on. the 18-year-old pleaded not guilty to killing ten people and wounding three others during saturday s shooting. prosecutors say a grand jury already voted to indict the accused gunman, but a formal announcement won t be made until after their investigation is complete. the suspect is also facing a hate crimes probe from the justice department which could result in federal charges being filed. if found guilty there, he could receive the death penalty. let s go to buffalo, new york. we have the host of msnbc s politics nation and our good friend, the president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. before we talk about buffalo, i want to follow up on this economic discussion we ve had. we had a focus group that was played yesterday. elise jordan played a focus group. you re tell me about it, we re hearing more and more about it as democrats move to the fall, that we re finding, and i know you re finding, too, with a lot of black voters, you have
kodak office. but it is seeming so much like the 70s right now. i need a leisure suit, a pet rock, and a mood ring. but let s talk about how the parallels a lot of politicians alive today, working today, don t remember the combination of high inflation, high crime, a cold war. man, it was devastating on a lot of politicians. gerald ford lost, of course, in 76. jimmy carter lost in 1980. very turbulent times then. very turbulent times politically now. i m like you, joe, i remember buying my first house with a 12% interest rate. it was a terrifying period. but i think that there s some significant differences that are worth noting. the first is that the federal reserve under jay powell finally seems to get it. the determination when inflation
supermarket where the shooting was. so the economic implications of that is you have to drive out of the neighborhood to even shop. well, the price of gas is a real problem for you when it goes up, up, and up. you have to do a lot of external to your immediate community traveling. gas prices go up even beforeyou get to the social issues. i think the economic issues are a real problem for the administration, even though i don t think they caused them. the one that is sitting at the wheel is the one that has to deal with where the car is headed and who is driving. these are real, real difficult problems. interest rates on homes, rents going up. the economic conditions, when you look at the black community, we re still almost doubly unemployed, so it takes on an even more acute sense of pain in our communities, which causes ambivalence at best.
going to be on the black seacoast for odesa. we don t know yet whether the russians think they re strong enough to go after that. a lot of very heavy fighting ahead. the fighting continues inside ukraine, and nato is only getting stronger. finland and sweden s push to join nato has president biden s full support. he backed the two countries strongly yesterday after meeting with the finnish president and the swedish prime minister at the white house. let no one make a mistake, the meaning of this historic day. in the face of aggression, nato has not grown weaker or more divided. it has dproun stronger, more united, with finland and sweden s decision to request membership in nato. it ll be enhanced for all time. standing together today, we reject the bloody creed that might makes right. we declare more powerful creed.
winner from georgia, at least he ll fashion himself as one, because of herschel walker. he is expected to have a big blowout win for u.s. senate there. football star. trump recruited him to run for senate in georgia. you ll hear a lot about that out of donald trump s mouth. you re not going to hear a lot about perdue. an adviser said donald trump did more to elect david perdue than david perdue. trump believes that perdue s work ethic has been shotty. republicans in other races when we discuss perdue with them, they said the problem is perdue. he doesn t really like campaigning, voters, raising money and talking to donors, and he doesn t like giving campaign speeches. that s a problem if you re running a statewide campaign. part of the result of what we re seeing in the polls so far with kemp dominating him is just that fact. perdue probably wasn t the right candidate, or this wasn t the right time to take on a republican candidate like