management official on the ground there. also new reporting from "the washington post" surrounding january 6th. more texts are missing, this time from high-ranking homeland security officials in the trump administration. plus, eyebrow raising remarks from justice alito overseas about the supreme court's abortion ruling, and he's on tape. we are going to begin with an economic picture that seems to be getting even more complicated. the government report that had consumer spending rose 1.1% in june, but consumers are paying more for almost everything here. the personal consumer expenditure index which reflects changes in the prices of goods and services shows that prices jumped 1% in june, and they are up nearly 7% from last year. the government also reported today that wages and salaries rose 5.3% from june 2021 to june 2022. this comes one day after the

government reported a second straight quarter of negative economic growth. so this complicated picture is why president biden is pushing back against talk of a recession. >> with both senator schumer and manchin. that's consistent with the transition to a stable steady growth and lower inflation, but if you look at our job market consumer spending, business investment, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. >> joining us now to take a closer look at this, cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman and ben white, politico chief economic correspondent and host of the politico money podcast. steve, when you take all of this data into account, all these indexes, what does it tell you about the state of the economy right now? >> it tells us that for sure the economy has slowed. remember, we did like 6% growth

in the fourth quarter and now we've come off two quarters in a row. the first quarter we came off because of what was happening with inventories. think what's happening in the pandemic era when it comes it a rubber band imports and exports in inventories and then stretching out and loose anything out. the ports are own, the ports are closed. the first quarter was a bit of an anomaly in that we had really negative numbers on inventory and trade. the second quarter is really showing the slowdown. why? because business investment and consumer spending both were very weak. it doesn't tell us we're in a recession right now. it tells us there's a risk of recession, and then the other side of that coin essentially is the strength of the job market which shows two job openings for every unemployed person out there. we're about 5 million extra job openings than the normal run rate so it's a little hard to have a recession when you have the strong job numbers. now just be careful because they can deteriorate relatively quickly. they haven't deteriorated yet.

>> does this show that the federal reserve's efforts right now to slow the economy are working? are we seeing good things right now when we're talking about the slowdown of the economy? >> yeah. i don't like the way you asked the question if you don't mind. we're not seeing good things, the right things is the better way to put it. >> yeah. >> and when you say good things, we are seeing some of that stuff like housing seems to be coming off the boil. you remember it was running at like 20% year over year. we're seeing some slowdown in consumer spending. it looks like higher rates are having an impact. the trouble right now is they are not showing up yet in the inflation numbers. we've got another round of lousy inflation numbers this morning that really does boil down into one report the problem in the economy. you had good gains in nominal or not inflation-adjusted income. the trouble is once you add inflation the income was just about zero. when you take out spending, take inflation away from spending,

spending was just about zero so consumers are running fast, but it's like they are running on a treadmill. they are not getting anyplace because the more they spend, the more inflation takes away, the more they earn, the more inflation takes away. >> and a lot of people are talking about their retirement accounts. what's wall street doing with all of this? >> yeah. well, right now wall street seems fairly at ease with what the fed is doing. we saw that again yesterday and they are comfortable that the fed is moving at a pace of rate hikes at .75 of a point. they will do another half a point or three-quarters of a point at the next meeting. it hasn't really rocked the stock market yet because it's been pretty well telegraphed. it's still tough for anybody who has retirement accounts, look at them this year down 15% on the s&p and similar on others so, you know, there's a wealth effect there and steve summed up the economic picture pretty perfectly. we are not in recession yet. the first quarter was quite perky with inventories, but the

inflation number today, us a not, is really bad. 6.8%. we haven't seen this since 182, and it's really wiping out all the wage gains which is why people feel bad. i'm much less interested in litigating the gdp numbers and what the white house has to do to argue we're not in recession and it's important going forward and we have slowed down. the key is can the fed tame inflation without putting us into recession, and can wages rise faster than prices? that's how you get people happier about this economy. that way we have an endless debate about whether it's, you know, .9% growth okay, you know, more positive -- .9% decline or more positive when you take out some of the one-time factors, all of that inflation making people feel bad, and that's the problem that the white house faces and the fed faces, and it's a difficult thing to do. >> steve, we know the national bureau of economic research dealing with recession is to

