sentencing of brittney griner on drug charges. here at home a stunning jobs report and the lowest unemployment numbers in almost 50 years. we're going to get more into the numbers and what they mean for the economy later on in the hour. we're going to begin in washington where senate democrats are prepared to work through the weekend to advance their key spending bill after finally clearing a major hurdle last night. senator kyrsten sinema is in, but a plan to close one major tax loophole is out. chuck schumer says all 50 members of the caucus are now on board and the final senate vote on the package could come as soon as next week. joining me is ali vitali. senator sinema has officially signed on. walk us through how the deal came together and some of the changes she got. >> reporter: lindsey, what it means to have sinema on board,

for democrats it's full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. we'll see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an unlimited period of amendments and then they could ultimately pass it. we're only here talking about that because of senator kyrsten sinema, who was able to get the changes she wanted on the bill. they, contrary to what schumer and manchin may have wanted. >> i believe strongly in the carried loophole and i pushed for it to be in this bill. senator sinema said she would

not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they're going to do lots of amendments. we don't know what else they will do. i believe we will have 50 votes to pass this legislation at the end of the day. >> so you're hearing a confident tone there from schumer, who in that last sound bite was responding to a question i asked saying, all right, now that sinema is on board, is it smooth sailing ahead? a lot of democrats are skittish about this bill. they're happy to be where they are and the tax reform provisions that will leverage more taxes on the wealthy and corporations, all of these are policy priorities in the democratic party. at the same time, this bill has come together and fallen apart so many times. several senate democrats i've been speaking to over the course of the last week were saying they won't really believe it's happened until it's happened and we're in for a long weekend in order to make that happen. >> i know this is a big win for dems but can you explain why

senator sinema was so adamant about keeping that carried interest loophole? it mostly just benefits the wealthy, hedge funds, private equity firms? >> exactly, hedge fund managers and equity managers. as people were talking about her expected displeasure in keeping this closure in the bill and now she's taken it out, that was something they expected and something they're going to revisit. she said she'll work on that with a democrat in another piece of legislation. >> thank you so much. turning to those big developments overseas, the u.s. and russia have signalled they're ready to hold talks over a prisoner exchange to bring brittney griner home. she was sentenced to nine years in prison for carrying less than a gram of cannabis oil through a moscow airport.

the u.s. has offered a prisoner release in exchange. sergey lavrov is warning against the u.s. saying loud announcements on the issue as talks move forward, doesn't want those. officials have previously slammed washington's decision to publicize its offers. and president biden has summoned china's u.s. ambassador to condemn the country's escalating threats in response to nancy pelosi's taiwan trips. china halted its cooperation on a range of issues including military and climate talks. and china slapped pelosi and her immediate family with a range of sanctions in retaliation saying her actions were vicious and provocative and seriously interfered with the country's internal affairs. joining me is mike memoli. also joining me is director of the mccain institute evelyn

farkas and award winning writer nicholas kristoff. russia says they're ready to talk only within a framework previously agreed upon by putin and biden. walk us through that. >> reporter: let's start with significant comments we heard from president biden in the last hour as he was touting today's good job numbers. he was asking for any update on bringing griner home. he said he's hopeful, they've been working very hard. we've seen overnight the russian foreign minister and u.s. secretary of state both attending the same summit in cambodia, both commenting about potential negotiations moving forward in a positive direction.

both men speaking to the fact that there is an official channel for these discussions to be going forward, and there's then where you get into some of the differences involved. you have the russians accusing the u.s. of doing essentially too much negotiating in public here rather than through those official channels but secretary of state blinken indicating that it is good that the russians are engaged in these conversations. just in the last few minutes we were hearing from john kirby from the national security council. he reiterated it is welcomed news that the russians are willing to engage in these conversations. he said we're hopeful they're serious this time. that speaks to the potential for what this deal end up looking like. viktor bout, the white house has not been willing to confirm publicly he's been put on the table as part of an exchange, not just for brittney griner but paul whelan. another russian national has been detained in germany may be

part of the equation but this is seen as a nonstarter on part of the biden administration. there is pressure on the white house to ramp up these discussions and to find a way to bring griner home. >> if including him in the prisoner swap is a nonstarter, what are the prospects to get brittney griner home? >> i think to do what lavrov says, have the conversations in those channels. the reason i think that the biden administration went public, by the way, was because russia was sitting on an offer from june until recently and so the u.s. government decided to go public with the fact that they were trying and it was on russia to reply. so i think part of that was the pressure and they don't appreciate it. but i think that the russian government has a lot of incentive to make the deal just

