bill: economic signs of life not discouraging democrats plowing forward with two huge spending bills. they will debate the social safety net bill known as bbb, build back better. leadership is hoping to vote on that and the infrastructure bill today. dana: the latter bill would go straight to the president s desk and give him a needed win. the social safety net bill would await a score from the congressional budget office in the senate and it could be a big one. bill: team fox coverage maria bartiromo with analysis on the jobs report. aishah hosni is herding cats on the hill. good morning. what s going on? good morning. what a difference one night can make. we went from this sausage making process being described by some democrats as a word i cannot use on tv that s how bad it was to now we might actually have two votes happening later this morning. sometime today the schedule still has not been set yet. here is what s happening now a live look at the house floor. the
hillary vaughan here to give us more on that hillary? hi, neil. speaker pilosi is on the house floor right now trying to win votes so that bind s package will go up for a vote tonight or before the weekend. they start off today believing they could get the votes to possibly hold a vote tonight. they have been whipping with all day but we did just hear from congressman henry who told reporters just off the house floor that he thinks they don t have the votes yet to make it happen and to bring president biden s bill back better agenda to the house floor tonight. part of the issue, part of the reason why there was momentum from speaker pelosi is because the joint committee on taxation did come out with their analysis today that the white house and top democrats are interpreting as saying this agenda is completely paid for but the problem is the package is not done yet. there are concerns from members that we ve been talking to today that some of the programs in the package w
- also guinea pigs. - also guinea pigs, ok. i m getting a theme going here. what else? but maybe it s much simpler than i m making it out to be. for inspiration, i ve turned to a particularly unfiltered bunch. ice cream and robots? ok, what else? - like, something like, something like a bird caucus. - like a bird caucus? - yeah! - i think a bird caucus sounds really interesting. i m not sure what that is. - [laughing] - i always say that! - [laughs] - oh, that made you happy! oh, my god, this is gonna be the greatest party ever. go! bird caucus? bird caucus. yeah. eureka! bird caucus. [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back - what if i travel the world, exploring what makes some places happier than others? - need a one-two. - i m looking at the ways that where we are. - yeah, i m a-comin , i m a-comin - affect who we are. - whoo, i m a-comin i m a-comin , yeah. - it s been said that the search for happiness is the chief sou
zone. also tonight, the first 2 of donald trump s 18 co-defendants in the georgia election case surrendering at an atlanta jail. among them, attorney john eastman accused of plotting what s been called a fake elector scheme. it comes as mr. trump confirms when he will turn himself in. the miracle rescue, seven students and a teacher dangling nearly a thousand feet in the air after a cable car s line snaps in pakistan. the incredible video, a helicopter hoisting one passenger to safety. the home explosion that killed the father of an nfl star. what we re learning. the fatal school bus crash in ohio on the first day of the new school year. the gunman identified in the fatal shooting of a california shop owner over her pride flag. was it a hate crime? and american sha carri richardson racing into history, the thrilling moment she became the world s fastest woman. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. tonight,
plane falling from the sky with a damaged wing. as you ve often seen when it comes to air crashes, showing bodies on the floor. even an open transparent investigation using dna would struggle to go through a scene like that and be clear about every single person who had lost their life there. who indeed they were. instead, we have russian state media, russian state investigators launching into this investigation. these are the people in the pay of vladimir putin. they often channel his every word and wishful sometimes there s chaos. sometimes we don t always see a perfectly orchestrated plot. it s unclear what we re seeing here but the message is thick and fast and it is all pointing toward the possibility that yevgeny prigozhin is indeed dead. now, here s frankly a seminole figure. he was a she was with the military supply, who then turned the man who ran the factory that caused havoc in the u.s. elections. he openedly admitted to being involved in trying to mettle in the el