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that. this morning, lots going on. all eyes on the high-stakes meeting at the fed as the economists worry a recession is already here. hey, everybody. good to see you on this tuesday morning. we have a busy washington this morning. the biden administration desperate for legislative wins. might be on the cusp of several. that is, of course, if congress can get it all done before the summer recess. democrats trying to get major bills across that finish line. you have a computer chips package. and then a bill protecting same-sex and interracial marnls and a major development in the justice department's investigation into january 6. a source saying mark shore appeared before a federal grand

jury late last week. let's talk with the ladies panel. ali vitale, jackie lee and a msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us on this. ali, as i talk about legislative possible wins for the biden administration and the american people talk about what that could look like and mean. >> reporter: we are in for a busy middle of the week. they have a lot of this things to tick through. the senate has an extra week here but they have so many things to do. you put them on the screen and i can tick through them in terms of what we see we'll see action on. the chips package, $280 billion

package to boost domestic semiconductor abilities and putting money into high-tech research. all about being to compete in the chip space, especially over the course of the pandemic. the other thing is codifying same-sex and interracial marriage. there's republican support there but not clear that they will be enough to codify this issue. this is something they do in response to people on the supreme court and that same-sex marriages should be revisited. and then of course, the last piece of the puzzle, the artist formerly known as reconciliation looking as a slim package with

joe manchin negotiating with chuck schumer. looks like it will be pricing on the subsidies and if they don't do it before august the subsidies could spike and not a midterm issue they want vote everies to have their minds on. >> only you making a play on prince, the greatest artist of all time at 10:00 a.m. this morning. carol lee, talk to me about really the involvement here of the white house and getting this legislation over the finish line. >> the president is pressing congress to pass the bills and with the prescription drug legislation and health care, tying that to lower inflation. we heard that from the president many recent weeks and over the weekend from a key economic adviser saying lowering the

prescription drug costs could help families in the country struggling with rising inflation so there's that piece of it. on the marriage equality piece we heard from the white house that this is personal to the president, urging congress to pass this as soon as possible and something to see on the desk. and then on the chips legislation we saw the president do this event, virtually he still has covid and gathered the advisers and people in the industry to talk about the importance of the will egs. the president not sayinging this just something economically but it's an imperative. particularly before congress goes on the august recess. this is a really scaled back version of what the president hoped for in terms of the

legislative agenda but with this congress he is ready to take what he can get. >> yeah. he just wants to get the win there is. want to tell folks we'll be talking all things inflation and recession in a couple minutes and stick with me for that conversation. aly, you alluded to it. codifying marriage equality. we saw 47 votes in the house come from the republican side. that looked good. senators then optimistic to get it across the finish line and some republicans apprehensive to get on the record where they will vote on this thing. what are you hearing? >> reporter: some are apprehensive being on the record or not an issue at all and others say this is not something for congress to codify and the court should look at the decision which set the precedent

for same-sex couples to get married. counting the senators is tricky. listen. >> i'm looking at the bill and probably will. >> i think it's insane we're doing this. >> i've also made clear my support for gay marriage. >> it's a pure messaging bill. >> i support same-sex marriage. i have for a few years now. >> this is about creating drama. >> like roe v wade ignored two centuries of the nation's history. >> reporter: it is important to draw attention to a senator, bill cassidy, saying it is settled law right now. this is coming after the fact of 49 years when women's right to abortion was protected and seen as a right in this country nationally. the public opinion polling with

this. same-sex marriage had seven years of rights. seeing justices and senators saying it should be revisited by the same logic that took down roe is why you see the push in the senate and seeing people at the table, the core four republicans that we're looking at as yeses on this and then others could step up so if the court revisits it they couldn't take this right away, too. >> yeah. a lot of folks in the lgbtq plus community understandably on edge. let's pivot. jackie, we talk about january 6. now hearing mark shore testifying before a federal grand jury investigating the january 6 insurrection.

