♪♪ hello, everyone. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. with the legal troubles facing donald trump closing in from two distinct directions at this hour, the former president has now done something he mocked others for doing. he pleaded the fifth. take a look. you see him there leaving trump tower this morning. the new yor attorney general is investigating the trump organization. trump was set to testify under oath about his business practices including what investigators have said is a pattern of embellishing the

worth of his holdings, something with major implications for his taxes and the future of his company. but facedith those questions, he's decided not to talk. in a statement, trump said, quote, i once asked if you're nocent why are you taking the fifth amendment. now inow the answer to that estion. when your faly, your company and a the people in your orbit ve bece the targets of an a defense of donald trump by undermining the government using unsubstantiated allegations. trump's own lawyers were doing that just yesterday suggesting that fbi agents searching

trump's home were breaking the law. >> this is a joke. i'm concerned that they may have planted something. at this point, who knows? i don't trust the government and that's a very frightening thing as an american. >> i don't think they would go to the extent of trying to plant information, i think they just make stuff up and come up with whatever they want. that's the way they will have to proceed. they don't have anything. there's just nothing there. >> well, trump's lawyers and house republicans who gathered with him last night cry foul and demand answers, new details are emerging about that search at mar-a-lago. "the washington post" reports it was actually eight months in the making that despite getting 15 boxes oferial in january, that officials with the archives were contacting people in trump's orbit trying to get more material they believed hadn't

been turned over. and in a key clue to why this is so important and why officials would make an unprecedented move that they knew would create a political firestorm, well, the "new york times" reports this investigation is being led by the national security division of the fbi. i want to bring in ken dilanian, peter baker, chief white house corporate for the "new york times" and paul butler is a professor at georgetown and an msnbc analyst. so much to get to. paul, let's start with the fifth. trump has the right to plead the fifth. you can't assume guilt because of that. given what with know about trump, what do you think it might tell us? >> chris, any good defense attorney would have advised trump to take the fifth because the manhattan district attorney is conducting a parallel investigation of trump's business practices and the da has said that he's monitoring what the new york attorney general is doing. when politicians are under

criminal investigation, they sometimes get conflicting advice, their defense attorney telling them to take the fifth and their political advisers telling him not to do that. he's trying to turn his legal problems into an advantage by claiming all of these investigations are witch-hunts and he's been persecuted. that may look with his political base, but it's not a defense in any of his potential civil or criminal cases. >> there are a lot of times donald trump mocked people who took the fifth. he once said only the mob pleads the fifth. even his own kids who testified in this investigation just a few weeks ago didn't do it. this is -- i don't know how, would you characterize it? a major but not maybe unexpected about-face? >> might not be unexpected. it's unprecedented as far as i can recall. i can't think of any president who has pleaded the fifth before. we are told by lawyers we

shouldn't infer anything from that. but it does mean that you are saying that your answers to these questions might tend to incriminate you. that is an amazing thing to hear for a president of the united states. we saw when liz cheney highlighted michael flynn taking the fifth during their congressional january 6th investigation when he was asked questions like, do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power? so you have a situation here where a former president of the united states does not believe that he can testify and not expose himself to legal jeopardy. his argument is that the prosecutor is biased and out to get him and those are certainly, you know, things that will resonate with a lot of his base and people. he spent a lot of years discrediting anybody who investigated him. but anybody who is investigated said i'm under a witch-hunt. we take that with a grain of salt, obviously. but it has an extraordinary moment. we have a first-time ever certain of a former president's residence and a first-time ever

invocation of the fifth amendment by a president. we don't know where it takes us. >> obviously, paul, peter is right, you don't see a lot of defendants or potential defendants going, yeah, come on, they're investigating me, no problem. having said that, it is something different, is it not, for a lawyer to say stuff was planted or even beyond that, they're somewhere, like, concocting stuff. >> it's really revealing that trump is questioning whether fbi agents planted evidence. i think it means that he's concerned that the search warrant uncovered material that will get him in trouble, and it's also a way for trump to rehearse a defense in the event that he's prosecuted. here's the thing, chris, when i prosecuted drug dealers back in the day, sometimes they would claim that the cops planted evidence and juries usually