quote cnbc which is my favorite definition of this. it's squishier than simply those two negative quarters. why is that? >> well, because a recession is a very unique phenomenon, and, yes, squishier is actually an official recessionary term or economic term. here's the deal. the deal is that people want to use that benchmark, and i get it because it's an easy benchmark to use of these two negative quarters. in general when we do two negative quarters we are in recession. the reason is because the nber looks at a variety of factors and really there's three things looking for. is the downturn pervasive? is it pronouced? is it prolonged and they will meet a year from now or so or maybe six months, look back on the data and come to that determination, but it's not hard for somebody to look right now and say, look, it's not really deep. it's not been very long, and it's not very widespread right now. it may be that we turn around and decide or they turn around

and decide that july was beginning, but i want to get a little bit beyond into what ben was talking about. it does matter if we're in a recession. when the economy is contracting, it usually engenders a series of policy moves. nine times since 1957 the government has extended unemployment benefits in the recession. every time we've had a recision since 1990 the federal reserve cuts rates, so we're not in that mode right now where we're talking about unextended benefits or rate cuts. quite the opposite. the problem we're having is not an aggregate problem but a supply problem. >> ben, i've got to be quick with you. time thoughts >> i agree with steve, that you know, obviously we're close to recession. we could go in one if the fed goes too far too fast but you can't in a recession when you've got 300,000 plus jobs being created a month and unemployment at 3.6% and spending where it is, so not in recession yet. could go there and people feel like it's a recession and that's what matters. >> steve liesman and ben white,

thanks so much for starting us off. we're going to dive deep near this now because joining us now is brian deese, director of the white house economic council who advises the president on economic policy. brian, we'll give you the floor. when you pull together all the data we've got on this economy, what does it show you about where things stand? >> number one, we have an historically strong labor market as you were just discussing. 2.7 million jobs created over the first half of the year. the unemployment rate at 3.6%. number two, we're clearly moving through a transition. we ran the first leg of this race at an extremely fast clip, historically strong economic growth. that's positioned the united states in a better place than almost any other country globally to deal with the serious global challenges that we face with inflation being first and foremost among them. in the midst of this transition, we do need to work to get prices

down further, but the u.s. is in a relatively strong position, and, perform, if we can take some action here, yesterday's passage of the chips act is historic and important component of that. if we can pass the inflation reduction act here in the next couple of weeks, we'll mick a real contribution on the policy side to where we need to go. >> i want to bring up the inflation reduction act in a minute. we heard ben white saying it's what people feels that matters also and a consult poll found that 65% of americans believe that the economy is in a recession, so what do you tell people who feel this way right now? they are struggling to deal with the prices that show no sign of going down. >> absolutely. this is an uncertain time, and we fully understand that when people are driving up to the gas station or going to the grocery store and seeing those prices, it hits, it hurts and it creates uncertainty, and that's why the president, this entire administration has identified bringing prices down as our top

economic priority. it's good news that we've seen gas prices at the pump fall more than 70 cents. the price of gas for a gallon of gas nationwide has fallen to $4.25. that's progress. we need to see more progress on that front and other prices as well, but that's why we are as an administration focusing on prices and focusing on trying to get legislation that would accelerate that process and -- and bring the cost of things like prescription drugs down for a typical family. absolutely. people are feeling it. we understand, that and that's why we're acting on focusing to bring prices down. >> what magic can you pull out of your hat, too, because our friend at cnbc reported that every time since 1948 the gdp has fallen for at least two straight quarters the national bureau of national research has ultimately declared a recession, so what's going to be different about this time? >> look, it starts where we started which is the labor market. never in any of those instances had the economy created jobs period let alone created 2.7

million jobs, never in any of those moments have the unemployment rate been down at 3.6% where we are now, so this is a unique time. truly a unique time, but we can move forward and we can bring prices down without giving up all of those economic gains, and the choices we make matter. i would just underscore that. passing the chips act was a choice that the president prioritized. congress prioritized it. that's going bring progress. >> how specifically would the chips act help? >> if you look in the 2021, a third of the inflation we saw was associated with the price of cars. the price of cars went up prescription police because we didn't have enough supply, didn't have enough semiconductors, computer chips to make all of the cars that people wanted to buy. we are now investing. we're going to invest in an historic way in building that supply and importantly building it here with more resilient supply chains so that american consumers and the american economy isn't left to the whims of globally brittle supply chains.

