i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart. right now on capitol hill, democratic lawmakers are about to gather for a remembrance event marking two years since the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol lawmakers, staff and law enforcement fear for their lives after a pro-trump mob stormed the halls of congress. norma torres will account her experience on that terrible day. we re day four of an intense speakership battle where a group made up of 2020 election deniers is rebebl belling against kevin mccarthy s bid throwing congress into paralysis. mccarthy isn t backing down. we re going to make progress. we re going to shock you. why? why what? how are you going to shock us today? you re going to get there today? i don t know, you ll see progress. reporter: a brand now gnu jobs report shows a better than expected 222,000 jobs were added in december. we ll ask the labor secretary what this means for the state of our economy. also this hour, we ll take you live
sail. ask just moments ago, president biden issuing a statement on the jobs report saying in part, today s report is great news for our economy and more evidence that my economic plan is working. the unemployment rate is at the lowest in 50 years. we have just finished the two strongest years of job growth in history. joining us to talk more about this is labor secretary marti walsh. thank you for being patient with us as we went to capitol hill for breaking news. there is a definite positive side. 2022 was the second best year for job creation since 1940. on thing in side, there are a the lot of analysts looking at this new we have a with wave of tech and finance industry layoffs saying it suggests that the labor market might be start lose momentum and the gains could reverse in the year ahead. how do you see the job market going forward? i think on that last point, we re going to watch the numbers really closely and not just
i talked to marti walsh after that deal was struck. and he maintained even back then they had one day of paid sick leave in the agreement they had back then. sick leave was a sticking point. ask when you talk to the labor union leaders on the news hour, you hear from them they don t feel the railways are being honest the way they are representing this issue. they have a pool of sick days. and sick leave does not really fall neatly within that prescheduled requirement they have for those days. and it s important to point out this is part of the post pandemic reckoning. they had many people who fell ill and had to quarantine during the pandemic ask were not paid for that. lost thousands of dollars. and uh-uh say post pandemic only to say post lodgedown period. not that we re out of the pandemic. but this maintains that there s going to be disagreement moving ahead. certainly among lawmakers about how to get sick days in there
would absolutely need for the paid sick leave piece of this. that doesn t fall neatly within party lines. there s some democrats who are pushing to get that vote not just up for a vote but to pass that as part of the larger deal. and there are some rms who might join democratic ranks on that but it s unclear whether they will have the ten votes they need for that. it s also unclear when they are going to be ready to do this vote. they have pete buttigieg and marti walsh coming to democratic lunch today. again, keeping the urgency on the lawmakers as they tie to do this fix in a real a time as possible. a rail strike would have far reaching effects across the economy, but this is a fight for paid sick leave. this is important as well. that s right. this was the sticking point earlier in negotiations of the white house managed to narrowly avert that strike back in september.
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