and thank you for sharing the book with us. >> thank you so much for having me. that does it for us this morning. what a week it's been. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart live in washington, d.c. on a very busy friday morning. the september jobs report is out and it shows that job growth slowed again last month. we're going to take a closer look at what this means with the labor secretary. the prospect of armageddon a chilly warning from president biden about the nuclear threat posed by russia. we'll go live to mocow to get reaction. this as the president makes history by pardoning thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law. meanwhile nfl the cleanup continues as the death toll from hurricane ian continues to rise. a look at why it was the dead hiest storm to hit the state in

decades. plus the search for answers continues after a deadly stab ing attack on the iconic las vegas strip. and the justice department reportedly does not think the former president trump has returned all of the documents he took when he left the white house. we begin with another job growth story. it's starting to slow. the government reported this morning that employers created 263,000 new jobs in september. it's in line with expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. let's break it down. the hispanic unemployment rate fell last month. it's now at 3.8%. the black unemployment rate is now at 5.8%. and wheal we'll have more to say

save about the economy today. wall street, not thrilled with the news. it's down about 500 plus points, as you can see right now, as it means the federal reserve could continue raising interest rates to fight rising prices. as you see it, it's dropping a little more than 500 points at this hour. with us now to talk more about this is nbc news business and data reporter brian chung. great to see you. what are some of the key highlights from this report? >> as ewe mentioned rkts the report showing that the labor market in the united states still chugging along, maybe at a slower pace than we have seen in previous months. 263,000 jobs added in the month of september. that's a little bit slower than the 315,000 jobs added in prior month in august. most of those gains ahead of you in hospitality, health care, but not all industries grew during the month. when you look at financial activities, transportation, are

retail, education we were among the areas that saw a contraction. but broadly speaking, when you lock at the unemployment rate at 3.5%. that's lows that we have not seen in many, many decades. it shows you that despite the fears of a recession, there isn't necessarily anything being reflected in the labor market. american workers still have a lot of choices, but as yo mentioned, there are some disparities by race with the the hispanic and black unemployment rates higher than the national average. there's definitely some concern, especially about inflation and how that's impacting workers that only saw 5% wage gains in the month of september. obviously, about 8%, that's a really difficult situation for a lot of american households. >> these number when is you look at it cold, that's full employment. >> bodily speaking, yes. for the federal reserve, that's a good thing. but the question is whether or not that picture is going to start to turn. one big reason for that is because you had a central bank

that's been raising interest rates over the course of 2022. what does that do? it makes borrowing costs more expensive. households pair back on spending. maybe companies start to lay off workers. that's not happening now, but you have concern and warnings from the likes of jay powell that pain is going to come. there could be some layoffs in the future. we'll have to see how the next few months develop. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. turning now to a stark warning from president biden in response to russian leader vladimir putin's repeated threats of using nuclear weapons at a fundraiser last night, he made comments off camera saying the united states is not faced the prospect of armageddon since the cuban missile crisis. putin said if russia eastertorial integrity is threatened, he would use all the means at his disposal as russian forces continue to experience military setbacks in ukraine. joining us now is white house

correspondent monica alba. good morning. what led to the president's warning? >> reporter: that's a great question and one we're asking all our sources today. make no mistake, this is an incredibly intense warning in very grim tones from the president of the united states. and we haven't heard an occupant of the white house use that language in decades. to put this in context of where this happened and what the president was talking about largely, this was at a fundraiser in new york last night where reporters are allowed to go with the president and write down and report his remarks, put they couldn't record or film them. so these remain off camera to a group of donors. and the president wbt went on to say he does know russian president vladimir putin fairly well. he believes he's, quote, not joking when he talks about the threats of not just tactical nuclear weapons, but biological

or chemical weapons as well. he said because of russia's significantly underperforming military in the war in ukraine, he said that it is something that we need to take seriously. and what is also notable about this is many in the administration have gone to great lengths to say there's no new intelligence that would show russia is closer to going through with this threat. to hear the president say essentially that we do need to see this as a higher possibility is what's notable here. that is why we have asked the white house and will certainly press the president today to explain if something has shifted to led to him making that incredible warning. >> if you would stay with us, we want to turn to another big headline out of the wous. president biden announcing that he is pardoning thousands of people who have been convicted of marijuana possessions.