that will make a big difference. >> i've got up more for you, brian. the inflation reduction act. how is that going to help? >> well, first, it's going to bring down prescription drug costs which is a big driver of costs for millions of families around the country. send, it will bring down the cost of health care for 13 million americans by about $800. that's going to be -- people are going to see that beginning this fall, and, third, it's going to provide relief on energy prices by having more energy security and more resilient supply of energy for years to come, and it's going to do all of those things while also reducing the federal deficit. this is a smart, prudent way to actually help bring prices down on the fiscal policy side while giving people real tangible relief on prescription drugs, on health care and on energy. >> brian, got to be quick with you here, but i spoke with a car dealership owner, used cars, and he says he doesn't think things will get better for another couple of years. is your timeline faster than that? >> well, certainly our objective and goal is to accelerate that process, and the single thing

that we can do most effectively to do that is help to bring the supply chain pressure down, be a we need to do that by building more secure and reresilience supply of components that go into cars. that's the way to do this, and we've taken a big and historic step in that direction this week. >> brian deese, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. and still ahead, there are more missing texts, this time among former president trump's top deputies that could have been key evidence in the january 6th investigation, but, first, the number of lives lost from ken kept's historic flooding is rising. we're going to talk to an emergency management official about the desperate effort that is still under way to helping people. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. it's easier to do more innovative things. [whistling] for too long, big pharma has been squeezing americans for every penny,

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17 past the hour, and first the secret service, now the department of homeland. this is new from "the washington post." according to four people briefed, texts leading up to

january 6th are missing for acting trump homeland secretary chad wolf and acting deputy secretary kept cuccinelli. quote, the department of homeland security notified the agency's inspector general in late february that wolf's and cuccinelli's texts were lost in a reset of their government phones when they left their jobs in january 2021 in preparation for the new biden administration. "the post" continues that the office of inspector general, joseph kuffari did not press the department leadership tat to explain why they did not report. the inspector general's office did not immediately respond to "the post's" request for comment. joining me now is senior political correspondent ashley parker and joyce vance, a former

u.s. attorney and now msnbc legal analyst. ashley, can you dive into more of your colleague's reporting and how this relates to january 6th and really how damaging this is to the investigation when you don't know what you don't know? >> well, again, it -- the investigation has a lot of inroads including people they are talking to, and if you just look at that first bucket of hearings that we sauce, and we expect there to be more, they have found out a ton. that said, text messages and email correspondence, these sorts of things are often the most revealing details you could have because unlike someone like say cassidy hutchinson whose testimony was quite damning for former president trump, but it was her recollection. it's what she said saw and witnessed. it's what she admitted and said she saw secondhand. when you have those tense messages laid out, it's just very clear, incontrovertible realtime fact and these, of

course, would be incredibly helpful details for the committee to have. >> joyce, in your expertise, is it rare for public officials leaving office to have their phones wiped clean in advance of a new administration in is there no system for preservation? >> so i think the answer is yes and no, and part of the answer is you should never underestimate the ability of government to be incompetent when it comes to these sorts of technological issues, but that said, the coincidences continues to mount, it becomes more and more suspicious, and the reality here is that these are government records. they do need to be preserved, but whether there were preservation orders in place specific from various inspectors or congressional entities at this point or even if there wrrngts you would expect someone in the front office at all of these executive level agent stois have said we need to preserve records from january 6th and from around that point in time.

