Prepare for the trial. Oh my goodness all the networks wow then, why a federal judge suggested elon musk was protecting donald trump from the production of his twitter plus, real evidence that many criminal charges across four indictments are having an effect on trump voters. And, one year after it was signed, the simple math and wild success of the Inflation Reduction Act, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Donald trump and his 18 codefendants in that rico indictment must turn themselves in at the Fulton County jail in atlanta, georgia, within nine days. There they will be booked, processed, and mugshots taken ahead of the arraignments, which District Attorney fani willis wants to take place the first week of september. Today willis also proposed a trial date for this case in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia and elsewhere. She requested it begin on March 4th Of Next year. That is the day before super tuesday. Now of course th
yelling at your tv s, the i.r.a. was a clean infrastructure bill with some drug prescription pricing as well. dropping inflation had more to do with the easing of supply chain issues with covid and the decline it oil prices, as marcus came back after the invasion of ukraine, and the rate hikes from the fed. yes, that s all true. the way politics works is the president gets all the blame when the economy is bad, you get to take the credit when the economy is improving. so, the democrats had this kind of the stroke of genius last summer when they were at loggerheads with west virginia democratic senator joe manchin, the deciding vote, who was wavering on voting for the act, because he s concerned about additional spending and what it would mean for inflation. so, they renamed their spending bill the inflation reduction act. at the time, that was seen as a kind of cheeky dig at republicans. but it worked. that decision has borne both substantive and political dividends. think about it thi
pain to have a car so they don t really care as much about his about it oil prices as the rural people do because they actually need their cars to get around. they re feeling the price increase at a level that the urban and elites are not. griff: it s interesting, too, that he talks about, you know, this situation in paris shows no signs of abating any time soon and he says, you know, there was a time when guys like macron said, oh, it will pass, this will be over soon, just going to weather it. not so. pete: and reality is hitting home in the u.k. as well. he talked about brexit. the eu approved a halfway non nonbrexit measure that theresa may is trying to pass. her own party is rejecting it, the people are rejecting it, the people turns out when they vote for something they actually want it to happen and sometimes they vote in somebody like emmanuel macron and they realize what they re getting and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, that s not what we signed up for. rachel: protests in tijuana
before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? it s so interesting, because you saw 33,800 retail jobs lost in the month, and that was a little bit of surprise to people. the only place you saw strength in retail was home and garden centers, surprise, surprise, because of all of the great weather. so even though you ve seen some strength from the consumer lately, this is something, overall, that might be a little bit of a concern. we did see some strength, quickly, i want to show you in manufacturing, ali. 37,000 jobs created in manufacturing. that s a trend we ve seen kind of picki
that actually represents a slowdown in hiring and leaves us wondering why. are there enough jobs out there to sustain our fragile recovery? christine romans, the host of your bottom line, has been studying the numbers. break it down for you. i put it on a chart an graphic to show you the jobs report, ali. you make a good mount. 120,000 jobs created is a big slowdown from the pace we ve seen over the last few months. 8.2% unemployment is a drop but not making people happy. you had people dropping out of the labor market, 164,000 people dropped out of the labor market. that s why the jobs number went down, unemployment went down. focus on the overall job creation. i want to show one of the things you ve been watching also, the public sector jobs. only about 1,000 government jobs were lost. we lost about 6,000 the month before. a slowdown in that trend. private sector carrying things but the private sector slowing down, too. christine some is something we study carefully, co