good evening and welcome to politicsnation. tonight's lead vindication. right now president biden and democrats are poised to cap a week of winds.

in the process, giving the parties some very real weapons to carry into midterm elections. now, just barely three months away. starting with senate democrats rallying around a major spending package aimed at reducing record consumer inflation. but also a massive investment in health care and climate interventions. central to the biden agenda. and now, on the cusp of receiving this weekend, after previous hold, arizona senator kristen sinema announced her support for the bill. giving senate democrats the votes they need to pass it by monday morning. and another shot in the arm heading into november, that is on the top of a surprising strong july jobs report that just more than doubled economists expectations.

one of the main architects of the september 11th attacks, and a major vote in favor of abortion rights coming from the deep red state. all in the last week. but is it enough for the democrats in either chamber to keep the majorities in three months? i will ask the chair of the house democratic caucus, in just a minute. and we are following a troubling story out of georgia. the family of breonna greene's seeking answers, after her death in police custody three weeks ago. nobody camera footage showing what's happened before she fell from a moving police car. attorney ben crump joins me along with the greer family shortly, as that investigation escalates. and, at least one chapter of a different tragedy, the one of breonna taylor draws to a close. all of that own politicsnation.

let's start. joining me now, congressman hakeem jeffries, chair of the house democratic caucus. congressman, senate democrats may be on the verge of a big win with the senate today in a rare saturday session. now with the support of senator kristen sinema. the votes are there, they pass this legislation inflation reduction act. tackling obviously our record inflation, but also taxes, climate change, health care. of course before they can get the passage the chamber has to go through a so-called vote aroma, where senator publicans can introduce all the amendments they want until they run out. and nbc's reporting that some senate democrats have signaled their plans to vote against all the amendments republicans demand. what can you tell us about

where things are? . >> you good afternoon, raf. good to be with. you it is my hope an expectation that senate democrats will successfully be able to move the inflation reduction act and send it over to the house of representatives at some point over the next few days. and we will be back in session by the end of the week to pass the bill and get it to president biden's desk. and as you indicated, president biden, democrats in the house in the senate, or in the zone right now in delivering for the american people and putting people over politics that has been the value proposition that we have brought to governments over the last several years and we continue to deliver in that regard lowering costs as the american rescue plan, save the economy. infrastructure which will create millions of good paying jobs. we are still seeing record job creation. i believe it was more than 9 million jobs that have been created under president biden's tenure. we have course passed gun safety legislation for the first time in 30 years.

that will save lives. bringing back domestic manufacturing jobs through the passage of the chips and signs act. and now, we are going to move the inflation reduction act to drive and health care costs in the high cost of lifesaving prescription drugs. it has been a pretty good run, but we are going to keep up the work for the people. >> you know, earlier today congressman, you tweeted that job creation is up, gas prices are down, and extreme republicans are running scared in the quote of your treat. obviously you are referring to the jobs report released this week. showing that hiring in july was more then, more double what economists would acts were expecting. nearly 535,000 added last month, pushing back against the claim that the country is in a recession. if the trend holds, and the democrats get this inflation reduction act passed, and implemented before the midterms,

are you confident that the party will benefit at the ballot box in november? . >> yes, i believe when it is all said and done in the american people have a clear choice, we as democrats are continuing to put people over politics, lower costs, good paying jobs, and fighting for safer communities. and the other side of the aisle, extreme maga republicans who are totally out of control, they are extreme on reproductive freedom, they want to criminalize abortion care, and impose a nationwide ban. we know that they are extreme on social security and medicare. rick scott told us to. they want to and social security and medicare in five years. and we know that they are extreme on democracy. apparently they don't believe in it. so we think that when you compare our track record of getting things done, and our vision for the future of everyday americans with the non record of accomplishment or even vision or agenda for making a difference that exists

with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and their extremism, that we have a real shot not just to hold the house in the senate but to grow our majorities. >> let me ask you this, what is your take away from the sleet of trump backed candidates that prevailed in republican primaries this week? which party do these victories help or harm in november? >> well, it is not helpful for the american people that donald trump continues to have a vice grip on the republican party, which in many instances, has really turned into nothing more than a cult. a personality where you just are required to bend the knee to donald trump, and if you fail to do so, you pay the consequences in the context of a primary. but again, because some of these candidates are so extreme on so many issues of importance to everyday americans, and

could care less of the supreme court has actually taken a away a right that has existed for 50 years, and they want to nationally do the same thing, in terms of federal legislation to take control of the house, that the comparison is not going to serve republicans well at the ballot box in a general election with all of these trumpism type candidates who are emerging from the republican primaries. >> now congressman, briefly, this weekend indiana became the first state to ban abortion after the supreme court's reversal of roe v. wade. this after a kansas vote to reject the state amendment to ban abortion earlier this week. if democrats are able to hold on to their congressional majorities, can we expect codification of row to be the next, the caucus's next legislative rallying cry?

