americans with president biden declaring the mission a total success. we will explain how it was carried out, also, china is now threatening a military response over how nancy pelosi s expected visit to taiwan, the u.s. is warning beijing not to turn the trip into a crisis. we will go live to the white house to speak with john kirby. it is primary day across five states with major implications for abortion rights and election integrity. meanwhile donald trump stirring up confusion in missouri after an endorsement that has leading candidates in the senate primary both claiming the former pete president is supporting them. good morning and welcome to morning joe on tuesday, august 2. good to have everyone with us. good to have you with us. every september 11th for 20 years we have reflected either personally or on air about what was lost on that day, who was lost and you talk about people on the street, you talk about loved ones that you knew, it was deeply personal for me
necessary. the idea of armed auditors coming for americans is chilling. no surprise the reaction swift and brutal. former acting dni rick grenell says democrats are ready to audit yu using a gun if necessary. the democrats are anti-guns unless it s guns for their new i.r.s. agents authorized to use deadly force. they are coming after entrepreneurs and small business owners and coming after our middle class hard working americans. there is no question about that. then you layer on top of that what you just mentioned. their criminal division with the power of enforcement of a gun essentially. harris: another source of outrage house democrats prioritizing i.r.s. expansion rather than police. speaker nancy pelosi announcing several public safety bills are now on the back burner. the house plans to vote on that spending bill as soon as tomorrow. republican senator john kennedy from the great state of louisiana, member of the judiciary committee and now in focus. great to see
not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace we ve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages aren t rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. if you crunch the numbers inflation is costing the average american household $500 a month. setting on fire every single month because you aren t getting anything for that $500. bill: questions now including this how did we get here? many economists blame out of control government spending along the way. democrats are passed more than $3 trillion in new spending under president biden and they aren t taking their foot off the gas as they look to revamp build back better. let s go to mark meredith live f
court and nbc justice correspondent pete williams, tom goldstein and kimberly adkins-store. pete, take us through the significance today. we hope to see we hope the supreme court will stream it on the website. we are waiting for that to start. the court said yesterday it would start right at noon. is that because they are streaming it because of the covid restrictions on the court? yes, i think that s part of it. of course, the security environment at the court. the big fence that s around it. it won t be the first time we will have seen one of the swearing in ceremonies on television. the first time they did that was for sonia sotomayor. this will be a scaled back version. members of her immediate family. john roberts will start the process. he will give her all justices have to take two oaths of office. not just the constitutional like you see the president take at the inauguration, but they also have to take a judicial oath. roberts will administer one and stephe
leaves abortion a question for each state to settle. that heads up if you will by no means makes this day any less consequential. justice samuel aleto says roe was egregious from the start. in a joint rebuttal the court s three liberals wrote this, with sorrow for this court but more for the many ill-man s american women who today have lost a fundamental constitutional protection, we dissent. the impact nationwide will be limit. the role reversal was the goal, of course, of a decades long conservative campaign to tilt the courts their way. the three trump appointees to the high court, the culmination of that. now a new legal chapter unfolds state by state as does a new political fight. we ll hear from president biden shortly. and nancy pelosi vows make abortion now the big deal in the campaign. reporter: the supreme court here issuing its most consequential decision in decades holding there s no longer a federal constitutional right to get an abortion and now handing the is