talk to me about the significance of that. >> yeah. yasmin, it is a significant development for the grand jury investigation into the january 6th insurrection. and it is the first sign that this investigation being conducted, the parallel information by attorney general garland is actually in touch with people inside the white house and firsthand witnesses of the efforts to overturn the election results and suggests the justice department is looking at the efforts by trump and allies to apply pressure to vice president mike pence and the way that they tried to corral and implement some of these schemes by people like trump's lawyer john eastman to overturn the election results by halting the certification. there were a number of people we had reported had appeared before the grand jury on the outside of

the investigation like ali al xander. but short is the first person in the inner circle. there's a bottom up approach starting with the insurrectionists, 850 sentenced by the justice department so far and moving up towards trump and facing criticism and pressure as the movement and the work by the january 6 congressional investigation ellipsed that of the doj. >> i'm wondering if what i'm about to play for folks is really going to echo what you are saying to us. congresswoman luria, committee member of january 6, talked about the doj investigation, as well. let's listen to her and then

talk on the other side. >> this goes much closer to the top than what we prooe sli seen. department of justice feels like they are working in. how far have they worked in? we don't know but this is an indicator to ratchet up the level of the investigation. >> yeah. jacklyn, what do you make of that? >> that is the narrative arc that the january 6 select committee tried to prove themself over june and july. eight different hearings and pursue going forward. they made clear last week the investigation continues through potentially january 2023 dependent on whether or not republicans in the house ultimately take bag the majority but the committee especially in the final hearing of the summer serts sort to speak that this

was spearheaded by former president trump to implement the plan and on the day of january 6 was responsible for the lack of action to try to stop the plan and to try to really push forth the scheme to overturn the results of the election through violence ultimately. >> jackie, let me pick up on something you said and that is the possibility of this investigation if democrats stay in power continue through january 2023. how, in fact, do they plan to do that if they have to produce a report likely before the midterm elections depending on where things go? they won't really know. >> yeah. so that's a really good question. it is still a moving target. there could be potentially an interim not necessarily a final

report before midterms in order to really lay out the findings so far and give the opportunity to make an electoral choice with the full set of facts. in focus groups that progressive groups commission so far they have found that some of these points are really sticking with voters, particularly the asks about pardons. so we could be seeing that and then a final report coming later. but this is a full-out sprint in august. gone is really a relaxed summer recess for the house members and they are going to be continuing with depositions, document requests and really exactly what they have been all year going forward to try to get as much information as possible while the clock is ticking. >> interesting that they feel the asks about pardons is resonating with voters.

i'll speak later about this and actually going to pose that question to them if they hear the same thing on the trail, especially as vaughn covers the trump rallies. thank you. let's head over to california. you got firefighters continuing to battle the oak fire which is now the biggest fire the state has seen this year. this massive wildfire has engulfed more than 17,000 acres. at least 3,000 residents have been forced to flee the homes as the high winds and hot temperatures fuel the flames. george solos is with us. there's zero containment when we talked. how are things doing today? >> reporter: good morning, yasmin. firefighters continuing the attack on this fire. some good news.

they are getting some grip on it. 16% containment as of this hour. conditions more favorable to keep the fire from spreading and heading towards burn scar areas and the fuel supply could run out and firefighters are optimistic to get control of the fire by the weekend but poses a very serious threat. 55 structures destroyed including some homes like the one i'm standing on. the issues are still pretty the much as yesterday. the attack from the ground and from the air. also the dry conditions. and the smoke. smoke continues to be a driving factor. there's an advisory in the bay area with the smoke travelinging for miles including here. we can see hot spots in the area producing smoke. yesterday one of the crew members found a cat here on the

property and turned over to animal control. there's images there. clearly singed and hurt pretty badly and now in the hands of animal control. no microchip but the good news is if to owner is found a crew member is willing to take it home. a little bit of a highlight on the destruction. >> so sweet. >> reporter: yasmin? yeah. >> so sweet. >> reporter: the latest here. >> you guys are helping out amidst covering the devastation. thank you. thank you to the crew member who's willing to take that cat in if you can't find the owner. >> reporter: thank you. wnba star brittney griner in a russian court this morning after pleading guilty to drug charges. what her lawyers argued in her defense breaking economic data released moments ago. are we in a recession?

