exclusive audio of congressman matt gaetz discussing pardons with a key trump ally. then, the new maga, forget trump, we are talking about mothers against greg abbott, a new group that wants change for texas families. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, mitch mcconnell got played, there is no other way to say. he got duped, he fooled, he got bamboozled, whatever word you want to use, that is what happened to him. it is a statement i don t think i have ever said before on the show. i m about to say something else rather unprecedented, kudos to joe manchin, working together with senate majority leader chuck schumer. joe manchin pulled a fast one on old mitch and in doing so, resurrected president biden stalled legislative agenda. how did they manage it? it is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a second. you see, the white house and senate democrats had two pieces of legislation that they wanted to pass before the midterms. one was the so-called chips bill, w
i have ever said before on the show. i m about to say something else rather unprecedented, kudos to joe manchin, working together with senate majority leader chuck schumer. joe manchin pulled a fast one on old mitch and in doing so, resurrected president biden stalled legislative agenda. how did they manage it? it is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a second. you see, the white house and senate democrats had two pieces of legislation that they wanted to pass before the midterms. one was the so-called chips bill, which provided funding for american made semiconductors and the other was a renegotiated slimmed down version of president biden s build back better proposal from last year. mitch mcconnell and a number of senate republicans supported the chips bill, but those same senators threatened to block its passage if democrats attempted to pass any biden s build back better plan do the reconciliation process. the once a year exception, one budget related legislation can
and we ll go inside the negotiations. and this cnn exclusive, sources say donald trump s legal team is now talking to the justice department. it signals that there is a big and ugly fight coming over what the former president can shield from federal investigators. but we begin the hour with a wow. the july jobs report gives president biden important economic momentum on employment hitting a 50 year low. 500,000 plus more americans hired just last month. so forget recession talk. at least in the short term. yes, inflation is high, but the recovery is still humming. the economic news caps the giant week for the biden presidency. wins on veterans and a top strike to take a terrorist off the battlefield. and now a leap forward for the democratic agenda. kyrsten sinema, the lone hold out, is today a yes. but we start on the stunning and surprise jobs numbers. matt egan is joining us. tell us more. yeah, this is a blockbuster number. and here is the best part. no one saw it com
unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e
to need it the most. we re ready for this influx of this climate change, we ve got to make sure that this is a climate rescue. we are rescuing our climate with this landmark legislation, landmark dollars, and making sure that we re utilizing these resources to make sure that we are preparing for the future. the crisis is already here in the state of florida. unfortunately, we ve had three decades of republican control of our state that haven t been making this a priority. now i have to ask you this. last thursday job governor desantis suspended the top prosecutor in tampa, andrew warren, accusing him of incompetence and neglect of duty for vowing not to prosecute those who seek or provide abortions. warren has since vowed to fight his suspension, and has also accused desantis of trying to quote, overthrow democracy in florida, by suspending him. this is come after desantis signed a new law back in april,