thank you for staying with us. i'm andrea mitchell. we are following the top stories and breaking news from russia. brittney griner just sentenced to nine years in prison. and a fine of about 16,000 u.s. dollars for possession of vape cannabis oil. >> the secretary of state antony blinken, president biden

and the president biden national security team an entire american government remain committed to bringing brittney griner home safely to her family, friends and loved ones it. more breaking news from the justice department. attorney general merrick garland announcing federal charges against four current and former metro police officers for alleged crimes connected to the warrant issued in the death of breonna taylor. >> those alleged crimes include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses. the four defendants were charged through two separate indictments. >> democrats facing election battles in the fall are hoping the massive turnouts in the kansas abortion probe is a sign of things to come to well the party waits to see whether kyrsten sinema will sign off on legislation to lower healthcare cost and boost climate initiatives. in the next hour, president

biden will talk with senate democrats about the package. the president remains in isolation today as he continues to test positive for covid. we will have a live look from arizona where the republican governor has still not decided decide by the decoration of victory by kari like. >> we begin with brittney griner being sentenced. we have the brother of paul whalen who has been in russian custody since 2018 and former um -- u.s. ambassador to russia. what is your reaction to everything you have seen in court today clerk. the court dismissing the guilty plea. and what your family has been dealing with for years and years. >> i don't have any surprise at all. i think it was a foregone conclusion. it was a matter of time and

frankly, it is probably a good thing that the trial is over and the conviction has been head and the was government and the russian government can get to work on bringing her home. >> david, if you will stand by with me as well because griner's attorney, the russian attorney, is speaking. let's listen. >> there russian reporters gathered there. we are just waiting. i think they are continuing to speak in russian. we will go back to that when they are speaking in english. david, apologies to you. mike mcfarland also with us. ambassador, let's talk about what happens next. we have to see where she will

be taken and what secretary antony blinken does in the immediate future. he is at a dinner right now in cambodia. sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister is at the dinner. and when the trial is over, he says they will start talking. but the u.s. should not be talking before the trial is over. the trial is over. they finished the dinner. >> i speak russian. they are talking about why the sentencing was not in line with russian legal guidance. that is what they were talking about, just so you know. with respect to this, secretary antony blinken and sergey lavrov are rarely in the same room. they rarely talk. they just had their first phone call a few days ago since the war began and since the griner for invasion of ukraine began. i would hope that they would take advantage of the opportunity to advance the negotiations that secretary antony blinken has already told

us and told the world. that they have put a major proposal before the russians. this would be a good moment to try to advance those negotiations. >> president biden mentioned your brother paul and his statement. let me read it in full. saying, "today american citizen brittney griner received a prison sentence that is one more reminder of what the world already knew. russia is wrongfully detaining brittney griner. it is an acceptable. week cool and russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends and teammates. my administration continues to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring brittney griner and paul whelan home as soon as possible." david, what do you want secretary antony blinken to do? >> i hope you will continue to go after the concession he has offered to the russian government. and that he is successful at bringing home both brittney griner and paul whelan. >> according to the translation we are getting,

that i am now being told, ambassador, that she is very upset and has a private message to her family. they are appealing. i suppose they are appealing the prolonged agony of this trial before talking about a prisoner swap taking place, or not? >> everyone goes through the due process of due process. do you plead guilty or do you not plead guilty or appeal which is likely and on -- not a success. i'm not surprised at all. the russian court did ignore the evidence and that is not a surprise. i'm not sure whether it will impact the russian willingness to move forward on discussing of concessions. >> i'm going to play with the

national security council said during our conversation in the last hour. >> the president is going to stay 100% committed to achieving that outcome. and try to get whelan who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. we urge the russians to reconsider the proposal and to act on it and let's get these two americans home where they belong. >> with the russian proposal,

i don't think it was that. >> she hopes.

>> (indiscernible) no complaints.

