good to be with you. i'm katy tur. we had our fingers in the air the other day to see which way the wind was blowing and today we're feeling a decent gust, a gust of good news for democrats. the overturning of roe v. wade changed the political atmosphere for the mid terms. case in point, new york's 19th district where democrat pat ryan won by putting abortion front and center in his campaign to beat marc molinaro who was running on crime and cost of living. >> when the supreme court ripped

away abortion rights, we said this is not what america stands for. >> can we really make broad predictions about how abortion will play from what happened in a blue state look new york? well, yes, as one of the best political prognosticators out there, dave wasserman, will explain later on. it was also a good night for the mainstream candidates. jerry nadler bested a self-style progressive change candidate. and it seems like potentially daniel goldman might as well, though that race is still too close to call. while on the republican side, ultra maga candidates calling for the arrest of anti-maga

candidates all lost. charlie crist is now the democratic challenger to ron desantis. and val demings will take on marco rubio. it's all happening and it all getting very interesting indeed. let's begin with that special election up there in new york's 19th. dasha burns is in kingston, new york. ryan put abortion front and center. he said this is about women's rights, it's about freedom, it's about democracy and he was able to beat molinaro, who was pretty well known there. he was the executive. >> reporter: this result is significant. the first competitive congressional race since roe v. wade was overturned and possibly

the last real bellwether we're going to have and it sent a message that abortion can drive voters to the poll. this was far from a guaranteed victory for ryan. most had him behind molinaro. this could have been a fairly easy pick up for republicans. instead ryan really had a solid victory here. i asked him about what message this sends to the country. i want you to listen carefully to how he frames this. >> i think the messages on fundamental rights and freedoms are under attack and we have to stand up and fight and be strong and clear. when you do that, people rally. the issues at stake, reproductive rights, abortion access, are fundamental rights that transcend partisanship.

we saw that in kansas, in new york and i think we'll continue to see it. >> reporter: fundamental rights, freedoms. you're going to talk to dave wasserman but you're going to talk about what can we take away from this? i don't think that's a one-off. that language he's using is very similar to what i saw on the ground in kansas before we saw that surprising and overwhelming victory for democrats on that anti-abortion amendment that was voted down by such large numbers. i think that messaging really tying abortion rights to the constitution, to freedom, to government overreach, we're going to keep hearing that ahead of november. it's been a pretty successful message from what we've seen so far. we did get a statement from mark molinaro. he told us in a statement that

while this is not the victory that they were hoping for that sort of blaming in on the fact that a lot of democrats had competitive races here. but, listen, i think this is going to being is. you think a lot of democratic strategists will be calling the ryan campaign looking for that secret sauce. >> joining me is anna palmer and mark caputo. let's talk about abortion. i've heard a lot of democrats on the campaign say if republicans are elected into the house, they control the house, the senate, the white house, they're going to try and pass a national ban on abortion, a federal ban on abortion. is that sort of language, that sort of messaging working for the democrats? and not just getting democrats to turn up and show up but also independents and maybe some republicans who say i don't know

if i'm comfortable with that? >> i think what we've seen is on the national level you had a lot of these groups that spent decades trying to get roe v. wade overturned. now they have moved the goalpost a lot would say tho this national ban. when you see this concept of overreach, you had in new york that he was saying voice was on the ballot. i do think it's noteworthy that we have been trapping a lot of advertisements, the proud democrats had been positioning themselves through the post-dobbs decision. there have been a few members who have gone very aggressively on this message. but a lot of democrats are not using abortion as the only thing they are talking about. it will being it, do you see a lot of the modern, front-line

democrats whether or not they maintain a majority in the house -- so what has been the messaging? i know i'm asking to generalize, all of the house democrats are running for reelection. >> there's a couple of key messages. a lot of it has been in the concept of inflation, in terms of what they have been doing, in terms of bringing industry jobs back to their own community. build back better, you're going to see a lot of folks messaging around that. on the advertising front, there has not been a ground swell of democrats in the house in particular that aren't these and i think that is something that you feel is that going to shift? we will have to see that in the coming days and weeks. certainly sean patrick maloney

and and where a couple months ago a lot of them on capitol hill felt a little bit like dead man walking and it seems as though this abortion messaging is going to be that shift in narrative. >> mark, let's talk about florida. we saw val demings win, saw charlie crist win. both of familiar faces right now. would you say the democrats were looking for safer people to run against two high-profile republicans? >> demings is not as well known as crist. crist has won i think seven times since 1998 under three different party banners. he's a known commodity. and his opponent in the democratic primary for governor, nikki freed, she didn't rauz the

