one of the things that the inflation reduction act would do is set up a fairer tax code could wr there is at least 15% if you're a billion dollars company. i'm excited about the electric vehicle provisions. because what this will do is reduce the price through tax credits of an electric vehicle. and if you see that lower sticker price and you could afford an ev, you're saving money for every day that you own it. even at lower gas prices, there is still a gas savings for people who are able to fill up on electricity instead of gas. and they ten to require lower maintenance, too. as a matter of fact, this is a big opportunity for some of the politicians who have been criticizing evs for being too expensive, to take a vote for or against making them cheaper. there are also provisions that will help with domestic sourcing of battery components and the supply chain for electric vehicles. so some of the politicians out there saying, evs are

problematic because of where we get the components for them. they have a chance to vote to make that situation better. so let's give them a chance to put their money where their mouth is or put their vote where their mouth is and in the meantime that will reduce the deficit. it is earned praise from economists, people who aren't always supportive of the administrative policy coming together to say yes, this is good legislation and border line no-brainer territory and in washington that means at best we're hoping for it to pass with 50 votes which is exactly what we think it is on track to do. >> we are live at the top of our fourth here on "morning joe." just after 9:00 on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we're talking to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. mr. secretary. speaking of major legislation, it was just nine months ago that the united states senate passed and president biden signed that $1 trillion infrastructure package that you pushed so hard to get through. these headlines cross and then

they sort of fade from the mind of the public. but how was that money being implemented, should people be seeing this at this point in their roads and in their bridges and neighborhoods. is it going off the way you hoped it would? >> yeah. we're off to a terrific start. we spent so much of last year making the case to get the funding to get the bill through. now it is. and so we're hard at work actually getting those dollars out of the door. something on the order of $90 billion on the move already. and let me share some of what it means in practical terms. we just announced 85 airports around the country are getting upgrades. this is a few weeks from l.a.x., the horseshoe, that could take half an hour to droop someone off, and to chamberlain, south dakota, the general aviation terminal is a mobile home and we're going to fund them to have a proper building there to serve the community well.

that is one part of what we're doing on the airport funding. we're soon going to be able to announce grants from the raise program, that is over $2 billion going to projects across the country that will make a in your commute or your ability to get across town. we just rolled out funding for what is called the all stations accessibility program, or asap and this is championed by tammy duckworth but it will fund transit stations that are not yet accessible. they were built before the ada passed and they are not ada complaint. and whether you are just pushing a stoller or a suitcase, you're better off when more stations are aligned. every week we have a couple of major announcement and i think senator menendez will be on the program with you later. i was just with him in new jersey. a bridge that carries over 200,000 passengers depend on

that bridge. and it is a swinging bridge because it sits so low over the hackensack river that for boats to pass, they have to rotate the bridge and then rotate it back. it is 110 years old. it is in such deteriorated shape that sometimes the mechanics don't work properly and they have to come back with sledgehammers and get it back in alignment. we broke ground with the governor, senators menendez and booker and the members of the house delegation who were so supportive in getting us to this point. about $1.5 billion to build a state-of-the-art dependable bridge. so it is on every form of transportation, large and small communities. red, blue and purple. this isn't about politics for us. we're just getting the work done and we're proud of what is going on. but it is just the beginning. >> mr. secretary. let's go from ground transportation to airlines.

cancellations, delays for airlines, refunding on tickets when your flight is canceled. let's start from that. is the delays and the cancellations, is it lack of pilots, lack of ground personnel, weather obviously, that is beside the point. and the cancellations, when you go to get your refund for it, because your flight has canceled. talk about that. >> yeah, so there were a lot of factors at play here but the bottom line is early this summer we saw cancellations and delays that are not acceptable. passengers expect to get somewhere and to help you deal with it and if your flight is canceled you ought to get a refund. we're proposing a new rule in the works for sometime that will require airlines to offer cash refunds to passengers, not just when you get canceled, that is already a rule that we enforce, but when you get significantly delayed and we're defining significant delayed in this

proposal. three hours for a domestic flight and six for an international flight. as well as a number of other measures like if they change what airport you're going through or from a nonstop to a connection or if they change the plane so that you have to have a different passenger experience. now that rule is open for public comment right now. we don't like to dictate these things without taking input and so for a 90-day period you could go to our website and weigh in. that is one example of that we're going to do to back up customers. weather happens and cancelation rate is never going to be zero but we have to get it back to a reasonable level. and i'm encouraged. we got together after memorial day and we saw just unacceptable levels of cancellations, pull the airline leaders together and talks about realistic schedules and hiring people to service the tickets that they have sold and they are taking a number of steps that the cancellations have been upwards of 3%, 4%,

