that does it for us this hour katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur, after a two-week break, congress is back to work, and boy is there a lot to do there is the debt ceiling, which still has not been raised. speaker mccarthy is in new york city today, courting wall street and arguing massive cuts to spending will be good for everyone he wants to get rid of a lot, and he s playing a game of chicken with the white house we re going to explain what mccarthy is doing by showing up in manhattan and why the speaker is betting president joe biden will ultimately negotiate. also here in new york, congressman jim jordan and the house judiciary committee are here the chair held a so-called field hearing on crime today jordan called it powerful. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg just called it a slap in the face to the nypd we also have news on the senate side senators mitch mcconnell and john fetterman are back in washington after a respected medical can m
one donald j. trump. the new york times is reporting that prosecutors in the manhattan district attorney s office are signaling that criminal charges for the former president are likely to come for his role in the hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels. the times reports the prosecutors offered mr. trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case according to four people with knowledge of the matter. such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney, alvin bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ultimately seeking charges against him. the manhattan district attorney s office has declined to comment. now, if those charges are made, it would be the first indictment of a former united states president and the first time that trump, who has faced numerous criminal investigations, would be charged with a crime. as you may remember, that $130,000
a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there s some anti-government sentiment. howard: it s a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they d eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn t given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted posted on social media where anyone could see it. so who, exactly, is responsible? more on this ahead with veteran national security reporter glenn greenwald. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ron desan us the just signed a 6-week ban on abortion in florida tweeting out a single picture after 11:00 at night. the governor s quiet move came as a ruling by a federal judge in texas again put
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
possibly still to come. we are actually helping the american people instead of just playing political games. and the political payoff for doing the right thing. i ve been very clear, i think he s guilty of the most serious dereliction of duty of any president in our nation s history. reports of a quiet republican effort to try to save this chinese seat, will it work? plus, the julia podcaster from texas and his performative outrage. and a 50 million dollar judgment against alex jones for his sandy hook lies. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c., i am mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. so, it is friday morning, the first friday of the month of august, and you are producer of fox the country is awaiting the july jobs report. and even the white house has admitted that the numbers are going to be bad. of course, this is the store you go big. on the jobs report is going to be lousy. joe biden s economy is in the gutter. the white house is al