Heading into the november election. Some of it reads like a Black Mirror episode. It is a thrill to have you and that Pit Congratulations on the book. It is titled americas deadliest election, the Cautionary Tale of the most violent election in american history. It is out today. Now it is time for the last word with the great lawrence odonnell. Alex, why did they make summer shorter this year . I dont know how this happened. Who do you call about the timing of Labor Day . Does it have to be the first . Cant it be the sixth of september . I had about three, four more weeks of summer planned or at least in my head expecting. Here we are. I dont know. It is like daylight savings, the calendar should be open to constructive, a constructive process where we can find dates that work for All Of Us and times that work for All Of Us. Someone around here, i have to turn off my phone, pardon me. Now is the time. Class time is the time to do that. Someone has a tell me what day it is. It is septem
a fox news alert. a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over the black sea. here we go again, sandra. brand new at 2:00, sandra smith, the president has been briefed on the matter and the u.s. was operating in international air space. it posed a there s no one and the lust reach out the u.s. will reach out to russia about what we re learning. we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon briefing and we will bring news when we get it. we begin with news impacting every single american family and that is inflation. brand new numbers out today. the consumer price index up 6% from a year ago. 6% from already high prices and that means that families are already paying stubbornly high prices as they drop plans for summer travel. the federal reserve in a tough spot about whether or not to raise interest rates further. inflation is nowhere near where they want it to be, but the silicon valley bank collapse has the markets on edge. so you have to get that inflation
there have been protests over the country, they were largely peaceful. as some states move to restrict abortion rights, some are moving to protect access and funding. some major companies are pledging to provide support. there are questions this morning about the future of other court-determined rights. the consenting opinion from clarence thomas calls for the court to reconsider precedence on contraception and same-sex marriage. we have cnn justice correspondent jessica snyder. how are things at the court this morning? reporter: they re actually pretty quiet this morning, but we ve seen protests all weekend long. we re expecting more later this morning. the supreme court is set to issue opinions again at 10:00 a.m. we have already seen this court issue its most monumental decision on friday, overturning roe v. wade but there s still a lot to come. we have seven opinions left to come this term. it s a term we expect to wrap up this week. but the court will still be issuin
your prayers and your prayers and your thoughts, and if we give enough of these thoughts and these prayers, these mass shootings will stop. we are going to talk to our friend, the comedy due out of the good liars, about the stuff that made waves around the country. that s later on this, our you don t want to miss this conversation. we want to begin with that breaking news that out of wisconsin, where a retired judge was shot and killed by a gunman who police say was preparing to target prominent politicians next. nbc s steve patterson is on this for us. steve, as always, good to see you. what more do we know about this, this chilling killing now of this judge. and who else is on this list? yeah, chilling is right. lots to unpack here. if he have to separate incidents, although related. you have the hasse isolated killing of this judge and then you have this bizarre list that was found in the suspected shooter s car. let s start with a suspected shooter. we re learning mor