between 1992 and 2021, 6,500 people were convicted of simple possession. the president also called on governors to issue pardons for those who face state charges of simple marijuana possession. i want to bring in simone townsend. and the founder and ce of os grass lands. he served as the first ever marijuana editor. so monica, what can you tell us about what led the president to make his announcement now? >> reporter: this is something that candidate biden promised and talked about repeatedly. we have certainly seen this kind of thing.

that possibly about shifting attitudes when it comes to marijuana. so what the president is doing here, just with the use of a pen, he wiped out any federal possession of marijuana and he is asking states and governors to also ask perhaps the dea and hhs to look at rescheduling, which is take a long amount of time. it's something congress has intervened on and could try to amend the controlled substance act down the road. but something the president does want to do. we have to just note the timing of this. 30 odd days away from the midterm elections and this piece in that category of the white house trying to promises kept.

>> the president campaigned in 2020 from your time in the administration. how important was this ask also the timing of this? >> i think it is extremely important. back on the campaign trail, what you heard the president announce the framework. there are many folk who is say, look, it should be decriminalized and rescheduled right away. but the president believes through a process. you have to meticulously study it. what he's directed hhs to do is get suggestions. $100 billion is what is proposed. there are people right now who cannot get jobs because of marijuana possession. >> they have to occur for them

to actually. >>s that good question. hhs has to work with a number of departments and undergo a study. from the federal government, marijuana hasn't been studied. there are lots of people who say it has. people are giving from medical preferences, you can use it right now. but it has to be studied. they do a report. and then a report will be issued and then hhs will make a recommendation to the secretary. and that's how the deal will work. congress has a role to play here as well. people side with the president announced yesterday. state legislators can take the

moouch fz. to undergo a number of bills in state ace cross the country where that could happen. marijuana is not currentlien of the list. it's very complicated. but the part dons are an important part of this. the president is leading here. dwov norths have to follow. hopefully millions of people across the country can get relief because this is crazy. >> it's an important point. how surprised were you by this? the campaign to try to decriminalize marijuana on a federal level have been tense. >> it was a welcome surprise yesterday. we have been waiting for this ever since biden took office. this has been a long time coming. and really giving the american cannabis industry some

much-needed support. but really coming in clutch for the nonviolent drug offenders who should have never served time to begin with. >> they calledmarijuana should be legally cat grazed. what determines what penalty those arrested can face? >> of course. that schedule one substance has been truly holding the american cannabis industry back from succeeding and fulfilling its promise. schedule one means that it holds no medical value and that it has a high risk of abuse. and if we're believing the decades of propaganda that we have been said since the 30st and the 1970s, we would think that about cannabis. by but this experiment with the states being the last of democracy, we have seen that that is not true. this is a nontoxic branch. this is an industry full of good actors doing good work and are

seeking to do this right. and i think there's very much a path to b scheduling, but that's a question right now. are we rescheduling or descheduling. either way it will be a boom for the cannabis industry, but very much what the industry wants is descheduling so cannabis can be treated like alcohol and tobacco. >> nothing is done with nonpolitical reasons in our world. so why now? >> i think a month ago the president got off of air force one after his meeting with mbs. he was asked about this. he said, look, we're working on it. i think now you have to give the people something to knock on the toors and say. and talking about gdp going down and unemployment at 3.5%, that's not something you can knock on the toor with. you have to give organizers tangible things and talking points. >> is this a positive one you think? >> i think it's positive.

that's geeration of young people out there who have not seen their political participation translate into action. the first time i could vote in 2008. that's when obama was running for president. there's a generation of young people that they have been voting. they have not seen something they have gotten for their vote. student loans is very important. this move on cannabis. it's not the whole she bang, but this is an important piece. >> so thank you for beings with us. i want to tell you how cool and great it is to watch you every saturday and sunday at 4:00 p.m. tell me a little bit about what motivates you and what to you want us to get from being part of your show? >> that's very kind of you. what motivates me is to be able to have smart, deep conversation. i i spent a very long time as a spokesperson for other people throughout my career. now it's just me. and i am excited to take all my

experience, what i have seen in the room and bring it to people here on msnbc. we also talk about the culture. we do a little pop culture. i do my show in this studio. it's great for me to be in here on this side of the table. i'm so happy to be here with you. >> thank you so much. it's so nice to be with you. and there we are watching you every saturday and sunday at 4:00 p.m. just the best. thank you so much. still ahead, we'll go live to moscow and hear what russians think about president putin's nuclear threat. but first the labor secretary will be with us to talk about the jobs numbers. i i appreciate that about him. we'll be talking to him, next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." m, next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. in type s could progress to dialysis is important. b is for belief that there may be more you can do.

