cooperated with the justice department. we'll tell you who they are and why it matters. plus we'll speak with democratic congressman eric swalwell who is suing former president trump. looking to hold him accountable for the capitol insurrection. and it is a big day ahead on wall street. as earning season gets underway, and one major retailers has already cut its forecast blaming inflation. cnbc's andrew ross sorkin will be here to break it down for us. we begin with new developments surrounding the justice department's probe into the january 6 capitol attack. two top aides, the former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury including his former chief of staff mork short who was with pence during the capitol attack. also testifying, pence's former white house counsel greg jacob. both were subpoenaed by the justice department, but nbc news camera set up for steve bannon's

trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courthouse last friday. just showing up. and short and jacob are the highest ranking trump administration officials known to have cooperated with the doj probe. both gave testimony to the january 6 committee and jacob, you will recall, was a live witness during a key hearing last month. meanwhile, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman elaine luria revealed new testimony showing how former president trump edited a speech that was meant to condemn the insurrection. she tweeted this. it took more than 24 hours for president trump to address the nation again after his rose garden video on january 6 in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. there were more things he was unwilling to say. here is some of the video testimony. >> i'm not sure when those conversations began because they could have started early the next morning but i believe they

started that evening, on the evening of the 6th. >> i thought we should give a statement on the 7th. and obviously move forward on transition. >> i sat with, i spoke to miller about trying to put together some remarks for jan 7 that we were going to show to the president to further call for de-escalate. >> from what i understood at the time, and from what the reports with coming in, there was a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about what would happen in the senate if it was -- if the 25th was invoked. so, the primary reason that i'd heard other than, you know, we do not do enough on the 6th, we need to get a stronger message out there and condemn this. other wise this will be your legacy. the secondary reason is think about what might happen in the

final 15 days of your presidency. there was already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. you need this as cover. >> do you recognize what this is? >> it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. >> and as you can see throughout the document, there are lines crossed out, there are some words added in. do you recognize the handwriting? >> it looks like my father's handwriting. >> let's now bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning. so let's start there with congresswoman's luria's video release last night. it indicates that the january 6 committee, despite the prime time hearing, is still uncovering new information that it wants to share with the public and potentially the department of justice.

>> reporter: well, look, what that tweet said to me is that there was stuff left on the cutting room floor that didn't make it to the prime time hearing but they're teasing ahead to. because we know from our reporting that we're going to see at least two more hearings when they come back in september. and where they have left us in the timeline after thursday night is what happens after january 6th. we know that was not the end point in terms of this conversation within the trump administration, in terms of the conversation within washington and certainly this is something that the committee has been warning about over the course of the last several months as they have been presenting these findings. that this threat of the big lie and its impact on democracy is still very much a present danger that the committee is trying to do these hearings as a way to sort of ward off against, and so the fact that they are now bringing to light that even after january 6th happens, they're able to show in trump's own handwriting the edits that he was making to a speech that was meant to de-escalate and

move on with the transition. instead you're seeing trump saying that crossing out the terminology about the doj should come down with the full power on these insurrectionist and cross outlines that say these people are not indicative of his movement. and the question to jared kushner is why do you think they're crossed out and kushner has to say, i don't know. but the answer is frankly quite obvious and it is because the former president trump didn't want to say what those lines said. and so it does give you a little bit more insight into his mindset and to me gives us insight into where we might be going. but the other thing that struck me here, as i was talking on thursday night with people who used to be in the trump campaign orbit, they were watching and to them the things that they reacted to the most were the former president's own words. when we saw the outtakes for example of him doing that address on the 7th, that this draft remarks are reflective of,

when they saw him editing in realtime saying he doesn't want to say the election is over, those are the tings that my sources reacted to the most. and so i think this is an example of where the committee might go next and something that could move the needle among people who may be looking at the former president and seeing him directly show what he does and doesn't want to say. >> ali, in related news, two of vice president pence's top aides have met and they've spoken before the january 6 grand jury. and they are participating. they are not stonewalling. what could you tell us about the divide between team pence and team trump these days. >> reporter: well, look, it could not be more stark. and we've seen that playing out over the course of the last few months in the public pieces of this that we could see, right. because the january 6 committee stuff has largely happened in public whereas what happens with doj as always with grand jury