>> we have the problem once. >> we hope that the phone call will happen maybe next week. >> thank you. >> i think we are done. >> nothing more to say. >> she will appeal. she is very upset. she has a private message for the family. they say they are hoping that a phone call to her wife can be arranged. the next step is really with antony blinken and sergey lavrov. >> that would be my guess. let's hear if they do speak and of course if they don't speak, there are others at lower levels of the government that are working on this i presume.

again, secretary antony blinken would not have said what he said had they not put forward a major proposal. and we should listen to see what would come out of that meeting if it indeed happens. >> david whelan, have you had any medication with your brother and how is paul? >> he is getting to the days. he is aware of the attention from the media on antony blinken statement. and i think he is cautiously optimistic and are family -- our family is but he has to get to the days. they are cutting back rations in the present because of sanctions. it is not a great environment. at the he needs to focus on day- to-day survival. >> do you know how his health is? >> physically, he has lost a lot of weight. he has not seen a doctor in a long time so we don't know his medical condition. mentally, he seems strong. >> is he being held in the

moscow area? >> no. he is about eight hours from moscow. and that makes it hard to get support from counselors. >> how difficult is it when prisoners like david and you hope not brittney griner, are taken this far away from the embassy. is embassy able to travel internally? >> to the best of my knowledge, i don't see why that has changed. this is a typical thing. as we talked about before. alex also shipped far away. i think americans are learning through these tragic cases that there is no rule of law in russia. people need to remember that. there is no right. they do things unjustly, yes. that is tragically putin's russia. that is why i hope our government will do all that they can to get all the

americans out. >> we cannot thank you enough, david whelan. we know how important this is to all americans now. clearly to the white house as well if that is any small comfort. and ambassador, thank you as always for your expertise. we appreciate it. breaking news from the justice department in the past hour. attorney general merrick garland unveiling major federal civil rights charges against four former and current metro police officers in connection with breonna taylor's death. >> the federal charges announced today allege that members of the unit falsified the effort used to obtain a search warrant of ms. taylor's home. in this act violated federal civil rights laws and those violations resulted in ms. taylor's death. >> joining us as our nbc

justice respondent and ron allen from nbc who covered the death of breonna taylor. talk to me about these charges. it seems like a novel approach. the justice department is working with the civil rights law to try to get some legal justice for breonna taylor's family because nothing was done locally. >> that is right. these are hugely consequential charges in a case that sparked a nationwide protest. group you may recall breonna taylor was a 26-year-old black woman killed by police in her apartment in march of 2020 after they served a search warrant that prosecutors now say those that wrote it knew it was a lie. and as i said, no police officer was charged by the state of kentucky and her death. one was charged and acquitted for firing a gun recklessly in the direction of neighbors. and civil rights violations saying police officers committed misconduct that led

to breonna taylor's death. three officers are accused of conspiring to lie on the search warrant application on the fourth officer, the one acquitted in state court, was charged with unlawful use of deadly force. the court documents say that the lead detective in the case, joshua james, wrote in the march 2021 application that he verified with the u.s. postal inspector that taylor's ex- boyfriend, the man suspected of dealing drugs, received packages at her address. prosecutors say that james never personally verify the information and instead relied on another officer's word that proved to be false. attorney general merrick garland said james and other officers knew the warrant was false and that they conspired to mislead federal, state and local investigators and said they even met in a garage two months after the shooting to cement these false stories. taylor was killed after police officers forced their way into her apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations.

taylor's boyfriend said he did not hear the announcement by the police officers and officers opened fire with 32 shots. walker was on her. taylor -- taylor was hit by six bullets and killed. >> now these officers are brought to court for first appearances. one of them suggesting he is cooperating and will plead guilty. >> you have been reporting on this terrible case on the death. the community reaction. americans around the country calling for justice. how is the community reacting now? >> there is a big sigh of relief. is being called a huge step forward. this case along with the case of george floyd and ahmaud arbery back in 2000. as much as anything, igniting a wave of protests that lasted through the summer as the

coronavirus epidemic was getting going as well despite that. so the community of people, this is what they have wanted for a very, very long time. they have always thought that they were trying justice at the federal level. . so we're hearing from the family and how satisfied they are. and also saying that it is not just about breonna taylor but all the breonna taylors out there. let's take a listen. >> it has led to damning consequences of this innocent black woman. the fbi agents working with the

civil rights defense, they made a point to acknowledge that they were falsifying the documents. and that is critically important because they knew that those officers would likely rely on the falsified document and they would likely come to breanna's apartment and kicked in the door. they knew that the falsified documents in the search warrant would lead them to think that it was a dangerous situation in the new that these falsified documents were likely to lead to serious bodily injury and possibly death. that is exactly what it did.

