Bill: benjamin, thank you. Very interesting developments in that war. Thank you. Live in london. Wages have not kept up with prices, so you have what i call the affordability crisis, where real wages are falling about 4% over the course of the bidenharris term. Dana: prices consumer decline, consumer prices up to. 9% as inflation remains a major issue for the economy, and americans struggle to make ends meet. Welcome to a brandnew hour of america s newsroom. I m dana perino. It s also the news room. We news on things. Bill: especially during the commercial breaks. As larry was saying, this is a bidenhere s economy. How they defend it we are about to say, but she ain t talking. Americans are drowning in debt and struggling to make ends meet as everyday goods get harder to afford. Your prices. In the last year alone, except 19%. Butter, 6%. Folks from across the country saying it is bad for the pocketbook. I blame the federal government at this point. They are killing us without killing
Major story line in the presidential race, and his cleanup attempts, well, don t seem to be working as there are now more examples of him using similar phrasing over the past few years. Meanwhile, vice president cheyanne harris is building real momentum with her campaign holding a raucous rally last night in front of a huge and lively crowd in atlanta. It comes as the veepstakes is heating up and she will will appear with her new running mate next week. We ll be joined by one of the men on the short list for that job, senator mark kweli of arizona. He ll be our guest this morning, and also ahead we ll bring you the latest out of the meet following a strike that killed a key leader of hamas. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 31st. I m jonathan lemire along with the bbc s katty kay in for joe, mika and willie and we have political analyst former u. S. Senator claire mcas skill, she and our friend jen palmieri are the cohost of the nbc podcast how to win 2024.
Pennsylvania trying to salvage his campaign. His support among democrats seems to be crumbling sources tell fox news the party consensus is a buy didn t need to drop out. Former president trump is keeping qu quietly in the spotlt on biden s troubles. This is the fox report. We have fox news team coverage for you tonight. Madison scarpino is with the latest from trump kevin utah congressman burgess owens is standing by. First let s go to lucas and tom within pennsylvania s capitol harrisburg with the lease on biden s white house bid. Lex and brian, good evening. Biden was here in pennsylvania back on capitol hill ahead of congress reconvening this week house minority leader hakeem jeffries holding a key virtual call with the fellow house democrats to discuss the future president biden whether or not he should remain in the race. Jerry nadler and adam smith top democrats and house longtime democrats of call for the president to step down and get out of the race one of the reasons preside
Dana: violence in the middle east escalating as israel trades rockets with palestinians. And iran backed hamas. Bill: the crisis at the border no sign of letting up as migrants stream into the u. S. Cdc under fire from numerous fronts over these conflicting and confusing guidance measures we ve heard by the day. Dana: in a moment a live report from the white house and senator mike lee will join us to react. Let s begin with the gas shortage in the southeast where the cyberattack led to panic at the pump. Jonathan serrie live from atlanta. What does it look like this morning? good morning. Right now we re at a qt station in atlanta and there is a steady clientele moving in and out of the pumps here. This station still has diesel and regular. We were at a different qt yesterday and when we arrived they were out of premium and mid grade. After an our of our arrival they ran out of gas all together. I checked back this morning and they were still out. This particular qt still has regular a
mix, he would have hit the americana trifecta. legislatively, their identity leans toward mcconnell, the party of no, no on covid relief, no on any type of reasonable gun control, putting them on the side of untraceable ghost guns, and against universal background checks. they ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of congress, but they ve passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. enough prayers. time for some action. and no on an infrastructure bill that has the support of a majority of americans. so let s get into this. joining me now to talk about this and how democrats can push forward with or without republicans as they deal with this identity crisis is democratic congressman don beyer of virginia, also chairman to the joint economic committee and former ambassador to switzerland. thanks for joining us on this. really appreciate it. . thank you, yasmin. so, republicans have been really quick to oppose everything from the relief bill