certainly that will be right at the top of the agenda. and if we can grow a majority in the senate by just two or three senators, and then we have a real opportunity to do so, and hold the house, we are going to be able to halt if i roe v. wade nationally. >> all right, thank you congressman hakeem jeffries. switching gears now to choose civil rightsattention. joining me now, civil rights attorney rock hall the attorney general in the black america bin crump. he's representing the parents of the late breonna greer. her mother mary greer, and her father marvin greer. now, attorney kremlin we go to you first. thank you as always for joining us. and mrs. greer, first our condolences and prayers for your loss and for our audience, hey i need to briefly summarize accounts of what happens on july 15th when the hancock county georgia sheriff's department responded to your

request for assistance with your daughter breonna. who you said was suffering from a mental health episode. she was arrested by sheriff's deputies and put into a cruiser. the police body cameras, camera footage released last week showing a tense arrest. then barely a minute after leaving the scene, breonna fell out of the moving vehicle, falling into a coma and dying six days later. you say you initially told that she had kicked the door open and jumped out by the sheriff's department. which has since requested a state investigation that has determined, breonna was indeed handcuffed. but the passenger side rear tour was ultimately not secured. is that right? am i saying anything incorrectly, mr. and mrs. greer? >> no, you are not.

that's what we was told by the sheriff. that she kicked the door open and jumped out. i obviously i didn't see that, but we want to find out why and what did happen for her to come out of that car. >> you know, because the disturbing thing to me about this is that you called the police because she was having an episode. and for a family to call the police and end up with their daughter dead, you're saying she's going through an episode and you want to try to have held. how could she be in the back of a car, attorney crump, of a law enforcement vehicle, and they have not secured the backdoor. knowing she is going through a mental health episode? i mean, it is in everywhere in

this country that when you arrest someone and handcuffed them, you secure them in the back seat of the vehicle, or the back part of the vehicle if it's a van. i mean, this is just sounded like freddy gray baltimore. >> it is very similar, reverend al. in 2020 we was asking what happened to breonna taylor and kentucky, and now in 2022 we are asking what happened to breonna greer in the state of georgia. because, we learned from george floyd's trial the officers have to understand when a person is in your custody, they are in your care. especially a mentally ill patient, and that is why her mother called, reverend al. she was having a mental health crisis. she was in handcuffs in the back of the police car. she was supposed to get help. she was not supposed to end up dead. and that is why attorney eric

hurd said on monday in the press conference to revealed the findings of the autopsy on the steps of the georgia capital. >> now, you mr. mrs. greer, from what i understand a very religious family. i just wanted you just want to the right thing to be done, and you find yourself in this situation. what is it that you want the state investigators to just tell you? what is it that you are calling for him? >> we are looking for accountability and transparency. we want this not to happen to no one else is child. our daughter was a lovely child. she was a lovely mother. right now, and today, my little granby became to me and said papa, where is mama? and i thought you signed a grand mama, but she said no. i am talking about brianna.

so this is why we are fighting for breonna. and we need to know the answer to what happened, so we can explain to these kids. i can't keep telling them the same story, or a lie. because sooner or later they need to know. what happened to brianna. >> their mother. >> their mother. >> when you talk about kids, you're talking about her children? she had children? >> yes, she has to twins. she had a set of twins, two girls. bree and mariah. >> three years old. >> and they hug me, and hug me, and hug me, and i just try to get them as much support as i can so that they come so we can get them justice. >> and reverend al, we are hoping that you could come to atlanta to eulogize briahna so

the world will know, and can help us answer the questions of her three year old twin daughters, who would happen to breonna. >> well i certainly, as president of the actual network will certainly work that out to be there. i especially what i'm hearing about these daughters. all of us need to stand with mr. mrs. greer, at this hour to get complete transparency. and if my presence got help, i will be. there let me ask you mr. mrs. greer, tell the audience something about your daughter. how would you like her to be remembered? remembered as a sweeping kind loving person. and i think she would do for you, she would do it. >> she was the best daughter that we could have. she had issues with mental illness, but she would do for anybody, she loves her kids as