don't buy that. reportedly 30 fbi agents participated in the mar-a-lago raid and trump has absolutely no evidence that anything improper happened. >> how would that be documented? how would they be able to -- and i'm sure they anticipated this that there might be accusations, allegations, what generally happens in a situation like this? a very high-profile search. how would they make sure to be able to say there's no way this happened? >> so for all of the recent woes, the fbi is still probably the world's best law enforcement agency. we have at least 30 agents there all looking around the apartment. sometimes but not always when warrants are executed they're videotaped. but at the end of the day it will be the testimony of these public servants against donald trump. and i don't have much doubt about who a jury would believe.

>> ken, to the point of a witch-hunt, what goes into even getting a search warrant? it's worth, i think, revising that question today. >> yeah, there are two steps. first of all, the justice department had to decide that this was the best way to get the information, that somehow a subpoena wasn't going to work. and we know -- we have all this reporting about the negotiations that were going on, chris, between senior justice department lawyers, some of whom were traveling to mar-a-lago and talking to trump lawyers. but it's not 100% clear what broke down there. something happened that led the justice department to say, we have to go in there strong. we have to go get this search warrant. and to get the search warrant, they had to go to a judge and convince that judge that there was probable cause to believe that there was a crime and evidence of that crime was in this location at that time, was in mar-a-lago. so it's not just the executive branch, the justice department, as part of this process, it's the judicial branch, an

independent judge had to sign off on this and eventually we will see the affidavit that an fbi swore out to this judge demonstrating and explaining all the rational for this search. right now it's under seal. it's really -- to peter's point, yes, very often people are the subject of -- who are under investigation claim it's a witch-hunt and even when president clinton was being investigated by a special counsel, he criticized the prosecution. it's not often that you see an entire major party in the united states, including u.s. senators comparing the fbi to the gestapo. and almost every official going to the fbi is in the wrong here. that's a remarkable place we're in in this country with the nation's foremost law enforcement -- >> where we talked about undermining institutions. peter, we've also talked about and we did a deep dive yesterday with my colleague ben collins about all this online traffic that has been generated by the search, the threats of civil

war, a violent response. does that in any way put additional pressure on them to reveal something to justify the search, maybe defuse some of the anger out there? what about the pressure their feeling right now, peter? >> you're right about that, obviously. it's a provocative move in the history of the justice department that it would seem like they would want to explain to the public as best they can. they haven't done that. they haven't released the documents that have justified this search. on the other hand, neither has president trump. former president trump has a copy of this search warrant. he knows what they took. there's an inventory. presumably he could release that search warrant if it showed anything that would exonerate him. he hasn't done that either. we don't know enough about this. it is interesting that my colleagues reported that this is done under the purview of the national security section but we don't know what that tells us. that does suggest that there was an urgency here that was over

and above a paperwork issue. it's not just, oh, gosh, you have paper that you shouldn't have. we've seen in the past. president nixon fought with the federal government for a long time over the rights to keep his paper. that wasn't ever a criminal issue. they decided here that something rather extraordinary justified an action. we don't know what it is and it would be helpful if somebody could help us out. >> what would they typically let us know, are they worried about tipping their hand? i mean, what do you think about the possibility or, in fact, given the tensions that are out there, whether it would be a wise decision to talk about this and why they did what they did when they did it? >> so, chris, trump pretends like he doesn't understand this, but the justice department is actually trying to protect him as it does every subject of a criminal investigation.