investigations has happened behind closed doors and in secret. though i will say a well placed camera and the art of just showing up in journalism did help us get a little bit of insight into what was happening on friday over at the courthouse with mark short and greg jacob going in there to testify. but nevertheless, these two parallel investigations haven't seemed they were running at parallel time lines tlx is a lot of pressure on the justice from members of the january 6 committee here in congress to do more. it could mark an escalation in terms of the doj investigation. that we're now seeing these members of pence's orbit go in and talk to them. but, look, the divide has been stark in that when subpoenaed, pences people and in pence's orbit came forward and cooperated with what they were asked for. in the case of greg jacob he testified publicly and then you have bannon and mark meadows,

peter navarro and dan scavino who has been stonewalling committee. in the case of bannon, he's been found guilty of his contempt charges but nevertheless that divide is something that the committee is watching too. because as we were talking about yesterday, there is still twhn active conversation about whether or not they want to talk to pence and trump and they know that there has been a difference in how their orbits have reacted and in those would men could be asked or even subpoenaed to come in. >> a journalist who always shows up. ali vitali, thank you. and with all of this as a back drop, president trump will return to washington for the first time since he left the white house the morning of president biden's inauguration. a year and a half later, he is set to speak at a summit hosted by the america first policy institute at a hotel less than two miles from away from the scene of insurrection, the u.s. capitol and less than a mile from the west wing. trump's remarks will reportedly focus on so-called private safety. the group was founded by dozens

of trump allies months after the 2020 election. and an official with the group said they've got plenty of people on board. including nine former trump administration cabinet officials, 18 former white house senior staff, and more than 40 former senior administration officials, all working to help the gop if it take -- to take back congress and potentially the white house. and the former president's return to d.c. comes a day after the current chief executive said this about trump's inaction during the january 6 attack on the capitol. >> for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the oval office. while he was doing that, brave lawmaker officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours. you can't be proinsurrection and pro-cop. >> the president made those remarks during a virtual address to the national organization of

black law enforcement executives. biden rarely comments publicly on the insurrection. and has held off on mentioning the january 6 committee work saying congress should act separately. he also almost never invokes donald trump's name like he did yesterday. joining us now, to talk about this, is nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. give us your analysis here. you cover day after day, day in and day out of the biden administration. it was certainly a break from the norm to hear him make these remarks. he is passionate, almost angry remarks and ones that he felt so strongly about, he did so wild still isolating and recovered from covid. >> and now what you see really in these two people are starkly different ways they approach the job. president biden has really wanted to focus on inflation and on abortion politics and sort of governing of the day because so many democrats are pressuring

him to sort of have all of these different items and agendas on his list of things to do because of the midterms and all of the things that they're dealing with. but you see in this moment president biden wants to make sure that his voice is among the chorus of democrats who are condemning former president trump for his inaction during january 6 and the capitol riot and his pour of gasoline on to this mob that was really feeding off of his lies about the 2020 election. so president biden here did take that rare step to call out president biden. but he did so, i think, because based on my reporting, because he understand this is a moment in history that will really define sort of how we as an american democracy continue on and i think it is striking that he did that. as former president trump is continuing to try to get 2020 election results over turned, we can't have that conversation without thinking about the fact that just last week a top republican wisconsin official

said that president trump called him to try to overturn the elections. that is the back drop of all of this. and of course we're learning new details about how president trump wanted to strike out things from the speech the day after the capitol attack. not wanting to say that people should be held accountable, or saying that the rioters, that led to the death of police officers and ashli babbitt, the protesters shot, he said they were not part of the maga movement. and add to the fact that president trump is back in washington, giving this speech. i should note that just across the way, virtually mike pence will be speaking to a group in d.c. he won't physically be in the city but that is a split screen. so there is a split screen of president biden and trump and then a split screen of mike pence who ran for his life and then president trump who is going to be coming here and he's supposed to be talking about safety but we could all expect him to be spreading more election lies. he's not sort of taking any step back from those lies and this

