progressives willing to sacrifice to make this happen. climate change with manchin. sinema and the taxes and more optimism than in weeks the deal is done. >> thanks for being with us today. that does it for us. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ hi there. i'm stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is thursday, october 21. we have got all the facts you need to know so let's get smarter. the five week manhunt for brian laundrie could be over. investigators working overnight after human remains were discovered in a florida reserve. we'll go live to the scene. what one expert is calling the biggest threat to financial markets and society. rising prices, inflation hitting everything from groceries to

gasoline. why inflation could be here to stay and what it means for you and me. she is using talking gold medals but today legend simone biles will be here to talk about mental health, an important conversation you need to hear. but we'll start this morning on capitol hill where the house will vote today on whether to hold former trump ally steve bannon in contempt of congress. an hour from now we might get an idea of what could happen. and then attorney general garland will be asked about it when he testifies before the judiciary committee. the house vote today is about referring bannon to the justice department for criminal prosecution. let's bring in senior correspondent garrett haake and scott macfarland. garrett, we know democrats have control of the house. what we don't know, are any republicans going to vote for the contempt recommendation?

>> reporter: democrats have been framing this as a test not for the party but for the house, the idea that the vote regardless of what you think of the committee and the work is to stand up for the ability to conduct investigations and issue subpoenas that compel people to testify. they challenge the republican colleagues to take the vote at least that seriously but the early indications is the overwhelming majority of house republicans will dismiss this vote as part of a committee that they don't think is legitimate. that's the sense from the number two house republican when he spoke to reporters about this yesterday. take a listen. >> isn't it likely a number of republicans could vote to hold him in contempt because it is important that congressional subpoenas hold water? >> i think you are seeing most members tired of the witch hunts and the games. let's focus on the policy

instead of the partisan witch hunts. >> reporter: i think he there speaks for the house republicans that want to be as far from the committee and the work as possible. you will have two republican votes. the members of that select committee investigating this. whether it goes further than that, i think it is unlikely at best. >> tell us what senator johnson is doing trying to run the clock. >> he put a hold on a pivotal nominee. the united states attorney for the district of columbia who would decide whether to criminally prosecute steve bannon if this house vote passes and oversee it is largest criminal investigation, this january 6 prosecution. senator johnson spokeswoman tells me senator johnson will release that hold if the justice department responds to questions

he sent in june on equal application of the law between individuals that breach the capitol january 6 and those arrested for the unrest in 2020. so that's a real cloudy picture to look at and it puts another sloppy layer of politics on the january 6 prosecutions which are also dripping in politics. >> if this u.s. attorney in d.c. cannot get confirmed what does it mean to the whole process? >> it adds uncertainty and doesn't stop the train from going down the tracks. there is an acting attorney general. he's been quite a long time and been more than 630 federal defendants. about 100 reached plea agreements and then some of the big cases go to sentencing. some accused of physically assaulting police, hand to hand combat. the acting u.s. attorney will oversee the sentencing memos.

>> thank you. i want to dig deeper with a man close to this situation. california democratic congresswoman adam schiff. he's got a new book out called "midnight in washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could." still could. that's the important part. you need to pay attention to. congressman, thank you for joining us. i want to start with this argument. steve scalise saying this is a witch hunt. ridiculous. i want to ask you something specific what he wrote. he says congress' oversight power should be used just to get information to legislate but not to conduct investigations or issue subpoenas outside of that. basically saying the investigation is illegitimate why what's your response to that? >> look. he is parrotting the former president's talking points. this is part of the charter in the january 6 select committee

is we are empowered to come up with legislative solutions to protect the country going forward and a part of reason of being. if we can't discern the roles and where the funding came from, why the security wasn't as it should be on that day, it is hard to prescribe legislative remedies how to protect the capitol and the government going forward. so the arguments are meritless and what the former president want it is hear. >> are you worried about political will? yesterday condaleesa rice said the country needs to move on. when you combine those comments and trump enthusiasts, what do you think republicans could do here? >> there's so much we don't know about particularly the former president's role on january 6. we know that he was involved in inciting the insurrection but how much he knew about the propensity of violence that day and part of the plan for that day, we owe it to the country to

find out and to the country to take steps to protect ourselves going forward. so look. we are going to do our job on a very nonpartisan basis. i think the members of the select committee are determined to get to the ground truth but this is also important in its own right. if the congress is unwilling to enforce its own subpoenas then that's one of the major checks and balances in the system that's cast aside. if republicans think they can acquiesce to stonewall congress here they're fooling themselves so this is about our own institutional prerogative and whether congress as the founders intended is a branch to check other the branches. >> is there reasons why the justice department might not prosecute? for example, there are concerns about setting a precedent that