for viktor bout. he's an arms dealing working for decades with the knowledge of the russian government, had been trained by the russian government, was going to sell arms to farc, who was selling arms. i think there is a swap to be had here. >> nicholas, griner's celebrity has made this a very public deal. how difficult could putin make this? >> putin wants to have bout back. he knows a lot about those russian individuals and

organizations that were complicit in his arms sales he has blood all over his hands but a lot of other russian institutions do as well. putin doesn't want bout talking. i think putin has signalled to bout that he will get him out at some point and putin may want to drag it out, partly to see what he can get to it and to put pressure on the u.s. when he sees americans want brittney griner home, he may want to stall that for a while. there's also talk about paul whelan. i hope in addition there is a pennsylvanian teacher imprisoned in russia, mark fogel, i hope the u.s. can also suggestion he come home as well. >> let's turn to china here. china threatened blowback to pelosi's taiwan visit. is this more significant than the white house expected? how is the administration preparing to respond? >> it's really interesting to see even today how the white

house is responding. they continue to be, frankly, surprised by the degree to which china is taking increasingly provocative actions in response to what they say was common behavior on the part of speaker pelosi, that members of congress traveled to taiwan often, there was another delegation early this year. and it was indicated in comments a few moments ago that this is a crisis of china's own making. the u.s. has not changed its policy as it relates to taiwan at all and calling out the chinese for engaging in what they believe is irresponsible behavior. it's interesting to see the white house calling out and bringing in allies who have also sounded the alarm about china's conduct. the u.s. said they are acting responsible. john kirby has postponed a long

planned icbm missile test in the asia pacific region. they say this is to avoid even the perception they are engaging in provocative actions. the bottom line, if china wants to be seen as a responsible global super power, they need to act like it and dial everything back they're talking about at the moment. >> do you think that actions that we're seeing in terms of ukraine is emboldens president xi of china? >> i actually think they're kind of separate right now, although i will say that the fact that the russian government is hanging in there and they are continuing the fight aggressively against ukraine and they haven't been pushed back probably does give president xi a little bit more of a sense that he can get away with more bravado and aggressive talk against the united states. i've spent a lot of time on asia

pacific as well, almost a decade working for the senate armed services committee and other capacities so i followed this as well. i think the only thing i would add to what's been said is that this is a politically tense time right now for president xi, he looking for a fall to continue being head of the party and he's very sensitive to any country making him look weak. >> how far could president xi go in terms of taiwan and helping russia in ukraine? >> so, look, xi jinping does not want a war right now in the thai taiwan strait. he wants stability. there is always a risk that something can escalate. the other shoe to drop is, as

you suggest, going to be sales of drones to russia. right now russia is largely using turkish drones and iranian drones and if they had chinese drones, those would be better. and i think that we're likely to see that. the conundrum that xi jinping is in is he used nationalism as a glue to hold china together and encouraged them to see them through this prism. and there's an expression, it's easy to get on the back of a tiger and hard to get off. he's now on the back of that nationalistic tiger. >> thank you all for your reporting. with unemployment reaching a 50-year low, what's all the tack

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i know it's hard to feel good about job creation when you already have a job and you're dealing with rising prices, food and gas and so much more. i get it. that's why i'm doing everything in my power to lower the cost for families. >> the big questions now, is this country still barrelling toward a recession and how will the fed react to today's report? joining me is senior business analyst stephanie ruhle and also with me is the most of the "full disclosure" podcast. steph, how should we read these numbers? >> listen, we're always headed toward recession at some point. that's how these cycles work. obviously this is hugely positive news. it is a reminder to all covid changes everything. it's changed the way our economy works, it's changed our ability to evaluate things in the same way that we always have. so, yes, while the fed is likely to stay on the course they're on and continue to raise rates and

that could and should slow the economy because that's the point of it, you cannot possibly say oh my gosh, we're hitting a recession tomorrow, not when unemployment is so low and job growth is so strong. when you talk about inflation and how much things cost overall, take a look at gas prices. they have been going down for the last 51 days across the board. that is good news. >> to my mind it comes down to fomc versus fomo, everybody wants to get out. stephanie, i don't know if you're on the jersey shore eating smash burger, this economy is deep. people want to go out and stay in place, you can't get a verbo, can't get an airbnb.

