trump/russia collusion hoax. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . deliberations resumed just this morning. a guilty verdict would put more evidence behind former president donald trump s claims that he was unfairly targeted by the f.b.i. an acquittal could raise doubts about the legal merits of durham s entire investigation. former attorney general bill barr. i think whatever you think of trump, the fact is that the whole russia thing was the grave injustice. i believe it is sed i shallous, whether it can be proved in court as a crime in one issue but people are coming to see what actually happened. harris: ranking member jim jordan is in focus. let s begin with david spunt live at the district court in washington david. special counsel john durham began his investigation into trump-russia narrative three years ago. we re still on verdict watch. the jurors are looking at a single charge f.b.i. false statements case. they passed a note to the judge
washington, president biden acknowledged his own power is limited. i can t outlaw a weapon. i can t change the background checks. i can t do that. the best hope of senate working group is diving in with a source telling nbc news that the group feels a new urgency. they have met twice in person, continued to text and e-mail and will meet again virtually tomorrow. but there maybe one key voice standing in the way. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. as one of our guests latest put it, he s behind a deade s long effort to block gun control. so what is really on the table? lths dive right in with white house correspondent carol lee, washington post bureau chief ashley parker is also senior political analyst. thanks to both of you. carol, you re one of the reporters who wrote a story with the headline inside a biden white house adrift and it points to the texas shooting as a horrific reminder the president has not successfully pushed congress to pass legisla
he says he feels america s pain at the pump now and been saying it since last fall when he first tapped the oil reserves in an epic manner. i don t think he feels anybody s pain. the polling numbers the polling numbers. i was looking at gallup poll numbers from 1994 that showed bill clinton in the 30s heading into the mid-terms. who got elected in 1996, bill clinton. to push forward and look into the crystal ball is very difficult especially now, too. harris: you have made your point that you think the mid-terms where you ll put everything and mercedes made a beautiful point. if that s the guy you are banking on for the mid-terms republicans buy the drapes for the offices. let s move on. republicans gearing up for a red wave in november as we ve been talking about. the cook political report just revised its fall house forecast to a net republican gain of 20
the gap in housing. so we are focused on that because largely the increase in housing prices is due to constraints in supply. so we understand that housing prices have increased a lot. the pandemic exacerbated that. there s new research that suggests a lot of it is because people are working from home. so they want to have more space in order to do so. so as we start to get our economy back together, as people start to normalize, that will take some of the pressure off. that doesn t just involve interest rates. i will note the most recent read has the 30-year mortgage rate coing down a bit. we have many miles to go in this process, but the president is focused on increasing housing supply and doing what he can because he recognizes the importance of housing for americans. cecelia, thank you for taking the time. we appreciate it. we have breaking news. a former hillary clinton campaign attorney was just found not guilty of lying to the fbi.
the jurors are looking at a single charge f.b.i. false statements case. they passed a note to the judge about 90 minutes ago asking specifically what the government needed the prove. the government attorneys special counsel john durham s team asked on friday and were told the evidence is overwhelming to convict former clinton campaign attorney michael sussman when he told the f.b.i. that he was delivering information about an alleged secret communication back channel wen the trump organization and a kremlin-connected bank on his own not on behalf of any client. durham argues that sussman was politically motivated meeting with his friend james baker weeks before the 2016 election. prosecutors showed emails between sussman and reporters but they say it comes down to this text from september 18th, 2016. jim it s michael sussman. i have something time sensitive and sensitive i need to discuss. do you have availability for a short meeting tomorrow? i m coming on my own not on