host: kirk bado on the line. that happened there and other places, like the maryland given tori a race. -- pictorial race -- gubernatorial race. guest: you have an election deniers getting across the line, peter myers, a more moderate republican. the line with democrats, especially in the house, it doesn't matter who the republican is. but we are still in a more favorable environment for republicans right now. that half-million dollars and that michigan race helps election deniers conspiracy theorists at one step closer into congress right now. i think that is something they are really going to have to grapple with come november. the republicans could really be on the hook for putting election deniers and congress. host: we haven't talked much about that race in alaska, putting a democrat in that seat. don young one in a special election. but that was just a primary win. guest: she won the special election. she will be a member for about four months now. hope she is still coming down here, making that long trip a

host: kirk bado on the line. that happened there and other places, like the maryland given tori a race. -- pictorial race -- gubernatorial race. guest: you have an election deniers getting across the line, peter myers, a more moderate republican. the line with democrats, especially in the house, it doesn't matter who the republican is. but we are still in a more favorable environment for republicans right now. that half-million dollars and that michigan race helps election deniers conspiracy theorists at one step closer into congress right now. i think that is something they are really going to have to grapple with come november. the republicans could really be on the hook for putting election deniers and congress. host: we haven't talked much about that race in alaska, putting a democrat in that seat. don young one in a special election. but that was just a primary win. guest: she won the special election. she will be a member for about four months now. hope she is still coming down here, making that long trip a

host: kirk bado on the line.happened there and other places, like the maryland given tori a race. -- pictorial race -- gubernatorial race. guest: you have an election deniers getting across the line, peter myers, a more moderate republican. the line with democrats, especially in the house, it doesn't matter who the republican is. but we are still in a more favorable environment for republicans right now. that half-million dollars and that michigan race helps election deniers conspiracy theorists at one step closer into congress right now. i think that is something they are really going to have to grapple with come november. the republicans could really be on the hook for putting election deniers and congress. host: we haven't talked much about that race in alaska, putting a democrat in that seat. don young one in a special election. but that was just a primary win. guest: she won the special election. she will be a member for about four months now. hope she is still coming down here, making that long trip and eve

host: kirk bado on the line.happened there and other places, like the maryland given tori a race. -- pictorial race -- gubernatorial race. guest: you have an election deniers getting across the line, peter myers, a more moderate republican. the line with democrats, especially in the house, it doesn't matter who the republican is. but we are still in a more favorable environment for republicans right now. that half-million dollars and that michigan race helps election deniers conspiracy theorists at one step closer into congress right now. i think that is something they are really going to have to grapple with come november. the republicans could really be on the hook for putting election deniers and congress. host: we haven't talked much about that race in alaska, putting a democrat in that seat. don young one in a special election. but that was just a primary win. guest: she won the special election. she will be a member for about four months now. hope she is still coming down here, making that long trip and eve

host: kirk bado >> host: kirk bado, hopefully we can get you back in the next 63 days as a late election draws near near. he's a managing editor. thanks for being here. >> guest: thanks ravi. >> host: we are joined by rebecca rainey, a b business reporter, a labor department reporter for bloomberg law and rebecca rainey thank you for joining us this morning. >> guest: thank you soin much for having me. >> host: we have the jobs numbers on friday with 315,000 jobs added in august, the unemployment percentage, 3.7%. what is overall the state of the labor market, the job market in the economy especially as we head into an election season here in just over nine weeks? >> guest: so looking at the top line number we did see unemployment pick up just slightly in august. this may be i a good thing. the reason being is we added more workers to the labor force, more people came off the sidelines interested in participating come searching, actively searching for a job which overall is a good thing. when it comes to the state of the labor force, i think workers have seen considerable gains since the