on the other hand, demings has essentially been appointed by the democratic establishment. she was on the short lives to be and before that was a house impeachment manager for the first impeachment of president trump. she's run a very interesting campaign against marco rubio in his reelection. she's spent a lot of money and a lot of time prospecting and raisering had as you were talking about earlier, different democrats not embracing abortion as a primary issue. val demings is aform police chief. she led off with an an anti-defund the police ad. it o bothered some progressives, but the demings campaign argues

this is appeal, snoo cuss if there's a bright spot for democrats in a reddening state in florida, val demings. governor ron desantis is sittingin 140 million in cash. that's not how much he raised. it's even more of a record that he hasly has it as cash on hand. for the first time in year compared to all other years, registered republicans now outnumber registered democrats in the state and then you do have a certain rough ride with the economic news, inflation, i should say, all those together really make it for a tough road to ho for.

>> in talking about desantis, it's helpful, i think, to look back to it, donald trump helped him back then. he campaigns all the time that woke is going to die in florida, this is where woke comes to die. has going after these hot button issues and trying to be really outspoken on them, has that endeared him to the florida electorate? is that what's causing him to be so strong? is it just outside groups giving him a bunch of money or is florida really liking it? i wonder if all of florida thinks you the stuff that he's going after is a but to break down your question in parts, what really sort of launched descentis into the national

really conscious knit and then was his resistance to covid closure policies and his insistence on opening the state. that brought him a lot of attention and a lot of love from regular workers. i've herd this from they're like,a, and his subsequent evolution into a more and more far right politician, that's relatively knew. we'll go they like his authenticity. and a little hot tempered. how that plays kpr. >> what about this new desantis ad?

it's a "top gun" ad, shows him in a flute suit. some folks out there are comparing this to the michael due kakis, where twrrk there's a big, long bit of history between these two events but i guess, i don't know, how is it playing? now, there is a striking similarity. but there is a huge difference between ron due ak frjs he was a jack. he was a lawyer. he department fly around in planes and do that sort of stuff. but the overall message of this ad is interesting. he's not attacking the democrats. he's going after the news media. that's the kind of the sweet for

and natural lip raising his profile and his donor base. >> i'm sure. we're also willing to folg breaking news from the white house. first lady's office has said she tested positive for covid again after a negative test yesterday. the white house says the first lady's symptoms are not back but she will stay eight lated for now. one of the best political progress nos camers. >> here's a link to an example. go back and try again. what a federal judge just told donald trump's lawyers. and $20,000 back in your pocket.

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. it read more like a campaign press release and now the judge who received donald trump's request for a special master agrees. now the judge told him and his lawyers to go back and try again. the errant court filing offered a glimpse into the confusion and uncertainty the investigation has exposed inside mr. trump's camp. and nbc news has new reporting on the assessment of what the trove of documents at mar-a-lago did to national security. 700 pages of classified documents, some with the highest classification markings for current and u.s. officials tell nbc news that despite all of that, despite the government

knowing since january that highly sensitive information was being stored at the former president's florida home and private club, a formal damage assessment still does not appear to have been launched. joining me is carol lengthic, national reporter at the "washington post" and andrew weisman, msnbc legal analyst. carol, let's talk about trump's lawyers. they're not the cream of the crop. it's not like he has his pick of anybody in the country and he no longer has the protections he was afforded when he was in the white house. what can we glean from the way he's filing motions and from your source conversations about who he is trying to hire and the decision making process. >> it's a great question, katy. if you're a president or former president, the normal experience you would have is that every amazing lawyer in the country

anybody you wanted would be willing to be hired. but sources that i spoke with yesterday said that even for some of trump's aids and confidantes, as the trump team cast about calls to see if they could get representation to them, lawyers responded first off, we don't want anything to do with this team and, second off, we're not sure we would get paid. the same is true for donald trump. he's not a particularly ideal client, he doesn'tless ennow one last thing that you have asked, which i feel is really important to address, which is president trump has some good lawyers with actual experience in federal court and that is not saying a lot but it's important.

