as president biden speaking today to the afl\cio in philadelphia. amidst growing concerns about the midterms with gas prices and inflation the top issues on voters' minds. >> jobs are back. prices are still too high. covid is down, but gas prices are up. our work isn't done. but here is the deal. america still has a choice to make, a choice between a government by the few for the few or a government for all of us. >> with the fed under pressure today to put brakes on inflation with its meeting tomorrow with a higher than expected interest rate hike, the white house announcing mr. biden is going to make a controversial visit to saudi arabia next month. we will drill down on why a little later. the january 6th committee is postponing its next hearing originally set for tomorrow. they say that instead they will focus thursday on how donald trump pressured his vice

president to overturn the election results, even as the attorney general says he and his prosecutors are closely following all the testimony. today is another primary election day with tests of trump's influence in two key south carolina republican congressional races. a big senate race in nevada. we begin with the president and the economy. joining me now, kristin welker, jillian ted. the president is frustrated, angry his team can't figure out what to do about inflation. not that any white house has figured out what to do. he has to justify meeting with the crown prince of saudi arabia. >> part of the president's

frustration has to do with messaging. he feels as though his messaging has not been cutting through to voters at this critical moment with the midterms looming. you heard part of the reset when it comes to messaging in the speech to the afl\cio infended spots of the economy, talked about low unemployment, but also acknowledged that there is more work that needs to be done. you heard him at the end say, fight with me. a rallying cry, trying to keep union leaders, union members on board, not only with his presidency but with democrats as they enter these midterm elections. i think the challenge for the administration is, what more can the president do unilaterally? as you asked. in talking to administration officials here, they say that the president's options are really quite limited. about a month ago, he released a million barrels a day from the strategic petroleum reserve.

that's for the next six months. he is putting a focus on congress to pass some of the legislation that he has proposed, including lowering the price of prescription drugs, releasing some of and rolling back some of the regulations that he believes is contributing to some of the bottleneck that has been created. but beyond that, what more can he do? that's where the trip to saudi arabia comes into play. the administration is downplaying the fact that he will urge them to release more oil. but undoubtedly, that's going to be a focus. we know that's a critical part of the visit, in addition to all of the very complicated diplomacy he is going to be engaging in, particularly in the wake of saying he will make saudi arabia a pariah and in the wake of not meeting with leaders who are dictators at the summit of the americas last week, now, of course, a reversal in that. it's very complicated and tricky. undoubtedly, you have to think that pressuring saudi arabia to help release some of its oil, to

help with the blooder global issues will be part of the trip. >> also, iran going closer to dismantling their tv cameras, the tv cameras at their nuclear sites that give -- that were giving the inspectors from the u.n. the only visibility into the nuclear program. there's a lot. oil is a big part of it. consumers are paying a lot for everything. you know all of the problems that you experienced also in the obama administration. inflation can't be messaged away. >> it can't. i think that's the challenge that this white house has. you mentioned the challenge we had in 2009 and 2010. you have to be careful as a leader. you want to, as president biden did today, acknowledge the good, acknowledge the bad, acknowledge

what has to be done. but you can't make people feel differently about the economy based simply on what you are saying. i think the world is going to be watching a few things, right? the meeting in saudi arabia. the decision the administration has to make on tariffs on certain goods that are manufactured in china. they will be watching what the fed chair says tomorrow at the end of their series of meetings. there's a lot of things that this white house has to continue to message, has to continue to talk about. to put president biden in the shoes of that everyday american that is struggling to pay to fill up their gas tank, even as they understand there are few things in their back pocket that can make it all better overnight. >> jillian, with so much focus on the fed, "the washington post" saying they should go to a three-quarter rate hike rather than a half, which had been predicted.

the consensus from economists is, there's going to be a recession. it's almost unavoidable now. >> absolutely. essentially, a three-quarter of a point hike is now factored into the market. that's what the economists are expecting to see. the question amongst investors really is, are we going to see a small, shallow recession that tries to bring inflation back to something less shocking than current levels, or could the fed engineer a big recession to bring it back to near its target of 2%? either way, they're not very nice outlooks for consumers or the white house, which is looking at elections very soon. the really big problem right now is that people in the white house are looking to the fed to try and fix it. the fed though doesn't have a magic wand, because so much of what is driving prices up at the moment are due to the structural

dislocation in the economy caused by the covid lockdowns, post-covid opening up of the economy and now, of course, the invasion of ukraine. the fed is a bit like a pilot who is trying to fly a plane in a storm without radar where you have remodeled half of the systems inside the plane and they're trying to land it. it's very hard for them to work out exactly what's happening. and there are no very good or easy options right now for the fed and by default for the white house. >> with the midterms approaching and a lot of discontent in the democratic party and frustration in the white house, it's not a great combination. thanks to all of you. joining us now is democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon. the fed is likely going to raise rates higher. a soft landing, as they say, any landing is very, very tricky.