saying that she was shot in the heart and that led to her death. that is why we are so grateful to the department of justice because they followed where the facts went. so thank you again to the justice department and now a young lady. >> you can see ben crump thanking merrick garland. things from the family and the attorney. this is a big moment. it certainly did not happen in the previous administration. she was killed in 2020. >> exactly. it didn't. and you heard the reference to daniel cameron who was the state attorney general in kentucky who presented the case to a grand jury but never presented any evidence to the grand jury that could have led them to convict or prosecute

the officers. the only case that came out was recklessly firing into a neighbor's apartment. what i think was most angering about the case is that breonna taylor was asleep in her home at 12:40 a.m. in the morning when this happened for people in the community could not understand how you could be killed under those kind of circumstances and no one held responsible. another justice department is trying to do that. >> a big thanks to you. and to our intelligence correspondent, thank you. >> the senate back in session today. the arizona democrat, kyrsten sinema, the only undeclared democrat about the big package on climate and prescription drug cost relief that the democrats and the white house

are pushing. we have senator kyrsten sinema presiding over the senate. the legal. they finally talked. who now? >> will be assumed is what they did not want in the package. so is on the table? to get on board. >> no more public place to have that long-awaited conversation then in the middle of the senate floor. the lease not everyone in washington is aware that one of the two architects of the deal

has spoken with the one democratic hold out at this point, senator kyrsten sinema. the latest reporting on this, andrea, is that in fact, she still has problems with the carried interest provision and would like to take it out of the bill according to our sources. not exactly surprising. it is a red line she laid out previously. no of course it is being revived after this new deal that joe manchin and chuck schumer have. in addition, she is pushing for lands of drought relief money which is something democrats are okay with even though it is rubbing some democrats the wrong way, our sources tell us. the way in which she is going about this. nonetheless, on the carried interest piece, it is important. because i asked senator joe manchin about this last week a resume. i said, are you willing to lose this provision if it means putting kyrsten sinema back on board? at that point, he said he was not willing to lose it even though they do have the wiggle room and losing that source wouldn't necessarily throw off

the numbers in terms of how much deficit reduction they are doing. at this point, it looks like they are on an impact. >> democrats are getting a big boost politically by falling gas prices and the vote in kansas supporting abortion rights. showing the impact potentially for the midterms. how important is the new bill that the joint tax committee said would actually reduce the deficit and not raise taxes other than big companies not even paying the 15% minimum tax? >> before the midterms? >> this bill is imperative for the policy perspective of some real big changes in cost and historic investments in clean energy and climate change. politically, it is also imperative. we have seen for months,

younger voters, particularly soured on the democratic party. we know they are excited about fighting for abortion rights and choice pick and we know they are animated by doing something on climate change. this bill would do that. conversely, we know a lot of the electorate is rightly concerned about the high cost of living. you would still cut healthcare cost and prescription drug cost as you mentioned. this is imperative for the message that democrats want to spend the last 95 or so days talking about. that is getting young voters, democratic voters energized around historic investments to deal with the problems we're facing and at the same time focused on driving down cost for families all over the country. the ingredients are all they are. it is a matter of putting it all together. >> thank you very much. always a lot of tension and suspense in the senate. we