it was important. there will be inquiries. it's incumbent upon us as good government servants to preserve all of these records for the future, and so the fact that they didn't, no matter what the usual procedures might be for wiping phones to prepare them for the next group to come in, whatever that normally might have looked like, it should have looked very different this time. >> ashley. we just laid it out that the committee chair bennie thompson pointed a finger at the ig saying they never notified congress even though they knew about the missing texts for months. given the quick timeline for the committee with the mid terms rapidly approaching, how much does this hinder their quest for truth? >> again, the committee, you know, when you talk to them, they are being very methodical. they would love to have every detail possible. this is a hindrance. the secret service text messages are a hindrance. that said, they still do have lots of other avenues so i think that this is something that they would love to have.

this is a problem, but as you've seen so far it hasn't stopped them from making progress and i want to comment on what joy said. we've heard a lot from government and not everything is nefarious, but it's important to remember that the tone of any administration is set from the top. that's former president trump, and he was someone who shredded documents, who as we've reported left for mar-a-lago with dozens of boxes that were supposed to be preserved, that contained confidential information, that should have been turned over to the archives under the federal records act, so that does cast a bit more of a shadow when you see all of these things adding up? joyce, i would like some insight on "new york times" reporting that the 2016 campaign is looming large as the doj pursues its investigation. attorney general garland is intent on avoiding even the slightest errors which could

taint the current investigation, provide trump's defenders with reasons to claim the inquiry was drive by animus or undo his effort to rehabilitate the department's reputation after the political warfare of the trump years. how does he thread this needle considering the immense attention, the immense pressure he's under? >> it looks like he intends to thread that needily by focusing on doing the right thing. you know, that's the unofficial motto of the justice department when lawyers are trying to work through sort of a thorny prosecution issue. typically at some point they will turn to each other and say let's just do the right thing, and that's the way the justice department needs to work, so while people have been very critical from both the right and left of attorney general merrick garland, one suspects that he takes the longer view and history he hopes will look back and say that this is one who in a very difficult point in time restored a principled approach

at the justice department, kept his distance from the white house, refused to be influenced by political goings on, but at the same time pursued prosecutions with vigor where appropriate and indicted people who were criminally responsible for some of the most heinous criminal acts our country has ever experienced. >> all right. joyce vance, ashley parker, thank you both so much. today the house leaves for their august recess, but the day may have just become complicated for lawmakers. there are new indications the house could bring the assault weapons ban and police funding bills to the floor for a vote today. joining us right now is nbc new capitol hill correspondent. house speaker nancy pelosi previously said the house would vote on these issues after the august recess so what's going on here? >> reporter: yeah, lindsey, we've talked about this long list of agenda items that lawmakers here on capitol hill want to get done before they leave on this month-long august recess, and now we've seen the house trying to tick some of

those off before they leave at the end of the day. the two bills to boost police funding and pass that assault weapons ban were originally going to be voted on on wednesday and were pulled from the floor because of a division among democrats. some were pushing for more language to be added to this police funding bill about how departments handle misconduct. some democrats took issue with how strict the language was in the assault weapons ban, but pelosi, as you've mentioned, said that they would revisit this when they returned possibly coming back during august and now the congressional black caucus is meeting this morning over zoom indicating that this vote, the two votes could possibly happen today, and so we're now keeping track on really the vote schedule here and whether these could possibly be done today. it's still uncertain whether they will pass though. remember, the house only has a four-seat vote cushion to be able to pass legislation, so possibly a vote today, but still tpd on whether these two will pass.

