oversight over the way elections are conducted in this critical battleground state, and he is a total disregard for the truth when it comes to the 2020 election. that presents a real problem to the democracy overall. congresswoman comstock, how concerned are you about the next governor and the secretary of state near zone? well, i don t think it will be kari lake i think shall lose. but republicans need to wake up because they should have been, people like mike pence and republicans who went in and supported her opponent, just a few weeks ago, they should ve been in there a long time ago and in appeasing donald trump and his conspiracy theories, this has gone on way too long. you know, trying to tiptoe around it we can t be playing never old chamberlain s two donald trump s conspiracies in trying to humor him. we ve got to deal with this cancer that is donald trump on the party, and we ve got to cut it out.
about this potential donald trump-mike pence match-up come 2024. and the two are both delivering speeches, both in washington today. congresswoman comstock, let me play a little bit for you about what vice president pence had to say. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. now, some people may choose to focus on the past. but elections are about the future. and i believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back america. so on the one hand, congresswoman comstock, i think that is an encapsulation from former vice president mike pence of the way that he is looking to lay claim to some degree to sort of trump world folks given that he was on the ticket, he was in the white house when donald trump was in office, but on the other hand it does seem in some ways to be an opportunity or an
what he s telling our own lester holt about holding those responsible accountable and whether it matters if they happen to be a former president or running for president. also this hour we re set to hear from one of president biden s top economic advisers as the fed kicks off a two-day meeting as we speak with interest rates probably heading up again. plus my exclusive interview. one on one with trevor reed. the marine now back in the u.s. after being imprisoned in russia for nearly three years. his advice to brittney griner, who s in court today, and what he says the white house should be doing. i m hallie jackson in washington with a jam-packed show for you today. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, who is posted up in the location where mr. trump is set to give that speech. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali is with us. justice reporter ryan riley joins us along with washington post political investigative reporter josh dausee and former republic
biden. i mean, president biden has said repeatedly that he plans to run, and you look today. i ve been told his speech today is going to be former president trump s speech is going to have a lot of sharp repudiations of president biden and what he s done in office, as vaughn so correctly noted, who knows what he ll really say, but that s how it has been prepared. and i think you re seeing the former president trump, you ll see him more and more aggressively try and start attacking president biden. he s done a lot already. but you re going to see him as he starts to run again. so if you re president biden i think he said repeatedly he wouldn t mind taking on president trump again. and some of the folks around him i think see it as i think a thing to point out, the only person that beat trump last time. he actually took him on and won. josh, stand by for a second because ali, let me talk to you about the other piece of this too. and then congresswoman comstock, i ll come to you. but
former president. you have investigations still going on in new york. i m not saying they seem a little less worried from our reporting. but there s a lot of legal swirling. i mean, i want to be careful and not say that any of this is going to lead to his demise. he with don t know. there s been how many times over the years, hallie, where there s been some sort of investigation and he somehow emerged and seemed to withstand it pretty strongly. i don t think we can jump to any conclusions. but i certainly think the j-6 committee has left more of a mark than his people thought it was going to originally, at least according to my sourcing. i mean, there s all these other things going on around him that are not great right now. again, they re not conclusive. we don t know what s going to happen. but the georgia probe, the j6 committee continuing into the fall, doj, there s a lot of things piling on top of each other. josh dawsey, thank you. vaughn hillyard, ryan reilly, ali vitali and f