that prompted the white house to go into a spin overdrive like this. you would be amazed if they would declare this period to be a recession, even if two quarters of negative growth. we have a strong labor market and we are creating one of those jobs that is not a recession. i think probably. there is so much out of our control to read what inflation is being a global problem. brian: in fact, the gas prices coming down in the summer is extraordinarily rare. that is not something we see very often pure they follow every single day since started. that is progress but not enough and we need to keep working on this. we begin with gillian turner reporting live from the white house, good morning. good morning to you julie and bill. we did not see him at all over the weekend and we will not see him in person before wednesday. his position wrote in the letter, this just in and we will hear direct from the white house the covid coordinator this afternoon and we will get some
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
overturning of the landmark abortion case roe v. wade. and this is the fallout from the leaked supreme court draft opinion on it. the actual ruling could come as soon as this week. president biden s justice department and attorney general merrick garland so far are doing nothing to protect the justices and their families at their homes. critics say this inaction is basically condoning violent attacks on pro-life centers. here is utah senator mike lee on the federal law you hear me cite here daily. the justice department has turned a blind eye to blatant violations of of the provision that prohibits people from showing up at the home of a supreme court justice to protest. by not condemning and prosecuting them the biden administration is legitimizing and propelling the attacks. harris: ron johnson from wisconsin, great to have you in focus today, senator. let s start with what we re seeing. that is what i call a leveling up potentially more of this from activists and it
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
happened back in october and his family is pleading for justice. is representative and he join me now, david i want to play this soundbite from daniel and then get your reaction. watch. it makes me sick to my stomach seeing the people involved that harm danny walking around campus acting like they did nothing wrong. i do personally want to see specific kids get felony d s that s going to wake them up. and a misdemeanor is not going to wake them up. so david why haven t they all been charged? well that s the big question, isn t it? for the life of me nobody can figure this out. this incident happened eight months ago. the police put together 144-page report that they turned over to the prosecutor months ago. there are dozens and dozens of hours of real time surveillance video from inside of the house. the prosecutor said everything serve up to them on silver platter and not a single hazing charge filed an i can t understand why and nobody else can either. david