>> okay. we know the senate, meanwhile, is racing to pass the inflation reduction act that schumer/manchin agreement on climate, taxes, health care before the senate recesses, but they are trying to get the support of another senator we hear a lot of, senator sinema. what more do we know? >> yeah. the million dollar question on capitol hill here this morning is whether kyrsten sinema will support this bill. this is becoming a numbers game because democrats know they need all 50 senators, not only physically present for this vote. they need all of their senators to vote in support of it because there's no proxy voting here in the senate like there is in the house. senator sinema has really been quite as to whether she will support this. the capitol hill press corps literally chasing her around capitol hill yesterday trying to get a answer from her on where she stands from this. sinema through the spokespeople are looking through and reviewing this 700-page bill. that was echoed by senate

majority leader chuck schumer when he spoke to my colleague ali vitali yesterday. take a look. >> every member, i've given every member a few days to read the bill. it's 5,700-page bill, and hopefully we'll be talking and vote for the bill. >> reporter: manchin is not willing to part with the interest rate loophole. >> well all get together. >> reporter: what if she doesn't support the bill? >> we're letting people read the bill. >> reporter: another factor complicating things on capitol hill regarding these numbers are the rising covid cases among lawmakers. you have senator joe manchin back home announcing he got it earlier this week and senator dick durbin announcing yesterday he's tested positive. something we're tracking here on capitol hill, the rate of their recovery and the timing of their return for this possible vote at

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31 past the hour. moments ago president biden approved a disaster declaration for kentucky. the governor described what they are going through is, quote, one of the worst most devastating flooding events in kentucky's history. unprecedented rainfall led to flash flooding wiping out hundreds of homes and leaving residents stranded on rooftops, some even hanging from trees. many people are still unaccounted for, and more rain is expected this weekend. the governor providing an update this morning. >> we have now lost at least 15 kentuckians though that number is going to grow, probably more than double. we know that some of the loss will include children. we may have even lost entire families. >> joining us right now on the phone with the latest from jackson, kentucky is nbc's jesse

kerr. what's the situation on the ground there today? >> reporter: yeah, first of all, lindsey, as will surely be apparent by talking by phone here is that cell reception out here is next to zero. we've gone into zones where one phone service completely cuts out and have minimal coverage on another. where i'm standing right now on the side of a highway, i'm looking out at two homes that are partially submerged, including a two-story home with a man and a woman sitting on the balcony on the upper level with their dog. i asked them if they are okay. they said they are fine and have nowhere to go. i asked them about trying to find a hotel room, and they said that the hotel around here is sold out, and the man said that his sister is at a hotel nearby, so that's the situation for just one family here. we've seen people walking on the sides of roads with bags. we've got police and other officials blocking off various

roadways. there's water in the road, and what i'm looking at right now is what looks like a river. however, an official from the state told me that what i'm looking at is about 75 feet away from where the river actually is, and when i tell you it looks like i'm at a river, we're talking about something that is probably 50, 60 yards wide and has a current going through it, and you would never realize that this is just land until you look at the fact that there are these homes here that are just absolutely devastated. that couple told me that there's waist-high water in the bottom floor of their home right where we are standing, and about two miles from where we are right now, lindsey, is another concern. there's a dam that officials are worried may break which could exacerbate the problems here. we know that according to officials here at least 15 people are dead that. number is expected to go up dramatically. the governor of kentucky believes that there are entire families that may be lost, and

going back to this issue of cell reception, we're now experiencing this ourselves, and obviously what we try to do is stay in communication. we're having so much trouble so you can only imagine what the families would be going through and people are probably still trying to get help and we're trying to see what else we can do. >> to you and your crew, stay staff sirks. i'm joined by the rescue emergency manager in in perry county kentucky. you've lived in perry county your whole life, and you say i've never seen anything this bad. >> no, not even close to this bad, you know. it's -- it's devastating. >> what kind of emergencies are you guys dealing with? >> well, not now. it's -- it's still a situation. we're really focused on search

and rescue at this point, you know. we've rescued a lot of people in the last 24, 36 hours, and i thank god for that, but, unfortunately, i think we're going to lose several people to this as well. >> you're about 40 miles there in hazard from where we are reporting from. i know you haven't been able to access your office. have you been able to get in there yet, grand what you've seen do you think the water has started to crest? >> yes. i think what they are dealing with is a little bit different. it's more river flooding for them at this point. we were dealing with some of that river flooding last night. isht ureally that we had the night before last is flash flooding when we got flash

