former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu who's also a senior adviser to president biden will join us. plus, a judge could hand down a record sentence for a january 6th rioter today. how long that defendant could spend behind bars. >>> and we're following reaction to the historic verdicts against members of the proud boys. what does it all reveal about the strength of the doj's capitol attack cases? >>> then later, the southern border in focus as the homeland security secretary tours that area facing a new influx of migrants as covid restrictions end. nbc news went along with border patrol witnessing several crossings and speaking with some of those migrants seeking a chance in the u.s. >> why did you come here? >> for my life. we've been threatened for some time. it was my last resort. i couldn't live there anymore. >> coming up, i'll talk with texas congressman henry cuellar who represents the rio grande area and what does he think a divided congress should do to address the growing humanitarian crisis? >>> but first, the breaking news on the economy, 253,000 jobs added for the month

conversation, president biden's senior adviser and infrastructure implementation coordinator, mitch landrieuthanks for being here. great to have you. given we're so close to that warning date that janet yellen talking about, has the white house planning for what a default would look like? >> the first thing to remember and understand this is a manufactured crisis. since the beginning of the '60s, 78 times the debt limit has been raised, and under president trump three times without preconditions. so this is really a manufactured crisis, during the regular budget process, you covered this, we all have arguments about what we're going to spend, what we're going to cut, how are we going to finance the government, and the president's position has always been, listen, stop holding a gun to the head of the american people because you're playing a very, very dangerous game, and that's been his position. he's going to meet, of course, with the leaders on tuesday. he's going to reiterate that message to them, they're going to continue to talk to see if they can figure out how to make sure that, numbe

today, we have mayor landrieu mitch landrieu, infrastructure implementation coordinator who is here to talk about one of the president's favorite things, infrastructure week. in fact, he loves this week or this mr. landrieu: decade. ms. jean-pierre: decade, right? he calls it “infrastructure decade." so that's what the president has coined it to be. so, mitch, the podium is yours. mr. landrieu: thank you so much. i appreciate it. thank you. hey, everybody. karine, thank you very much. i appreciate it. i thought maybe what i'd do is make a couple of comments, and then if anybody has any questions you all okay with with that? >> sounds good. mr. landrieu: [laughs] all right. all of you may remember, but on november 15, 2021, just a short 18 months ago, president biden signed into law the bipartisan infrastructure act, a $1.2 trillion once-in-a-generation investment in our nation's infrastructure and competitiveness. we say “once in a generation” because it hasn't happened in our lifetimes and, quite frankly, it may not happen again in the in the near future. as you know, this is a critic

now, earlier today, one of the president's top advisers here at the white house, mitch landrieu, said a manufactured crisis, as republicans are not moving towards raising the debt ceiling without conditions attached, as has been done in the past. but yesterday, the omb director did say that the white house could be open to a more short term fix. she did not detail exactly how long that extension could potentially be, but take a listen to what she told reporters about how it could be something they could talk about down the road. >> at least that part of the conversation about length, i would love to be in that part of the conversation because we're at least in the positive. default is off the table, so i'm happy when we get to that part of the conversation. we're not there yet. and the idea is to put brinksmanship to bed and get to talking on making sure we avoid default and once we're talking about timeframe, that means we're at least on the right side of this debate. >> reporter: now, this all comes as the white house is really trying to issue these dire warnings about the impact of

i was thinking about you i was down in washington speaking to mitch landrieu, the czar of infrastructurefor one good quarter or two good quarters or one year. we're talking three or four years of infrastructure money that you're going to do well with >> jim, i relieve that's true. we've got this wonderful multiyear highway build reauthorization. we're seeing good federal spend come through the contract lending, if we go over the last let's call it four years and look at a compound annual growth rate of around let's call it 3 1/2%, now we're seeing something closer to 16 1/2% in the trailing 12 months we're entering a new phase but we're overdue. >> yes, we're overdue but i'd point out that right now mitch was saying it is the non-permitted products, which by the way you have stuff that have gotten through, but the permitting when we get the big jobs that's when we're really going to need you. >> that's precisely right. and we're going to see a lot of big work because what happened, let's keep in mind we went almost a decade and a half without a long-term build. we did a lot of maintenanc

i was listening to mitch landrieu the amount of money at cat, go ahead, short it.nd what invite me -- >> invite me to your funeral >> david, we haven't mentioned the countersuit regarding disney florida. a couple notes on our parent again today, calls this like disney but without the florida hangover and deutsche goes to 55 they do argue -- >> david, do we work for comcast? >> yeah, we do. >> we work for comcast >> where were they all at 35 >> i don't know. i asked the same question to my w wife where the heck were they >> the end is near at 35 but now 30 -- >> now on the bandwagon, jokers. >> now they're on the bandwagon. it's funny keep it coming if it helps the stock, we're all for it. >> super march wroe is worth taking to 45 from 41 that and my relentless watching of peacock, we're there. relentless. >> you're the relentless watcher of peacock, huh? >> around the clock. i like all those old shows >> mrs. davis is making a statement, you've seen a lot of that. >> absolutely. don't laugh at the gross margins. once mike cavanaugh comes in -- i told you yesterday