to help us lower inflation. what a week of contrast as president biden was racking up win after win, republicans were pushing abortion bans, social security cuts and election denial and watching their mid-term prospects begin to fade. and a texas jury just delivered a massive blow to alex jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages for a first grader killed at sandy hook. i ll be joined by andrew warren, the democratically elected state attorney general who is the victim of an abuse of power by governor ron desantis. it was a great week for democrats, one that will be poised to get even better. first up the economy. after months of criticism of president biden for everything from gas prices to inflation to you name it, today we got proof that his economic policies are working with the latest blockbuster jobs report. in july job growth soared. u.s. employers added 528,000 employees, smashing expectations. and the unemployment rate
washington today, and many same republican politicians who are running up that hill still came out to kiss his ring. plus, the pain that alex jones inflicted on the families of the sandy hook massacre victims as he stands trial for defamation. and dr. anthony fauci will be my guest on white house plans to get the monkeypox outbreak under control. not a sentence i thought i d ever say. good evening, everyone, jason johnson in tonight for joy reid. we begin the reidout with signs that the justice department is widening its investigation into january 6th and the efforts to overturn the election. in an exclusive interview today with nbc s lester holt, attorney general merrick garland said that the department s investigation is moving at an unprecedented speed, and he refuses to rule out prosecuting the twice-impeached former president for his actions. you said in no uncertain terms the other day that no one is above the law. yeah. that said, the indictment of a former
running for president. this is political theater, plain and theater. anyone who cares about democracy and free speech should be scared by this, and this is a core principle of our democracy that the voters get to decide who their elected officials are. even my 8-year-old understands that. it s just this is how democracy works. do you think so you think this is theater. you think he s playing for an audience in like iowa and the potential caucuses, that he s playing basically for fox news and for a republican audience? yeah, absolutely. i mean, look at what he said. he s mischaracterizing and lying what things that i ve done, things that i ve said. this isn t about what i ve done as a state attorney. this is about what i ve said and it s about him guessing about things that i may do in the future. as you pointed out, joy, for cases that even haven t come before me yet. let me go through this just a moment because we know that on the gender affirming care side, the florida board
governor of your state. now, look, if you re trying to take control of an organization because the republicans are no longer a party that s an anti-democratic authoritarian nationalist, that s not convenient. it s a tough problem n.florida do you think ron desantis has the numbers both financial and polling-wise to really make a run at trump or is he hoping that somehow donald trump implodes on his own and he might be able to slip in? oh, jason, without question it s the latter scenario that you describe. desante sis many things. he s not a complete and total idiot. he knows that donald trump made him, and he also knows that donald trump can destroy him and that s why the game that desantis is playing is the waiting game. he s probably the person most heartened by the garland comments because it s going to take some sort of an act like that, an indictment of trump and maybe even a conviction to
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