most economists think we are heading into that recession. what really can the president do? >> i can tell you raising the interest rates will have a huge impact on the affordability of homes. gas and home prices are hitting people. i'm really concerned about that interest rate and cost of homes being driven up at the same time rental rates are going up. the president laid out in a speech just an hour or so ago action in six areas to take on inflation. but the only action that really exists on gas is the strategic petroleum reserve and lobbying saudi arabia to produce more oil. those things just aren't going to have the huge impact that's needed. that $5 gas sign, $6 gas sign, it's just stunning to ordinary

americans and the president has pretty limited power to change that. >> you have been very concerned in the past -- we have talked about this in past years about human rights issues in saudi arabia. now the president is trying to repair that relationship after being very tough on them over the khashoggi killing, declassifying that cia intelligence report which did hold the crown prince responsible for that hit squad and the brutal murder. now they are trying to make amends. they have been trying hard to get this meeting, which the saudis were playing hard to get. to get them to pump more oil, where do you stand on all this? >> it's all about oil. i notice the white house made the point of saying, we're happy to accept his invitation, if you will, as if this initiative was coming from saudi arabia. it's an ugly moment. i hate to think of the moment when he has to shake his hand

because they are horrendous on human rights. there are things that the white house can do in light of their decision and the importance of going on this economic basis. one is to meet with human rights activists before he goes, those from the middle east and particularly related to saudi arabia. then to make sure that he raises a human rights agenda as part of this trip to really push for the release of civil society activists who have been locked up, to release dissidents who have been locked up, to lift some of the travel bans that have been imposed on saudis, to really come down significantly and clearly about transnational oppression. khashoggi is the biggest symbol of that. where they press families for -- to penalize them for the advocacy of saudi citizens overseas and to push for

continuation of the cease-fire in yemen. on human -- there's issues a president needs to take to the table. we know he is going there for oil. but there's other really important human rights issues he needs to push hard on. >> on ukraine, the president is saying today that he is working to try to get ukrainian wheat and grain exports out by building silos on the borders, taking it out by train. the railroad gauge is a problem in getting it to europe. those exports are now really hitting hard in egypt, morocco, africa. that's going to press on food prices here, too. >> yeah, absolutely. you talk about food, you talk about 20 million tons of grain that's locked up inside ukraine and the importance of getting out. this is not going to be an easy thing to accomplish. the world food economy is reverberating. the u.s. is feeling the impact.

think of the poor countries that depend on those grain exports. it's not an issue of price. it's an issue of starvation. we need to do all we can to get that grain out. it's the right objective, difficult to accomplish. i'm glad the president's team is focused on it. >> a quick question on the china tariffs. there's a debate in the white house as to whether to lift those, which might help inflation. where do you come down on that? >> i think you need to be very careful. the president is talking about made in america. when you have goods being made with slave labor -- we tried to tackle that. different labor standards, certainly different environmental standards. it undermines american manufacturing. we have to take, especially as we rebuild our energy economy, that rebuilding has to be

associated with good american paying jobs, good union jobs, with made in america and with energy independence. the president has to be very careful not to undermine those objectives by turning on the opportunity to completely undermine american manufacturing. today, he was talking about created 600,000 american manufacturing jobs. a lot of that good work can be undone quickly by opening our economy to companies that play by completely different rules. >> a lot on his plate going into the midterms. question about guns. do you think it's realistic to expect them to pass -- the senate to pass the gun safety bill by the july 4th recess? >> it is possible. it's the case that the republicans involved in this do not -- cornyn of texas, who is pushing, he doesn't want to draw

this out. the package they put together -- there's basically four core gun safety issues. closer review of purchases of rifles by those under 21, taking action against purchases, red flag laws to remove guns from people who are in a state of high risk, closing the boyfriend loophole, and then investment in school safety, mental health through community centers and mental health school programs. it's a pretty substantial list of modest things. no one is thinking about this as a law chris murphy would write. senator murphy laid it out that he knows the law he would write cannot pass. it's time for us to get what we can get in agreement with -- in partnership with the republicans. i think that's a really strong list, probably more than most of us thought could be accomplished.

let's seize the moment. let's get it passed. senator cornyn wants to do it quickly. leadership is pushing for draft language to be written by our legislative counsel by thursday, two days from now. i'm hoping we can keep it on a fast track before the normal forces that seek to unravel this can gain momentum. >> well, a lot going on there. senator, thank you very much. really appreciate it. game change. the january 6th committee changing its next hearing time. what we learned so far about the attack on the capitol and what's coming up next. that's ahead. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. tchell reports." this is msnbc. so this is the meta portal plus. a smart video calling device that makes working from home work. a 12-megapixel lens makes sure your presentation is crystal clear. and smart camera auto pans and zooms to keep you perfectly in frame. oh, and it syncs with your calendar.