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all right. welcome back. it is 20 past the hour. americans struggling to deal with rising prices for almost everything. we are about to learn more about where things stand with the economy today. moments ago the international monetary fund said that it was cutting the projections for a global economic growth in 2022

and 2023. this coming as we get brand new data on consumer sentiment, confidence fell for a third straight month. as we are expecting reports on economic growth and inflation, as well, which could show whether the economy slid into a recession. all of this as the fed meets today and tomorrow to decide whether to raise a key interest rate for the fourth time this year. here to look at this is tom costello and kristina partsinevelos. we get this new data in coming to consumer confidence, let's just give it a teaser. it is not looking good. >> no. because this is a consumer confidence index. they questioned 3,000 people every single month and what we are seeing is that people are not confident about their finances. the number at 95.7.

the benchmark is 100. below 100 it shows that people are worried about spending and an expectations numbers lower than we anticipated. this is people worried about the next six months so overall inflation is concerning. hit a 40-year high in june and mcdonald's said that they had a stronger earnings report with value menu and higher prices. walmart lowered the profit forecast people saying people aren't spending on electronics and instead spending on groceries and starting to see that shift. >> tom costello, we see consumer confidence come down even more so over the last couple of months. inflation continuing to rise and looking to get the numbers later on this week. what will the fed do? are they going to continue to increase the interest rates to

try to slow the economy even more? what are you seeing and predicting here? >> that is pretty much a done deal. the fed telegraphed this for weeks now. they do intend to raise rates again on the benchmark rate, the rate that banks charge each other and means that credit card numbers, the interest rate on a credit card will go up. a new loan, new car loan. the fed does not set mortgage rates but loosely tied to what happens with the fed and influenced by the fed and may see mortgage rates go up because of the 9.1 inflation rate and for typical families they are hit hard. the budgets hit hard for food, gasoline, clothing, cars. all that and contributing to this big inflation number. however, unemployment remains at

and near a 50-year low. we have more jobs than employees out there and wages going up. in fact, we saw that last month about a 400,000 new jobs created. it is a very strange economy that may or may not be on the verge of a recession with the strong indicators. household savings is strong. listen. this is kind of important. it is the vernacular out there that two contractions in the economy equals a recession. that's not really the technical definition. that's a shorthand for it. we may go into that definition of a recession but does it mean anything when unemployment is where it is right now? this is a serious inflation picture and whether we have technically in a recession doesn't matter much if you struggle to pay the bills and

you have a job. it is a strange predicament that the fed is in. >> how do you walk this tightrope that tom has kind of laid out for us? >> for investors or for the arch person? investors, we did see an uptick in the month of july for markets because some people are talking about peak inflation. inflation 9.1% hit the top level but company after company said they will increase prices and not slowing down any time soon and maybe that's too forthcoming that assumption. today we see some stocks especially the consumer related ones like walmart, target, trending lower because of the inflation warnings. as consumers, listening and paying attention, tom said it very correctly.

we are noticing it. regardless of recession or not. prices are going up. less savings. at&t, they said the free cash flow decreased because consumers are not paying the bills. an increase in overdue bills. might be signs on the lower demographic because you see people traveling but there is a shift going on right now. >> hey tom, i want to ask you about the international space station. it is a pivot here and got news in about that. before i do as you look at this fed interest hike if you are someone who has some debt, a heloc and savings as we see americans have more savings which is a good thing, should you be paying off the debts with the interest rate hikes going up? >> you know, every single financial planner i talk to says

pay down the debt. credit cards, car loans. pay them down. especially influenced by escalating rising interest rates because they only go up from here. maybe a rate cut next year. pay down the debt if you can. >> all right. let's talk international space station quickly. russia saying they will leave. i believe they said in 2024. what's the significance of this, tom? >> this is a big deal. we'll see if russia really follows through on what they say today but the new head of the russian space station agency had a meeting with vladimir putin today saying we are leaving the international space station. the russian module controls or assists with the propulsion. it is a critical piece. on the other hand this is an integrated station. and the u.s. side provides the

solar power. right? if you -- i don't know if you could detach the russian side but rardless they want to end the cooperation. they have also talked about going into some sort of a joint venture with the chinese. observers say you can't hit the altitude, the orbit from russian territory. is that just bluster and not reality? we'll see what happens over did next two, two and a half years but the stress and the tension between the u.s. and russia is very real. all activities have been going on as normal and stress free we are toll and saw russian kos month naughts unveiling flags and there is tension on the space station and clearly russia decided it doesn't want to be

