interest rates in hopes of slowing inflation. and this morning, a key report could provide a better outlook on our economy s health. meanwhile on capitol hill, senator joe manchin finally agrees to a major deal on climate, health care, and taxes, and we ll break down what s in that reconciliation package. and potential prisoner swap for brittney griner, the state department says there s a substantial offer to bring the wnba star, and another american, back home. good morning, and welcome to way too early on thursday, july 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. after nearly a year of, a year and a half of on and off negotiations, democratic senator joe manchin says he has reached a deal with party leaders on a sweeping reconciliation package. in a statement yesterday, that surprised even most democrats on the hill, the west virginia lawmakers announced an agreement on what is being called the inflation reduction act of 2022. writing in part this, this bill
very clear, too, that no one, no one, including a president of the united states, is above the law. by the way, today is the six-year anniversary of that speech in indiana. happy anniversary to the president, as the fbi goes through his documents this morning. what a long road it s been. you know, he actually, i guess, in 2018, willie, he passed a law. he signed a law that actually made the protection of classified material even stronger. that is a good thing to do. it is a good thing to do. he said in the campaign law and order party. he was going to protect all classified information. so says it in the campaign. willie, he actually passes legislation. kept his word. he signs it, comes into law. that the penalties for not protecting classified information going to be even tougher because of hillary clinton s emails. yeah, remember the context of that speech six years ago was all about hillary clinton and the emails and the private server that she had.
There was an eye-popper when you dropped this yesterday. what does it mean to copy the data on an election machine? to take that server out of it. as a trump election lawyer, sidney powell and the other crack pots running this operation were allegedly behind it. is that legal to do? how do you do that? these machines, as people would expect, are usually tightly guarded. elections officials in counties and people with credentials are allowed to handle them, but there is tightly controlled chains of custody. these are machines that handle votes and ballots that are sensitive and shouldn t be interfered with. what we see are these teams of forensic investigators going into georgia, michigan, nevada, and opening the guts of these computers and taking images and copying files of servers. the problem arises when some of these files are leaked online. we ve seen that in michigan. we ve seen that in colorado.
Builds for first time buyers and many have sticker shock. it has been a noticeable slowdown in our sales offices and rates basically daubling. we re focused on getting inflation back down. while consumer spending and production is slowing, unemployment is a year lows and that suggests the u.s. is not in a current recession. 2.7 million people hired in the first half of the year, it doesn t make sense that the economy would be in recession with this kind of thing happening. we re going to have much more on all of this. the state of the economy. recession concerns. democratic reconciliation package. all later in the hour. meanwhile, the department of justice revealed it has obtained a search warrant to be able to go through john eastman s phone. you will recall that eastman is a trump election lawyer who spoke at the stop the steal rally on january 6th and was one of the key individuals pushing the plan for then vice president mike pence to overturn the 2020