floods in an area in a short period of time. so the creek was with a major flash flood, so jackson has river flooding, but flash flooding event is what was so devastating for the county. >> and you guys are expecting even more rain. what is it that you need right now? >> well, we've got volunteers come in to help, and we're still focused on search and rescue for the next few days. that's going to be our focus, and -- and, you know, we do still have people missing, and we're doing everything that we can that we can do in our power to find them. >> anything else that you think we should know? >> no. i mean, you know, there's -- there's good organizations out there that, you know, if you want to help, just a minute, i'll get that. there's different organizations

that if you want to donate, donate that can get money into the hands of our people that need it the most. cleaning supplies, water is an issue as well, so that and just pray. >> jerry stacy, our best to you and your family and your whole community there. we're thinking of you. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. still to come, san francisco declares a state of emergency over monkeypox. we're going to talk live to the ceo of the san francisco aids foundation who says he warned about this weeks ago. usual watching "jose diaz-balart reports." usl uawatching "jose diaz-balart reports.

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42 past hour. a white house official confirms to nbc news it plans to offer updated coronavirus booster shots in september. the new versions are expected to be more effective against the

omicron subvariant ba.5 spreading like wildfire. americans over 50 and those immunocompromised over 12 are the only people eligible for the second boosters, but now all adults and children are expected to be eligible in the fall for the updated boosters. today the department of health and human services is allocating 780,000 vaccines to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak. at this time, the cdc has confirmed more than 4,900 cases across the country. new york state has declared monkeypox an imminent threat. the city of san francisco declared a state of emergency. officials say they are prefertizing vaccines for men and transgender people who have sex with men, but to be clear, everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, can get monkeypox. joining us right now for more on this is the ceo of the san francisco aids foundation. tyler, you've been working to get people vaccinated. you have a long wait list of people who want to do so.

how has the effort been so senator what needs to be done. >> it's been very overwhelming couple of weeks dating back to mid-may. we began ring alarm as what we saw is the very foreseeable spread of monkeypox in our community. we coordinated with public health but we didn't have access to vaccine and now this this moment where we've had to declare a public health emergency, it's harkening back to the early days of the aids epidemic when san francisco was abandoned by the federal government in our public health crisis among men who have sex with men. >> yeah, i mean, you -- you predicted this, and so, you know, there are a lot of people right now who are upset over the fact that they want a vaccine and can't get up. a 68-year-old man on the waiting list said, quote, i'm feeling apprehensive. he said many residents like him are hearing echoes of the aids crisis. they are questioning whether the current mindset is it's just

affecting gay people. we don't care so we're not shipping vaccines. do you get the sentiment on the ground that echoes that, and what should we be learning right now from not only the aids and hiv crisis but coronavirus? >> the san francisco foundation opened its doors in 1982 in response to a crisis in our community, and back then we started a hotline very similar to what we have now for monkeypox. we have hundreds of people calling in a day that are scared. they are anxious, and while this disease is not fatal in the same way that hiv was all those years ago. it is causing extreme distress, fear, anxiety in our community, and it will have lasting consequences for our community for decades to come. we need to do everything we can to get vaccine into our community now and to support all those who are at high risk for monkeypox. >> i'm going to put you on the spot here, but if people are watching and want to call that

hotline, where do they call? >> the best way to reach us is by visiting us at sfaf.org. tyler, thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. now to two nbc news exclusives. u.s. immigration agents found 13 children and 60 adults believed to be migrants living in houses operated by human smugglers in washington, d.c. wednesday. that's according to internal documents reviewed by nbc news. and nbc news has also learned there's been an increase in u.s.-assisted arrests of smugglers which has contributed to a 14% drop from may in arrests of people crossing the southern border. nbc's julia an israeli has both exclusives and joins us now. julia, what more do we know about the housing discovered in d.c. in. >> an operation was conducted by i.c.e. wednesday in northwest of d.c., the quarter that includes the white house.

