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now a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay up to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. ♪ hi, everyone. it is saturday, august 6th, and thank you so much for waking up with us, especially you, phil. i'm glad your alarm clock went off. >> yeah. my big question right now looking at my phone, are my kids awake yet? has the circus fully started in my household? did yours? >> mine almost did when my alarm clock went off at 3:00 -- not 3:00, 2:00. my son started crying. i got to take him out of bed and stick him with my husband and leave the circus. you deal wit...

To do. that but democrats feel like, you know, what recession is on the horizon if you're going to have 500,000 jobs created every month. and so obviously they're worried about inflation, but they feel like biden hasn't gotten enough credit on building and helping build this economy that is really doing, you know, gangbusters in terms of the actual numbers. >> yeah. i mean the recovery, if you compare it to the 2008-2009 recovery, it's dramatically different, dramatically faster, inflation standing in the way. daniel, we're not surprised by much in this town. you surprise me with your personne...

Person's life more difficult. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer dismissed any idea of politically tough votes. he said in the end the passage will outweigh anything difficult the senators will have to do. it will be a long night. they're talking about busting out the cots and ordering late-night pizza because it's going go a long weekend. >> all right. i'm sure you'll be watching it closely. thanks so much. appreciate that. after months of setbacks and false starts, the biden administration is celebrating some major wins on multiple fronts. >> and those victories, they come at a crucia...

This week alone, it's at a 50-year low. wait did was bolster the white house's argument that the economy is not heading into a recession. you heard them making that argument throughout the last couple of weeks, that because the jobs market was so strong, the economy wasn't headed toward a recession, despite negative growth and high inflation. this really lends fuel to that argument. you did hear president biden come out yesterday to the blue room balcony and kind of take a victory lap. listen to what he said. >> we're almost at 10 million jobs, 10 million jobs since i took office. that's the f...

Heads into the weekend. phil, this jobs report was so key that it showed all of the jobs lost during the pandemic have been regained. >> kevin liptak on the front lawn, not wearing the aviators just yet. now to discuss the major economic news, political white house reporter daniel lippman. daniel, we just heard president biden touting the jobs report. but he also acknowledged americans may have a hard time appreciating it with inflation the highest in the last 40 years. you know this white house. you know the people inside of it very, very well. what's your sense of it right now as to how th...