a mother. she loved those kids, regardless, with unconditional love. that was the same way we loved her. she had a mental issue, and we were trying to get help for. we knew what would happen that night, we would not call the police. >> no, never. >> wow -- i emphasize, you called the police to try to get help. i don't care will kind of a mental health issue she may have had, how did they explain not securing the backdoor of a police vehicle, when they handcuffed the person under arrest? this is unbelievable and, certainly, i'll be there to stand with you. attorney -- while i have you, i had to ask you about another breonna. you represented breonna taylor for more than two years now. this week, former and current police officers that

participated in the louisville metro police office rate that resulted in her death were federally indicted this week for violating pillars civil rights, unlawful use of flores and other counts. you led the legal effort that secured these 12 million dollar settlement and several police reforms in the city of louisville. you have obviously not talked about with the message of -- that this sense. we worked on other cases, amid arbery, even after the state had convicted, we still were able to get them to come in and indicted, as well as george floyd. this justice department has been more active than the last one. but for our audience, what is the water impact of these charges and breonna taylor? >> i think it is profound reverend al. my co-counsel, we were studying

it. we believe this is the first time in history that police officers had been charged for killing a black woman in america on the federal level. it underscores the reason we want to vote because elections matter and just justice department, biden justice department under merrick garland as well as christian clark, the great supple whites attorney, before she became the first black woman -- >> in new york, she was very effective in new york, that is right. >> and they have been so committed to civil rights, more so than any administration i have seen in my life. i can't think of any other justice departments, say robert kennedy's justice department, which is so committed to civil rights. martin ticking and john lewis. we have to applaud this justice

department forgetting guilty verdicts in the george floyd police killing, getting a guilty verdict in the lynch mob that killed ahmaud arbery and now getting these charges for breonna taylor, a black woman. we need to applaud them and remind people that is why we vote. >> all right, many thanks. again, our condolences to mary and margaret grier and -- thank you for sharing your story. always to our attorney general big crump, thank you for joining us again, as well. coming up, wnba star brittney griner remains in custody unjustly imprisoned in russia, after receiving a nine year sentence this week. we will have a update on efforts to bring her home. but first, my colleague richard

louis with today's top new stories. richard? >> breath, good to see you. president biden, according to his doctor, tested negative for covid-19 this morning. the president experienced a rebound case of covid this week. he will be in strict isolation, pending a second negative test. monkeypox cases climbing to nearly 30,000 globally. this includes more than 7500 and united states, says the cdc. wyoming is the only place not confirming cases yet in the united states. there's day, and the biden administration declared monkeypox a national health emergency. and this weekend, tens of thousands of u.s. flights canceled across that states, with thousands more delayed, as well. the federal aviation administration implemented a delay program for airports from boston to atlanta, last night due to summer thunderstorms. more politics nations with reverend al sharpton after the short break. ort break.

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breaking news this weekend, russia now says it is ready to discuss a prisoner swap for wnba star brittney griner, after she was sentenced on wednesday to nine years in russian prison for marijuana possession. russia's foreign minister says the negotiations must take place via a diplomatic channel, he claims was set up by russian president vladimir putin and u.s. president joe biden. griner has been detained in russia since her arrest in february, on a low level drug offense that would not even carry a misdemeanor charge in many parts of the u.s.. her lawyer says that the cannabis capture just that she was carrying were described medically in the u.s. to treat chronic pain. after the sentencing, president

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nation. friday afternoon the gop announced that they would hold their 2024 convention in milwaukee wisconsin. city that in 2020 was ground zero for many of president trump's false claims of election fraud. the gop announcement comes just three months before the midterm elections which many project could put them back in charge of the house and maybe the senate. as republicans brought up a personal a possible return to power, who is really in charge of the party? let's bring in my political panel for their tanks. joining me now is former republican congressman from florida, carlos curbelo and dina milbank. political calm and columnist for the washington post, and author of a brand-new book out next week called the destruction asked. the 2025 your crack up of the republican party. welcome to both of you. dana, i want to get to you on

the way in first on former president trump's continued hold on the republican hearty. who can candidates continue to win primaries, trump endorses this week scored victories and key states including arizona, and michigan. but many of those candidates will face a more difficult rule in the general election. and even trump supporters tell pollsters, they aren't sure they want him to run again in 2024. assuming legal problems don't catch up with him before that, given all that, is trump still the standard bearer of the party, daniel? >> well after this week, it would be impossible to say that anybody but trump is the standard bearer for the party. we see a power game in washington. is he winning with this endorsements, is he not winning with his endorsements? i think that the crucial thing that we need to understand is that regardless of where trump