settling in between 1% and 2%, which is closer to what we would consider normal. we would love it to be zero but you could never quite get to zero. >> mr. secretary, we've been reporting this morning on the sudden tragic death of congresswoman jackie wallerski of indiana. she was born in south bend, where you were mayor, what are your thought this is morning. >> it is just terrible and shocking news. she was kill add long with two staff members, emma thompson and zachary pot potts who were in the 20s as well as the other car that collided with them. this news has ricochetted around everyone i know from northern indiana. she was in the seat for most of the time that i was mayor. we came from very different places ideology, opposite political parties but i'll tell you when there was common ground she was always ready to work together. there were veterans issues that we were able to work on. economic development for our

community and somebody that i think of as a mid western value, but you to to be mid western to be this way but she was the type of person no matter how fiercely you were opposed on some political issue, when you saw her she was straightforward and kind and sincere and she and her staff members are going to be missed just a terrible, terrible loss for indiana and of course for the families. >> it is. just horrible. thank you for those kind words. u.s. secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. thank you so much for being on this morning. >> thank you. good being with us. good to see you. let's go to capitol hill for the very latest on whether democrat senator kyrsten sinema of arizona will support her party's spending legislation. ali vitali joins us with the very later. will it happen? will it happen, ali? >> a lot of us are still asking and it will stretch into today

because there are reports that senator sinema is not board with the carried interest loophole, that is one of the things that she laid a red line around. we didn't know it was in the newest iteration of the bill. but that does seem to be the case. we'll continue asking her up on the hill though her office officially has no comment. that is not exactly a departure from the usual stance as their not typically communeive on the position of bills like this with reporters when they ask. but they need all 50 senators so sinema's stance here is critically importance. she's not the only senator that we're keeping an eye on. you're talking to senator bob menendez who has started putting some warning signs around immigration provisions that could come up in the amendment period that is attached to this reconciliation vote. we're also looking at people like senator bernie sanders who has made his complaints about this bill known. but i think the reality is on the hill there are senators that

were watching who might not be thrilled with what is in this bill. we still do expect them to vote for it. sinema is the ome one who has always been someone who could tank this entire endeavor. we've gone back and forth over the last year as they've been negotiating different versions of the package, watching manchin and then sinema have the deal fall apart and all eyes are on her and this stretches further because the senate parliamentarian is still doing their work to make sure all of the provisions comply with the necessary pieces to make it a reconciliation process. which is how they want to do it. >> ali vitali, thank you. joining us now, democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey. he's the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and i guess i'll put the question to you, sir. do you plan to hold up reconciliation for the changes that you need? what are they and are they worth

it at this point? >> well good morning. look, there is say lot of good elements in this legislation. certainly the price negotiation for medicare is going to help 62 million seniors across the country, 1.2 million in new jersey. it includes provisions on out of pocket cap that i authored and a smoothing provisions that i also authored. that is good. the extension of the assistance under the affordable care act that i helped author for three years is good. the climate provisions are good. but of course, we have to see a couple of things. number one, what is the parliamentarians final word, what does this package look like at the end. secondly, if there are changes by anyone else, then obviously i want to see what those changes are. and lastly, when we get to the process of the vote-a-rama, i

cannot see immigration amendments that have nothing to do with the legislation adapted and if it were to stay in the bill, then that would effect my judgment as well. so there is a lot to talk about before we get to a final conclusion. >> okay. it sounds like there is still a lot more to be done and we'll be following that. i want to ask you about another story that is happening right now. in a show of force, china is conducting live fire military drills around taiwan this morning in retaliation to house speaker nancy pelosi's visit to the island earlier this week. so, senator, the exercises which are the largest ever conducted by beijing around taiwan are taking place at six different locations. chinese state television reports long range precision strikes are also being carried out in taiwan's waters and air space. beijing said that the drills will end at noon local time on sunday. according to taiwan's defense

ministry, as many as 11 ballistic missiles were fired in the waters around the island. taiwanese officials condemn the drills and said they violate u.n. rules. officials also said the exercises amount to a blockade of taiwan's sea and air space. what is your reaction to this latest news and these moves by beijing? >> well, using speaker pelosi's trip for the sound and fury, the truckulence of xi jinping, is just an excuse. 23 fighter jets crossed the taiwan straits demarkation line and nobody was visiting at that time. this is where china has been headed for sometime. and so what we cannot allow is china to determine who could visit china, when they could be visited and under what circumstances. then taiwan will be totally

