dr. anthony fauci says he plans to retire. i anticipate i will be in this job at the end of the first term of president biden. keeps going long, 2022 home run derby champion. sunrise, sun burn, sun set repeat moon light, all night crashing in the sea. steve: good morning, rhode island, they have those lovely beaches there, i can t tell if that s somebody in the water or a buoy as we look towards the sunrise. right now it s 71 degrees. going for a daytime high of 88. the relative humidity is a killer right now 91% as the northeast braces on this july 19th, a tuesday, 2022, it s going to start getting really hot up here in the northeast. ainsley: when you are on a beach like that in a bathing suit, you don t care. steve: you are dressed for the weather and today it s hot. dress appropriately. ainsley: brian, what do you think steve got a sun set. brian: land locked yesterday watching some weird building with a light on top of it. that was barack obama s vi
ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
that blue state. we begin with the january 6 committee and nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. brendon buck and kimberly atkin-store and sam stein. ali, is it possible that chairman thompson s absence could push this hearing or are they determined to keep this schedule? reporter: they are determined to keep this schedule, chris. especially because what s clear yesterday after my conversation with chairman thompson, who i would note was wearing a mask when he was talking to us yesterday, he seemed to leave the door open as all of the committee members have to the idea there are more hearings to come, specifically the idea that at some point in the last few days, the committee seems to have decided that their final report will come in the early fall still but that there will be some kind of scaled back report prior to that. in part, it s because they keep getting new information and they want to make sure that the final report is reflective of everything that they kn
bannon. the new response just in from lindsey graham on a subpoena in georgia. what he is saying about cooperation into potential election interference by donald trump. more than a dozen members of congress under arrest on an abortion protest outside the supreme court. who was there? with the new filing dropping in indiana, the action that a doctor is taking against the state s attorney general and what it is just the first step. good day, i m peter alexer in washington. i m in for hallie jackson. ali, on the hill. nbc news receiving this statement from the secret service where they say they have turned over thousands of pages of documents, secret service phone cell phone use and other policies as well as operational and planning records. notably, no mention of the text messages from the 5th and the 6th of january, right as everything was going down on capitol hill. what does that mean? where does it go from here? reporter: that lack of specificity caught many of ou