could bring out others in cases. >> if a former official and future administrations refuse to testify when they're lawfully compelled then they should be held to the same standard. really ought to be one standard. i can tell you if any constituents got a subpoena to appear in court or congress and refused the show up they would be prosecuted. and it shouldn't be different for the rich and powerful or friends of the former president. there's an erosion of the rule of law. people did thumb their nose at complying with congressional subpoenas. to me this is an early test if the democracy is recovering. >> how hard is that for you? a test of the democracy is massively important. however, i cannot imagine any constituents are calling you on a regular bases making this the top priority. how do you prioritize this, the importance of this with the

wants and needs of your voters every day? >> well look. my constituents want to make sure to provide for their families and why the build back better bill is so important and the infrastructure bill and we'll get them done, too. but they recognize the importance of protecting the democracy and how fragile it is. how things they never imagined would happen in this country have happened in the last four years and can't look at this enforcement action against steve bannon in isolation. it is part of a broad assault where you can ignore subpoenas, use the justice department in ways that bill barr did to go after the president's enemies. you can ignore the prohibition on using the white house grounds for political conventions. you can enrich yourself as president. the list goes on and on. you have to say, okay, enough. we need to put back in place these guardrails of democracy. >> what do you if the department

of justice decides not to prosecute? how do you get the guardrails up? >> there are other remedies but none as effective as prosecution. the jail time idea weighs on the mind and finds out the vital information of steve bannon and to others who will look to this and decide, well, then they too can obstruct if he gets away with it or think he was prosecuted i should comply with the law also. >> all right. congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, infrastructure. police reform. voting rights. gun control. all stalled in congress. why democrats need a big win right now more than ever. also this morning, olympic gymnast and legend simone biles will be here talking mental health with a message for all

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today president biden is back in d.c. after a quick trip to scranton, p.a. trying to sell the american people on the agenda but the issue is big parts are changing or maybe even being cut out entirely. still he predicted it is going to get done. >> this is a really smart,

national press with me and believed there's no possibility of this getting done and declared dead on arrival from the moment i introduced it but i think we'll surprise them because i think people are figuring out what's at stake. >> but there are massive questions that still need to be answered. how will you pay for it? i might want to move into a barbie dream house but if i don't have money i won't be moving. congresswoman sinema doesn't want to raise taxes on the rich or corporations. let's discuss. i want to bring in white house correspondent for pbs news hour and eugene daniels, and leigh ann caldwell. if sinema said she doesn't want to tax the rich and corporations, isn't she saying she is against this thing full stop? >> reporter: it is hard to tell. it is hard to tell what sinema

thinks because the office doesn't comment. have not talked to reporters who ask many questions in the capitol hallways but we do know that she does not support taxes on the highest tax bracket, covid-19 esing to 39.6% and doesn't support increasing the corporate tax rate and two things that not only have democrats run on of undoing the 2017 tax cut bill, but also, making the wealthiest pay for this social safety net so democrats what they are doing is scrambling to figure out alternate ways to pay for this upwards of $2 trillion bill and vent figured it out yet. >> why scrambling? is this new or always her position? if she is not budging how do they get around it? >> it's hard to see how people are surprised by this. she voted no on the trump tax

cuts and then voted yes to extend them. she has a personal stake, undoing something she voted for. finding a way around it they have to be creative. talking about figuring out ways to be creative and something they heard from sinema over and over and not talked publicly and something that's fallen by the wayside as negotiations and lawmakers have gone up and down to the white house and negotiated on capitol hill. what they're hoping for is that they can get manchin on board, get all 49 folks on board. have him support the tax cuts and use that to pressure sinema and where it seems like they have focus energy because joe manchin and sinema don't agree on things they don't want in the bill so they have work to do and i don't think it will happen by the deadline of the 31st of

october. >> it is not a surprise it takes time. these are transformative bills. but last night i was out with -- saw significant joe biden democrats and supporters and they're panicked. we have seen nothing done. we're at zero at this point. how much is on the line here? >> it is a great point. so much is on the line and at stake here. president biden's really legacy, legislative legacy, the president came into office promising to have a constituents' backs, especially african-americans and he said he would have transform magsal change and there is the rescue package and the president passed big bills while in office. that being said you list out when i talk to democratic voters talk about voting rights, policing reform and the large