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storm in almost 90 years with the death toll now over 130. as emergency crews are scouring through devastated neighborhoods, broken bridges hindering the ability of delivering supplies. recovery is like going through the storm all over again. >> i tell people i'm in my second hurricane now. just trying to get through all the debris. it's hard. trying to figure out thousand rebuild. >> the big question is how to rewild. take a look at some of the images of the devastation in southwest florida. it is structure after structure after structure, completely blown out as if a bomb hit it. we're talking about more than 130 people that have lost their lives. most of them lost their lives due to the water. but the reconstruction process is going to be so slow because

every single one of these buildings has a personal history behind it. joining us now from fort myers is sam brok. access to parts of fort myers beach are cut off by the hurricane. how is recovery going there? >> reporter: good morning. here's the issue right now. it is still ambiguous at this point how many people are unaccounted for, how long this recovery process is going to take. you talk to folksen the ground. these urban search and rescue crews, no one can give you a defined timeline for how long this will go on, how many people, potentially, might be victims of the tragedy. you're standing around now in fort myers beach looking at neighborhoods. this is the third or fourth time i have been back here. it doesn't fail to take your breath away. there are debris piles 6 to 7 to 8 feet high. tallahassee car underneath all of this debris. i'm watching right now.

this morning as cranes and dump trucks have come down the street. they are plucking pieces of people's lives one by one into a dump truck. that's what's going on now. you're trying to understand from the folks here how they are handling this. tens of thousands of people, where i they going to go. the power situation is another critical issue. we're seeing restoration on a massive scale. there's roughly 140,000 customers with no power. in lee county, 8 out of 10 customers do have power. another issue that's not getting a lot of attention, but certainly will in the weeks and months to come, getting supplies into this area. the regional owner and operator of the rail network here tells me there are six bridges that were either damaged or destroyed. four of them destroyed. the earliest possible time is 45 to 60 days best case scenario. you're talking about getting the supplies to rebuild their homes and rebuild their businesses whether it's concrete or lumber

or rebar, how are they going to get it in. we spoke with the executive vice president of that company about what this means for the process of getting people back up on their feet. >> for this community now to rebuild, we need these materials to come in as quickly as they come in the most efficient manner they can. our contractor has estimated it's going to be 45 to 60 days being the mag ni being the magtude side of $10 million. the trusts are going to cost more to get materials in here. >> reporter: that company and the executive vice president have been in touch with fema, the florida department of transportation to try to get aid in. they are trying to contact the office of governor ron desantis. >> sam brock, thank you very much. turning now to the aftermath from hurricane fiona, where officials say they have restored power to 97% of puerto rico. it's been nearly three weeks since the cat 1 storm hit puerto

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secretary marty walsh. give us your reading on what this report tells us. >> this report says a couple things. if t shows us in a specific way that the hospital industry is fully recovered since pre-pandemic levels. manufacturing goes beyond pandemic levels. if you look at the racial breakdown of the racial unemployment numbers, we have seen a drop in different categories. and the latino unemployment rate is the lowest recorded in history. we're seeing as people come back to work, it's equitable, meaning people are coming back to work. it also shows we have more work to do. the participation rate dropped a little bit, but it was higher last month. i'm not too concerned when you lock at the long-term impacts of what these reports will be. i feel good where the economy is headed as far as people going back to work. >> i want to kind of refocus on what you were just talking about about the latino unemployment and the african-american unemployment.

clearly, 3.8% is just really strong. 5.8%, less strong. what do you see here when you see this disparity? >> i see that we still have a lot of work to do. when you think about the inflation reduction act and think about the infrastructure bill whrks you think about the bill, we need to make sure the jobs created in those areas can can go to people of color, african-american communities and we need to be more intentional about job training, apprenticeship programs and we're getting into communities to make sure they can work on the projects. that's not been the case when it comes to investment whether it's federal investment or state or local investment. this particular case the president has made it clear to all of us that had he wants to make sure there's equity when it comes to job creation. >> one of the issues that were down is transportation. i'm not sure what that means. drop in transportation. >> a little confusing this month. we saw truck transportation going down a little bit this month. we are diving into those numbers