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kevin, kevin, kevin. the committee investigating the attack on the capitol has postponed a hearing that was scheduled to take place tomorrow during the day to give the staff

more time to prepare its video and get all of its elements together. this after the taped testimony yesterday of former attorney general bill barr saying that donald trump was, quote, detached from reality as he pushed, after the election, to overturn the loss in the lead-up to the riot. the committee found that the big lie helped trump raise $250 million for a non-existent fund for lawyers to help overturn the election. the money instead going for other purposes, including the trump campaign. >> throughout the committee's investigation, we found evidence that the trump campaign and its surrogates misled donors as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for. so not only was there the big lie, there was the big ripoff. >> joining me now is yamiche alcindor and former u.s.

attorney chuck rosenberg. chuck, to you. you are the legal brain here. could donald trump, his campaign arm, someone be liable for fraud? a crazy amount of money to a future daughter-in-law for a speech on the elipse? this might be easier to prove than conspiracy to commit sedition. >> if i'm the legal brain, we are in trouble. >> not at all. >> second, you are right. to me, this was one of the more -- or perhaps the most interesting revelation. if i told you, for instance, that i wanted you to donate to a charity that i was running or give me money to invest in a certain way and you gave me the money but i didn't do either of

those things, i used it to buy a new car, that's a fraud. if i use an electronic transmission, email or bank transfer or credit card transaction as part of the scheme, that's a wire fraud. you are right. it's a big deal. it might be one of the more easily provable crimes. but one big question remains. who actually did it? who concocted the scheme? who sent out the solicitation solicitations? who knew this was going on? you might have a crime. in fact, it seems you do. you have to figure out who is responsible for it. it's a big deal. it's something that i can assure you the committee will follow up on and i assume -- i can virtually assure you it's something the department of justice will look at. remember, steve bannon was indicted for something similar to this, soliciting money for his build the wall campaign and

it turned out the money they receivd didn't go to any such build the wall fund, it went to the personal use of bannon and his co-conspirators. that's a wire fraud and that's a problem. >> of course, it would be connecting donald trump, let's say, to that rather than the people who sent out the solicitations. i want to play what merrick garland said. should there be a criminal referral. you have been saying that that puts unwarranted and unnecessary pressure on the justice department. this is what merrick garland had to say. >> i am watching. i will be watching all of the hearings. although, i may not be able to watch all of it live. but i will watch all of it. i can assure you that the january 6 prosecutors are watching all the hearings as well. >> that is as explicit as he has been whether they are actually

engaged in fact finding around what they may learn from this. >> that's right. it was explicit. it's not surprising. i would fully expect that doj prosecutors would be watching it. as citizens but also particularly the ones who are working on this matter from within the department of justice. my concern wasn't that they watch it. that's fine. that's appropriate. my concern was that congress not make a criminal referral, because the way you stated it was right. i think that puts undue, unwarranted, unwise political pressure on a department of justice that strives to remain apolitical. i think a criminal referral can be counterproductive. it makes good sense they would be watching it like the rest of us are. >> yamiche, there's controversy over that thing. bennie thompson, as chuck described it, that they -- that that wasn't their business, to make a criminal referral. then adam schiff came back and took the other position and some

others as well saying that the committee -- >> liz cheney. >> saying they hadn't discussed this issue as to whether to do that. >> it was an incredible display of not being on message. this has been a committee that has been on message. they want to show that former president trump had a wide ranging conspiracy to defraud the american people and to unlawfully remain in power. it's interesting that this is happening. it's also interesting that they postponed today's -- i should say, tomorrow's hearing. lawmakers are saying they need more time to get their video team together and to -- a lot of work that goes into it. i also get the sense that when you think about what tomorrow was supposed to be, which is doj officials and acting attorney general -- former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen detailing how this wasn't just tweets, it wasn't just the president talking on the phone with people. this was him pressuring the department of justice to act as his own personal election campaign legal team. then, of course, you had previews from former attorney general bill barr saying he told