is at the moment, trumpism has a stranglehold over the party. so i think what you are seeing a little bit is some of the trump voters even are saying, we are not so sure that we want to return to that chaos, and that ugliness. but the party is in the groups of people who are very much practice in that same type of politics. so whereas they are pulling back a little bit from trump himself, because of the obvious character issues, they are not unfortunately pulling back on the republican party from trumpism. so you see trump himself still dominant in his endorsements, and you see trumpism entirely dominant within the ideology and the tactics of the party. >> carlos, let's take a look at one of trump's republican, his main republican rivals from your own state of florida. governor ron desantis. he continues to effectively

will wield his pulpit in the sunshine states to make national headlines. this week he suspended a state prosecutor who didn't want to enforce his strict new abortion law. desantis is the only republican besides donald trump with double digit support for the 2024 republican nomination. trailing by just nine percentage points. do you think desantis can wrestle the party away from trump, offering many of the same policies, without the political baggage? >> reverend, there is no question that ron desantis is preparing to run for president, and that he believes, based on polling, and based on his own instincts, that he can defeat donald trump. and i think that is indicative of what is happening in the republican party. i agree with dana, there is no question that trump continues to be the dominant force in the party. but, that dominance is starting to wane. and just the fact that there is someone one like rhonda seem

tangent still so close to him in the polls, and that donald trump is not above 80% of the republican primary voters, it shows that he is losing influence. that is old routine is getting old, and that people are looking for something different. >> now carlos, sticking with you. what happens to the anti trump republicans? including people like representative maya of michigan who lost his primary battle this week after voting to impeach trump after january 6th, or wyoming congress person liz cheney who enlisted her father, former vice president dick cheney, to help in her tough primary fight. take a listen to this add to that came out this week. >> in our nation's 246 year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than donald trump. he tried to steal the last

election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. he is a coward, a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. he lost his election, and he lost big. >> now, anti trump republicans made some powerful arguments about the importance of democracy and truthfulness. but how can they stay relevant if they can't stay in office, carlos? >> well, rev, i think that's a great point. but this primary season, i think we have seen a mixed bag of results in georgia the republicans who rejected donald trump's ally did very well. we saw in washington state, dan newhouse one of the republicans who voted for impeachment survived his primary. another, when david validating california did as well. of course there are others like peter mayer, who did lose. but, you are seeing that in all of these races. if you look at donald trump and mike pence with a squared off in arizona, sure trump won. but his candidate, lake, one

backup of points. so, this is not that republican party of two years ago. again, trump-ism is still alive and well. but there is competition now, and with time i think that those republicans who want to change the direction of the party, want to pull it away from this gross dishonesty, and lack of integrity. i think that they are going to stay relevant. they will remain on the sidelines, some of these trump candidates who won primaries will definitely lose generals. and then these other republicans will come back, two, six years later, and say hey. do you want to go this way instead we can actually win? i think that that is what is starting to play out. >> dave, let's turn to your new book which offers its own answer to this question of what is happening to the republican party. and de constructionists, you say the real story of the gop has been the gradual decade long embrace of white

nationalist ideology. you take this back to newt gingrich and the republican revolution of the 1990s. although its roots may even be older than that. and this move to the right for republicans, the real determining factor is, in who leads the party. is there any political leader who can bring republicans back from the brink? >> well, reverend, the book is a next week and i very much hope you will have me back so we can talk in-depth about this because i think it is something that i would love to get into with you to a great extent. so, yes, it is in a decades long history that has brought us to the point where we are now. so i think that there is, what i can talk about now is where we are in this moment in time. and i think you are seeing, within the republican party, some stuff some pushback.

this does not have to be, the republican party does not have to be a party of white nationalism. we saw alternative given after the republicans lost in 2012, and they did that autopsy that said you need to do a better job with black voters, with latino voters, with asian american voters. we saw it in the way that george w. bush reached out to latinos. it does not have to be this way. there was a choice that donald trump made to accentuate the worst instincts in the party. it is unfortunately what we are seeing with the likes of mastriano, with this ugliness slate of candidates in arizona. what we are seeing with desantis there in florida, but it is not the direction that the party has to go. >> dana milbank, and former congressman carlos curbelo, curbelo, i'm sorry. thank you both for being with us. coming up, and as russia's

invasion of ukraine continues, we cannot forget the millions of refugees whose lives have been turned upside down by war. we will have an update on what is happening, and how to help. that is coming next. p. that is coming next. that is coming next.

