and a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. here s what s happening. we begin with that breaking news out of washington with the president taking a victory lap today after the house passed a historic bipartisan infrastructure bill. that bill is now just one signature away from becoming law. looking more forward to having shovels in the ground, to begin rebuilding america. and for all of you at home who feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that s changing so rapidly, this bill is for you. the vast majority of the thousands of jobs that will be created don t require a college degree. there will be jobs in every part of the country. red states, blue states, cities, small towns, rural communities, tribal communities. this is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild america. meantime, the build back better act also clearing a major hurdle in the house last night, although it still has several steps to go bef
political gurus, one on the left, one on the right, with their take on each of the parties. was this a teachable vote? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that always learns its lessons the hard way. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, november 5th. we ll start with the news. the house is set to vote today on both the build back better act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. overnight the rules committee voted along party lines to advance the final pieces of legislation to the full house. debate will begin in just a few hours at 8:00 a.m. eastern. democrats worked late into the night, finalizing deals on the spending bill. speaker pelosi agreed to consider immigration legislation with a group of latinos after it s done. on state and local taxes, nbc news has been told negotiations are complete and the $10,000 reduction cap will be raised to $80,000 for the next ten years. and for democrats concerned with the cost of
not intervene. the judge seemed not to buy his lawyer s argument that there was, quote, no legislative purpose to the request replying january 6th happened at the capitol, literally, congress s house. and are you really saying the president s notes talking points have no bearing on the investigation? as it tries to piece it all together the committee listens to more voices behind closed. liz cheney telling politico they have completed over 150 interviews with a whole range of people connected to the events, connected to understanding what happened. that just gives you a sense it is a range of engagement, some formal interviews, some depositions, there really is a large amount of work under way. john eastman, of whom we learned even more stunning details this week, what he was planning before, during, even after the violent attack. the washington post reported that a pence aide while in hiding in the capitol basement with the vice president was told pence s action was to bla
scrutinized is whether he is commented on the election development. before i get into other particulars here, we are getting some preconstituted numbers, if you will come out of the garden state. there is a sign, if we could show this, in hudson county. a very strong democratic area of where there was a double count going on. it is now since been addressed being governor murphy s down a little bit by little less than a thousand votes and reducing his opponents by 3,000. it puts him back in a position where they re almost out of time. but that double counting and hudson county has been addressed. there is anger from 150-175000 votes yet to be tabulated. there is no automatic recount in the garden state, but whoever comes up with the short end of the stick will likely demand and petition for recount and likely get that recount petition excepted. this is something that could drag on for a while here until we have an official count on all of us. in case you didn t think this was
i want to get to the election day right now. polls opening in just a few hours in virginia and the closely watched race for governor. the candidates neck-and-neck tonight. the latest from cnn s jeff z zeleny. reporter: one final push for votes in virginia. do not sleep for 24 hours. let s bring this baby home! democratic terry mcauliffe. on election eve he is locked in a bitter duel with republican businessman glenn youngkin. the entire nation is watching this. all eyes are on virginia. reporter: a year after president biden won the commonwealth by ten points republicans are riding a wave of energy. they hope to spark a party resurgence as democrats scramble to keep their party together and avoid an embarrassing defeat. there is not going to be a democrat in any seat in this nation who thinks their seat is safe. reporter: for virginia elects its governors a year after the presidential race. since 1970 the party out of power out of the white house has won every tim