country. joining me now, ali arouzi nbc correspondent. ali, thank you for being here. to start things off, could you tellrt us the reaction in teher to what s happening on their border? reporter: well, it s a mixed bag, jonathan, from teheran. traditionally iran is ideologically opposed to the taliban. they are suni, the iranians are shi a and they never read off the same hymn sheet. as history has always told us, your enemy s enemy is your friend, and they are an enemy of the united states and iran is welcoming a large swath of u.s. troops disappearing from their border. and we ve also seen extraordinary scenes, jonathan, of afghan military personnel pouring acrossta the border int iran in advance vehicles with advanced equipment. no doubt provided to them by the united states which the iranian defense ministry will be very happy to get their hands on. that s the military side of it. the humanitarian side of it is that the iranians have opened up three border crossings on
we start in the us where wall street shares have closed at new record highs on hopes that soaring inflation has finally peaked. america s consumer price index rose 0.5 % injuly almost half the rate it rose injune. that s the biggest drop in monthly inflation in 15 months. why s that so important? well, it means the federal reserve may not be under such pressure to start removing stimulus measures. in other words, cheap money could be around for a good while longer. rapid increase in prices, i do think has peaked, and now with the delta variant slowing the economy to some degree, i think that acts almost as like a rate hike in some ways. but when you go out here in the west coast, it is busy, it is packed last weekend. so the economy is stilljust bursting at the seams, so very, very positive on economic growth. but i do think things like used vehicle prices and energy prices that have really driven inflation have probably peaked especially energy prices. so we never thou
bill. chuck schumer saying he intends to get the legislation along with a budget resolution paving the way for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill through before the august recess. we are on track to pass both elements of the two track strategy before we adjourn for august recess. it took some prodding and a few dead line but it all has worked out for the better. we re going look at the road ahead with colorado democratic senator john hickenlooper who helped negotiate that bill. a house committee heard from some of the texas democratic law machers who fled the state to block passage of a voting restrictions bill as protesters march towards the state capitol in texas demanding action on voting rights. we re learning more about how far donald trump went in his efforts to get the justice department to help him pursue his false election fraud claim. we ll talk with a reporter that broke that story and get reaction from senate judiciary committee chair dick durbin. and nbc n
hospitality sector. it s good to see some of those come back. but if you look under the hood of this you also saw that in february we lost nearly 70,000 educator jobs at the state and local level. and as you say, the challenge of long-term joblessness, which is one of the hallmarks of this crisis, is not getting better. so what we really need to do here is we need to provide relief and support immediately in those areas of the economy that we know are struggling so that we can get the trajectory of this recovery up significantly. to that point democrats say that is what is in this bill and it will help precisely those people. that includes unemployment benefits extended through september, a third round of direct stimulus payments, $1,400 going directly to people making $75,000 or less, single parents with kids earning $112,500 or less and couples making $150,000 or less. the bill includes $350 billion for state and local governments, $130 billion for schools, $160 billion f