the president warns the republican congress would ban abortions nationwide. this is going to go one way or the other after november. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown is off today. you are in the cnn newsroom. during a blockbuster hearing with the january 6th committee this week, former white house aide cassidy hutchinson painted a portrait of an infuriated donald trump on january 6th, include a individual vivid account of his behaviority inned suv and demands to be taken to the capitol. the president had the very strong, very angry response to that. described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. cnn has spoken with two sources within the secret service. and they say they also heard about the incident from multiple agents. the team trump has denounced the testimony as hearsay even though hutchinson says she s heard the story from white house deputy chief of staff f
president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t
but he s here now and they re trying to figure out a way forward. so a full day of meetings begins now with the leader of iraq and we re hoping to have some details from inside their at some point later on today ashleigh. okay, peter , you see who is traveling with the president on his mideast trip. peter , thank you so much. will be coming back to you once we get more details. but later on this morning, president biden will also speak to the leaders of egypt and the united arab emirates before heading back to washington. i m ashleigh strohmeyer in order to send you back to regular programing already in progressve. ha can you be sure that anothr incident, another murder, tumultuous joe biden won t happen again? god love you. what a silly question.ggi how could i possibly be sure of any of that? the president is under enormous pressure to bring downo the surging gas prices with thed trip with democrats in his own o party getting tired of hiswn inflation spin. think that w
beijing has stopped cooperation with the u.s. on military operations and climate change. meanwhile, russia indicates it is ready to discuss a prisoner swap, one day after a court sentenced brittney griner to nine years in prison. we begin with the increasingly complicated state of the u.s. economy, after a string of not so great data on economic growth, inflation, and consumer sentiment. a sign that things may not be as bad as many think. the government says employers added 528,000 jobs in july, more than double what experts had predicted. the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.5%, and when you break down that number, the numbers fell for minorities. president biden state more people are working than at any point in american history. that s millions of families with the dignity and peace of mind that a paycheck provides. he goes on to say there s more work to do, but today s jobs report shows we are, quote, making significant progress for working families. with us now to