bill on infrastructure and social safety net issues. democrats running in places look virginia for governor are looking to washington to give us a win. a badly needed win to say when democrats are in power things get done. there's a lot riding on the infrastructure bill, this two-deal package. i'm told that the president sees himself as the person critical to making sure that his party gets on the same page and lawmakers see the president critical for that and sound sort of upbeat with work left to do. >> reporting came out yesterday that joe manchin is considering leaving the democratic party to be an empty. after joe biden won i heard this rumor. mitch mcconnell told big new york donors. don't worry. he is leaves the party. i called joe manchin himself and laughed at me saying that will

not happen. i called the office again yesterday. they said no way. explain to us why he doesn't need to do that. he has the power in the seat he is in. >> reporter: that's right. we deal with the rumors every three to six moths with senator manchin and he denies them and look at the power dynamics on capitol hill. someone to switch parties has to get something that they don't currently have and for senator manchin he already has the world. he is the chair of the energy committee which is what he wants. if he swifed parties that would have to unseat senator brasso of wyoming for that chairmanship and no indication that he is willing to do especially this late in the election cycle. senator manchin controls the party right now why he is the 50th vote and shaped legislation and ultimately he is a democrat and sides with democrats most of

the time except for some nominations. you have to look at personal dynamics. senator manchin is friends with democrats and not close to senator mcconnell and thinks that he has degraded the institution of the senate and just doesn't seem any indication that he is going to switch parties. talking to republicans and democrats, if there's innocent to switch party people place the vote on senator sinema. >> eugene, what do you know that we don't? >> about him possibly saying it, the thing we heard is that someone -- he may have said it to someone and talking about the frustration and someone thought that's what he said. there's almost no political benefit at all for manchin to switch parties. >> why would he move? he has the power.

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it was sub merged. is it a dental imprint? could be a day. but if they have to extract dna from bone that could be a week and an interesting aspect to this? this is a massive reserve. 25,000 acres. 80 miles of hiking trails and near the entrance that this was all found. that is according to the laundrie lawyer and if it's so close how did it take five weeks. >> i know you'll ask. thank you. we are staying on this story. coming up next, what one expert calls the biggest threat to markets but also to society. higher prices. why they could be here to stay and what they could do to the most vulnerable americans. that's next. next. mm. [ clicks tongue ] i don't know. i think they look good, man.

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the industry and investors is inflation. pretty clear to me that inflation is not transitory. it's here to stay. and it's probably the single biggest threat to certainly financial markets and again probably i think to society just in general. >> that was investor paul tudor jones sounding the alarm of inflation's threat to the economy. we told you about the highest inflation in 13 years. and while democrats are trying to get president biden's agenda across the finish line more spending could make inflation worse and hurt the very people they try to help. i asked treasury secretary janet yellen about that this week. she said it's short term. why would businesses drop the prices? they don't need to. >> well, i think that some of the pressures that have caused increased prices were already beginning to see them moderate. >> when you go to a restaurant

people are lined up to pay $30 for a hamburger. why would that restaurant low ter price to $15? people are willing to pay the higher price. >> the rate of increase of prices will abate over time. >> i need an education on this one. let's bring in austan goolsbee. also with us former dallas fed president robert fisher who's a senior adviser to barclays. janet yellen says over time once we get out of the shocks of the pandemic prices will go back down. why would they? demand and spending is up. i wouldn't lower a price if i ran a business. >> by the way, it is richard. robert is my brother. he's smarter than i am. >> so sorry. >> i'll give you -- we had the pressures that have been

building. but there's still pressures in the pipeline could sustain prices. labor costs are going up. workers have enormous negotiating power. we have savings in pockets and the nonfinancial sector. $5.5 trillion in savings that could be spent. we have the new green agenda affecting margins making transitions so corporations right now as you can see across the board are building in price increase mentality for the goods and services they sell and i don't think this happens overnight. austan probably knows more about this than anybody but the way companies operate is they can't just change the ecosystem. the way they structure and inventory management. and so it takes time to adjust.

it's taken longer than the fed expected and i expect the pressures will continue for sometime especially considers we brought unemployment down significantly. we are not fully employed but close. we have a lot of jobs that can be filled and a skills mismatch and those workers have to be trained. so i agree with those worried about it. i have felt the transition. fit's transitory we'll be longer and eventually this subsides. the question is how long? how much pain does it inflict on particularly the poor and those dependent on fixed incomes? >> austan, i know your name and you know this answer. what do you think? >> well, look. i thought your little mixed up in the question there. >> sock it to me. >> the prices don't have to go back down for it to be the end of inflation.

