Bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And with donald trump strapped for cash, the New York Times is reporting he met with the worlds richest man, elon musk. Did the man behind the book Think Like A Billionaire convince this billionaire to help him out . Plus, what this epic rematch means for Down Ballot Races including control of congress as Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell endorses the former president. Weve got all of that coming up. But we begin with the next critical 31 hours for president joe biden, now putting the finishing touches on a speech hell likely have the biggest audience between now and november. The State Of The Union is tomorrow night, and its right on the heels of donald trump becoming the Presumptive Republican nominee. The president is expected to contrast his vision for america with trumps apocalyptic view. They want open borders, and open borders are going to destroy our country. We need borders and free and fair elections. Our cities are
they ve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations. i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the justice department reporter for the new york times. donel, you ve been watching this unfold. could simple incompetence explain what happened here. at worst it s a conspiracy, at best incompetence. this is unconscionable to find that some of the evidence of a crime, and this wasn t a small crime, a large crime that happened at the capitol. any evidence should have been secured. the secret servi
a major energy and health care bill that could breathe new life in his agenda. he urged congress to act quickly and pass it. the fact is that my message to congress is this. this is the strongest bill you can pass to low eriner inflatio tackle costs, and promote energy security, all the time while reducing the burdens facing working class and middle class families. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. manu, how did this come together? reporter: over the last few days, these negotiations between joe manchin and chuck schumer have picked up behind the scenes. in mid-july, the talks broke off for a little bit of time after manchin saw the june inflation numbers about 9%. he came out, he was concerned about it, he indicated he did not want to move forward on climate and energy provisions and tax provisions. at that point, schumer said they could agree on potentially a narrow health care bill. but things changed over the last several days. manchin told a group of reporters e
Lower manhattan. Michael cohen back on stand for what will be his final day of Cross Examinationened Re in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Now the prosecution is gearing up to redirect questioning of its star witness just one more time. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. That first hour went by like that. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. We were talking about the Sports Analogies we could draw. Well get to that. Dana i use batters box and see if i used it correctly. I was kind of there. We have more. Bill we did a little hockey, too. Dana more to come. Bill thats coming your way. The fireworks not over yet. Former president unleashing on the whole process before he entered the courtroom a short time ago. One hour and 15 minutes ago. Watch. I dont think there is one person that says that this trial is legitimate. And everybody is talking about the judge. The judge shouldnt be doing this trial. He is totally conflicted. He is the most conflicted judge possibly in
But also provide more than $50 billion to bolster semiconductor chip production, which are in short supply right now. but nevertheless, there are enough republicans and democrats who expect to get this over the finish line and send this to the president s desk today, guys. manu raju, thank you. business reporter matt eegen joins us now. we ve heard from president biden today, also from secretary yellen echoing what we heard from the fed chair, that this is not a recession. where do we stand? well, at a minimum, this economy is clearly slowing down. there was blockbuster growth last year. 6% most quarters for gdp growth. that s china-like growth, but we re seeing a sharp slowdown. gdp in the latest quarter declining annually .9%, after declining in the first quarter. why is this happening? consumer spending slowing down because of the crushing weight of inflation. housing market is stumbling. government spending decline.