force which means maybe inflation pressures will ease a little bit. and i ll point this out, joe, and mika, the idea here, interest rates didn t move on this and neither did the expectations in the futures market for where interest rates will be by the end of the year. so, again, kind of like that goldilocks scenario. i mean, at least for this month, of course this is a month by month thing, but at least for this month, you look at everything from new jobs added, job participation rate, the wages going up, but not so high that it adds inflationary pressures on the economy. a lot of really good news in this report. and legendary tweeter duke st. journal said, i think this may be a few minutes ago, i think this may be what a soft landing looks like. if we were of course to continue to move into this direction, dom, i guess this would be what a soft landing that the fed is desperately trying to achieve would look like, right? this would be. and the reason why you have this s
a busy day today the investigation of the former president and his allies. top of the list, and this is big, cnn learning right now that some members of the trump inner circle or trying to convince him to release surveillance video of fbi agents executing the search warrant at mar-a-lago, the search the turned up 11 sets of classified documents, some marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. now, we don t know what that surveillance video might show. a source tells cnn aides aren t sure if the former president himself has seen the whole thing, we don t know if it s all just a political plot. that s a safe bet when it comes to the former president, after all. but we do know that they have already seen with the fbi calls an unprecedented number of threats against agents following the mar-a-lago search. that isn t stopping eric trump from teasing a release. you still have these surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the
asked to turn those security cameras off when this search occurred and refused to do so. i want to read to you what one person close to former president trump told us when we asked do you think that this is a good idea? should he release these tapes? here is what that person said. quote, it s one thing to read a bunch of numbers on an inventory list, it s another to see law enforcement agents actually carrying a dozen plus boxes out of president trump s home knowing they probably contain sensitive documents. i don t see how that helps him. so, again, this has drawn mixed reactions inside the former president s orbit with some aides saying it s a good idea, release the footage, get it out there. among those steve bannon the former white house chief strategist to president trump. others saying we should hold back. maybe continue to tease this but don t ever actually release the footage, brianna. look, it depends on where you re looking at this from. for the people who think t
we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
hours. what s the latest? democrats are now on pace to pass this bill, probably within the hour. this after a marathon voting session that started at 11:30 p.m. eastern time last night, has gone all through the night into the afternoon, and after some last-minute drama, within their own caucus, democrats have resolved those issues, and now are pushing ahead to final passage. that drama caused by concerns initially raised by kyrsten sinema of arizona. the 15% corporate minimum tax. she was concerned it could impact some smaller companies. it s supposed to hit companies that have a billion dollars or more in income. but she had concerns about companies that were subsidiaries of those that were owned by private equity firms. she wanted to exempt those subsidiaries. she agreed to a republican amendment that targeted this, that narrowed this corporate minimum tax, exempted those subsidiaries. but democrats were revolting over this because of the way that republican amendment wou