they don't discuss a case unless charges are brought because they're not there to accuse someone unless prosecutors can back it up with the kind of evidence that's contained in a criminal indictment. >> so, peter, where does all this lead politically? i showed at the beginning of the show the class photo from bedminster where trump met with house republicans last night and i want to play what jim banks said afterwards about the search at mar-a-lago. >> it unifies us in our outrage to fight back. if anything, it paves a way for donald trump to unify the party once again and run for president. i really believe if he gets out and hits the campaign trail, he's going to fire up republicans and nontraditional republicans to come out to the polls in november to fight back against the corruption. >> and i want to read what a republican strategist who was organizing a pac to support ron desantis said. we can hang it up, if trump wants it at this point, i don't

see how it's not his. it will be a coronation at this point, not a primary. before this week there were a lot of republicans who thought trump would be a drag on the ticket for the midterms. they weren't sure that he would run in 2024, that it would be bad news for the republicans overall. has this changed the equation for donald trump? >> that was so last week. the truth of the matter is, there's a hole shoe store of shoes still to drop here. we don't know. if he were to run today for the nomination, yeah, i think the republicans would nominate him. we don't know what the investigation is going to lead to. there could be a lot of developments between now and the time this becomes an active political contest in which we learn more. it may had to his sense of grievance and that's why he's highlighting this surge to make himself a victim and appeal to his supporters of him who identify with that. but, you know, if they end up

showing something in court that changes our understanding of what this week's actions are all about, we have no idea. and we shouldn't get too far ahead of things. >> but a whole shoe store of shoes yet to drop. that's my line from peter baker today. appreciate you very much. big economic news today as the latest report on inflation reveals that it's easing slightly in july. what will that mean for the average consumer? and the fda taking action in the fight against monkeypox. what they're trying to do to stretch the availability of vaccines. another win for another election denier, all of the results out of battleground wisconsin. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc nooooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent, so you can use less. bounty, the quicker picker upper. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein

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a key economic number released just this morning showing some small signs of improvement to runaway inflation. the consumer price index pegs

the inflation rate at 8.5%. that change led by lower gas prices, airline tickets and used car prices. that economic news also coming as president biden tries to build momentum after a series of legislative victories, including senate approval of the inflation reduction act and the signing of the chips bill yesterday. here he is this morning at the signing of the pact act. >> the economic plan is working. it's building an economy that will reward work, wages are up this month, provide opportunity, help the middle class and still have work to do but we're on track. >> but with donald trump and his legal problems dominating the news, can the president and democrats break through the noise to voters. robert gibbs and julia jester is in washington. tom, give us a sense of what these inflation numbers mean for the average american.

>> make no mistake about it, it is hot and steamy in washington and inflation is still hot. but maybe some of the steam is coming out of it because that number you showed, the month over month number is what is so critical, no change in inflation from june into july. in other words, it did not get worse. as a result, we're starting to see the year over year number come down. 8.5% is a big, bad number, but it's better than 9% that we saw in june. where did we see the decrease. gas prices are dropping, $4.01 is the national average down from just over $5.01 back in june. that's helping. so is a drop in airfares. airfares have dropped i think it's 20 -- make it 7.5%. however, however, they're still up 28% from a year ago, gas prices up 44% from a year ago. across the board, food is up,

home energy is up, home prices are up, all of that is what is driving the inflation picture. bad timing on apparel when kids need back to school supplies. so this is still a high priority for the administration, trying to tame inflation. really it's up to the fed to do that, though, the federal reserve expected to raise rates again in september and the reason you saw the stock market rally today is because maybe the thinking goes the fed won't have to raise rates has aggressively if inflation is starting to tame. and so if we get another decent number in august, like the one we just had in july, if there's evidence that, in fact, inflation is starting to slow down, while we still have good jobs numbers, 50-year lows on the unemployment picture, then maybe we can avoid a recession and maybe the fed won't have to raise rates as aggressively. it is still a very perplexing economy but we did get, as i said, a little bit of good news today.