have our colorado democratic senator joining us. senator bennett, there are big issues in play for americans. inflation, gas prices coming down a bit. but still high. food prices on the supply chain and drug costs. to have this kind of bargaining for one more vote, doesn't that undermine the whole system? >> i'm sure we will get to a successful conclusion. i can tell you that i am deeply worried about it but i'm not going to anything here that doesn't take into account the interest of colorado and the upper basin and the details of these kinds of things matter a lot. having said that, i think it is very important for us to get to a good conclusion here. we will be driving down

healthcare costs and drug costs for the american people and the seniors who have been cutting prescriptions in half for years and years and years and deciding whether to pick one or another. they aren't going to believe the federal government is finally doing something. and i think the climate provisions -- i suspect any fair-minded person would have said that there is no way we are going to get to and yet, we have been able to do it. and so i hope we sharpen our pencils this weekend and get to a successful conclusion. >> you make a very valid point. the wildfires in the west and the drought. >> that is another thing. we had $5 billion in this bill for for straight.

that cut way back because of senator joe manchin's concerns. now, the drought conversation could be a very difficult one. i do believe that when you think about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that we have passed, and was passed last week, which would bring back the semiconductor manufacturers and it states and really for the first time since ronald reagan was president, that our theory of the case was not going to be exporting but we have supply chains here. we have people that need to earn a decent wage when they are working in the united states of america so that we can reduce income inequality. great economic mobility. that is a big step forward. and now with the reconciliation package on the climate provisions, i think this is a moment where we are turning the page i hope on the trickle-down

economics that has plagued the nation from ronald reagan to donald trump. and i have been a real critic of the dysfunction in the senate and the inability of us to be able to respond to the needs of the american people are facing. i think that what we have been doing the last few days, it has really been an amazing moment and we need to get this over the finish line. >> and the loopholes, making major billion dollar plus companies pay the 15% minimum tax. getting the drop measures in. >> we are going to have to. part of it, the treaty for the bill for joe manchin has been the deficit reduction. and i'm actually glad we are doing that as well.

and we expect the results, the revenue we are raising with the alternative minimum tax for corporations, which remember, it only applies to the 200 largest corporations which have a billion dollars of income. in some cases, paying no tax. or 1 point go to% or 4%. it is ridiculous. they say we are raising take -- taxes on working groups. that has to be the height of the trickle-down economics if they think that somehow this tax increase will trickle down to working people when we are tackling the richest hedge fund managers in the country and the largest corporations. if we are going to do something different, it is hard for me to imagine what we could do different that would be more popular with the american people than what we are doing right now in terms of the revenue provisions. but we will have to see what others say. >> senator, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for being here.

>> we just got a secretary from sec. of state antony blinken. he is about to appear in cambodia on the subject part of the meeting there on food security and agriculture. he has spoken on paper saying that today's conviction and sentencing by the russian court of u.s. citizens, brittney griner to nine years in prison further compounds the injustice of her wrongful detention. this puts a spotlight on our significant concerns with russia's legal system in the russian government's use of wrongful detention to advance its own agenda, using individuals as political pawns. in a statement from the wnba. "the sentencing is unjustified but not unexpected. brittany grego remains wrongfully detained.." they say they remain committed to bringing griner home to the u.s.. and donald trump jr. and ivanka trump investigating on the finances behind their family business. what this could mean for the former president.

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company finances. sources close to the investigation say donald junior and ivanka trump recently testified to the attorney general. sources say neither took the fifth. the former president himself is weeks. joining us as our national reporter for the washington post. >> what questions do you have? what do you think they are trying to find from ivanka trump and donald trump jr.? >> this is an interesting opportunity for the new york attorney general to probe the finances of the trump organization with a focus that she has been very careful to narrow on whether or not certain and proper transactions involved engaging in a form of

both sides -- if this was deflated for usages when they benefited there as well. it is important to know that this is a civil case which means things like taking the fifth amendment can be offered up in court and juries are entitled to draw inferences and probably explains why they would have tried to avoid that as much as possible and provide information. we don't know precisely where this is leading or whether it could morph into criminal charges. but it is a good sign that it is back on track after the delay. >> i also want to talk to you because you have your own exclusive reporting about the texts and the fact that a number of texts went missing. and accused of misleading investigators according to a new government report.