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during putin's 20-year leadership. as president biden warns of this danger of nuclear escalation. a stark warning from president biden about president putin's repeated nuclear threats. biden saying, we have the direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon, if in fact, things continue down the path they are going. the president making the comments off camera at a democratic fundraiser adding we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. that was 60 years ago. 1962, one of the most dangerous confrontations of of the cold war. president putin, who turns 70 today, has threatened to use any means at his disposal and says the u.s. created a press debit by using nuclear weapons in japan. president president bidenen saying he's not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or

chemical weapons. there are no signs russia is imminently preparing to use a nuclear weapon, and today disbelief. >> are you frightened by the nuclear threat? >> no. >> why not? >> reporter: this is all a political game. just words. muscle. >> president biden this morning says that maybe we're close to a cuban missile crisis. >> time will see. we don't need it. we don't want it. >> it's scary. >> reporter: but russia's invasion of ukraine has left the country increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. it takes us two flights and 15 hours to travel from europe. when i arrive, i got stopped for imdprags for an hour. questioned, they went through my phone. >> the tension palpable here. billboards celebrate military

heroes. and with a draft underway in recent weeks, many have been fleeing by air and by car. on thursday two russian men arrived in alaska on a small boat asking for asylum. there's no question that president putin is seriously under pressure. "the washington post" citing multiple sources that he was confronted by a member of his own inner circle about the conflict in ukraine. according to the paper, that was considered so significant it was included in president biden's daily intelligence briefing. >> keir simmons, thank you so much. joining us now is ambassador bill taylor, the former ambassador to ukraine. he's vice president for russia and europe at the institute of investors. i thank you for being with us. nuclear threats are not new in this particular case. president biden seems to think that there's something to this. and what do you see there? >> i think any time the leader

of a big nation that has nuclear weapons threatens to use these nuclear weapons, you have to take it seriously. that's exactly what president biden said. that said, it's hard to imagine any benefit to putin to using these things. there's no military wft. the political problems he would face with the chinese, the indians, the rest of the world, even domestically. that's a good report about the folks on of the street. they don't see him using it. so i think this is something you have to take seriously and you have to make it clear what happens if he does and then be ready. >> if you look at precedent and what happened in history, putin can look at, all right, nuclear, i understand this would be a different line that we're cross ing. but when my folks in syria used chemical weapons in that country, no problem. >> this would be a problem. he would see the response. so jake sullivan a week ago made it clear can any use of these

kinds of weapons, weapons of mass destruction, would face catastrophic consequences. >> why would it be different now and not in syria? >> we learned something in syria. we learned that you have to be clear. and if you make that kind of statement, you have to deliver. you have to respond. and that will be important for the rest of the world to see. >> there should be a response, even if it's not nuclear. >> exactly right. >> the administraor of the agency for international development visited ukraine. she announced a $55 million package of aid to ukraine this winter. winter approaching is very significant for places like ukraine. >> it's significant for places like ukraine, who are facing all this damage to water, electricity, any of the heating systems. and as we know, i was there last month. you can see the damage to homes, apartments. so ukrainians are trying to go back. you can see reconstruction that's already beginning, but

they are going to be in a difficult time this winter. they will face it worse than the europeans. >> i always think back when the ukraines were starved on purpose by the time the soviet union and stalin. the damage to the infrastructure, the food and the warehousing of it, it's going to have an impact in ukraine. >> it will have an impact in ukraine. they know how to deal with adversity. in particular, there's civil society. recognized by the peace prize even today. but the civil society in cain is very strong. it's been driven by the civilian society. what about the warning of an increased risk of ukraine's largest nuclear power plant, which is europe's largest. how dangerous is this situation? >> it doesn't have to be

dangerous. what it is is a political move on the part of the russians to try to assert authority over this land. now they say it belongs to them. no one else believes that. the u.n. doesn't believe it. we don't believe it. ukrainians don't believe it. >> you were just there. give me the headlines. >> ukraiians are on a roll militarily. their moral is high. they have been fighting for a long time. they are tired. but they are motivated. the russians are not. >> think of just all the damage that ukrainians have been caused by the russians. thank you so much. it's good to see you in person. up next, new reporting on the long-running investigation into hunter biden's finance asks why there's talk of possible charges. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." re watchin diaz-balart reports.