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clearly have chosen not to do that. so now in my opinion they're not doing enough. >> there's more of the interview at 3:00 p.m. here on msnbc. want to bring in matt bradley standing by for us. take us through the defense and what they argued in court today. >> reporter: seems like the thrust of the argue systematic that griner is guilty and she pled guilty and wasn't necessarily planning to continue the legal medication, what was legal by the state of arizona and presented that to the court that a doctor had prescribed this medical marijuana and they even presented witnesses in front of the court in moscow saying, describing the situation outside of russia that medical marijuana is legal in several places trying to make the argument that she did bring the

little vials on the airplanes but did it by mistake. not trying to argue that she was trying to continue using it in russia. they are just saying this was a mistake. she pled guilty and basically asking for leniency. they're not trying to say she is innocent in any way but throwing them on the mercy of the court asking for a lighter sentence. >> we'll be watching this as it plays out in russia. thank you. good to talk to you. now russia's invasion in ukraine. this morning the eu leaders cutting 15% of the gas consumption ahead of expected supply cuts from russia and president zelenskyy accusing russia of waging a fuel war against europe. morgan chesky is live in odesa,

ukraine. tell us what you are seeing today and the daily life there in ukraine. >> reporter: it has a significant impact here but in odesa is seeing the second attack in the area in the last four days. the first saturday after an agreement was signed and then this morning when ukrainian officials confirmed a village about 35 miles south of where i am standing hit around 5:00 a.m. with russian missiles and seen damage. it is extensive. at least one person was injured. a man saying he didn't need to be hospitalized but buildings destroyed. there was significant damage. we know that authorities are on site trying to learn more about what took place there. meantime, there is a real effort to try to get grain from the

area to the countries that need it. there's a hopeful thought that that could happen at some point this week and no firm timetable when the ships carrying millions of tons of grain would be able to make it out safely through the black sea which still has russian underwater mines in it. yasmin? >> thank you. former president trump returning to washington d.c. today for the first time since leaving office. president biden is ready for him with some not so welcoming words. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we will be right back. diaz-balart reports. diaz-balart reports. we will be right back. to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down, helps lower cholesterol and promotes healthy blood sugar levels. while its collagen peptides

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inauguration. this afternoon trump will speak at a summit organized by the allies with a speech about public safety and delivering that speech one and a half miles from the steps of the capitol where we watched the insurrection january 6. last hour former vice president mike pence spoke in d.c. as well. a second time in a matter of days to face off with pence and president biden jumping into the fray slamming the former president's handling of the insurrection. >> donald trump lacked the courage to act. the brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that. you can't be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. you can't be pro-ins election insurrection and pro-american. >> want to bring in vaughn

hillyard covering trump and at the event space and jake sherman of punch bowl news. vaughn, it seems like there's a running theme here, right? we spoke about what took place in arizona between the former president and his former vice president. now happening again in washington d.c. i'm wondering if this is what to come come 2024 or if pence is even a legitimate or real choice option for republicans right now. >> reporter: yeah. it was just on friday that we were in arizona where both donald trump and mike pence holding campaign events for opposing events for rivals. now speaking and addressing the future of the republican party. just months away from the midterm elections and pence who just spoke here in the last hour

specifically asked about the divide with donald trump and he said he didn't think it was a divide on issue but focus in his words. take a listen. >> wow. >> i don't know that the movement is that divided. i don't know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. i truly do believe that elections are about the future. and that's it absolutely essential at a time when so many americans are hurting, so many families are struggling that we don't give way to the temptation to look back. >> reporter: and yasmin, 30 minutes ago we released a press release for november 15 of mike pence's upcoming book, a week after the midterms and in the press release they describe the

book will wrote chronicle president trump's severing of the relationship on january 6, 2021, when pence kept the oath to the constitution. yasmin? >> yeah. quite a lead-up to that press release and that upcoming book. jake sherman, let's talk about what you wrote in punch bowl news and seems the formerer president is number one in the republican party and played a kinlg kingmears and now a split screen moment between the president and former president. what do you make of how unprecedented this moment is in u.s. history to have a former president and former vice president facing off against one another and the split within the republican party? >> pence is severely

underplaying this. right? trump doesn't really care about policy. we have seen that for five, six years. the focus is on vengeance and exacting revenge on people who have crossed him which is why he's against liz cheney one of the most conservative members of congress without a doubt so he's vastly underplaying this. trump's focus is entirely on the past and i can't think of an apt comparison but the interesting thing to me and what we wrote about this morning is that trump is going to be surrounded by the house republican leadership. mccarthy is proceeding trump on stage. mitch mcconnell, john thune, they're nowhere around him. they're not at this event because trump doesn't like mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell spoke out