>> (indiscernible) on the shoulder of the president january 6th. this all could be revelatory information if the inspector general who oversees the secret service and other components of a homeland security department have actually pressed for the information. the department of the inspector general's office had been

investigated by internal affairs essentially for that office and they found him to not be credible or forthcoming are honest with internal investigators about his role in the prisoner lawsuit where he was recommending a personal friend is a lawyer for this prisoner who was suing the u.s. government at the time that he worked for the u.s. government. also an ethical problem and this was all discovered basically a few weeks before he resigned. and then he became the inspector general for one of the largest departments in the u.s. government. many people are gods fact that not only did he not have the experience for this kind of enormous job but he also was found to be dishonest after being investigated by internal affairs. >> and a member of the

generous six committee had said a week before that that they want to find out more about him because they think he was involved with the text messages to the service officers. and everyone is clearly looking into whether the defense department phones, top officials in the dod and the trump administration. >> yes, calling on the justice department to investigate. >> i said once a few weeks ago that i don't think it is the last time we will use the word deleted or erased in relationship to government texts and that is what we are finding just as you mentioned. it is just stunning that so much information held by law is required to be archived, maintained, preserved and is now missing from one of the

most dark days of the u.s. government in this century. and it is all under investigation by multiple congressional investigators now by a criminal investigation by the department of justice. and a lot of it could basically be gone forever. >> it is only the beginning. thank you for your expertise. >> the election denying the republicans voting and four critical swing states including michigan, nevada, pennsylvania and arizona. 11 of the 12 candidates, supporting one. and the republican running for the arizona governor is claiming she won but that race has not been called yet. lake being pressed on false claims in phoenix just yesterday . >> there is evidence of

cheating. >> we have a lot of evidence and we are going to address that. >> i am not going to release the. >> why not release it right now? >> why would i release it to a bunch of people that denied the child when there was obviously fraud. >> trying to get answers from her for days and days on this very thing. >> so moving up on the new york times bestsellers list. congratulations to you. a head sketch of a press conference by kari lake. i guess you are used to that having covered this race. she is just in her own reality. whether she knows the difference or not is kind of

the material. >> there is an unfortunate irony. and we know here at nbc news, we have not called the race yet. she holds about a two percentage point lead. we expect the lead to continue to grow. about 100,000 plus ballots that are outstanding at this point and were returned to polling locations in the final 48 hours. we have seen and expect these to trend more toward kari lake the party very critical in question of the mail-in voting process. we saw those ballots favoring her opponent. kari lake at the same time, looking at what we expect to be a very competitive general election bid against the current secretary of state who is running as a democratic nominee for governor. and just yesterday, and the press conference, she doubled down in the assertion she made

over the last year and a half that katy hubbs should be arrested. for what? just says that she has broken laws. much like her claims of election fraud, she has no specifics or evidence to suggest that she should be arrested. there is a lot that will unfold here in the state of arizona over the next 96 days. >> you literally wrote the book about the big lie, well entitled book that inspired the rioters on january 6. republican congressman lost the race. is this a strategy that could come back and bite these

democrats? >> it certainly could. there are a lot of democrats that did not agree with the strategy. there is a risk that come election time, even though does the fear behind it is that there are more candidates that would be easier to butter in november. if the republicans come home and the office sees the case and the intraparty divides go away. and in michigan, embracing a calendar that beat him saying they should unify the party in the challenger is a live proponent, that becomes the trend. it republicans come home and november is a challenging political environment for democrats, this might come back to haunt them and they may end of collecting these proponents into the key offices. certainly the trump fraudulent claims of the election being rigged are on full display, all

of them would be real risks to perhaps the certified 2024 of the candidate did not win. >> same thing happened in pennsylvania or the republican candidate was at the protest march on january 6th. and believes in putting a ban on abortion leading the way on the pennsylvania election challenges that went nowhere all the way up to the high court. and dr. oz and republican senate race. >> no question, andrea, that these are candidates who have embraced to various degrees the lie that donald trump has spread. the same why that fueled the insurrection. the same why that, as the book documents, has really shaped our politics today. and he had a good night this week. the overall endorsement record

