signature. the president has signaled he continues to promote the bill. indeed, he has plans to travel about the country to talk more about it while moving on to the rest of his to-do list. today, members of the house wasted no time trying to define the bill and what it represents. we promise to put vaccination shots in arms for every single american. mission accomplished. we promised to put money in the pockets of every day americans who have been struggling through the economic trauma of the pandemic. mission accomplished. that is the biden american rescues plan. it will be followed by the recovery plan. this is bipartisan legislation. may not satisfy to partisans. we could have had a bill that was you know, a fraction of the cost of this one. we would have gotten bipartisan approval and support. it s not focused on covid relief. it s focused on the agenda. and people recognize that the agenda is bad for america. a great man once said, so it goes. the bill hea
layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this notification. as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. we re talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2 snd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the labor department. here s the letter. oates writes, quote, the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including in the defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2, 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes. the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly. because after all this was sent out and they declined to make anyone available to interview this tonight. of course this was a manna f
piers morgan tonight starts right now. he was an american original. a businessman who changed the world. an ipod. a phone. an internet communicator. who is the real steve jobs? he s a risk taker, a gambler, charismatic, compelling. brilliant and abrasive. if somebody said something stupid instead of saying i don t agree you he would say that s the stupidest blank blank blank idea i ever heard. i will talk to the man jobs picked to tell his story. your time is limited. don t waste it living someone else s life. and top chef from a tiny italian joint downtown to a global food empire and tv career. mario batali will dish on his past and competition and own waistline. this is piers morgan tonight. walter isaacson author of the biography steve jobs. walter, welcome. good to be here. a real firestorm. top of the charts. it s selling like hot cakes. it s causing huge debate. you would expect all that because steve jobs is one of the great american busines
it might just change the way you look at his legend. your time is limited. don t waste it living someone else s life. and top chef from a tiny italian joint downtown to a global food empire and tv career. mario batali will dish on his past and competition and own waistline. this is piers morgan tonight. walter isaacson author of the biography steve jobs. walter, welcome. good to be here. a real firestorm. top of the charts. it s selling like hot cakes. it s causing huge debate. you would expect all that because steve jobs is one of the great american business icons in history. it s a fascinating book. when i plucked out some of the adjectives you use to describe him, obnoxious, rude, ruthless, i m not surprised. nothing i know about steve jobs surprises me that he would be all of those things. i would add and i m sure you would, brilliant, genius. absolutely. can you be a genius without being all these things? i used to work for ted turner and every one of t