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president donald trump. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, august 25th. im willie geist. with us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. the president of the national action network and host of "politics nation," reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for "politico," sam stein. lets dive into the story that has everybody talking right now. 43 million people in line to have at least...

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Across the country, COVID hospitalizations are now at their lowest level since early 2022.

Some tips for our fourth pandemic summer.

Legislative victories the last few weeks that have at least given their voters a reason to think about turning out, if not turn out all together. obviously, the dobbs decision, overturning roe v. wade, has been motivating. but i think that what we want to see is where things are a month from now, where things are six weeks from now. sometimes there is this summer lull where the party that had been on the march, in this case the republicans, look like theyre weakening. it look like maybe the midt...

November, the most since july. hiring roared in october. turns out the summer lull because of the delta variant wasnt as bad as feared. the job market is improving, but its not quite back to normal. 5.8 million jobs added back this year, but considering the 22 million lost at the start of the pandemic, the labor market you can see is still in a hole. and a big challenge for companies, something thats called the great resignation, back do normal is not at all what millions of workers necessarily ...

>> hiring roared back in october. companies added back another 531,000 jobs even that summer lull in hiring wasnt as bad as feared. the government revised higher august and september job growth. wages grew a strong 4.9%. companies are restraining workers and hiring was spread across industries hiring in the bars an restaurants, offices and plants and factories and warehouses and construction sites. employment in leisure and hospitality has grown by 2.4 million job this is year. the jobless rate ...

Right now, debate around the build back better plan as it is known happening on the house floor. today could be the day sweeping social safety net package and crucially the bipartisan infrastructure bill get a vote. >> yeah, so overnight lawmakers resolving we know at least one major sticking point. and the white house released its estimate of just how this would impact the deficit. so theyre close. but theyre not there yet. well take you live to capitol hill with much more on that ahead in a mo...

Summer lull and trade war. two years ago president trump told "the new york times" imate the one that saved coal. im the one that created jobs. west virginia is doing fantastically now. the president of the coal miners union cecil roberts is painting a harsher reality. >> coals not back. nobody saved the coal industry. were going to continue to lose coal mining jobs just like we lost steel worker jobs just like we lost auto worker jobs. not because we cant compete, because of bad public policy...

Gains there. look, stocks logged their best day in three weeks. the dow jumped 379 points, s&p 500 all weighing on markets. there are new talks on the agenda for early october. investors also gearing up for the august jobs report. that comes in a few hours. economists say this will show some weakness thanks to the summer lull and trade war. two years ago president trump told us im the one that saved coal. im the one that created jobs. you know west virginia is doing fantastically now. cecil ro...