group of republicans, a lot of them, they don't want to talk about january 6 any more but they're still tethered to the president who only wants to talk about january 6. >> interesting point that the former president only wanted to talk about january 6 and what he calls the stolen election, the big lie that you could read all about in lemire's new book. on the other side, you have mike pence taking a decidingly different tact. what are you hearing about that war between republicans and team pence and team trump that was something that we just -- i just spoke to ali about and it seems that as the midterms gear up and as 2024 comes more into focus, this is going to be more of a battle. >> well, elise, it is a great point. when i talk to republicans, what i get -- what i get from them it is not a war, it is more of a skirmish. mike pence is an anomaly in the

republican party is that he's someone willing to stand up in front of a crowd and say that the 2020 election was not stolen and that january 6 was one of the darkest days in our american history. mike pence has broken away from former president trump and he's really had to pay a cost for that. i was talking to a producer of mine and she was telling me that in western pennsylvania, she's seen signs of the old trump pence 2020 signs where people are cutting out the name of pence. that tells you what the republican base is feeling like on pence. if they're cutting out his name on campaign signs, mike pence is someone who has not wanted to talk that much about january 6 but he is someone, his staff as well, have said very clearly that the vice president could not have overturned the 2020 election. and just before former president trump left for the day on january 6, the thing that he told the people around him was that mike pence let him down. so this is a republican party that is sticking with the trump base and sticking with the trump

lies and mike pence is trying to cut out a lane for himself but it is a very narrow lane. >> there is no question that january 6 hearings have weakened trump but only a little. he still remains by far the most powerful voice in the republican party. and thank you as always for your reporting. great to see, my friend. coming up next as the january 6 committee takes a break from public hearings, a member of the judiciary committee eric swalwell, who was an impeachment manager for one of former president trump's impeachment trials will be here on what he want tods hear from the attorney general. plus a story out of mississippi. the investigator looking into one of the biggest welfare scandals in history is abruptly fired. we'll have the details and how hall of fame quarterback brett favre is playing a key role. we'll be right back. a key role. between the high interest, the fees...

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history. this is an example of money that should have gone to folks who needed it through a federal program, temporary assistance for needy families. this is a sprawling conspiracy. we're still investigating the matter who we're going to continue to look to find additional moneys that have been lost or stolen. >> that was mississippi state auditor back in 2020 announcing the findings of an eight-month investigation into misuse of welfare funds from high-profile figures in the state. but three years after that probe first began, the scandal and alleged efforts to cover it up have only grown. that is because last week shortly after issuing a subpoena to the university that alleged by benefited from the fraud, a state attorney was abruptly fired. that school, the university of southern mississippi, it accused of building a volleyball facility using $5 million meant to go to the state's welfare program. more money was allegedly given to one of the schools most famous alums, national football

league hall of famer brett favre. and the man accused of orchestrating much of the scandal, the former republican governor of mississippi, phil bryant. joining us now, reporter for mississippi today anna wolf. she's been covering this story and broke these latest developments. thanks for being here today. this mississippi bold face names involved. give us a primer. how did this come about and where do things stand. >> this is all part of a massive scandal been unfolding for last two to three years. starting with six arrests from the auditors's office back in 2020. so officials say that at least $77 million was either stolen or misspent during former mississippi governor phil bryant's last four years in office. this is the poor estate in the country. so separate from these six criminal cases, former u.s. attorney brad piggette was representing them in the civil suit which was attempting to

recoup the money from several people. they may not be charged with crimes or rose to the level of a crime but were nonetheless responsible for the diversion of this money away from needing people and to projects from political connected people. his firing on friday came directly after he subpoenaed the university of southern mississippi athletic foundation which as you said was responsible for using $5 million in welfare funds for building a volleyball stadium on campus and this is on behalf of brett favre. this is a brett favre project. now brad was appointed attorney and he's taking a case in a one party republican state. so he wasn't expected to pull any punches in his efforts to claw back the money. he has a lot of experience in doing this so he told us that he thought that the decision to remove him from the case was politically motivated. and it certainly smells like a cover-up.