isolated an the chinese will have achieved their goal. and so, i think at the end of the day, by sunday they will end their exercises. of course, no one wants to see this, especially since i agree with the taiwanese that their violating international law and the territorial waters of taiwan and they are also effecting international commerce by the ships that have to deviate from that area that would be calling at port in taiwan. and so their effecting more than taiwan at the end of the day. and this is why we need to be able to stand up to china. if we had stood up to russia in 2014, then we might not have the ukraine situation we have today. >> well senator menendez, you led me to the next question about the situation in ukraine. just a two parter. first, your reaction to the one senator josh hawley who voted against the finland and sweden

joining nato. and secondly, how much more of an appetite is there, do you believe, in the congress to keep sending hundreds of million dollars of weapons to ukraine? >> well, look, every senator has the right to vote as they wish. i think senator hawley is totally off and that is exam fied by the fact that the overwhelming vote, he was the only united states senator, on either side of the aisle, to vote no. so i think he has a right -- a rather isolated view of the world. i think it was a great vote. i'm glad to have led the effort and the committee and on the floor. getting a strong bipartisan vote. the send to the message to the rest of the world that collective defense strengthens us, it does not promote conflict, it prevented conflict and i think that was a great message and sweden and finland will be great allies in nato.

and your ask about assistance to ukraine and the question for us and other nations in the world is do we want to help the ukrainians defend themselves and defeat russia or will be find ourselves, as russia has shown itself willing to do, continuing thence towards other countries and when they come upon a nato country under article 5 of nato we're obligated defend them as they invoked article 5 on behalf of the united states after september 11th. would you rather have ukrainians fight for their freedom and sovereignty than american's sons and daughters fighting in some country because russia invaded a nato ally. >> speaking ever russia, we're jetting breaking news in that prosecutors there have asked the court in moscow to sentence brittney griner to nine and a half years in prison on charges of cannabis possession. the request was made during closing argument this is

morning. griner's lawyer said a verdict in the case is expected about an hour from now. so, senator, there is all of this talk of a prisoner swap deal that could be coming. do you see something possible to get brittney griner home or is the wnba player going to sit in moscow for nine years. >> this is annin incredible farce on behalf of the russians. she should not be a prisoner. this is russians using americans as hostages. she should not be spending one more day in jail. and as it relates to any swap, we'll see whether or not that can happen. one of our challenges globally is that we're going to have to tell americans, certain countries don't visit because at the end of the day, you become a hostage and you undermine u.s.

national security issues. when we have to release someone like is being contemplated, it is a major arms dealer and has a whole host of other consequences that his actions created. it is sending a message that getting hostages from america and we will give you something that you want. so, i want her to come home. she shouldn't even be arrested. there may be, i hope the court rejects the prosecutions request. she's made i think an excellent case as to why she shouldn't even be incarcerated. if there is a swap, we will welcome her home. but we also need to send say message to our fellow citizens that there are some places in the world you just can't go. because ultimately you may very well find yourself in a prison in that country. >> i know senator negotiations are orn going. but for our audience watching this morning, is there a chance, is there a likelihood that a deal could be struck.

we know the asking price for the russians gets higher every time we start the conversation. but do you feel confident there is some deal to be had to get brittney griner home. >> i certainly hope so. i'm not privy to those negotiations. and what is being asked. i do know that historically the russians raise the ante every time we have it offered to them and they feel they could get more and that is part of our challenge. >> chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, thank you so much for being on this morning. and straight ahead, a leading democrat is now calling for an investigation into the missing text messages from top department of defense officials around the january 6 attack. plus what caused one hollywood studio to kill off a $90 million superhero film. cnbc's andrew ross sorkin will