no inflation change month over month, chris. >> julia, what is the white house saying about these inflation numbers? >> well, president biden began his remarks today touting one word, zero. zero month over month inflation increase. but he also said, quote, people are still hurting, acknowledging the reality of most americans that while it's good that gas prices are falling, food and housing still see increased prices which is impacting families' budgets. and so he also touted the jobs report last week as well as the 3.5% unemployment rate and so he acknowledges that they're not out of the woods and so he's trying to get ahead of future potential headwinds like the war in europe or pandemic shutdowns in asia that could also cause supply chain issues in the

future, even as there seems to be progress with inflation. and so all eyes will be on that inflation reduction act as it makes its way through the house and eventually onto president biden's desk to sign. >> and in the meantime, there's a lot at stake here as you well know, robert. midterms are coming. yesterday at the signing of the chips bill, president biden said decades from now people are going to look back at this week and say that we met the moment at this inflection point in history. then "the washington post" wrote, that may be true, but they also may not remember it tomorrow. how do biden and the democrats breakthrough this nonstop noise that continues to come from donald trump? >> yeah, it's a great question. and i think the administration just has to keep chugging along. first it should largely ignore what else is happening in the news cycle particularly around donald trump, but i think focus on getting the president,

getting the cabinet, getting other members of congress out there to tout what's happening. i think there's no doubt that this economic news today is good news and the white house now wants to see that inflation number repeated month over month until we get to the -- to election day really and beyond. but they've got to go merchandise what's in the inflation reduction act. they've got to go talk about what i think biden rightly believes history books will remember well and don't forget this too, we've seen a tightening in this generic congressional ballot over the last few weeks largely driven by the supreme court's abortion decision. so all of this stuff taken together give the democrats a bit of momentum and a bit of hope heading into the last 12 1/2, 13 weeks of this election. >> is trump the biggest noise that needs to be drowned out? is it inflation? obviously, as we just talked about, the numbers are better today, but hardly good.

what are they up against? >> well, i think inflation is still the biggest thing that the white house has to combat and the biggest thing that likely keeps them awake at night. because even as we see that inflation didn't grow month over month, we're still dealing with extraordinarily high prices. really smart for the president to go out there and tout improvement but understand and live where people live and that is that inflation is too high and they're still hurting. they need to see that improve while other things help them on the way to election day. >> robert, tom, julia, thank you all so much. appreciate it. ukrainian forces say they have struck a key russian air base in crimea destroying nine more planes there and killing one person in what experts are calling a major escalation. huge blasts were reported in that territory that was annexed by russia. a ukrainian government official told "the washington post" the attack is the work of ukrainian

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office, we sign all those forms, we know them as hipaa forms. that's a federal law that protects our privacy but it only applies to it's not going to apply to facebook, et cetera. so this also leaves providers kind of in this tricky position, do they turn over this kind of information?in going forward, women and girls need to use apps that are encrypted. they need to leave their phones at home, be careful about google searches. it's a scary moment. the only entity who can fix this is the united states congress by quickly passing a law that would amend hipaa to close some of these loopholes. >> well, we'll see what happens there. but we should also say it varies from state to state. as you give this warning to folks and you talk about encryption, what are we looking at here? what kinds of penalties? what kinds of charges? >> well, that gets to the state-by-state abortion law.

in nebraska the prosecutors are going after what i think even a year ago when i would talk to people about the possibility of tinkering with roe, folks, even experts said it will never happen. it will never be that girls and women are prosecuted. we're seeing it now, chris. they're not going just after -- prosecutors aren't just going afteror providers, they're goin after women and girls for having abortions under criminal law and claiming that this is a felony and these women, frankly, and this 17-year-old child could be paying the ultimate price for this political pitch battle around abortion that's playing out. i think we are in a culture of cruelty and the laws just haven't caught up. i think it's -- there's whiplash in this moment. but there are political points to be scored, unfortunately, for being really draconian about children and women seeking