it seems like they're trying to divert attention away from this volleyball stadium and what happens with it at at the campus at usm. >> your reporting on this has been incredible. and you have had to just go to such great struggle to get so many of these documents and uncover this $94 million trail of money that was federal money intended for poor people in the poor estate in the country but instead paid for rehab for pro-wrestlers and gave brett favre a million dollars for a speaking engagement he didn't even do. you could talk a bit about governor bryant and is he potentially in legal jeopardy here for anything that he signed off on? >> so what is important about this subpoena to the university of southern mississippi athletic foundation is that it included communication with former governor phil bryant. so it was one of the first sort of official probes into phil

bryant's involvement. for the last two to three years, one of the biggest questions has been what was his role. because he oversaw the welfare department during the time that this scandal occurred. and he's been up to this point pretty curiously absent from any criminal charges, officials seem to be sort of purposefully excluding him from their probes. but in april, we uncovered text messages between phil bryant and brett favre that shows the governor promising to help favre with a pharmaceutical venture he was investing in. on several occasions favre suggested giving stock to the governor in exchange for his help. this is serious business, right. the company ended up receiving $2 million in stolen welfare funds. and then two days after bryant left office back in 2020, just before the arrests and the scandal, he agreed by text message to accept stock in the company but the arrests and the

scandal ended up derailing this arrangement. but he also knew about the volleyball project. he admitted to us in an april interview. and you know, there are a lot of connections between the governor and this university but there are also connections between the current governor who received many political donations from members of this athletic board. so, i think his exposure is great here and i think we're going to see as time goes on if he's going to be held accountable. >> well this is certainly a story we're going to continue to pay attention to. reporter for mississippi today, anna wolf, great work and thank you for being with us. we're going to turn back to the investigation news the effort by donald trump to overturn the 2020 election results. so far, little public action has been taken by the justice department to hold trump and his allies accountable. as the "new york times" reports, the contrast between the public urgency and aggressiveness of the investigations being carried out by the georgia prosecutors

and the congressional commit on the one hand and the quiet and apparently plotting and methodical approach being taken by the justice department on the other is so striking that it has become an issue for mr. garland. he asked prosecutors to quietly grind forward on this case. and we may learn when lester holt speaks exclusively with general attorney garland at 6:30 p.m. eastern. joining us now the house judiciary and intelligence committee, congressman eric swalwell of california. thanks for being here. let's start right there with the department of justice has moved quietly. and has moved methodically as the times writes, but last week he told people, i'm paraphrasing, back off, give him a minute. what is your estimation, is the doj doing its job right now in

prosecuting donald trump and his allies. >> we want them to move methodically and be independent but they don't want to treat donald trump better than any other target or suspect because he was a former president. and i think donald trump lost any right to be treated better because he was a former president when he broke the norms and institutions, when he sent this mob to attack the capitol and broke the long standing streak we had in this country of having a peaceful transition of power. i look at the evidence that the committee has put forward and it is a mountain of evidence. all of the arrows point to donald trump and if you want to look at donald trump's role in this, take him out of it. so suppose in early december, when the state's had started to vote to certify the election, suppose then donald trump said i'm going to coop seed this election and cooperate with the biden team on the transition. suppose he had done that. do you think the mob would have shown up to the capitol on january 6 and violently stormed

it. no. but for donald trump's actions, this never would have happened. >> and certainly some of his supporters would testify in court and others who have said that were rioting if he had called them off sooner, they would have left. but you have filed your own lawsuit against former president trump. tell us about it and why. >> and we're winning. we survived what we believe is the most difficult challenge which was donald trump claim in the federal district court that he had absolute immunity and the judge in a 93-page opinion said for the first time ever that a president does not have absolute immunity. that you can't assemble and aim a mob, send it to the capitol. and indeed, if the facts that we've laid out could show that he sought to obstruct congress and the torts that follow which is of course assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. we're moving on to the circuit court of appeals and could go up to the supreme court but we believe there with bounds to

immunity and bounding a mob. >> have you been surprised at some of your republican colleagues who were there on january 6 and witness this medieval warfare, that they've been willing to just move on and try to downplay it in the aftermath. >> i've been surprised at the number of republican colleagues who have tried to erase the chaos and the havoc that day. now i stayed back with congressman gallego, one of my closest friends and an iraq war veteran because his wife wanted to make sure that he would leave the floor when instructed to do so, so i'm trying to get ruben off the floor and he's helping people put gas masks on and yelling at people up in the balcony to just stay calm. and i saw republican colleagues working to guard the door and stack up furniture against the door and one of the colleagues from georgia is now one of the biggest election deniers, he's the one that said that this was just a normal tourist day at the capitol. so they're seeking to erase donald trump's responsibility,

