at the same time, it shows the labor market is not slowing, despite all the efforts by the federal reserve to cool down the economy, so they going to be raising rates again, for sure, maybe even higher. in a moment, i ll speak with a member of the white house economic counsel of advisers what it means for your wallet. also this morning, to secure the release the brittney griner, sentenced to nine years in a russian prison. last night, a striking moment pausing before tip-off and the crowd shouting for her to come home. now russia s foreign ministry says they re ready to discuss a prisoner swap. reverend al sharpton who is working with griner s family is going to be joining me. and new fallout from speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan after china held its biggest-ever military drills in the taiwan strait. this morning, china now halting military and climate talks with the u.s., and sanctioning speaker pelosi. the white house summoning the chinese ambassador to the white house to
desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
should be subpoenaed. the russian foreign ministry has now claimed responsibility for the attack. there is a major sense of urgency around getting that grain exported to the countries most dependent on ukraine s grain exports. it s monday, july 25th. 59 a.m. here in london, 5:00 a.m. in the u.s. west coast. where millions of americans across the country are seeing the impact of the growing climate crisis. a dangerous and scorching heat wave that s already responsible for several deaths. on monday temperatures hit as high as 102 degrees fahrenheit in parts of the northeast, with several cities sweating through their hottest days ever. both boston and philadelphia have extended their heat emergencies after seeing record high temperatures, and across the country close to 50 million people are under heat alerts today, in some areas the blistering heat even led to power outages. sunday new york s electric provider says it was working to restore scattered outages, and in bo
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
release her immediately. back here at home, four current and former police officers facing federal charges in connection with the shooting death of breonna taylor. attorney general merrick far land accusing the officers of lying to obtain the search warrant for her home and lying again to investigators after the shooting. breaking news in the alex jones trial. a jury in texas ordering the than $4 million to parents who - lost their 6-year-old boy in newtown. extreme heat from montana to texas to maine. 70 million uealerts as we come on theowusd t e k.regtures ro mar er se intse military exercises all around taiwan, responding to house speaker nancy pelosi s recent visit. china test-firing 11 ballistic missiles in less than two hours. and why the u.s. is now canceling a missile test of its own. and news coming in late today, four people found dead n two house fires just blocks apart in a small town in nebraska. police searching for a silver sedan leaving town, possibly