that's what worries me, the chasm, the yawning gap between 3.5% unemployment, which is grand and 9.5% inflation. the fed on balance will be given fodder to hike the heck out of rates. maybe we should have forced down a full point. maybe we need to telegraph to people we're still on balance. and that has people worried about a manufactured recession. if the economy doesn't fall into recession on its own, the fed might have to tip it into recession to save it. >> he brings up a really important point. you cannot look at the u.s. economy like it's one thing and that's the mistake we continue to make. we've got a divided economy. we have the rich and the poor before covid and it's only gotten worse. so the pent-up demand he's talking about, people looking to go on trips, spend money, renovate their houses, that continues to happen in a really

big way, especially for those with white collar jobs, for those who have worked from home and have saved their money up. while we don't like inflation, we can afford it. that's the thing. while we are willing to pay up for things, prices stay high. but that's just half the country. you've got another portion of this country that were struggling pre-covid and they're struggling now. yes, i am on the jersey shore. i'm not even wearing pants right now. >> i don't know what to say to that. >> am i the only one wearing normal clothes here? >> yes, you are. >> stephanie makes a critical point. i'm sad this has to be spread on the backs of the poor who feel it disproportionately at the grocery store. butter, eggs, diapers.

if you partook in the real estate boom, it was a fat time at zero interest rate policy and white collar who went in for ppp loans forgiveness. rahm emmanual come in and say don't waste a good crisis. i fear you'll see the same coming after this pandemic and great inflation. >> all that aside, has it not been a good week for the president? we have the deal with manchin and sinema, kansas's surprise vote beating back abortion restrictions. has it been a good week? >> it has been a great week, especially when you think about the fact that joe biden calls himself the guy all about

bipartisanship and people laugh at it and say this government is so broken, they never do things together. you just rattled off a long list of things that in some cases the president himself did, in some cases congress did with a -- or is going to with a very, very slim majority, but in others things are getting done in a bipartisan way. huge week for the biden administration. the challenge now, can they sell it? can they market it? let's be honest, they are very good at getting these wins. they're not very good at selling them and reminding the american people of them. >> all right, continue to enjoy your summer friday. appreciate you both. >> we will. now that the biden administration has declared monkeypox a national health emergency, they've vowed to take their response to the next level but what does that mean? and it was a gotcha moment in the alex jones trial. now it could lead to new clues in the january 6th investigation. min

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the sandy hook shooting secured one legal victory and a texas jury ordered him to pay $4 million for the repeated distress of the massacre that the staged. >> reporter: a victory for justice in the defamation trial of alex jones. a jury ordered him to pay $4.1 million. >> sandy hook would use a synthetic, completely take with actors in my view manufactured. >> reporter: alex jones did not show up to hear the verdict but the parents of 6-year-old victim jesse lewis did, the same parents jones claimed were so-called crisis actors and who brought the suit against him, for the pain caused by his

unfounded tales that it was all a hoax. >> i cannot even describe the last nine and a half years, the living hell that i and others have had to endure because of the recklessness and negligence of alex jones. >> i don't know what you could have found. it doesn't exist that i'm deep state. it's just not true. >> reporter: it was only this week during the trial that jones finally admitted. >> it was 100% real. >> reporter: he took to his info wars platform with this response. i admit i made a mistake and i apologized. the jury understood that. what i did to those families was wrong but i didn't do it on purpose. >> reporter: he went on to claim

that's why he didn't have to pay more. the jury's 4.1 million far more than the $8 offered by jones' attorney, a dollar for each claim. >> it's really, really nice to be able to turn and look at my clients and say he can't get off scott free for this. he can't. joining me is congressional reporter luke broadwater and legal analyst and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she's a professor at the alabama school of law. joyce, i first want to ask you what other investigations could branch out of this for jones given those texts that the lawyers for the plaintiffs said that they got their hands on. for example, we haven't known up until now how much money he was making. >> there are a lot of possibilities here. some of them have personal

implications for jones. for instance, financial issues and marital issues. he's in the middle of a contested divorce. but i suspect what the public is focused on is whether the text messages may be a smoking gun in the january 6th investigation. prosecutors would probably really like to have information about roger stone, who was involved in the willard war room. and there's reason to believe that he and jones were in close contact leading up to january 6th. so we know that the january 6th committee, not the justice department, has definitively asked to see those text messages. it seems very likely that d.o.j. will follow up with a grand jury subpoena as well. and we don't want to get too far out over our skis here. we don't know what's in these messages, whether they pertain to this relevant period of time and have important information, but one thing that tends to happen when you're an