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23 past the hour. in arizona, the race for the republican nomination for governor remains too close to call. more than 24 hours after the polls closed. it didn't stop the trump-backed candidate kari lake from again declaring victory during a press conference yesterday. reporters pressed her repeatedly about her claims of voter fraud and about why she is claiming victory before official results are announced. >> why is today's press conference premature? >> who do you mean premature? >> because nothing has been finalized right now. >> because we know what the outcome of this is. we the people won. we won. >> you said, this collection was messed up. you said you have evidence of cheating. why should voters trust that you

won this election fair and square -- >> well we have a lot of evidence of irregularities and problems and we're going to address those. >> will you release -- >> i'm not going to release it the fake news but we'll release it to the authorities. >> why not release it right now. >> why would i release it to people who deny there is fraud when this was obviously fraud. >> that brings to the washington post dana millbank writes in a piece entitled, in the gop, the paranoid fringe is becoming the establishment. quote, while the dead might not be voting in large numbers in arizona, the brain dead are. evidently such voters are now a majority in the republican primary electorate after several years in which the republican establishment admitted more and more extremist news the mainstream, the lunatic fringe has now become the

establishment. with the arizona republican primary voters nominating a full slate of election saboteurs, it could not be denied that democracy is on the ballot in november. and this isn't just happening in arizona. even before tuesday's primary, six election deniers had prevailed in gubernatorial primaries this year. another five election denies won primaries for attorney general and five have advanced to general elections for secretary of state. those numbers will grow as the primary season advances. jonathan lemire, your thoughts on this and this specific candidate is especially -- she's very trumpy. and she's taken a lot of what trump does with the truth to a whole new level. and i think has sort of brought in her own following. but there are many others. >> yeah, a very trumpy in terms of her celebrity, her

combativeness from the media, and of course her refusal to accept election results and planting the seeds for fraud even for elections that she won. reminiscent of what donald trump did back in 2016 when he claimed there were millions of fraudulent votes which cost him the popular vote. the column is spot on. big lie had a big night this week. and though certainly an argument could be made and many democrats are making the argument, that because republicans have not inated these fringer candidates to represent them this fall, perhaps they'll be easier to beat. and the dnc has put money behind some of them. arizona is a toss up state. this november depending on what the political environment is, it is not impossible that the republicans would win. and if that is the case and they not only try to decertify the 2020 election, as nonsensical as that sounds but to be in a position of power to certify

2024, that is scary stuff. and we have seen donald trump holdover the republican party slip a little this summer as poll numbers have declined a smidge. but he's still on tuesday night proved that, he is still by the far the most powerful voice in the power mike barnicle. we hear it is desantis one moment and fox news might be turning its back on trump but at the end of the day he's the 800 pound gorilla in the room. >> we're talking about this on a day when the conservative republicans are gathering down in texas for the cpac conference. and there is a difference between being conservative, which is a legitimate philosophy in this country for 200 years or longer, and the difference between conservative and totally crazy. and you saw what happened partially when you cross the line from conservative to crazy in kansas with that vote earlier this week.

the wider problem it would seem to me, not just to me but to a lot of people, is to reflect on the the damage, the deep, deep damage that one individual, donald trump has done to this country and to one of the most vital institutions of this country. the way we elect people. not just presidents. but congress people. people going for the united states senate. down to the local ballot. the infection that he put into that stream is lasting, i hope it is not permanent. but it is very strong. and we don't talk about it enough. we don't make people aware enough about it. it is out there. and it is every day and it is going to be on every ballot in every state this fall. >> all right, up next, ahead of tomorrow's jobs report, the largest employee in the u.s. announces a major round of layoffs. we're back with that in just a moment. moment so to help you remember

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some business news, tinder just announced that their ceo is stepping down. yep, she's been there less than a year but it is the longest ever relationship on tinder. >> jimmy. walmart is laying off about 200

of its corporate employees. the job cuts come a week after the company cut the profit outlook for the second quarter saying it expects a slowdown in customer spending for general merchandise the rest of the year. joining us now, co-anchor of squawk box andrew ross sorkin. good to see you my friend. so walmart always a bit of a bellwether for the american and global economies. what is going on here. >> we're seeing the true effects of what has been going on the past couple of months as the fed has increased interest rates and we're starting to see the economy slow a bit. of course we keep talking about it. that is been by design the unfortunate victims of that are people laid off in the process and you're seeing that happen at the corporate level at walmart. you're seeing it in the tech industry. whether you're seeing layoffs or in some cases hiring freezes. the good news or at least the hopeful good news here if there are good news, we're at low