inflation is the rate that the prices are going up. if the prices go up and they stay where they are, at the high level, inflation would go to zero. the argument about transitory is that so far if you look at the inflation it is not broad based inflation. it is heavily concentrated in pandemic affected sectors and where the whole world is trying to come back all at the same time with the supply chain disruptions that are not just in the u.s. but everywhere. i think it is an interesting question that this question of is that going to spread into inflation expectations? and is the overall labor shortage going to mean that inflation lasts longer than we thought it to be. i'm still thinking it's leaning toward this is temporary. that over the course of a few moths this looks like the toilet paper shortage or the vaccine

shortage at the beginning with more demand than supply but that's what we should keep an eye on. i continue to emphasize that the -- my explanation for why there's a labor shortage is not skills mismatch, not any of the things. there is a still raging virus. we have got to get control of the virus. with exposure to customers and face to face interaction those are where people are not coming back and demanding higher wages and i feel like to get control of the spread of the virus we might get an upside potential on relieving these problems. >> richard, it was noteworthy to me seeing paul tudor jones say this is the most irresponsible monetary policy of his lifetime why what is your take? >> he's been around for a quite

a while. of course we had an oil shock in the '70s and a constant underestimation by the federal reserve open market committee on what inflation pressures would be repeatedly before the oil shock hit the marketplace and hit our people. so i'm not sure about his statement frankly but voicing a concern why whether i agree with him is not the point or whether austan agrees is not the point. he reflects what markets are beginning to think. he's a market operator. sometimes they get excited about something or discount something. could be right or wrong. and then they change their mind over time so i take note of what he is saying and what he is saying is reflecting what he thinks as a market analyst and investor. doesn't mean he's right. >> austan, market dow down just about 100 at this point.

i do want to ask you, you have worked inside a white house and advise a president. the midterms are not far away. and you could give an economics list and going to any grocery store in the country and find shoppers complaining about higher prices and worried. that impacts how they vote. >> yeah. look. tricky is the nice way to put it. it will stink and take months at least. even the folks on team temporary believes it takes months to sort this through and people will be upset. that's -- it's not under the control of the white house. but the white house will still be blamed so they will have to deal with that reality. >> all right. austan, richard, please say hi to your brother robert. come by any time. especially now that i know he's so smart and got to leave it

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i was petried. >> she returned to competition for a team silver and bronze for the beam and winning global praise for putting the mental health and safety first. >> i have to focus on the mental well being. >> that was brave. >> thank you. it was hard. working five years for a dream and having to give it up was not easy at all. >> it's not been an easy few months for the 24-year-old. in september she attended a senate judiciary committee hearing speaking out about the failure to stop the sexual abusz that she and others surred from former doctor larry nassar. >> to be clear, i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. >> biles now headlining her tour gold over america hitting the mat once again.

>> joining me now is simone biles and also an investor in the company and with us cerebral's ceo and founder. we have all seen you compete, perform on the world stage and also know privately you have struggled with anxiety and adhd and part of the foster system and larry nassar's abuse. why are you doing this? >> because i want to help other people and i know everybody's mental health journeys are unique but if we can walk this road together and that feels comfortable then that's what i'm going to do. >> good and affordable mental health is almost nonexistent for so many people and not something they talk about and the family can afford. how does cerebral change that? >> cerebral is a one stop shop

for online mental health care. and we're really about cutting down the barriers to accessing care whether that's cost, convenience, stigma. right? and i think what simone, you have done, to really change the conversation by coming out and saying, hey, in tokyo, i'm not going to continue here. right? so powerful for tens of millions of americans not feeling okay and can say i'm not feeling okay and i can get the help i need and cut down the barriers and what cerebral is all about and excited to have you as chief impact officer. >> how did you connect the dots? you were facing the strains and pressures why when was the point you knew i need help? >> i always knew i needed it but like he said accessible, on the go, one stop shop, that's what i needed and wish i had in tokyo.