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and since february, about one third of ukrainians, 1:30 ukrainians have been displaced out of their homeland, a mounting to the largest refugee immigration crisis in europe to date, since the aftermath of world war ii. but the new crime itself, the united nations has found that another 6.3 million people have been internally displaced, as the repercussions of war have forced many of them of their homes. gentlemen now is the international rescue committee's ukraine country director, -- thank you for coming on today, first of all. in less than six months, more than 12 million people have left their homes in ukraine to seek protection from war. the united nations reports that over 6.3 million refugees from

ukraine have sought refuge in ukraine alone. many crossed and to bordering countries such as poland. i imagine many of them are in dying need of support and resources. what can you tell us about the status and protection of those who have been able to migrate out of ukraine away from the war zone? >> thank you very much reverend for having me on your show. as you said, especially poignant timing, we are now in the six month of this war in ukraine and the humanitarian situation inside the country continues to worsen. you are absolutely right, the complicated cause the fastest displacement crisis scene in world war two. it is women and children who are almost always a risk of exploitation and abuses during crises. on top of that, there are 6 million people displaced here within the borders of ukraine. this number is not expected to

significantly decrease anytime soon, as people are unable to return home. do not feel safe to return to their homes or simply have no homes left to return to. the un estimates that there are 57 million people here in ukraine who are in need of humanitarian assistance right now. as the war continues, and family coping mechanisms continue to be stretch, this number is likely to increase, especially in the harsh winter months. >> meanwhile, the united nations data also indicates that there are more than 10 million across ukraine's border since the start of the war, but millions have also returned home, largely those from poland. what is the plan for those that have not been able to seek safety outside of the war zone or have left and then returned to damaged homes and are forced to be internally displaced?

>> the international rescue committee is here on the ground in ukraine, as well, still working in neighboring poland and medina providing humanitarian assistance to those that need it most. some people have returned from neighboring countries in europe. and then, most people from the western parts of ukraine or from the central parts of ukraine. meanwhile, the situation is dire. the humanitarian situation is dire and continues to be diverge in the east and south of the country. that's where irc is focusing its intervention at the moment. our focus at this stage in ukraine is to provide this humanitarian assistance to people who need the most in the east and the south of the country, where the fighting is still the heaviest. together, with our local partners and local society, we are providing cash to vulnerable families who are unable to cover the most basic needs. we are providing nonfood items

to displaced families, those that you mentioned, those unable to return home, who may have returned to ukraine but not the actual homes. for them, we are distributing food items -- nonfood items like diapers, soaps, nonfood items. many of these families fled with the items taken on the carry. we are also supporting local health services that are becoming overwhelmed. the writing essential protection services, and this includes the protection of women and children, who are most often the most fun of all in conflict. >> let me ask you this, back in the beginning stages at the war, when many and ukraine rescheduling to flee the country to seek safety, africans who have been living there reported multiple instances of mistreatment, such as being stuck at this crossroads at the border crossings for days at a time. some without food and shelter and were held up by ukrainian authorities. that was back in the early

spring. since then, can you provide any details on the african migrants who before the war saw ukraine as their home and have since been displaced. do you have any updates on where their whereabouts, protection and well-being is? >> as a humanitarian organization, we offer our supportive and help those most in need, regardless of their own background, race or religion or political affiliation. we follow humanitarian principles, as to other humanitarian organizations here on the ground -- >> i get that, but i am asking specifically about the african migrants that have complained that they have been profiled or mistreated on the border crossings. you have any data on that, at all? as not been improved or dealt with? >> there were some disturbing scenes at the beginning of the response, but i think things

have improved now, as information has been shared an awareness has been raised, as well, about the fact that everyone who is seeking refuge from conflict must be given the same rights, must be given the same freedoms to find a place of safety. >> but you don't have any specific data? thank you, miss marysia zapasnik for being with us. up next, more than 50 years of social and political activism, but my work is not done. i will explain in a moment. in in a moment

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activist then for four years. well, i have since related that i am so in the case. tonight i was and the 2022 mark african american film festival, where new documentary film on my life as an activist is screening. loud mouth, directed by josh alexander and produced by john legend, has been shown earlier today here. and a few weeks ago at the tribeca film festival in new york. median publicity aside, my daily work with the national action network continues. why? because we still have social justice issues. we still have the need to change laws that will make this society have equal protection under the law, and equal opportunity for everyone. getting involved in social justice work doesn't have a

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for watching. i will see you back here tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. we have a special guest, michael regan, the administrator of the epa, environmental protection agency. that is sunday right here on msnbc. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. >> thank you so much, as always, reverend sharpton. hello everyone, i am alicia menendez. right now on capitol hill, a rare saturday session in the senate. this is a live look at the senate floor, or any moment, we expect a majority leader chuck schumer to announce the next step in the inflation reduction act, also known around the hill as the ira. it can get it through, it will be a big win for democrats, at a time when momentum is up for the parties and the president. the legislation,