congressman peter defazio tried to pass an infrastructure bill that china would control our -- control things as critical as our electrical grid. we called him out and won the vote. we won the vote even though they had every advantage not just having a majority but even those who want to stay home and get a paycheck will give their vote to nancy pelosi. today's jobs report is more confirmation that this administration will get us on a path to a great american comeback. 4.8 million jobs created just month, smashing every economist's expectations. many have stopped believing this is the greatest country and may want to erase everything that has made america exceptional. but i have not stopped believing in america and i'm willing to bet that every day hardworking americans believe the same. whether they are the first generation or the 10th, they still believe this great nation as well. this july 4th i celebrate this incredible nation and while some of my colleagues will not, america across this country will. i'm so thankful that god made me an american and i feel privileged to have that h

i want to salute the maestro of it all, peter defazio, but many other chairmen played a role in thatnd i've acknowledged them. but this is a broad bill. it's transformational. it's the biggest and greenest infrastructure bill in the history of our country. and it's about roads and bridges and surface transportation, for sure. it's also about clean water. some of our water systems are over 100 years old. made of brick and wood and now this will be -- resources there to change that. it's about infrastructure for broadband so that all children, all families in our country can have distance learning and telemedicine and all that that takes. whether they live in rural areas, which is a focus on rural, or urban deserts in that regard. interestingly, senator mcconnell complains, this so-called infrastructure bill would siphon billions in funding from actual infrastructure to funnel into climate change policies. exactly. we're not siphoning off money. we're building infrastructure for the future. not for the 1950's. and we're doing it in a way that cleans the air -- a health issue, clean air

peter defazio, the chair of the transportation and infrastructure committee introduced $1.5 trillionl. we've been doing nothing but talk about this for the whole time i've been in congress. you had ron de santis on earlier. we came in together in 2012. mark meadows came in. the three of us served on the oversight committee as freshmen, starting in 2013. in fact, mark meadows this week alluded to the idea of an executive order cracking down on chinese drug companies from president trump. i say he should go ahead and do it but he could also get behind all of these bipartisan bills in the house right now. we need to do this for our safety and our independence in this country. gillian: a lot of criticism, political criticism this week from republicans that the biden plan kind of rips off or plagerizes donal president trums plans. some of the slogans have a clear ring to them. >> well, sure. i mean, the expression i like to use once in a while, gillian, is, you know, you can achieve an awful lot if you don't care who gets the credit for it. it's a good idea. invest in american infrastruct

new york congressman peter watching the scene of mayor de blasio preaching black lives matter in front of the cameras he calls lat a publicity stunt saying this. under defazio's leadership, ordered and a higher range that any time in almost 25 years. here is president trump at the white house earlier today. >> 358% increase in shootings in new york last month over 300 people were shot. nypd retirements quadrupled and going up even further. if new york city is out of control. >> new york city is out of control. in a moment, congressman king joining us and also on "the story" tonight, john a a la, the grandfather of this beautiful little boy. he was shot over the fourth of july weekend in d.c. also tonight, trump campaign national press secretary joining me on whether or not the republican convention will happen and whether it will go forward in florida. just a few weeks away, and former attorney general alabama senate candidates on the state of his primary race which is tomorrow and hotly contested and if president trump plays a big role in that situation. talking about that session coming up tonight. we begin with the congressman peter king. congressman, good