president biden. for today s inflation. i point at trump. let s look at how economics work you re telling me inflation this all happened in the last 365 days that s laughable i mean, that s not even possible. reporter: cameron voted for biden but worries the president is disconnected from the economic realities in places like luzerne. reporter: what is your message to biden? come and take a visit. see what people are dealing with reporter: as this year s midterms approach, cameron and bruce and jennifer count themselves as undecided voters, as prices and politics intersect like never before dasha burns, nbc news, luzerne county, pennsylvania. we ve got more to tell you about up next, remembering a larger than life figure in the world of fashion. we learn about covid-19,
meanwhile, james says her office has not decided whether the evidence merits legal action. all right gabe, thank you. back now with our series county to county, focussing on seven counties in seven key battleground states in this midterm year tonight dasha burns is in pennsylvania talking to people there about how economic struggles are shaping their vote. reporter: bruce vine has been building houses for 24 years right here in lazurne county, pennsylvania, a blue collar community at one time democratic stronghold that turned red in 2016. everyone is asking. reporter: but now with prices up 7% in the past year, his construction business is facing unprecedented challenges how much has inflation hit you? basically everything is double. reporter: plus, there is a long list of supplies he can barely get his hands on. bathtub, showers, vanities. reporter: everything yes. reporter: those higher prices are felt in his own home as well. you guys have a 14-year-old at ho
go according to expectations, i would anticipate something like september 1 would be a time frame to think that the visit would be made. lon, when we spoke last night, bruce referenced the fact there might come a time when it s constructive to figure if there is a solution in the interest of all sides that honors due process and the highest princeiples in sievelation. do you see a time edward could return to the united states or conditions you could imagine that happening? certainly, i can imagine that. and we ve been, again, trying to work to gain assurances that due process would be afforded to my son, but that just has that s been not there at this point. you ve had people on, lindsey gram, they are using the same tired old tactics of now they are complaining about president
where my focus is at the time. there is obviously the larger issue that you re now concerned about and also very personal issue of your son and his future. have you spoken to him? do you have any idea where he s gone? do you hope to go there? i have not spoken directly to my son and i don t intend to do so until the appropriate time and i believe that will be sometime. we communicated through entpeop i spoke to the russian lawyer that represents him. we discussed the train of events needed for us to obtain visas to travel to moscow and have an opportunity to discuss with his attorney the possibility of legal representation of edward not united states, make certain all legal avenues are fully made known to edward in deciding what he wishes to do, and if things
bruce, there are some people watching this story tonight and i ll hear on twitter, who will say look, edward snowden is seeking asylum where the guy running it is a kgb officer and not interested in transparency in their own dealings and say if edward snowden is interest in transparency, why is he in russia? should people look where he is as a some sort of reflex of him or to you is it just this is where events have brought him? i think they need to look why he is in russia and not the united states. it s because we need to look at what we did to provoke the disclose seres he made and forced him to go abroad because he couldn t receive a fair trial with people convicting him of freezen before he s even had a single day in court before there has even been a chance to test the constitutionality of the criminal complaints. that s the problem. nobody is trying to suggest that russia or other countries may be