and simon schuster, and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is with me on set. talk to me where we are in this moment and why the speech could be critical. you ve been on the front lines for months. ukraine is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant, to keep the attention on ukraine. ukrainian money, and weapons and wants sanctions to be maintained on russia. i think many are watching. some nations seem to be wavering, maybe it s time to strike a deal. maybe it s time to bring putin back in the fold. perhaps ukraine should give away some of its provinces in exchange for peace. and ukrainian officials are trying to counter that narrative, saying we can t stop. putin is not going to stop even if we cut off part of our country and give it away to him. this leads to greater appetites of dictators. there s a tremendous desire from president zelenskyy personally to make sure the world continues to focus on ukraine and stay with ukraine. do you get a sense
country where more than 95% of buildings don t have air conditioning. forecasters have now been forced to improvise as they deal with the kind of heat they never thought they d see. a number of people have been saying maps in the past never looked this dark, they haven t because we have never seen temperatures as high as this in the uk before. this color scale was designed to not show temperatures like this for the uk. even the maps are not prepared for this. lots to talk about. tim miller is a writer at large for the bull work and msnb political analyst. these temperatures are insane. frankly we are not built for them, we re not built for the impact if they keep getting worse. after years of you and your colleagues warning about climate change, what is your message now today? the message is that this is what we anticipated. it s exactly what we saw coming. and there hasn t been a more urgent plan to act than now. we have such a short window to curb off this dangerous t
to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
no indication. where celebration was he contemplating. some event in the madison area. he planned this for several weeks, for the highland park shooting. any last questions for the state s attorney? all right, folks. this is probably going to conclude our formal press briefings on this matter. if there is breaking news or anything major that does develop, we will call a press conference. otherwise, i would not anticipate major press briefings like this. investigators have months to go continuing their investigation into this. we ll be collaborating very closely with the state s attorneys office. they will be collaborating with their federal partners. we will be collaborating with our federal partners. any specific questions please reach out directly. is he on suicide watch? he s been classified now. i don t know. and with that, the end of today s briefing, thank you for staying with us for andrea mitchell reports as we continue our coverage of the breaking news f
critical issues like taiwan and uk. a surprise among democrats to lower drug prices and address climate change. we re going to discuss with democratic senator brian schatz from hawaii. also new this hour, a u.s. prisoner swap proposal to bring wnba brittney griner and businessman paul whelan home from russia. what moscow is saying, ahead. we begin this hour with the state of the american economy. a short time ago the government reported economic activity fell by 0.9% between april and june. that s the second straight quarter it has fallen. moments ago president biden issued a statement on the report saying, in part, it s no surprise the economy is slowing down as the federal reserve acts to bring down inflation. but even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure. also this morning, we learned that 256,000 people filed first-time unemployment claims last week. that s a slight decrease