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arms will be given differently. joining me to talk about all of this, dr. kavita patel. doctor, always good to see you. now we'll get five doses out of a standard one-dose vial. given the demand and you're going from $400,000 vials to 2 million doses, it sounds significant, is it, and how effective is this much smaller dose? >> chris, good news, i'll start with the last question first. this is believed based on previous trials not one that has been done with vaccine in realtime, but with previous trials, it shows the same effectiveness and it's really that switch in the method of administration. so it's going from underneath the skin layer into the fat originally. a little bit of an angle and a different needle into the skin layer. that's the difference we're talking about here. it's not that it's easy, but

it's not something that is unfamiliar to people such as myself and primary care. and then will this be enough? i think that's the most important question. getting 2 million doses is an incredible accomplishment. it buys us time while the united states brings on some domestic manufacturing capacity. remember, all of this vaccine is coming out of one manufacturer in a european nation. we're not necessarily kind of doing it in house. but we will buy time to spend the next several months getting finishing to the manufacturing of this very necessary vaccine as it's clear that it's becoming more and more of a community spread in terms of the disease, the threat of the virus. >> you talk about the next couple of months. but in the next couple of weeks, a lot of folks are going to be going back to school and we talked about before that this health emergency is not restricted to the lgbtq community which was put out there in the beginning, but health officials are concerned that college campuses could become hot spots when students go back this fall.

in fact, even with so few people on campus in the summer, at least five colleges have confirmed cases of monkeypox. so are we right to be worried and what can be done about college campuses? >> yeah, i think college campuses -- like, i'll say health care facilities, some of the same facilities we talked about, chris, early on in covid, even just places where you have a lot of people together, correctional facilities, places where essential workers end up having to do a lot of their work often without gloves, without masks and protective equipment. i think it's an incredibly important question you're asking. we need a better handle on the spread and understanding the network of spread. we know enough about this virus. it's not new. but the epidemiology is changing. what we've known about it is different because it's coming up around the world in a way we haven't seen before. so we have to kind of design the airplane while we're also flying it and i have faith that we can do it, but we're going to need

data, state cooperation, that's why i wish we had done that public health emergency earlier. better late than never. it would have helped us weeks ago. >> even though in the beginning of this, which, you know, we were asking all of these same questions, many very similar to what we asked at the beginning of the pandemic, we were told it's not airborne. are w s of that? >> i think what we're confident of is the mechanism of spread is still close contact. that's different than the way we talk about it with covid. we talk about 15 minutes, being around somebody. this is not just touching somebody that was touching a doorknob, chris. this is definitely less contagious than the ba.5 variant, for example, but what we're learning is that what used to be skin-to-skin contact only, we're trying to understand, does this get passed on in other body secretions, vaginal fluid,

urine. that's what we're trying to unfold that was not the case just months ago. just asking somebody cough on you in close contact over and over, yes, but it's not the kind of airborne that we've been giving people precautions with covid. i say all of this to tell you that i think the risk to most people is still low because we don't see people end up in the hospital or, unfortunately -- or fortunately, dying unless they have other chronic conditions. this is an illness that can be painful, stigmatizing, we need to recognize it and treat it early for that reason, but it's still less severe than any of what we've discussed around covid, even in the early months when we had all of those deaths around us. >> i live in a dorm and i have four or five suite mates, are we back to the monitor where we're saying, maybe we wear a mask when we're indoors or in close quarters or go to a class where there are several hundred people in an auditorium? >> yeah, this is -- number one i

don't think this is a scenario where roommates or even if you're sending a young adult off to school for a period of time that you would take different precautions other than, chris, if you have any sort of new or suspicious illness, a new rash, those are all telltale signs to get checked early. we do have the testing available. and then absolutely, chris, if you are on a campus where there has been a known outbreak, yes, that would be a reason -- maybe not the masking. but to think about hand hygiene, very important, thinking about cleaning of surfaces, something the school should take seriously or institutions, and then third, any sort of vaccine strategy. this is where those 2 million doses can go quickly, an entire campus can go through those vaccines in a heartbeat. i think those are the kinds of precautions we need to take. anybody going back to school, no matter what age, think about your surroundings and then think about your own illness and the people around you, take those precautions and that will be

safer than doing anything or getting scared about something that might not be relevant to your neck of the woods. >> always so much great advice. doctor, thank you so much. a pilot's quick thinking saved the lives of his two passengers when he made a crash landing on a freeway in southern california tuesday afternoon. look at this. it happened after the single-engine plane lost power midflight and the pilot landed it on the 91 freeway before it burst into flames. here's more from miguel almaguer. >> it was pretty scary. >> reporter: pilot andrew cho says he's lucky to be alive. his small plane crash landing onto a california freeway, clipping the back of a pickup truck with three people inside before bursting into flames in the middle of traffic about 50 miles southeast of los angeles. miraculously, no one in the plane or on the ground was

