good morning, everyone, welcome to cnn this morning. it is the top of the hour, 8:00, i m sure you re all already awake. and i mara walker, and i m omar jimenez in for victor blakwell. you do have coffee. yeah. somewhere. i just happened to get a good night s sleep last night which is rare. you re glowing. i do my best. we have a lot to talk about. we start with lawmakers, getting ready to return to capitol hill. they re facing a critical deadline crunch. we ll break down everything on their plate. and a death at the burning m manfestival. and blistering heat is impacting millions. who will see the worst of it and whether relief is an owe the way. and covid cases are back an owe the rise. experts warn the number of cases could be higher than what the data shows. so, this week congress is heading back to d.c. with a lot on their plate. senators return from their august break on tuesday followed by the house next week and with the fiscal year ending on september
the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you very much, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i m jumping the gun because this has just been a heck of a day in the news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for supreme court justices, first time, first time in our history. and honestly, we have had some terrible supreme court justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court ju
supreme court justices. first time in urhistory. it s not like everyone before this was good so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery.ei we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, s not a single one of the other t supreme court justices even bothered to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a whole wing of the court that has produced corruption scandal after corruption scandal after r corruption scandal. and not like esoteric legalese versions of corruption that are hard to understand.de things like buy me an rv, buy my mom a house. those kinds of fina
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americans were working than eight years before. we have turned it all around. once again we have been the economic envy of the entire world. it really is a stroke because the gdp did hit four times during the obama administration. the highest was 5.1 percent. but as you say, it was something. mike: growth like this is something obsolete should be celebrated. with the white house and i think others have been saying is that the numbers during the obama administration may have been high but it was largely because there was a recovery phase. when the president began with the economy already, pretty decent shape and really revving it up with the agenda of deregulation and all of that. he s been criticizing the fed recently for trying to pump the brakes on the economy because he did not want them to raise interest rates. eric: meanwhile, this is been
going on all cylinders in terms of the economy and the gdp. another blowback of the performance with vladimi