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Live right here before he heads back to the white house for the second meeting with republicans in 48 hours on infrastructure. but it's a single democrat who may make the most difference in whether the president gets it done or not and it looks like not. we are live with that guy, garrett haake in virginia with this interview the kingmaker pumping the brakes and a timely guest joining us live later in the show, the guy in charge of the nation's infrastructure transportation secretary to talk about that and more. good morning. i'm hallie jackson with the nbc news team. mike memoli outside the w...

Performance that we were expecting until schools are open 100%. all you have to look at in this report is the participation rate. that went down. why? because there are so many women that cannot go back to work because their kids are at home. i think until we see schools open across the board you aren't going to get a true reflection and not a true reflection of the strength of this economy with all this money being thrown at people and i said next month's jobs report will be even more important than this jobs report. this report does not include the fact that 25 states have just ended the une...

Hospitality. that was the biggest jump in jobs. just walk around new york city. new york city does feel back a month and a half, two months ago, restaurants were empty except maybe a little bit outside. the hotels were mostly empty. that is all coming back, and that is happening nationwide, joe, and that's one of the reasons 559,000 jobs okay, a little bit below what wall street expected. but forget about the expectation because the numbers were all over the map. literally throw a dart, hit a number, that's the way. look at the averages over the past three months, yeah, last month was weak, 1....

Personnel and social workers. we've already made a major change in new york city where we now send on emergency calls more and more civilians if we don't think there's going to be a violent situation. >> so what is that kind of a call? >> if the call comes in and it's someone with a mental health challenge or crisis and there's no evidence of violence on the scene or a weapon, then increasingly we'll be sending civilians out to deal with it. >> the numbers were low last month. blockbuster numbers this month. the u.s. economy added 559,000 jobs, the latest sign of the strengthening recovery as ...

Reported today that employers added 559,000 new jobs last month alone. and the unemployment rate fell to 5.8%. joining us now with much more on all of this, ali velshi, host of "velshi" on msnbc. good to see you, my friend. a lot of interesting takes on this, i would like to get yours. how much of a role is the cutoff of benefits in what seems to be by most estimates a modest job recovery and what could it mean for hiring down the line? >> this is an interesting question, my friend. we'll know the end of this experiment by the end of july because everybody will have cut it out by then. let's l...