as a parent, could i ask you to respect my children s space? but she was a ball of fire that attracted publicity like nothing else. the clock was ticking and she was about to run out of time. i want to reassure all those people who have loved me and supported me throughout the 15 years, i d never let them down. we re actually hearing princess diana speak from the heart. she s giving her first ever solo interview. the public were riveted, 20 million of them watching in pubs. everybody hung on to her every word. she went from military style jacket, very strong, very powerful, extremely chic. she s saying i know you re going to attack me and i m going into battle. i was separated wife prince of wales, i was a problem full stop. never happened before. what do we do with her? can t we back her off quietly rather than campaign against her? she won t go quietly, that s the problem. i ll fight until the end. she was controlled, unmessaged, well rehearsed
a.m., eastern. tgsit s the top of the hour. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we are hearing about frustration from house democrats over new demands from moderates in the party. it s holding up the vote on the two bills that make up the president president s agenda. there are a few moderates who want a score from the congressional budget office which is an estimate on the cost and economic impact of the legislation before they move forward with those votes. and so that demand goes against president biden s wishes today. he urged his party to move forward with the vote saying it s needed to continue the momentum after today s jobs report, which was good, it was great. it showed a big rebound. the economy added more than 530,000 jobs in october, and unemployment dropped to 4.6%. hourly wages also increased by nearly 5%. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house, we begin with manu raju, things seem to be changing by the minute, what s happening with the vote?
we ll talk to congressman joaquin castro about what we can expect. and breaking this morning, pfizer now says its data shows that its anti-viral covid pill is 89% effective at preventing hospitalizations and death. and remembering an american hero. this afternoon, a memorial service will be held for former secretary of state colin powell at the washington national cathedral. and we begin this hour with the state of the economy. the government says the employers added a better than expected 531,000 jobs in october. the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. the black unemployment rate held steady at 7.9%, while the unemployment rate for latinos dropped by 0.4%. president biden will talk about the jobs report in just a couple of minutes. we ll bring you that live when it begins. with me now to take a look at this, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, an msnbc anchor and nbc news senior correspondent and correspondent and the star of my life, stephanie ruhle, who is at a
garrett, i saw you about i don t know how many hours ago, morning joe was on saying maybe. but we have been through this. tell me, is this it? is this the real thing? it is hard to say. the day started with a ton of optimism from house democratic leadership. the plan was they could vote to send the build back better to the senate and send the bipartisan senate-passed infrastructure bill to the president s desk. but they ran into half a dozen house moderates who objected to not having a final congressional budget office score not seeing all the math for how it would be paid for and agreed to what the final costs would be held to. leadership came up with a second plan, what if we do a procedural vote to advance that bill and vote to send the bipartisan bill to the president s desk. moderates said they would rather sit back and wait until the cbo score is done. who doesn t like that answer? the president himself. he wants a vote today to get things moving. we have been exp
something the president acknowledged today. well, uh, i think we should have it should have passed before election day. but i m not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were trump voters but maybe. more on the president and his agenda, shortly. as well as analysis obt what happened in virginia. but first, cnn s mj lee joins us with more on the still-undecided new jersey s governor s race. the democratic incumbent phil murphy narrowly leading his republican challenger, jack ciattarelli. mj, this was certainly a lot closer than a lot of people thought. reporter: yeah, that s absolutely right, anderson. certainly, a lot closer than what phil murphy and his campaign and democrats had hoped to see. the latest update right now from here asbury park, new jersey, is that the murphy campaign has announced just within the last hour that he plans on giving a speech tonight at around 10:00 in the b