It is a great place to start. Especially given the Vice President ial debate that we all watched. It is entitled, this is why maga loves j. D. Vance. And you wrote in part quote, weve seen all this before. In 2016 and 2020, Mike Pence was the gentleman debater. He was less polished and less effective than vance, but he had a similar, softening effect on the ticket. In 2016, his Earnest Faith and apparent kindness might have reassured voters that Trump Couldnt be that bad, not if he had chosen pence. We know exactly how that turned out. In choosing advanced and discarding pence, trump traded actual decency for a man who could simulate decency, and thats exactly what advanced did on tuesday night. But he couldnt keep it together for the entire evening. At the very end, the mask slipped. On tuesday night, walters learned exactly why maga loves vance so much. Hes a talented communicator. He has a compelling life story. He can make the ideological and Policy Case for republican populism bet
one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
most people in politics these days, to be fair, find the need to continue returning to the altar of donald trump to get a blessing and get another two years in congress. and at the end of the day, these people have to ask themselves, is it worth it? is it worth it? look at everything that s at stake. i very rarely sign basketball documents or letters these days, but i thought i had to do this, nicole. because this is about the truth. this is about defending our country s democrat crazy. country s democracy. my family my parents lost their country because there was no rule of law there one day when they woke up. that s why i signed that letter. and that s why i hope, even as adam kinzinger leaves congress that more republicans will wake up and understand that this is a lot bigger than another two years serving in the house of representatives. i am going to read from your letter.
truth. that we were in safe rooms on january 6th because donald trump supporters came here to try to overthrow the peaceful transfer of power, they attacked the united states capitol. what i find interesting about your rule is that it feels for a defense for the rule of law, that a congressional subpoena has to still mean something. if we lose that, from trump s perspective, he seems to be wielding as much power out of office as loser, as he did in. it is extraordinary, nicole. i mean, trump lost congress for republicans. he lost the presidency for republicans. he went out of his way to make sure republicans lost two seats in georgia, pushing mitch mcconnell into the minority in the senate. and yet, republicans who are fearful of a primary challenge by the way, that s the only reason they do it, and they will tell you privately. they won t say it publicly. but republicans who are fearful of a primary challenge, which is
imperilled. the stakes of the investigation of the january 6th committee is where we start this hour. carlos curbelo is here, he is one of the lawmakers who signed onto the brief we just read from. also joining us, jackie al mainy, author of the early 202 newsletter. and mike schmidt is here, new york times washington correspondent. also an msnbc national security contributor. congressman, i start with you, and your thoughts on the retirement of someone who has to be the most effective person calling out republican hypocrisy and submission to donald trump. it s a major loss for the congress, nicole, and a major loss for the country. i served alongside adam kinzinger. he is an honest man. he is unafraid. he will pursue the truth wherever it leads. and the good news for the country is that he still has over a year left in congress,