against him. mitch mcconnell one of the most conservative men who has served in congress in the last several decades. this is not a minor difference. this is a chasm on what the republican party and conservatism should be and papering this over in a sense because trump is again the sole focus is on the past. >> it seems as if he wants to retain some trump voters if he has a shot at 2024. that's pence i'm talking about. vaughn and jake, thank you. next, why some 300,000 monkeypox vaccineser marked for the u.s. sat unused overseas while the virus spread in new york. e virus spread in new e virus spread in new york

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cases of monkeypox. many folks around the country are looking for a vaccine and can't find them. so one example, the monkeypox vaccine clinic at one of the main public vaccination sites in san francisco is closed today because they ran out of vaccines. "the new york times" reporting as monkeypox has spread in new york, 300,000 vac soon doses sat in denmark. the federal government adopted a wait-and-see response, calling for more vaccines to be delivered only after cases were growing exponentially. we want to bring in matt ford who had monkeypox and dr. roy gulleck who has been treating monkeypox patients. matt, let me start with you on this one. if you could, talk to us about getting monkeypox, what that experience was like for you an figuring out that you actually had monkeypox. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. i got a call on friday, june

17th, alerting me i had been exposed a week before. shortly after i had flu-like symptoms pick up and lesions appeared all over my body. i counted more than 25 all over. >> how long did it take for that diagnosis, matt, to happen? did you get a run-around from physicians that you were seeing in getting the diagnosis, and how long did it last for you until some of your symptoms resolved? >> yeah, you know, i was pretty fortunate in my experience, i was able to get a test in a few days. my provider was in touch with the county department of publish health. it took a few days to come back positive. it was a few weeks from when i was exposed to get the confirmed result. it was quite a long isolation time. >> dr. ghouleck, talk to me

about how we had vaccines sitting overseas, the federal government wanting to take this wait-and-see approach especially when we look back and think back to what took place the beginning of covid and how we were so ill-prepared for what we faced. >> well, this is a new infectious disease, and that threat for the united states and the world. there's currently 18,000 cases worldwide and nearly 4,000 here in the united states. we're learning about this disease all the time. we've never seen an outbreak like this before, so we're learning about testing. we're learning about treatment and we're learning about prevention, and the vaccine that you mentioned was approved by the fda to prevent monkeypox back in 2019, but not ready available, and the company that makes it is in denmark where those vaccine doses were held. clearly we need more vaccines distributed now in the united states and around the world.

>> so the white house, dr. gulick is thinking about declaring monkeypox a health emergency, allocating more resources towards research, treatment for monkeypox. how could that help you in treating patients who now have monkeypox? what do you need right now? >> when the government declares something a national emergency, that releases a number of resources that become available, certainly right now we need research studies to tell us how best to treat monkeypox and how best to prevent monkeypox. so declaring it an emergency would help. the w.h.o., the world health organization, changed their declaration and declared it a public health emergency just this past weekend. >> doctor, if you could quickly clear up misconceptions. it's not just a disease affecting gay men and bisexual

men. we know children now diagnosed with monkeypox. can you clear up some of the misconceptions for us? >> sure. monkeypox is not an infection that is passed by casual contact. one needs intimate contact, skin to skin with someone who has the disease themselves or something they've been in contact with, like bed clothes or sheets or towels. the general population is not at risk for monkeypox. this virus found its way in to the men who have sex with men community and it's being passed by skin-to-skin contact in that community. but, of course, communities interact with others, and we may see monkeypox related to people who are close or live close with people that are infected. i think it's the kind of disease to be aware of but not concerned about.

>> doctor, thank you so much. matt ford, we're glad you're doing better. that's it for this hour. i'll be back after a very quick break with more news. i'll talk to the chair of the white house council of economic advisers about growing concerns over the nation's economy. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we'll be right back after a quick break. we'll be right back after a quick break. (woman vo) sailing a great river past extraordinary landscapes one that many have yet to discover. exploring with viking brings you closer to the world, to the history, the culture, the flavors, a serene river voyage on an elegant viking longship.

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