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evangelical base? also ahead, a new deadline for the former president. days left to post a $175 million bond. does he have the money? alec murdaugh back in court facing sentencing for financial crimes. how much longer he could face behind bars, and did he break his plea deal? later, a massive cleanup today in baltimore. the plan to get the mangled remains out of the collapsed bridge out of the water and this busy port back open. hello. it s good to be with you. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with two presidential campaigns and two very different easter messages. donald trump marking the holiday attacking political opponents in all caps, unleashing on prosecutors in his various trials, posting more than 70 times, posts like this on social media and making false claims about an easter egg contest at the white house. meanwhile, president biden who is anticipating in the annual white house easter egg roll at this very moment p ....
to separate their cases. an nbc news exclusive report finds hundreds of active duty u.s. troops will stay at the southern border through the next month. and right now, we are keeping a very close eye on the white house, where president biden is scheduled to speak about the august jobs report any minute now. we ll bring you those remarks when they begin. this comes after the government reported that employers added 187,000 jobs last month, more than the 170,000 economists had predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, and let s break it down by race. the hispanic unemployment rate rose half a percentage point to 4.9. the black unemployment rate fell by half a percentage point to 5.3. with us now to talk about this is cnbc s seema mody. good morning. so what else did we learn from this report? the takeaway is this is a resilient jobs market with 187,000 jobs added in the month. yes there are some cracks that are emerging with the higher than expected unemploymen ....
for eight people gathering to debate in milwaukee. we ll get insight into the political mountain those candidates will have to climb from someone who has been on that debate stage. and a story out of tennessee that is both heartbreaking and creating a political fire storm after republican lawmakers cleared the room in the midst of a tearful legislative session on guns. the latest on their increasingly aggressive efforts pitting them against the families of murdered children. but first, we knew this was coattlming.between the political and legal, and here it is. the first republican debate of the year is tonight. but being overshadowed by what s happening 800 miles away in georgia. that s where the front runner, donald trump, boasts that he ll be, quote, proudly arrested. and using it as a prime time event, planning his arrest at night tomorrow when more people are able to watch it. and even before that, working to pull eyeballs away from the debate tonight. nbc news h ....
correct. tim scott, not a fire breathing mega candidate, to have tim scott got up there and say, they won, i m gonna fire merrick garland. i mean if i or kris wright. first of, all everybody gets their own attorney. also, that s weird. firing the fbi director, who s trump s appointee, okay, also little weird. the reason he asked a peacock on that issue, as irrationally as he did, it s because, in the republican party, there s now, even among non-mega people, this appetite to somehow subject the criminal justice system in the legal system too partisan influence. using this canard that this is joe biden s prosecution, or persecution of his political enemy, and you see even very responsible republicans playing with that particular fire. and it s consequential, and that s the soul of the nation stuff, regardless of this individual man s soul. i should just, say it s also, just for reset purposes, it is nine pm. in atlanta. nine pm on the east coast, where today, former ....
police now identifying the man they say was yelling about a pride flag outside a business, tore it down and killed the store owner. plus smoke billowing across the pacific northwest as wildfires rage in washington state with more than 100 buildings destroyed. and new data on the challenge of fulfilling what is for many the american dream. owning their own home. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we start in atlanta where ali vitali has been watching the action at the fulton county jail. you just caught up with one of trump s co-defendants, john eastman give us the latest. reporter: this as eastman was coming out of the jail after surrendering ahead of the friday deadline that fani willis laid out for all defendants here. trump said he won t turn himself in until thursday but we can tell there s progress being made in terms of seeing the co-defendants set consent orders which sets the bond amounts they have to pay once they surren ....