the president that doj doesn't take sides. it's interesting the lawmakers want to take more time with this. it means this is a critical part of their case. they want to get it right. >> they will do the trump -- the pressure on donald trump on the vice president at the next hearing on thursday. we carry it live. >> it's like movie trailers. they want it to have this feeling of anticipation, which is what a lot of the things that they are accomplishing and a lot of the reasons why people are tuning in, 20 million people for the first hearing. >> exactly. yamiche and chuck, you are our legal brain, whether you like it or not. thank you, sir. joining us now is democratic congressman jason grows. what was the most important takeaway from the hearing so far? >> the most important takeaway is the depth and the breadth of the depravity and leadership failure of the trump

administration. it's astonishing to me that bill barr and other people under oath will say things they didn't say over the four year course of the trump presidency. they are either too cowardly to stand up and say these things for the benefit of the country they took oaths to serve or saving it up to try to sell books. either one is unacceptable. let's take a step back and look at the content of what's being said but also the fact that these people kept silent when their country needed them the most. >> doesn't that also apply to a lot of your republican colleagues who are so afraid of being primaried that they are referring what they said on january 6, 7 and 8? >> yeah, it does apply to them. i can't unhear what kevin mccarthy said in the hours after the january 6 insurrection where we went into the house chamber after the capitol police and national guard recaptured the capitol, the smell of tear gas still in the air, we stepped over broken glass and all of the

garbage and refuge. we went into the chamber. mccarthy gave a speech. he called me out by name. he said jason was one of the members along with others who stood up and helped hold the chamber and kept the chamber from being captured against those insurrectionists. fast forward a year, the republican national committee is now saying in their official platform that this is political discourse. the effort to sweep this under the rug is unbelievable. it underscores that this committee, the work of the committee is extremely important to make sure that we are telling the accurate story. >> we are expecting to hear all about mike pence from his former counsel testifying on thursday. the pressure on him after being so loyal -- a loyal soldier in the trump white house for four years and then being told that

the president was quoted as saying, maybe these people are right about hanging mike pence when the attack was underway. >> there's discussion about the people on the trump administration. i was an army ranger. i saw americans give their life in service to this country. this congress all the time takes votes to send people to war on behalf of this country. there are officers who are brutally beaten, who for the rest of their lives will have injuries. there are officers who died that night. that's pressure. to ask somebody to tell the truth and to stand up and to fulfill their oath, that's the baseline expectation that we should expect of leaders in this country. >> thanks for that reminder. we just saw the picture -- we showed the picture of you holding your colleague's hand up in the gallery when the attack was underway. you did help hold the line.

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closely. this is the first district. this is one of them. this is charleston based low country of south carolina. you have nancy mace. she was elected in 2020. one of the first things she did was condemn donald trump for his behavior during january 6. she voted to certify the 2020 presidential election results. she immediately started taking heat from within her own party. she did end up drawing a challenger, that challenger is arrington who has the bagging of trump. there's a third candidate who has dropped out of the race and has endorsed arrington. one of the tests tonight in south carolina of, can donald trump put his endorsement behind a candidate and take out a republican incumbent? the juicier test may be in the seventh district of south carolina. myrtle beach, this part of the

state. here the incumbent, tom rice, around january 6 didn't just say that he condemned the president's behavior, he voted to impeach donald trump. one of the few house republicans who took that step. this is actually the first time -- we have seen a bunch of primaries play out. this is the first time that this has come up, a republican incumbent who voted to impeach trump and is facing a challenger, russell fry, who is endorsed by trump. this is the most direct between trump and a republican member of congress who voted to impeach him. russell fry, a state legislator who has trump's endorsement. there are a number of other republicans running in this primary. there's a run-off rule in south carolina. if nobody gets 50% tonight, the top two will go to a run-off two week from now. this is a very interesting test. >> thanks so much, steve

