good morning everyone. i m bianna golodryga. this just in to cnn, concerning data as the u.s. looks to combat rising inflation. consumer prices rising 4% since september, 8.2 september year over year, higher than experted predicted. cnn business correspondent christine romans joins me to walk through the numbers. these are figures every american feels every time they go to the grocery store or the gas station. why does it remain so stubbornly high? that s the big question. the fed has been raising interest rates for months and these numbers are still near 40-year highs. when you dig inside these numbers and this is what everyone is paying close attention to. when you strip out food and energy, that core inflation, annual core inflation 6.6%. that s the highest since 1982. that s a fresh 40-year high for core inflation. month-over-month core inflation 4.6% matches what we saw in august. you can see how it s off the worst levels that we ve seen earlier this year. maybe show
for god sake whose side are you on? the head-spinning republican ideological switcheroo as president biden, the democrat, slammed the maga threat to the rule of law. while trump s republican pal threatened riots in the streets. plus, at any moment we re expecting the doj s response to trump s request for a special master for the classified documents he stole and stasheded a mar-a-lago. also, there was a time when republicans campaigned with messages like morning in america. now they think americans are lazy bums. not sure they would even want to govern a country of such supposed slackers. senator elizabeth warren joins me. we begin tonight with president biden in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, near his hometown of scranton sending a sharp rebuke to the maga agenda calling out the republican and the right as the real threat to the rule of law. now it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi, threatening the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simply car
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
Pete doocy in washington tomorrow, john. John looking forward to that. Before thanks, you guys from a good afternoon, everybody, im Mark Mcculloch and this is still the story. What is likely to be the crescendo of the prosecutions side of this case. Is now under crossexamination. Cohen is a convicted perjurer, guilty of lying to congress and to the irs. He was stripped of his law license. But cohen is there to convince the jury that trump knew all about the payment to daniels. The former president says even if that were true w. Crime. Mr. Trump there is no crime. Everybody is saying there is no crime. Has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Its a scam. Its Election Interference at a level that has never taken place before. Martha later this our will republican senator j. D. Vance 1 of several republican standing up for the former president in and outside of court but First Foxbusiness Correspondent Wendy who is covering the probably Lower Manhattan. The crossex
Watters primetime. Tonight. He lies about everything, including healthcare. Jesse brighton bidens presidency not up to par. It has been a rough few days for jack smith and funny willis. The days of magical legal thinking are over. The cavalry is not coming. Jesse the weft left waiting the white flag on the trump trials. It is a joke, it is a disgrace. Imagine that jesse why are liberals so sad . Plus. Thats a spicy meatball [ ] jesse its friday, that means trump can finally escape the icebox and do some campaigning. He is in new jersey tomorrow holding a rally at the beach. On saturday we have a tremendous rally, how many of you will be there . Its going to be great. There will be a big crowd and we will be saying a lot. Jesse johnny will ask questions and you will see that monday. Somehow the guy who was locked up in court four days a week is talking to more voters than biden. Trump warmed up for his rally outside of court today. He lies about everything, including his healthcare beca