in the primary season, little mixed. all the candidates won. and arizona's a huge battleground state especially this year. if these republicans were to take power in the key statewide offices, this would be a decision the democrats would regret to backing the candidates. and it goes to show yet again, even if trump's approval rate has slipped slightly this summer, maybe because of the generous experience, he is still by far the most powerful figure in the gop. >> good luck out there in arizona. "the big lie" is the book. get it. it is a great read. thank you. aftershock. following the vote in kansas to restrict access to abortion. what impact might that have on the upcoming middle -- midterms. your watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc.

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congress people who voted to impeach donald trump. peter myers said the -- joining us now is congresswoman debbie dingell. first let's talk about kansas. do you think this shows the issue with galvanizing? >> i think it is pure proof. we've seen not only women, but young women cannot believe anyone is telling them. i think the kansas shows us this is motivating people and they are voting how they feel. >> democrats have not really responded on this issue the way they have responded on the economic issues. a lot of mixed signals. installation -- inflation is

really high. what are you hearing back home? >> it will be wrong to not say inflation is a real issue. i get my garfield and people talk to me. they are worried about the cost of food. the fact what the supreme court did last week i think has impacted a lot of people. i have my down rivers, which supported president trump. there have been two events that i did not know how they would turn out. thousands turned out because they don't believe anybody should tell them what their personal healthcare should be other than themselves. >> the facts do matter. only twice in 100 years has the party in power not lost seats.

you have such a small margin. do you think there is any chance? >> i might not have said it to you if you are not were having dinner and say it honestly, but if you were on the ground like i am people are engaged. people that our not sure were going to vote, who were mad and wanted to see more action. >> despite the fact the approved mayor -- presidents poll numbers are low. >> we do not know once we've seen the act passed. they saw that it was republicans who may veterans a political prisoner. i think that got a lot of attention. we did get legislation passed in the house. that matter to my uaw workers. those were the same voters that voter republicans more than people wanted to admit. i've heard that on the ground.

if we get whatever we are calling a package protecting healthcare, lowering prescription drug prices. we get that done we have some very solid wind. we have from now until november to contrast ourselves. the anniversary of social security is next week and we are going to talk about it. >> what about the fact that the democratic campaign committee put more money into the republican challengers campaign then against the incumbents who voted to impeach former president trump? >> democrats cynically are taking a really bad bed here. they could be very sorry about this. i want to be honest, we had some very tough discussions

inside of the party. i was not happy and was afraid to say it because i did not want to impact that election by what i might say. a lot of people make the case we need to have the strongest candidates we have. that really did bother me. supporting democratic candidates to win the seats. there is a legitimate and honest discussion about the way to do it. the republicans have done it to us. if you care about the things that we want to protect, we don't want to see this country go backwards on so many issues. what we've seen the supreme court to in the last month, nobody thought that it would happen. >> they didn't tell people like peter myers. >> peter myers is my friend just like fred upton is my friend.

>> who is retiring. >> and that deeply bothers me. i'm very honest about it. i work across the aisle. the person is going to win that seat in november knows exactly how i feel. i am an honest person. his father and i were on the library board together. we can have honest disagreements inside the party. if we can do that i do believe we can win in november. >> thank you very much. that does it for us. see the two hours of reports by following us online on facebook and twitter. and twitter.

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support small tribes, address homelessness. vote yes on 27. large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written prop 27, to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless. but read prop 27's fine print. 90% of profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

why is the work of the united nations so important? women's rights are being stripped away and access to the ballot box is at risk. americans deserve more. good afternoon. we are following the breaking news, major developments in two highly emotional, political and racially charged stories. first, reaction coming in following the harsh sentence for brittney griner. nine years in a russian prison. president biden calling for her release. we will have more on that in a moment. more than two years after breonna taylor was shot and killed in her own apartment fo l