employment and the hope is those people could quickly find another job. and we don't know the risk here in terms of where we are in the economy. >> and we'll get a jobs report, the july jobs report tomorrow. expected it show maybe a quarter of a million new jobs added. we'll be looking closely at that. also in terms of jobs, andrew, warner brothers discovery, the recent merger there expected to slash some jobs as well? >> expected to slash some jobs. we're going to be hearing from warner brother's discovery later today. but you're 100% right. they have to cut effectively $3 billion of cost now that they've pursued this merger and the question of course is how are they going to get there. one of the ways they appear to be trying to get there is the decision and it is a fascinating one to effectively kill the production of a film called "bat

girl", which they spend $90 million on and said we're not going to do it any more and this is not going to be released on hbo max, not released in theater, it is going to be released nowhere. one of the reasons that they're doing that is to save money in terms of how much they would have had to spend additionally on marketing costs and some additional post production work. but the other piece of it is an accounting maneuver, which is because they had just bought this company, they can say and count it effectively as a loss. so that is another reason that this is taking place. >> i mean, andrew, i think you could correct me if i'm wrong, this is without press dent in hollywood, to send $100 billion in a big movie with a bunch of stars in it and it was test soo poorly, they decided to cut their losses. but that is a big loss to cut, is it not. >> it is a big decision. and hollywood is watching and what does it say about warner brothers and discovery's

commitment going forward to the various actors and involved and directors who spent more than a year of their life on this. >> cnbc's andrew ross sorkin. no bat girl for us. we'll see if it gets new life somewhere else. thank you so much. we appreciate it. up next, an official confirms to nbc news pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury as part of a department of justice investigation into the january 6 attack of the capitol. plus, there is a new development in the new york attorney general's investigation into the trump organization's finances. that is next.

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breaking news. involving the trump family. donald trump jr. and ivanka trump both testified as part of a new york attorney general's probe of the trump organization. two sources tell nbc news that neither of them took the fifth at all. it comes after months of resistance from their father, the former president, and he is expected to testify himself in the coming weeks. we'll be watching that. also nbc news has confirmed former president trump's white house council pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in its investigation into the january 6 insurrection. cipollone and the justice department both declined to comment on the subpoena. the justice department is investigating the former president's actions leading up to the capitol riot as part of its criminal probe of the

efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and administration official familiar with the investigation said last week, the official also said that the probe is not a criminal investigation of trump himself. willie. >> now to the latest move aimed at getting to the bottom of those missing text messages from top defense department officials related to the january 6 attack on the capitol. the number two senate democrat, dick durbin of illinois, now is calling for the inspector general to investigate the deleted communications of several trump appointed officials who were responsible for deploying the national guard during the insurrection. a letter from durbin reads in part, the appearance, could jeopardize the full trudge about january 6. i don't know whether the failure to preverve these critical government texts is a result of bad faith, stunning incompetence, but we must get to

the bottom of it. this week american oversight released court records revealing the cell phones of top former defs officials including the defense and army secretaries were wiped clean following the january 6 attack. a defense official who spoke to "the washington post" on the condition of anonymity saying the delusions were just standard process and no one was trying to hide or conceal anything. but the news comes just weeks after it was revealed secret service and department of homeland security officials will have their messages erased from the days around january 6 despite orders from congress to preserve those communications. and jonathan, that is the key right there. whether this was procedure or whether this was just bureaucracy the way things work when you move out of a department, they get rid of your phone and texts. there was an open request to preserve those records. part of the records act, you're supposed to do it any way.

but in the investigation, these very officials who can't find their texts were asked to preserve them. >> yeah, and i think that should be made clear here. is that, yes, when appointees, their phones are taken and wiped. no one is disputing there was a migration from one phone system so the other. but records should be preserved unless told other wise and on routine days. and this is not routine days. this is january 5th and january 6. they got orders request from congress, from investigators to preserve these records, both in the homeland security did and now we know the department of defense also defied recommendations to keep records and had things deleted. so mike barnicle, this is throughout washington every day weigh learn every day new vital data that could be useful to the january 6 committee or the department of justice in their respective investigations.