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reconnect herself to the president. that's an apology to her that didn't involve mar-a-lago. >> these two have taken diverging paths. trump called them atrocious. said they stabbed the republican party in the back. said they were, quote, bad people. you see nancy mace here, out outwardly avoiding talking about donald trump and see her taking the selfie. then you have tom rice. i think liz cheney has gotten all of the attention for her explicit condemnation of donald trump and her role on the january 6 select committee. but tom rice has not backed down from his denunciations of donald trump's conduct in the weeks after january 6. he called him the most spiteful person he met before. just yesterday, he has held the

line. i want to let you hear just ahead of the polls opening in south carolina the way in which those two individuals are approaching donald trump today. >> he is welcome to lead whomever he wants within our big. we have a big party. i want to see folks from all walks of life. >> i think that donald trump is not the future of the republican party. i think he was a consequential president. we accomplished things that lifted all people up while he was president. but i think he is the past and we need to move on. >> if you lose tomorrow, will it be because of that impeachment vote? >> i'm not going to lose tomorrow. >> andandrea, i think we will t about tom rice especially here. he has been a lone ranger. paul ryan came to campaign here in south carolina for him. you have not seen support of others, including the former vice president, to come and rally support. he has a lone ranger on this

campaign trail trying to convince republicans in his south carolina district that his vote on impeachment was the conservative one and was the right one. when we talk about this revenge tour, donald trump ultimately got fred upton to retire. can he have that same success in knocking off nancy mace and tom rice and send a signal to other republican members of congress that they will need him in order to have political success in their ownprimary? >> it's an important test. a big signal. charlie, vaughan just walked us through the competing playbooks. how do you respond to trump's purge campaign? it hasn't worked in every state. a mixed record. >> vaughan did an excellent job of pointing this out. as we have seen political courage, particularly among republicans has been vanishingly

rare, and tom rice is an example of that. if he does lose tomorrow, he will have lost with his dignity intact. vaughan is right that in many ways his stand has been overshadowed by liz cheney. but he has not backed off. many of the other republicans who voted to impeach donald trump have gone to ground, have tried to change the subject. tom rice has stuck with that. this is going to be a very, very -- it's going to be an indicator of exactly how successful this revenge tour will be. it's also interesting though, the nancy mace case. nancy mace did not just simply embark on an apology campaign, she embarked on a campaign of groveling to donald trump. it has not worked. her moment of disloyalty was very short-lived. what donald trump is basically saying to her is that, if you

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contempt of congress charges allegedly railing against that trump campaign lawyer for acknowledging a top homeland accurate assessment that the 2020 election was secure. s chris krebs was mentioned in that clip and joins me now. what was your immediate reaction to hearing yourself being name checked in yesterday's hearing and the context in which it came up? >> thanks for having me on. happy flag day. i did a bit of a double take and had to have someone repeat back to me. i heard it in passing. i was -- i think it was a smart move by the committee to pull in some of the closest members of the president's campaign circle to get their words on the record. i have been out there. i have been talking about this stuff for a year and a half now. everyone is probably tired of

hearing from me. getting these other voices and tells a pretty compelling story that the president knew he lost and yet continued to push the big lie apparently for quite significant financial gain. >> where were you and what was going on in the white house during that period after the election and during those months leading up to january 6th? >> when i was in the job up until 7:07 p.m. on november 17th, 2020, not that that's part of my mind at at all, but we were doing the job. we were focused on the security aspects of the election. we were not in the midst of any of the political or campaign antics, but after i was let go and terminated, all the various reports came out. that thursday was that crazy press conference for the rnc

where rudy and sydney paul and others were talking about hugo chavez and others. at this point it did breakthrough that there were some folks with distorted views of retallty that had access to the president, had access to the campaign and were pushing these lies about the 2020 election. >> then a lot of things that transpired. the challenges and the state after state, the recounts, the so-called kwauds going into arizona. how concerned are you now that 17 or more states have elections coming up with people who are still in denial that joe biden is president and want to overturn the election and the electoral count act of 1870 still hasn't been changed. close that loophole.

>> i think there are probably two things that concern me most about the '22 midterms as well as the '24 election. first is that 2020 gave various actors the ability to test different narratives to see what works, see what didn't work. i came away at least with the take that the claims of foreign interference are a little too fan it's a call. they are too technically developed and hard to play and the domestic fraud claims, they just resinate with people whether it's a cultural thing or other. i would expect do see the domestic fraud claims going forward. but the second piece you pointed out here is that there are statewide elections for secretary of state and governors. so in pennsylvania, florida and a few others, they are not statewide elected. they are appointed by the

governor. so doug running for governor in pennsylvania, who just yesterday hired jen ellis, he has the ability to appoint the secretary of state who will administer the election. same thing happens in florida. but you do see in arizona where march running for secretary of state, they said they would not necessarily have certified the 2020 results, despite the will of the people and nullifying the will of the people. so i think we are at a very perilous point in american democracy. i personally am a single issue voter. if you continue to push the big lie and the fact that president biden is not the dually elected president of the united states, then you're on the big list for me. >> it's such a timely warning. with the elections approaching, midterms and 2024 is already in play, there's a lot at stake. thank you so much, chris krebs.

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