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he is the king! case closed! how about aaron judge walks into history with a 62nd home run of this season breaking the american league record said by roger maris, and as far as you and i are concerned, willie, i m sure, breaking the single season all-time home run record. the only people that are in front of him have a massive asterisk, because they were all at the height of the roid war. all roided out themselves, but aaron judge, nome does he does he set this record. he does it with his mom in the stands and proves throughout this entire process he s really one of the, one of the good guys in he is. baseball today. i m chuckling watching that shot of his mother. that was just relief right there. she s been on the road with him. she s been, the last couple of weeks traveling show. tie the record 61. would he break it? you can just see her sort of fall back into her care, ah. finally, he did it. not a moment too soon. second to last day of the season. toda ....
Not making any big decisions on when president xi will talk to president biden, how biden will handle russia and the war in ukraine and china s sagging economy, decisions not being made that could affect our pocketbooks here at home, depending on how this all plays out. lester? okay, andrea mitchell, thank you. now to our nbc news exclusive. rare access inside the u.s. mission to train troops fighting on the newest front in the war on terror in west africa. let s get more from courtney kube. reporter: tonight, we re on the front lines of a growing terror threat. these special ops soldiers in the west african country niger trained by u.s. troops, practicing door-to-door clearing operations, preparing for a fight against islamic extremist groups. they fight together over the same land. reporter: lieutenant colonel ian mcconnell is the special ops commander in the region. one of the key lessons we ve taken from the last 20 years from the u.s. ....
Reason for protecting taiwan. it produces more than 90% of the semiconductors. microclips that power everything from microphones to airplanes to smart fridges. this could cause trillions in economic damage meaning chaos for consumers in the u.s. and china. disastrous for china, too. they would fate large-scale unemployment, consumer goods that we would face. reporter: the question? is that a price jinping is willing to pay? experts tell us consumer in the u.s. would feel the ill pact immediately, fewer supplies on the schedules, higher price, worldwide trillions of dollars of loss. that s the risk. one of the world s geopolitical flashpoints. a terrible few years for china. you look at the sagging economy. ....
The new poll also shows more than half of americans want u.s. troops to come home from afghanistan before the deadline. the obama administration s plan is to have most of them out by december 62014. and french government wants the rich to help pay more to help the sagging economy. so it is now passed a millionaire tax. while the france president france s president introduced this idea plans to sign it into law. zain asher is joining us to talk about the latest version of this because this came about first became popular when you had the actor, the french actor gerard day poor due says i don t want to pay this. i m becoming a russian citizen instead. initially, it was very different, right? 75% tax on income that was over 1 million euros or $1.4 million a year. that s not what we re talking about. yeah, so that was the original plan. the original plan was like 75% ....
About it. do you have any other, like devil s advocate questions? the minimum wage by coincidence is the right level? no, it s not exactly the right level right now. right now we have a sagging economy and the last thing i would do right now when you have a sagging economy, when you have flat consumer spending is this l.a. times editorial the last thing i m going to do is put another burden on a small business. the last thing i ll do is put burden on the working class people and have labor costs go up at every place where they shop so their prices will go up. call me stupid. go ahead, please. i just don t think in this economy you want to put more burden on small business owners and on consumers. and that s what this would be doing. coming up, some of the leading senators on capitol hill, senator elizabeth warren. i don t agree at all. ....