injured. >> responding to a plane crash on the freeway. >> this video appears to show people running from the wreckage. >> airplane landed on the freeway. >> reporter: he and a friend were taking a lunchtime flight to catalina island in his single-engine piper when he began to have engine trouble and had to quickly decide where to land. >> we weren't going to be able to make the airport landing field without hitting a building. i had to make a decision to land on the freeway. >> reporter: cho and his friend kicking out a door of the plane minutes before the plane erupted into a fiery ball of flames. firefighters putting out the blaze as everyone in the area breathed a sigh of relief. >> i'm ecstatic, i'm alive. >> no kidding. here's my question, you're driving your truck and in your rearview mirror you see a plane

coming at you? what do you do? they did not cover that in my driver's training courses. the highway patrol says the fact that no one was injured is remarkable and the faa is investigating exactly what happened. more misery for those trying to fly. more than 1,000 flights were delayed, 200 more canceled just yesterday. of course we know airlines are facing staff shortages, bad weather, high demand for travel. in an appearance this morning on "morning joe," transportation secretary pete buttigieg said his department is working to hold airlines accountable. >> look, i would prefer -- when the right thing to do is to roll up our sleeves and bring the airlines to the table and work with them, i prefer to do that. we're going to use our enforcement powers to make sure passengers have a better experience. >> airlines are planning to thin out their schedules ahead of the fall. secretary buttigieg said they expect demand to drop after the summer before it picks back up

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the stage is now set for what's expected to be an epic governor's race expected to be governor's rac

the incumbent will face the outsider, who says the endorsement he received from president trump was crucial in him winning his party's primary. already you're see the role, getting a preview of the role that former president trump will play. listen to the messages we heard from both of these candidates. >> i'd like to thank president trump for his support.

it was a tremendous validation of our meteoric rise in this campaign. he knows we need new leadership in madison. he didn't have to run for president, i don't have to run for governor. >> donald trump's not running in this race. if michaels lets him be his partner day after day, that's his problem, not mine. we are going to be focusing on what the people of wisconsin care about. >> reporter: chris, this is a race r that will be incredibly important, not just for the mid terms but when you think about 2024 and the certification of election results and setting election laws in this state. expect a lot of attention to be focused and a lot of money to be spent by thet candidates and outside groups. >> and this is one of only two republican-held seats that the political report suggests is up for grabs. what are we looking for?

>> reporter: another race where there are those national implications. reason johnson isal the incumbe republican senator representing the state of wisconsin. if you look at polls, the gold standard of polls here, he's one of the most vulnerable of senators across the country. he's relatively unpopular. he said he was only going to run for two terms and is running for a third. last night they nominated the lieutenant governor who has popularity. the one word you hear of him is he has a broad coalition of support. again, this will be an expensive race. a lot of eyes focused on this race when. you have that 50/50 senate, every race50 is important, especially when you're talking about the senate and ron johnson is someone who has been hund in all polls before his two previous wins and that's the case now. we'll see t if he's able to eke out another win this time around, chris. >> shaq brewster, always great to see you out there on the

road. thank you so much. >> and nbc's plan your vote tool is here to help you successfully file your ballot. >> and file this under shouldn't we have seen this coming? pizza loving italy home to some of the best pizza in the world won't be home to domino's anymore. it is closing what was once three dozen stores. american-type toppings like pineapple and barbecue never caught on. that's going to do it for us this hour. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" 1:00 eastern time. "katy tur reports" starts next.

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good to be with you. i'm katy tur. we're learning a little bit more about what happened on mara lago on monday and a little more of the political consequences of the justice department's decision to search the former president's private home and club. here is what we can report right now. donald trump's lawyers say federal investigators searched a bedroom, an office and