading into the report. wage growth is solid. upward revisions in may and june. the president is going to want to talk about all of those things and try and make the point that he believes it is an acknowledgment that his program is working. yes, the infrastructure proposal moving thro
plot to install fake electors to declare donald trump the winner of these seven states, we show, all of which president biden won in the 2020 election. many were sent weeks after the election to state party officials. until now the justice department has never acknowledged investigating any significant part of the plot by the former president to overturn the election. evan perez, tell us more about what you ve learned. well, kate, as you said, this is the first acknowledgment we ve had from the justice department, which is to say that they are looking into these referrals from a number of state prosecutors who believe that perhaps a federal law was broken when these fake electors sent these certificates to the national archives. some of these electors were smart enough to change the language that was presented to them by trump allies to sort of cover themselves legally, others did not. so i asked the deputy attorney general lisa monaco about this aspect of the investigation
fight for higher wages for workers. thanks for being here, everyone. big developments and growing fears that europe is closer to the brink of war. this morning, the state department is reducing personnel at the u.s. embassy in kyiv, ukraine, starting with the departure of non-essential staff and family members. nato allies sending additional ships and fighters, a move kremlin is slamming as hysteria. president biden is considering deploying several thousand u.s. troops to the region to mark a major escalation from him. secretary of state tony blinken now is also warning that if a single russian unit enters ukraine, it would trigger a swift, severe and united response from the u.s. and europe. we have every angle covered on this rapidly developing story with reporters in ukraine, russia, and washington at this hour. let s begin with cnn s matthew chance in kyiv. matthew, what is the latest there? reporter: the latest, kate, it s been quite a strong reaction from the ukrain
with the house committee investigating the capitol insurrection. in just minutes we ll hear from mccarthy at his weekly news conference, and you can be sure he ll face questions if he takes them about why he s going back on his promise to cooperate with the committee. the panel wants to speak to him because of his repeated contacts and calls with donald trump on the day of the violence siege. investigators believe mccarthy has valuable insight into trump s state of mind in the lead-up on the day of and in the days after the attack. but mccarthy now says he won t cooperate, calling the probe illegitimate and an abuse of power. the committee s vice chairman, republican liz cheney, she is now accusing mccarthy of trying to cover up what happened that day. and that is exactly one year to the day the house of representatives impeached trump a second time for inciting the insurrection. mccarthy, well, he seems to have forgotten his own words from one year ago today. the preside