it is hard, we've had suggestions that the rank and file secret service, jeh johnson was our guest this morning and he suggested, that may have been an honest mistake for some of them but leadership knew better. it is hard not to think of anything other than a cover-up. >> you would say this is a screw up, they cleaned the phones by mistake. under a normal administration. january 5th and january 6 in washington, d.c. in 2021 was not any normal administration and the events were not normal and there is a connection obviously between the pentagon and the secret service phones, why was the national guard delayed so long, why did the secret service, you know, not maintain their text messages on their phones. is there is just too much here. there is too much coincidence, there is so much conspiracy theory about this. but there is something here and it is -- dick durbin is right. we have to find out. >> yep. >> it is unfathomable. all right. after years of claiming the

sandy hook school shooting was a hoax, conspiracy theorist alex jones finally admitted he knows it was real. the admission came during the first of several trials that jones faces as family and survivors seek damages for the hurt his words caused. nbc news correspondent ann thompson has more as the jury deliberates. >> alex jones's stunning admission came during a contentious cross-examination. >> it is 100% real. >> finally conceding the sandy hook shooting did happen. after years on his info wars show saying that the massacre was a hoax. >> how would you believe any of it. >> it is 100% real and the media still ran with lies that i was saying it wasn't real. >> the parents of jesse lewis, one of 20 first graders who died in the massacre are seeking $150 million in damages.

>> it will restore the honor and legacy of my son. that was tarnished by mr. jones. >> jones blasted jesse father on his show. >> he is a manipulated by very bad people. i have to say this because i'll be honest, he's slow. >> but in court he faced jesse's. >> jesse was real. i'm a real mom. >> reporter: testifying their 6-year-old son and their pain were real. the conspiracy theorist has been a difficult witness. >> you must tell the truth while you testify. this is not your show. do you understand what i have said? yes or no? do you understand what i have said? >> yes. i believe what i said was true. so -- >> you believe everything you say is true. but it isn't. your beliefs do not make something true. that is what we're doing here. >> admonished by the judge for lying on the stand. >> you're already under oath to tell the truth. you've already violated that

oath twice today. >> reporter: and he was caught in another lie by the plaintiff's attorney. >> your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you've sent for the past two years. >> reporter: including text messages about sandy hook jones failed to share as ordered by the court. >> and that is how i know you lied to me when you said you didn't have text messages about sandy hook. did you know that? mr. jones, in discovery, you were asked do you have any sandy hook text messages on your phone and you said no, correct? you said that under oath, mr. jones, didn't you if. >> if i was mistaken, i was mistaken. you have the messages right there. >> you know what perjury is, right? >> the jury will determine what if anything jones will pay. >> ahead a verdict is expected if the trial of imprisoned

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basketball star brittney griner is expected to learn her sentence today in a short time from now in a russian courtroom. prosecutors there have asked for a sentence of 9 1/2 years. earlier this morning, griner addressed the court. >> my parents told me two important things. one, take ownership for your responsibilities and, two, work hard for everything that you have. that's why i pled guilty to my charges. i understand everything that's being said against me, the charges that are against me. and that is why i pled guilty. but i had no intent to break any russian laws. >> brittney griner speaking from a cage where they have her in a courtroom in russia. for more lights bring in nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter. people watching from the beginning like this, in a courtroom like this, inside russia, they thought they would try to give her the maximum

possible sentence. what does it look like this morning? >> that's exactly right. you just heard her, the last thing is what their argument has been. she had no criminal intent. her defense team has been pounding that home for the last month or so during this criminal trial. we are expecting the judge to read out the verdict in just about an hour. what we expect is he will kind of give a summary of the case thus far. it will be long-winded, we expect. then there will be a framing of it. we considered this factor, we considered that factor, we considered her international celebrity. then at the end of that kind of big intro summary, he will read out the sentencing. part of that, willie, and this is important, he will read out what penal colony, what detention facility, what level of detention facility brittney griner will be assigned to. the expectation in russian state media is she'll be assigned to general penal colony, minimal security, compared to alexei

navalny, the highest penal facility. she has two charges against her, the maximum is ten years. the prosecution has asked for 9 1/2 years. there's not a lot of expectation she'll get that much less in what the prosecution asked for. we should be finding out all of this in just about an hour. >> we'll find out very shortly. nbc's molly hunter, thank you very much. all this as the state department and the biden administration attempt to negotiate a deal with russia and vladimir putin to get her home and russia keeps raising the price in that deal. msnbc will cover the sentencing of brittney griner in the next hour. lindsey reiser picks things up. . e a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7.

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good morning. i'm lindsey reiser in for jose diaz-balart. we are watching closely for a verdict in the trilt of wnba start brittney griner held in amos cow prison for nearly six months. we'll play for you what she just told the courtroom this morning. on capitol hill, all eyes are on senator kyrsten sinema and whether she'll support the reconciliation bill as democrats try to get it passed before the august recess. we'll ask senator tim kaine where things stand. following speaker pelosi's high-level visit to taiwan, china has carried out military exercises off the