officials telling nbc news the goal of the president s address tonight is to affirm the core promises of his 2020 presidential campaign. restoring the soul of the nation. tonight s critical address as the polling shows the president faces growing dissatisfaction at home. the administration is not taking care of our own people. you have to get these old guys out. i will be joined by chris jansing and katy tur. plus, looming large. the diplomatic fallout from shooting down the 200-foot tall chinese spy balloon over the atlanta expected to play heavily into tonight s address. some of the lines of the speech referring to china were being edited in the wake of the military operation. how hard will the president go against china tonight? death toll rising. more than 5,100 people dead after two powerful earthquakes striking we were hearing voices, messages from under the rubble. we couldn t do anything. good morning, everyone. i am andrea mitchell in washington. this
jansen. there is news that donald trump has decided whether to run for president. he still mulling whether to announce it before or after the midterms? if his answer is yes he did not say that out right. he s merely meant to distract as to what is the hottest topic in washington. who was he trying to get in touch with when he reached out to one of the january 6th witnesses. what was he planning to tell them? what they call mark to evidence as witness tampering? it s been confirmed it was a white horse support staff member. white horse support staff according to cnn, it was not someone routinely in touch with the former president. the justice department is not in possession of that information. one of several threads they are following. the fact that they are coming to the committee for information, has led to a lot of frustration. even from committee members themselves. two they have got potent tools to get information. they can enforce their own subpoenas in a way we can.
i believe my plan is responsible is fair. it focuses the benefit on middle-class and working families. so will it help or hurt the president and democrats politically? today opinion sharply divided. i voted for the president specifically for this issue. $20,000 for pell recipients would be a major victory. i just feel it s a little slap in the face to those who worked hard to pay it off. also today restrictive abortion bans taking effect in oklahoma, tennessee and texas. combined with state bans already in effect since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. 1/3 of american women now live in states where abortion procedures are either banned entirely or very severely curtailed. but in idaho a judge has temporarily blocked part of the state s new law for conflicting with federal health care guarantees. first, though, to student loans. joining us now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor kristen welker. msnbc correspondent tremain
misdirection or ignorance when it comes to inflation. charles payne weighs in. sandra: america reports with new details from the police just out in the last few minutes on the suspect arrested in the disturbing and deadly shooting that rocked a small north shore chicago suburb celebrating the 4th of july. i m sandra smith. police say robert crimo, iii, attacked his parade route, and he dressed in women s clothing to escape after the shooting. sandra: the gunman firing more than 70 rounds with adults and children running for their lives, when they realized what they were hearing was not fireworks. we will be joined with more in a moment. sandra: grady is live in highland park, illinois, and vigils announced as well by the mayor of the small town. what s the latest, grady? shocking developments from the press conference just a few moments ago. i want to go kind of line by line, officials said it started several weeks ago when the suspected gunman started planning
wealthy businessman who made his fortune largely, this is true, from selling bull s semen. someone has to do it, i guess. rachel discussed last night, charles has been accused of groping by eight women, eight, including a conservative republican state senator who says he reached up her address at a republican event in 2019. some might consider those disqualifying, but not of course donald j. trump. declaing herbster innocent of any wrong doing. those attentions have gotten a great deal of attention and rightly so. what you don t know about charles herbster is his events on january 6th. the day of the attack on the capitol, charles herbster was in washington, d.c. with president trump s inner circle. he was in the vip section at trump s rally where the president urged everyone to march on the capitol. herbster sent to campaign staffers back home in nebraska, including this photo. he was very excited to be seated up in the second row at the rally right behind election conspirac