and seeking to erase the injuries that were brought upon police officers and it looks like this party that is supposed to be of law and order is not pro-cop, but now pro-coup. and we're not going to let that day be erased an and let the people responsible for it go not accountable. >> and let's remember that the national part on january 6, legitimate political discourse. let's shift gears here for a final question about the efforts to try to ban assault-style rifles. the housework on that now. you're on the house judiciary committee. it faces an uphill battle to have any shot in the senate where it needs 10 republicans to support it. tell us why this is important and what message we're sending. >> that we don't have to live that way. that you could take your kids hunting and shoot for sport and take the most dangerous weapons from the most dangerous people and a jury in parkland yesterday was shown the assault rifle that murdered teenagers in their classrooms and so we're working

to say that this actually works and in 1994 to 2004, when manufacturing was banned, we saw mass shootings go down. there have been over 800 mass shootings since january of 2021 and we're going to do everything we can to protect kids and keep people safe in their communities. >> that is a stunning spike. eric swalwell, tank you so much for being with us this morning. and still ahead, are democratic voters be too hard on president biden. that is the argument and one of this morning's must read op-eds. and andrew ross sorkin joins the table to explain how earning reports could point to some economic dark days ahead. we'll be right back with that. kd

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think we'll see a recession. >> the president doesn't think there will be a recession but walmart may disagree. the retail giant cut the quarterly and full year profit guidance yesterday saying inflation is causing shoppers to spend more on necessities such as food and less on items like clothing and electronics. the company adjusted the earnings per share to drop as much as 13%. joining us now, co-anchor of squawk box, andrew ross sorkin. thank you for being here. we're having mixed messages every day, banks or the white house, no one seems to agree or what a recession even means. >> well let's take the definition off the table and just say -- >> we did that yesterday. >> the news on walmart is not good but the news on walmart is indicative of what is happening in the economy. which is to say people are spending more on food and gas and travel and experiences, there is a bit of this yolo summer thing going on, and less

on things like clothing and electronics and so many of the other kinds of items that walmart had been selling. now unfortunately, a lot of the retailers bought too much of that stuff. because they thought that we were going to keep buying that stuff. so if you wanted to get outdoor lawn furniture which is what everybody was buying last year, they're no longer buying that. that means massive discounts on that kind of stuff but not on the food. you're seeing general electric came out with its news, that is a problem. again supply chain, ukraine, you're seeing that. but then on the flip side, mcdonald's interestingly enough, doing quite well. why is mcdonald's doing well? in terms of price point, it is on the lower end. so you're starting to see -- this is the mixed picture. now we're hearing earning throughout this week. we're going to get them from alphabet, which is google, you'll see what advertising is going on in this country which is an interesting barometer of how businesses feel about the economy, you'll hear from microsoft and amazon. so we're going to learn a lot

more and then again this is all against the back drop of what the federal reserve is going to do, their meeting today and tomorrow, we'll find out how high they may or may not raise interest rates. everybody expects them to be 75 basis points. but what they're thinking about next month and the month after is what the markets are going to be focused on. >> so talk more about that federal reserve meeting and the 75 basis points expectation. what would that mean for your average american? >> well, what it would mean is that interest rates are going to continue to go up in terms of what you're paying for a mortgage, or paying for a credit card, what businesses are paying to get loans and the like. which means that everything, costs go up and the reason that the costs go up and the reason the fed wants to do that is to tamp down demand and make everything more expensive. i know that sounds crazy but that is the goal, to make everything more expensive. and the question mark on the earnings is going to be if you start to see the walmarts and

others have challenges and problems and bring their own prices down on clothing and electronics, that could do work for the fed, meaning the fed may not have to raise interest rates as much. so there is a sort of very strange perverse balancing act that is going on. where people are looking to figure out if the results are bad enough, the fed doesn't have to try to put its foot down on the neck of the economy as much. and whether they do or don't is the big question. >> for those listening on the radio, he did put his foot down on the economy. >> yes. so president biden, does he have that much of a choice in how much strength he projects when it comes to the economy? because if a recession is likely, that is not going to be good. >> right. >> but then again at same time, it is disingenuous to say let's move the goalpost on what exactly is a recession these days. >> well, look, i'm not going to