to kind of help me on that journey and glad to have it now and made a huge impact. everybody's journey is different but this is what helped me. >> was your situation in tokyo worsen mental health? so many people supported you but many, many people trash talked you. despite the dangerous sport. what did that do you? >> the good outweighed the bad and people struggling silently go through that so if i'm a voice for them and help them that's what i was going to do but ultimately i had to take care of myself and my mental health and well being. >> you are part on tour and obviously not competition. >> right. >> where are you in terms of being scared? >> i'm not doing any twisting. but it's super exciting to perform in front of a crowd

again. >> do you feel like you're blocked? >> sometimes i'll watch the goirls when they twist and like -- i don't know how you do that. it's a safe place in the gym. so it's better. >> kyle, when you think about what this pandemic has done for children, how do we take this on? the president could say we have a plan but in the immediate right now think about what this last year has been like, how much of a crisis is this? >> it is a huge crisis. right? it's a cultural crisis and it is a very real clinical crisis. what simone has done to change the conversation allows people to come out and say i'm not okay. i need to get the help i deserve and need and it's cost, wait time. what we do is focus on data science to take wait times from months to minutes so people can be seen right away. right? and that's ultimately what this

is all about is cutting down those barriers to accessing care so that everyone can get the care they deserve and need. >> what is your message to people watching who might be struggling and don't know what it is but they know something is not >> yes, i i want to start off by saying it's oak so not be okay. i support you. you're welcome on any of my platforms. i know it's a scary route to take but go get the help. i know it's intimidating but it's worth it in the end. >> did you feel like you had no choice, you had to say on the world stage, i need a break? >> yeah i had to, or else i'd walk away from tokyo. i had to put in that retrospect. at the end offed day, it's probably one of my bravest things and greatest accomplishments. >> certainly it. it is an honor to meet you both. thank you for what you're doing. oh my gooden, i can el it you, i have a third grade daughter who wishes she was not at school.

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name in the coming days, the minnesota senator has another idea tweeting, "or you could just fix your company." this morning, there's fierce new reaction to a story we first brought you lost week, a top school administraors in south lake, texas, for teachers to provide opposing views to books about the holocaust. that school administrator was actually following the state law in texas. she wasn't going out on a limb. that's what's scary. >> that's right, stephanie. to give people further context, salt lake's community outside of dallas one of the ground zero towns for the national fight over history, race, diverdivers how to talk about tough subjects at school got its talk. when mike and i reported on the remarks the administrator made saying teachers in order to comply with the new laws banning certain ways of talking about

these subjects in school how they were going to be applied and used the holocaust as an example of one you need to present an opposing view. they've seen a major community response. monday night a school meeting parents, former students and teachers speaking out saying this law needs to be condemned and the school board and administration needs to step up and less about the administrator's belief but the community's need to step up and respond and take responsibility for how they continue to give a quality education under the new laws. one of its most poignant moments was from a former student jakd jakd named jake berman and shared a heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching story about some of the bullying he experienced there. take a listen. >> i was subject to rash bullying almost all anti semitic

in nature, jokes about my nose to gas chambers. this is a crossroads for the state and for this district, one path is an opportunity to lead and be on the right side of history, the other will cost you and your children a quality edation. >> reporter: berman contemplated suicide at one point. his parents pulled him out of south lake's carroll school district as a result. he shared and opened up to push the community to consider what it is doing and take a stand and when it comes to the holocaust and he mentioned slavery that people take action and understand when it comes to some of the stories, there aren't two sides, stephanie. >> it's not black history, it's american history. another major firestorm raging in texas, another school over critical race theory, a principal at a different school. can you tell us about it? >> reporter: that's right. this is a community that's just down the road from south lake called grapevine and

colleyville, dr. james whitfield the first black principal. parents started accusing him of critical race theory and what we've seen is now his job is on the brink. he's right now in the process of preparing to defend himself in a hearing next month he has to fight for his job. the school district says they're ultimately planning to potentially fire him not because of critical race theory but in part because of the community reaction, his communication, and apparently deficiencies in his performance as principal that in part stem from everything that's happened in the community over the last couple years. i spent time with dr. whitfield and got to see him as he dropped his own son off at a school across the street from the school that he is now not allowed to go to. take a listen to some of our conversation. >> as i'm dropping him off and i'm driving back home, feels

like i'm missing out on doing what i've been called to do. it's discouraging but i just try to keep framing it as this is paving the way for something that's greater. it's hard to see at times, you know? it's hard to see. it's like i'm doing a pass-by instead of going in and doing what i've been called to do. >> wow. i know i want to see more of this. you can, too, antonia's reporting will be in long form on this week's episode of requests mtp reports f.f. streaming on nbc news now and on demand on peacock. i'm stephanie ruehl. jose diaz-balart picks up breaking news coverage right now. >> good morning, it's 10:00 a.m. eastern/7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. as democrats work to finalize the outline of their social safety net bill they may have to find another way to pay for