investigator looking at messages and communication by key people, even if those messages aren't important, they tend to lead to you other people and witnesses. there's a lot of up side for investigators as they begin to go through the materials once they obtain them. >> luke, you've been reporting a lot about this and the fact that the committee wants their hands on these texts but the plaintiffs' lawyers don't know what they tell. >> the january 6th committee has been trying to get his texts since november. they subpoenaed him and a bodyguard who was with alex jones in washington on january 6th, and jones and the bodyguard both filed lawsuits to try to block those text messages from being released. jones eventually did come in for

a deposition and he pled the 5 amendment against incrimination nearly 100 times by his own account. he did say the january 6th committee had obtained texts messages from other witnesses. the committee wants his text messages is because jones said publicly that someone from the white house called him and asked him to lead a march to the capitol on january 6th where donald trump was set to speak, according to jones. and another reason is that jones was involved in raising money to hold the rallies. he claimed he raised something like 80% of the money for the rally at the ellipse. so he was involved in planning, he was at the war room, he was supposed to lead a march to the capitol. there's a lot here to learn. we now know from the attorney in texas that he does have so-called intimate text messages

with roger stone, another person the january 6th committee is very interested in. >> so, luke, where does the committee go from here in terms of these tex messages? >> we know within hours of it being revealed in court that these text messages had been mistakenly sent to plaintiffs' attorneys that the january 6th committee reached out to get in contact with the lawyer and he indicated in open court yesterday that he planned to turn those over to them. i'm not sure today whether they have received all of them and have started to go through them yet. i actually don't have a clear answer on that. i assume they will get them rather soon and then they'll have to be going through what's supposed to be two years of text messages. again, we don't know what they show other than we know that there are texts between alex jones and roger stone. >> luke broadwater and joyce vance, thank you both. four-day weeks, college

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primary for arizona governor. she said on the campaign trail lake pushed the former president's big lie and also warned her own primary might be tainted by fraud, though she refused to provide proof to back up those claims. and two people are dead after a lightning strike in lafayette park last night across the street from the white house. the victims were a couple in their mid 70s. two others remain in critical condition. the biden administration has declared a monkeypox public health emergency as the cdc confirmed more than 7,000 cases across the country. the designation grants access to emergency fund, allows health agencies to collect data about cases and vaccinations, accelerates vaccine distribution and makes it easier for doctors to proscribe treatment. in michigan, monkeypox cases have more than doubled in a week. in minnesota state health officials say it only has 3,000 of the 90,000 monkeypox doses it needs to cover those most at risk for this fast-spreading

illness. joining me is dr. patell. we see what's happening in minnesota. i was at a clinic this week and people walking in without appointments were turned away. do we have enough vaccines for those who want them in a high-risk category? >> no, we do not. we have 3 to 4 million individuals who would be placed in that high-risk category. that's being incredibly conservative. we know there is spread outside these high-risk categories. it's just a matter of testing and time where we'll see some of this. we need to do more with what we have. that means educating people, trying to minimize risk and where possible getting the treatments and vaccine. >> dr. jha was asked about the availability of vaccines in the u.s. right now. let's listen. >> there is one small company in

denmark that makes all the vaccines for the whole world, and we have secured more doses than the rest of the world combined but we've got to do more. we're looking at and working on expanding to american manufacturers who can make those vaccines. >> how long will that take? >> expanding manufacturing is just going to not be sufficient. i think what is more important is that they're going to look into what they call dividing doses. this means taking one current dose and finding a way through different administration routes in the skin to get to five doses. that's incredible, an opportunity that could offer multiple doses and stretching the supply until we get more. >> i don't understand what that means. can you explain? >> think of a shot you get in a doctor's office and it's under

the skin. that's what the monkeypox vaccine is. and then now instead of doing it under the skin and the fat, you actually take a needle that's a little different and do it just in the skin layer like a t.b. test, if you've ever had one, we're really used to doing this in primary care. just that different route of administration offers the ability to extend the dose. same product, same vaccine, one dose becomes five doses. that can be a game changer in terms of ability to expand the number while we wait for manufacturing to take place, while we wait for more doses to be sent to the united states. >> okay. what about therapeutics? where are we there? >> so there is no actual therapeutic for monkeypox. the therapeutic is designated for small pox, which is related

but not the same. it's not for everyone. we're reserving it for people who have monkeypox that is very painful or has affected organs beyond the skin. we're trying to use it where we can but we're not able to just give it to anybody with a diagnosis of monkeypox. that is a process. it's not easy to get those medications. we need awareness. i think there are too many patients and too many doctors right now who might have symptoms or doctors who don't know when and how to screen that need education. that's what we need to focus on right now, to get the right people screen tested, treated and vaccinated if necessary. >> when i was reporting on this, just this time last week we were at 509,000 case. today it 702,000 cases. is that an alarming increase? >> i would tell you it's the low end of what the actual numbers