disagree with the president nor with brian deese who we talked to yesterday who said, this environment is so very different than historical recessions. that part is true. the idea that we have unemployment at 3.5% in this country, we don't normally see that. so that is different. whether he should be running around saying we're having a terrible recession and i don't think that you would ever see a president do that. so i'll cut him slack there. having said that, i don't think you want to change the goalpost either. and by the way, we won't know, meaning it is a technical analyst that will go on and that will happen six months from now as to whether we're really in a recession or not. it is always a backward looking event. >> by the way, one potential cure for a family out there, mega-millions. top prize has surged to $810 million for tonight's drawing. up from an earlier estimated $790 million. after no ticket matched on friday. the cash option which most

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that's the latest ad from the democratic congress al campaign showing theesque of abortion and it is targeted at asian americans and those living in nevada and california with democrats putting more than a million dollars behind it. joining us now kurt bardella, also a former spokesperson for the house oversight committee. kurt, thanks for being with us this morning. a powerful ad there. give us the thought process behind it and who you're trying to reach with it. >> well, you know, asian-american aapi voters are the largest growing demographic in america. and certainly we've seen in recent elections both in georgia election as well as the 2018

cycle, robust turnout we're seeing from this community is having a major political impact and the dccc has put together an ad targeting california and nevada and i think a lot of observers would agree if democrats do hold on to the majority in the house, california and the nevada, those are the major battlegrounds in the battle to keep congress. and this is a spot aimed at those voters. at mobilizing and engaging and more importantly addressing issues that aren't just aapi issues, but issues that effect every day americans. so often we hear, when we are talking about black communities, latino communities, asia-american communities we talk about issues that relate to their community. but this effects everybody and it is so refreshing to see the dccc under the leadership put together an ad that is much broader and has a much larger and broader point that targets the specific community. >> and kurt, your latest column

for usa today is headlined, democrats stop criticizing biden. you have only yourselves to blame. write this. quite frankly i'm sick and tired of democratic voters complaining about one of the most progressive presidents we ever had. every time you criticize president biden you're making the job of the republican party easier. every tomb i express your dismay with the biden administration, you are playing right into the hands of mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. you know what, you hardly ever see republicans do a few months out from an election. protest their own people. they get in lockstep, get on message and attack democrats. they could get back to the inner parting squabbling after the election. if you don't like how things are going in this country, neither do i, but direct that energy at the republican party. stop giving them a free pass. start protesting them. and kurt, your piece comes as polling suggests that president

biden has lost some support from within his own party. so what is your answer then to those who say though they recognize a president's powers are inherently limited, they feel like their rights were at risk and they want to see more fight fight from this president on things like abortion right but also voting rights where democrats have been the problem? >> again, as i wrote in this op-ed, i get it. if you're frustrated about what's going on, the supreme court, the climate change, i understand that. joe biden isn't your problem. joe biden isn't your adversary and enemy. it is the republican party. spending time protesting the white house or the homes while that might look great on twitter and instagram, it does nothing to actually advance your cause. if you want to get policies passed that fundamentally

address the issues you need more democrats in office. you need to hold the republican party account. protest the multi corporations that fund the republican party and fund actions against climate change and taking common sense gun reform. that's the real adversary here. you don't see republicans do this to themselves. i worked the republican party and campaigns and not once have a strategy meeting wondering what if the base protests us? we have to stop giving that advantage to the republican party, stop protecting the idea that democrats are so out of it and everything is ending. only chance to get the reforms we know need to happen is to give joe biden a bigger democrating congress. let's keep the focus. >> certainly senator manchin's

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now to a look at the morning papers. "detroit news" has a feature on a study finding millennials are not straying too far from the nest. by age 26, more than two thirds of young adults in the united states lived in the same area where they grew up. 80% moved less than 10 miles away. the "mercury news" writes that home prices in the california bay area plunged. in june the median price of existing single family homes in the region declined 7% from the previous month the steepest may to june dip ever recorded for the area. in illinois "chicago tribune" highlights the mayor's plans for soldier field to keep the bears from skipping town to the

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returning to washington today for the first time since leaving the white house as the january 6 committee gathers new evidence on the handling of the insurrection. out west right now crewing struggling to contain a raging wildfire near yosemite threatening thousands of homes. we'll bring you a live report on