a very good day to all of you. from msnbc news headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. new polling from nbc news shows overwhelming majorities believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and there s a real threat to democracy. senator bernie sanders responding to the low marks democrats are receiving, saying the party needs to start taking a different, more aggressive approach. i think there s widespread understanding that what we ve done in the last mix months has failed. we need to change course, and find the courage to take on the republicans, and let manchin and sinema decide what side they re on. today, bennie thompson says the january 6th panel has already spoken with william barr. do you intend to go to the attorney general, bill barr, to follow up on this? yes, we do, we have had conversations with the former attorney general already. we ve talked to department of defense individuals. meantime, tensions between russia and ukraine ar
on this morning, and a lot of coverage that we want to show you. we re going to start with september jobs numbers from the labor department. showing just 194,000 jobs added just last month, 500,000 were expected. the unemployment number fell from 5.2% to 4.8% as well. this is coming just hours after congress gave the economy a little good news. finally, coming through, with a deal to raise the nation s debt limit just 11 days before the deadline, after telling democrats for months they had to do it on their own, mitch mcconnell changed course and struck a bipartisan deal. it is a temporary fix though, raising the limit for a little less than half a trillion which will only get us to december 3rd. then we re going to have to do this, all over again, folks, we want to bring in nbc national reporter, monica, our white house correspondent and jason furman as well, chair of the white house advisers under president obama now a professor, jason, i want to start with you on this one,
and corruption. just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. texas senator a democrat, called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. what happened here was and a toss-up. this was an easy bank shot. every one of these republicans saw this evidence that they should have all voted for conviction, but they made the political choice rather than the expedient choice rather than the hard decisions. sometimes you have to risk the consequences when it s about integrity when it s about justice. clearly, there was no justice indexes today. donald trump, ken paxton ally, wasted no time in congratulating paxton. trump posted on social media the texas house speaker republican should resign for pushing this disgraceful sham. paxton is back to worth. he reports the verdict reached saturday after a two-week trial in the senate chamber, clears the way for paxton, a three term republican, to return to a position he has used to advance an
senior attorney for the group booking a new suit on abortion access and other states is here. and later, believing in science for america s future. at a time when it rapidly tragic climate makes the topic more urgent than ever. this is american voices. we begin this hour breaking news and texas. republicans in the state senate failed to help one of their own accountable. voting to acquit attorney general ken paxton and the pitchman trial. this is once again the story of gop leaders prioritizing loyalty to the party above all else. impeachment articles accused paxton of misconduct, bribery, and corruption. just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. texas senator called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. what happened here wasn t a toss-up, this was an easy bank shot. every one of these republicans saw this evidence, they should have all voted for conviction. but the mid-political choice rather than the expedient ch
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