Piece of data is that in 2020, for only the second time in 35 years, household debt in the u. S. Decreased. So people saved money, which makes sense. A lot of us weren t spending money. But it may be that more people than ever have saved enough money that they can take a chance on following a hobby, an entrepreneurial passion, stay at home with their family for a while, or retire early. So experts say the question now becomes how will employers respond? they say they are going to have to offer better packaging and more pay. Alex. Erin mclaughlin, thank you. M. A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. A big week in washington ahead as the battle for two of the president s central legislative goals is coming to a head. On monday the details of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal will be revealed. Will it receive enough support from the progressive democrats? what is in the bipartisan bill in terms of spending is,
for this hour. rachel has the night off. we ll start off the night in classic rachel fashion. we go back to the archives here. it was october 30th, 1961. and on an island in the russian arctic sea, this happened. the soviet union detonated the most powerful nuclear device ever tested. it remains, believe it or not, til this day, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. i know this is going to sound almost impossible to comprehend. it was 3,333 times stronger, stronger, than the bomb that was actually dropped on hiroshima. because this was the height of the cold war, because it was at the height of the arms race between the soviet union and the united states, the men who designed this bomb, the men who brought the soviet union to this glory of having the strongest nuclear device in the world, as you can imagine, they were heroes. here is how one of those scientists, andre sakarov, was described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he g
reports a harrowing new reality in american and civic life. the only question gehlman leave force the rest of us is this, can we handle the truth about january 6th? namely if a the deadly insurrection on that day was practiced? in explanation of the piece and the issue, atlantic editor s jeffrey goldberg frames the issue this way n atlantic across its long history has held true to the belief that the american experiment is a worthy won, which why we are devoting this issue and so much of our journalism in the coming years to its possible demise. the atlantic lays out in painstaking detail how the insurrection was a dress rehearsal for the next election and explains and reports out how the disgraced expresident is in position if the next election doesn t go his way. trump s next coup has already begun, he says, in it, he says, given opportunity, they will act, they are acting already. allies the disgraced expresident are working to set up what gehlman describes as a apparatus
bills critical to the president s agenda. this hour, the $1.75 trillion question, what s going to happen? it depends on what minute you ask that question. a handful the moderates, six to be specific, holding things up until they know how much it will cost. the president is back inside the oval office. this last-minute pushing, as we wait to hear from the white house, deputy press secretary taking that podium not too long from now. i m hallie jackson in washington. we re also joined by ana palmer. ali, i have to ask you. where are we at 3:01 eastern when it comes to timing on a vote. reporter: it hasn t been easy for the past few weeks now. it seems like every time they come close to actually setting this vote, it ends up falling apart. we re not at the falling apart phase yesterday. members are wondering whether they re heading out tonight or not. the lay of the land came from hakim jeffries a few minutes ago. in the tweet, he says he s looking forward to moving legislation
find in wyoming september 19th after disappearing weeks before. brian laundrie s parents say they last saw him september 13th but didn t report him missing until four days later. now, after officials have been searching the reserve for over a month, the laundrie s lawyer suggests a new study was made yesterday by laundrie s father himself. why only yesterday? why the father? had the fbi been to the spot before? why didn t dogs or the fbi make the discoveries? a notebook was found. what was inside? is it even in condition to provide clues? the remains appear to have been there for a while. nick valencia joining us from near the reserve in north port, florida. maybe more questions than answers today, nick. reporter: good morning, brianna. for weeks, brian laundrie was the most wanted man in america. the 23-year-old who was wanted for questioning in the death of his 22-year-old fiancee vanished without a trace after telling his parents he was going for a hike in this nature