good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriend s abortion. flat out denial a lie. and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke to nbc. he claims he s good to go, but he won t release his medical records to prove it. we ll have live reports from both states, show you that interview and ask pennsylvania democrat whether she thinks voters deserve more. plus will there be a smoking gun at the investigation on capitol hill the answer just 24 horse away. and finally it turns out intentionally slamming a $330 million spacecraft into the side of an asteroid is a good thing. how nasa s grand experiment tha
pushing cases. i will speak with one of those theories ahead. later, men are major developments in uvalde texas. in the wake of the massacre at robb elementary, but why did it take so long? i will speak with the former mayor of san antonio, about that and more. a good sunday morning to you all. happy fourth of july. i am katie fang. this morning american airlines bounced back from a holiday travel nightmare. a glitch in the scheduling platform, drop power to stop thousands of flights for the month. it says, it has resorted most of the flights. it s the latest addition to summer travel stress. from weekends of severe storms, getting on to a flight from almost any airline, has been a hassle. maggie vespa is live for us at chicago s o hare international with the latest. maggie? he katie good morning. we ve been talking for weeks now for headaches about hairlines. this feels like a migraine for american hairlines. basically a glitch in the airline schedule the platform, allow
of the 11th hour, stephanie rule, tom costello with us, white house correspondent carol lee and host of public radio s full disclosure. the news is in, stephanie, three quarters of a point. we thought originally it was going to be 50 basis point but jay powell is in a situation. we are in a serious inflationary environment. normally the fed likes inflation to be around 2% and it s currently approaching 9. so 75 basis points is a big move but it s still tricky because what they don t want to do is move so much so quickly that they push us into recession. but if they don t do something aggressive, prices will likely continue to rise and the economy is suffering for it, especially right around gas prices. this is a big move. it s not unexpected. it s the thing that people have been waiting for. most economists across the board have said this should have happened months ago. markets are going to take this as a positive. robin, it is hard to thread this needle, though. the
original race in 2010 and his victory speech put a national spin on the local win. tonight, tonight we tell wisconsin, we tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions. cnn s ted rowlands for us this morning is in madison. good morning to you, ted. reporter: good morning, soledad. you see the video of that woman slapping tom barrett, and a lot of talk about that, obviously, this morning. we don t know who that woman is and we ve been trying to find out who she is, and whether or not she was questioned by police or anything, if this was something that did raise the eyebrows of people at the event. barrett did comment to a local reporter about it saying he was shocked about it, claims the woman asked him just before she slapped him, may i slap you in the face for conceding too early, and he said well i d rather get a hug from you so he says he leaned in and she slapped him anyway, so