a lot of government officials live in northwest d.c. but apparently somewhere there were houses keeping 73 migrants. there were six search warrants that were conducted, and across the six residential places they found 73 migrants. it's unclear now what's become of those migrants, but often stash houses can keep migrants in terrible conditions without running water or air conditioning during these hot summer months so we're waiting to hear more about the exact location and what kind of condition the migrants were in. >> you mentioned a 14% drop in the number of arrests at the border. that's big. what's behind that decrease? >> well, it's interesting. according to briefing materials that we reviewed that were provided from dhs to the white house, they are attributing at least in part some of that decrease to new operations happening in central america where agents from the use working for cbp and i.c.e. work with local law enforcement in those cup truckers give them intelligence on who the smugglers are and where they are and are able to conduct arrests. one week in june 240 supposed

smugglers were arrested in those cup trishs and they say based on the number of migrants that one smuggler can usually bring to the u.s., and they think it stopped or slowed down at least 1,300 migrants from making journey to the u.s., that they are attributing the decline in part to those efforts. we should also point out though that the numbers do usually fall during the hot summer months because it's just too hard for many migrants to make the journey in these temperatures. >> thanks for the scoop, julia. appreciate it. coming up supreme court juice tis samuel alito about what he said about the fallout over his decision to overturn "roe v. wade." we're going to play it to you next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. sy. but, at upwork, we found her. she's in austin between a fresh bowl of matcha and a fresh batch of wireframes. and you can find her, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork.com kids don't always take the best care of school supplies.

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new remarks from a supreme court justice are raising eyebrows. in a speech before a religious conference, justice ament lito spoke candidly about the fallout about the decision. >> i had the honor this term of

writing the only supreme court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders. one of these was former prime minister boris johnson. but he paid the price. what really wounded me was when the duke of sussex addressed the united nations and seemed to compare the decision whose name may not be spoken with the russian attack on ukraine. >> and pete williams is joining me with more. how rare is to hear from a justice speak out like this? >> well, like that, it is pretty rare. you know, i think justice alito has made comments like this before. i think perhaps all those years as one the dissenters on the court has sort of shaped his view of criticism of his decision and it has taken him a while to realize that he is now in the controlling seat in the court, things are sort of

breaking his way and he doesn't seem to have quite caught up with that. >> the supreme court term starts in october. what can we expect? >> there are a lot of big cases on the term, a showdown over of a affirmative action over college admissions. is this a more conservative court now, so probably less inclined to uphold it, this is a challenge from both a public university, the university of north carolina and a private one, harvard. there is a question about whether businesses can as a matter of religious freedom disregard state anti-discrimination laws specifically this is a website designer in colorado who wants to exclude same sex weddings from her wedding business, designing websites for weddings. and then there is very important cases involving elections. the supreme court will look at what is left of the voting rights act and decide how it applies to these controversies

that rise when states do restricting. remember it happens every ten years and since the last time, the course has taken away of the power of the voting rights act. so we'll see what they do with what is left of it. and then there is a case of what really could have long term implications for how we conduct elections. the question is who gets the last word when there is a dispute over election procedures in the state, is it the state supreme court, is it the u.s. supreme court or is it the state legislature. and there is this theory called the independent legislature theory that says that because the constitution says that the time, place and manners of election will be set by legislatures, does that mean that they get to say in advance how they are set up and then they step back, or does it mean that they get to referee how elections are conducted. if it is the latter and there is some justices on the court who have signaled that it should be, then this could be a really profound change in how elections

are conducted. and those are just some of the issues the supreme court will face and what looks like it will be another blockbuster term. >> unfortunately it is a term that we'll have to cover without you because today is your last day at nbc news. and i'm sure it has been a week of red cheeks for you and embarrassment, but i have to just say from one who has had the joy of working with you only a brief couple of years, it has been a true career highlight to toss to you. i know i spoke for even when i say the impervious commitment to the facts and nothing else is truly the gold standard. >> i'm very grateful, it has been a great place to work and i thank you so much. >> pete williams, thank you. that is it for this hour. i'll be right after a quick break with more news including the latest on the catastrophic flooding in kentucky. flooding in kentucky ]

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