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donald trump may still possess documents he took from the white house. this was first reported by "the new york times." a top doj counterintelligence official communicated that concern to trump's attorneys. the justice department declined to comment. trump's spokesman criticized the justice department. new developments in the investigation of the president's son hunter biden, "the washington post" is now reporting federal agents now think they have enough evidence to charge hunter biden with tax crimes and a false statement relating to a gun puchase. it will be up to the justice department to decide whether it will pursue charges. nbc news has not independently confirmed the report. the doy is declining comment. officials familiar with the matter say the case is ongoing. his attorney tells nbc news he does not commuicate with any investigative agent and says it's a felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one. for more on this, let's bring in justice and intelligence

correspondent ken dilanian. it's great seeing you. nbc reported there was a grand jury investigation into hunter biden's tax filings. >> it says that investigating the case think they have enough to bring charges and it's important to point out, the agents aren't the ones who decide, that decision will be made by prosecutors. the u.s. attorney in delaware who is appointed by former president trump and the attorney general who was appointed by president biden says he will have no role in this decision. tax crimes are -- there's a lot of discretion. a lot of people evade taxes in the united states and don't get charged criminally. it's whether or not they have the evidence that he intended to evade taxes. >> and these taxes would be in what kind of things. >> hunter biden made $11 million

between 2013 and 2018. including from a ukrainian energy company, a lot of cash was coming in and the records that he left on his laptop that we've analyzed show that he wasn't paying the proper taxes on them. he paid $2 million in a tax bill last year. he's up to snuff now on his tax debt. that doesn't absolve him if he potentially evaded taxes. >> let's talk about the reporting on the doj's suspicious -- how confident is the department that they're still missing documents in mar-a-lago. >> what we're told is that the justice department does believe, suspects that there are still documents outstanding. presidential records that donald trump should have turned over to the archives that he didn't. and some of them may have been classified. and we know already that the fbi seized 48 empty envelopes with classified markings and the doj has hinted in some court filings that they were still looking for missing material. now we know that a top doj official reached out to the

trump team and said, hey, we suspect, you know, you guys may still have classified documents. and the "new york times" is reporting there's a rift within the trump legal team about how to deal with that. >> what is that division that is causing the rift? >> a lawyer who has roots in florida apparently was advocating and suggesting an accounting team to go through mar-a-lago and look for documents. but some of trump's other lawyers dismissed that and they've been filing some angry and accuse story things. a gruesome scene on the las vegas strip. who police say is behind a deadly stabbing spree. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." g spree. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports.

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now to a story we're following out west. las vegas police are investigating a deadly stabbing spree in broad daylight. the suspect killed two people and injured six people yesterday. here's the story. >> reporter: investigators have a suspect but they don't know why he went on a rampage. he was a visitor in vegas when he carried out the bloody

attack. some of the investigators are still in the hospital as the investigation continues. >> reporter: police are trying to determine a motive following thursday's deadly stabbing attack on the vegas strip. >> the weapon that we recovered was a large kitchen knife. >> reporter: two people were killed and six more were injured after what authorities are calling a series of stabbings by a lone suspect in front of the wynn casino. >> the initial stabbing occurs on the sidewalk area. it appears unprovoked. there is no altercation beforehand. >> reporter: police say they quickly took the suspect into custody, showing this video of him fleeing before being caught a few one yards away. >> the suspect is a hispanic male adult. he appears in his early 30s. he does not appear to be a local resident. >> reporter: one witness telling nbc news some of the victims

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about the victims. officers say it's a miracle so many survived that chilling attack. back to you. >> miguel almaguer, thank you so much. i'm "jose diaz-balart reports." i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc "nightly news" saturday. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram at jdbalart. please follow the show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. before we go, just dying to show you this. check out cheetah cam. these are live pictures. this is pictures of a baby cheetah born in virginia this week. the mom gave birth to two cubs on thursday and they'll be livestreaming 24/7 until they leave the den. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now.

good morning, i'm license riser at msnbc headquarters in new york. new urgency around a series of major stories this hour, including president biden's alarming warning of, quote, nuclear armageddon. his closed-door remarks about vladimir putin and why he says the world is at the highest risk of that happening since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. also this morning, does former president trump have more white house documents? the justice department suspects he does. that's according to people familiar with the matter who tell nbc news that a top doj official raised that concern to trump's lawyers as first reported by the "new york times." what we know ahead. plus a blunt shift in federal drug policy. thousands of people with federal convictions for marijuana possession were just pardoned by president trump -- president biden, rather. is this just