That donald trump will win the Michigan Republican primary. R. That is our election projection, donald trump, the projected winner of the michigan primary. Donald michigan primary. Donald msnbc news can also project that joe biden will win the Michigan Democratic primary. Joe biden, projected winner of the Michigan Democratic primary. Steve kornacki, as always, his post at the big board. Whats the big numbers here . You can see, if youve been following the last hour here, the story has been the difference between the polls being open and close in michigan. It is i. R. A. , dickinson together, a combined 0. 5 of the combined 0. 5 of the Border Counties are closed, we can make that projection. But its been evident, as well, if youve been watching, for the last hour whats been happening here. And one of the things as, more vote has been coming in, it was initially very concentrated right here in southeastern michigan. But more votes from the rural areas, up north, are starting to come. In
sorry, sparky. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, president biden on offense. in a fiery speech outside independence hall on thursday, he warns that americans democracy is at risk from trump loyalist who he calls maga republicans. in that same, speech the president has talked about the progress that biden has made on key issues intended to move the nation forward. all around, thursday the cdc recommended new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant. the next day the economy got a boost with another solid month of job creation. but as the residents of jackson mississippi will attached, not everything is going well. they are now in their seventh straight day without clean water. here to discuss all of this and more, karine jean-pierre, white house press secretary. karine, welcome back to the sunday show. thank you so much, jonathan, thanks for having me. let s start with, jackson mississippi. president biden signed an emergency dec
we re also fixing what s called this has been the bane of driving me crazy when i was out of office the public service loan forgiveness program. this program forgives student loans to encourage those students who had those loans if they go into public service. think of the millions who are. public school teachers, local police officers, workers at local charities, members of the military and the national guard, and so many more. think of the folks who work for federal, state, local, governments keeping essential services going, responding to natural disasters, firefighters and cops, the program is designed so that if you serve in one of these jobs, you will be able to list those, accurately assess whether you do, and make your loan payments for ten years, even if it s not consecutive years your remaining balance will be forgiven. it s a great idea but the program is a mess. so inefficient and complicated too many people give up. think of a service member that defers their
The labor market has pulled us through this choppy summer with gas prices. adding all these jobs, keeping all these people employed getting their wages up, it has been a tremendous positive. both for president biden for the economy writ large. gas prices, you ve mentioned. the gas prices have fallen from more than 80 days now. will they continue to fall as we head into the colder months? great question. i think we are almost where we were right before russia s invasion of ukraine. it seemed like kind of a normal level. so i think in the mid threes is probably the spot we are going to see for a while. i think the big issue with gas prices is often in the summer we know they re a lot of people traveling on planes and cars. we kind of got through the summer with gas prices coming down as a mentor for almost three straight months. i think we re probably gonna settle into a spot. the big question is going to be a push by all these, people with the u.s. is, help trying
Ago. so this is about giving those folks breathing room. it s as i say, good for our competitiveness writ large. it s good for the economy writ large. i think another important point here, is also about fairness writ large for having a discussion about fairness, the tax code has long been unfair. it has cut middle-class folks and working folks off at the knees while giving the biggest corporations and the wealthiest a pass. so what president biden is doing is across-the-board making the tax code more fair and do everything in his power to give working people breathing room and that s what today s announcement say. everybody heard the president say he believes this will have no meaningful effect essentially on inflation. but as you know there is not a consensus i think in the economic community on that. you have larry summers, one economic expert suggesting this is going to increase inflation. the chief economist at moody s says it will probably be largely wash, but the point if peopl