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Wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. And hundreds are still without power. Katie, how do things look there now . A new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and theyre trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the Downtown High Rise Office Buildings and hotels. And you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows theyre going to have to take care of, all o...

Here. we know that a infrastructure package is more expansive than many republicans wants and not as expansive as democrats wants. that's a sweet pot. we have to put pay-fors on the table including the business community to contribute through increased user fees to help finance the structure that we need. >> neil: we'll see what happens. neil bradley, great catching up with you. now to chad bernstein, the senior white house economic adviser. thanks for coming. >> my pleasure. >> neil: what is your take on the jobs number and this debate that it could be stronger without these extended unemploy...

The recovery. congressman, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: it's been a rough week. i want to know what happened at your home earliner the week. you heard from the senior white house economic adviser. he's convinced this spending is doing good. not is not the time to curtail it. what do you think of that? >> well, president biden just had another missed jobs report with the may jobs report. he missed that hit, that goal by 110,000 jobs. last month was no better. we're seeing democratic policy of more spending, greater debt, more expansion of money by the federal reserve...

Would be different. number one, as jerod just said, we did do it their way and that's how we got into this mess. number two, there is no mythological parallel universe where we can say, gee, let's compare. the numbers are moving in the right direction. not as fast as we would like. not to the degree we would like but it's a movement in the right direction. so the question really to people is, we know people are hurting. but we're moving in the right direction. do you want to keep going in this direction with the ideas the president has put out. hey, how about the made in america agenda that de...

Joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, democrat from washington. and chad bernstein, msnbc contributor and chief economist for joe biden. thank you both gentlemen for joining me. >> thank you. >> congressman mcdermott, let me begin with you. is he afraid his views will be out of step with the american public? jared, let me ask you that. >> okay. yeah, i think so. i think what you see here if you look at these plans -- the beginning, they're starting to shape up. you don't get any details. so you have to look at these things from 40,000 feet up. what you see is basically robin hood in rev...