are. we just don't have the awareness and the testing. now, alarming but we do not have, thankfully, this is not as fatal of a disease and nowhere near as fatal as small position or covid or anything of the other things we'll death with in the last decade. and it is painful but it is something that does not cause usual devastation. i'm trying to just warn people you should be aware but don't be scared. just be aware. if you have somebody around you who has had an unexplained illness, unexplained rash, take precautions. don't stigmatize or discrimination but encourage them to get tested. you may want to get tested. more doses will be available. you can say i think i've been in contact with someone who might have had monkeypox, can i get a vaccine? this vaccine doesn't have eyes, emotion or politics.

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some kids are already back to school. others are squeezing out the last few week of summer but some districts across the country are worried they may not have enough teachers. "the washington post" reports on a catastrophic shortage that's leading schools to take drastic measures like shortening to four-day weeks, asking veterans with no teaching background to substitute and college students who have yet to learn their degree. spans from the hundreds to the thousands with stopgap solutions likely taking a toll on students. joining me now, dan domino vic. break down the real world impacts you're hearing about as a result of the shortage. >> well, we are approaching, lindsay, a pub lig school crisis with this shortage of personnel, as the school year is going to

open in districts around the country in a couple of week, and then the rest of them in september. and we're hearing from superintendents all over the country about a shortage of staff, in the larger districts, as you mentioned earlier, hundred of districts short. and in smaller district as well. so it's a major issue, and of course it's all under the pressure of having the kids in school and in person. when he hear about districts like the ones in texas cutting back to a four-day week, that's problematic, because parents are going to want their kids in school all the time, but it's difficult to do and everybody is scrambling to make it happen. >> "the washington post" points to a number of factors, low pay, little respect, politics and culture wars. what are you hearing? >> exactly. i think first of all, teachers are stressed out over the pandemic. it was difficult during that period of time. but you recall two years ago,

health-care workers and age caters were heroes. that turned quickly as parents were displeased over the fact that schools were closed down or displeased when the schools opened and felt children were not safe, so they were getting it from both sides. then on top of the pandemic issues is the working conditions. the fact that they're short staffed means a lot of teachers have to double up, have to take extra classes. they just don't have the ability to take a break. and so we're seeing teachers leave the profession by the hundreds if not thousands. they're also being recruited by the private sector. here's an opportunity for teachers to make more money and not as stressed as the classroom. >> specifically do you find they don't like being told what they can and can't say? for example, in florida,

republicans -- can't discuss history, gender, race, sexual orientation. is that playing a role? >> absolutely. it's not that they don't like like it. they don't know what to say. or the fact that they can't say gay or make references to the sexual orientation of children. these are all issues that very much affect teachers, because the job of a teacher, beyond teaching subjects, is to engage the students and to two-point the kind of relationship with the students where they're also helping the students with the social and emotional issues they bring to the table. and by the way, that has been another major issue this year. is social emotional factors that need to be dealt with. so when teachers are told, no, you can't do these things, because the word emotional learning has become a dirty word. >> you mentioned can't talk

about sexual orientation, but even teachers who are lgbt, they believe they can't talk about their families, so it's not just about the kids there. i want to ask you, the impact this is having on learning. >> the impact is going to be that even though we're trying to recover academically the loss these children have had, it's going to be difficult with the shortage, and even more difficult when allowing people into the classroom that had no teaching experience at all. i understand the need to put a body into the classroom, but anybody that has been in the classroom as a teacher and spent aday or six hours with 25 to 30 kids knows this is a job that requires training, requires specialists. and this is going to add to the issue of not being able to make the academic recovery we want if we don't have qualified personnel in the classroom. >> i have about 30 seconds left with you. what's the solution here? >> the solution here is we're

going to have to redesign education as we know it. one teacher in a classroom with 25 kids all day doesn't work anymore, and we're going to have to go to a more team approach, where the certified teacher is the lead, and people that are not certified there to support teacher in the work that needs to be done. that's the work that lies ahead of us. that's what we're trying get school districts to move into. >> thanks for your time. appreciate it. that is it for me today. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. it may be because they have a high-risk factor - such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight, asthma, or smoking. even if symptoms feel mild, these factors can increase your risk of covid-19 turning severe. so, if you're at high risk and test positive - don't wait - ask your healthcare provider right away if an authorized oral treatment is right for you. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted.

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