and one of those individuals was hired literally on a consequence call at the women of a former president tart and have the right national security clearances to review the record that were classified that the national archives was asking the president's team to look over? they weren't qualified to come and he hired corcoran on a conference call saying you'll handle this for right now, is that good in so that's what we're dealing with here, katy, a

kind of multiple of changes. >> from nbc's reporting, a formal damage assessment has not been conducted, which i think can get confusing to a lot of people. why would that not take place? >> i think there may be some confusion that doesn't really deserve the sort of kerfuffle it may cause. there are a lot of reasons why there is an ongoing criminal investigation and an ongoing factual investigation before you would be able to do a sort of formal assessment. in other words, the formal assessment is something where you need to know all of the facts in order to actually then

engage in what the intelligence community will denominate a formal assessment. but i strongly expect what's going on behind the scenes is what a lot of us would think of as that assessment. order and who had access to these documents and what, if anything, was done with these documents. was there any third party given the documents or the information contained in those documents. i wouldn't necessarily get hung up in this issue of is it considered formal or informal because it's not that. >> we also got a little bit of news from representative scott perry who had his cell phone seized by the fbi a few weeks ago, maybe a couple months ago at this point. he is suing for the return of

the cell phone if from accessing the data while the most is under consideration. and i think this is a lot for johnniesman. i can tell you there's a big difference in quality. these look like actual legal papers. the a making it clear that donald trump had a and that is not the case in perry a fan he also filed in so it remains to be seen what exactly is going on. it's also unclear why he filed

in d. frrnl so there he is taking a page from donald trump, who it's not at all clear why the case was filed and landed in the particular nm and said why is this forming and why did you not go to judge rinne heart. is snpgs and donald trump's lawyers, whether it's inadvertent or not, did not do that. so there's some similarities and some differences in the two filings. >> all right, a lot happening there. we have a lot to look forward to tomorrow, or maybe nothing as all, as why we'll see if anything comes of that and

whether it's all just incomprehensible gibberish, as he was saying. andrew weisman, thank you very much. the irs has launched a comprehensive review of its safety and security measures following threats on social media. the internal members memo comes after the agent's first such review since the bombing of the alfred t murrow federal building that was bombed. the ira, the reflection reduction act, is giving a lot

of money to the irs. why is it giving money to the irs? >> it is giving $180 billion in funding to the irs but that's over ten years. as you mentioned, some politicians and many members of the republican party have been arguing this is all part of the biden administration wanting to increase the size of the irs and then many of these agents will apparently be armed and target middle class or low-income families. however, according to the treasury secretary that is not the case, that the funding will be used, yes, for some enforcement of high net worth individuals and businesses but that there will not be an increase of audits of lower income americans. and as you mentioned just yesterday comes this letter to its employees from the irs commissioner pointing out that in recent days there has been an abundance of misinformation and false social media postings, some of them with threats directed at the irs and its

employees. we should note that the irs commissioner was appointed by former president trump. katy, i've been speaking with the president of the irs employees union in chicago. she says that employees feel that they are under threat, that they're extremely concerned, that she is urging them to actually hide their badges when they lead the building because of this increase in threats. she says that words have power and she is disappointed to see that republicans have been, you know, saying what she says is misinformation here. again, that letter coming yesterday. the irs commissioner undergoing now a comprehensive review of 600 or so irs facilities throughout the country, katy. >> even just shoring up the physical security around those buildings. if you want a glimpse of just what the irs is do el with,

google irs cafeteria. that's all you have to do. president biden is about to tell millions of americans some good news. the student loan announcement that will cancel a lot of debt for a lot of you. we're going to go live to the white house. plus kids are scared, parents are skup set and one man might be about to lose his job. what's happening in uvalde ahead of the first day of classes? and yet, maintaining control of the house is not out of the question. >> dave wassman explains why this mid term year may be an exceptional mid term year indeed. exceptional mid term year indeed ♪ (queen - we will rock you) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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[school bells] when pain says, “i'm here,” i say, “so are they.” ♪♪ aleve - who do you take it for? republicans have been campaigning on it for years but now that the supreme court has actually overturned roe v. wade, the political consequences are biting them back. joining me is the senior editor for the cook political report, dave wasserman. we've been watching heavily the new york 19th where pat ryan won by campaigning on abortion. can we take a lot away from this considering he's campaigning on abortion in a very blue state where abortion is protected? are you able to say, yes, we can transpose that on races that are going to happen in the rest of

the country in november? >> there's no question this is a huge victory for democrats. this is a bellwether position that biden carried in 2020. that's pretty much the mid point of the house of representatives. i think there's clear evidence that post-dobbs the environment has shifted in democrats' favor. where my caution flag would be is turnout in these specials has been really, really tiny. and they've been benefiting in heavily college educated areas in these races, but it's a fraction of the november electorate that's going to turn out. so the other half that's missing that. >> what about the enthusiasm in the gop? are they showing up? >> they're not. and you'd think that in the wake

of the fbi search at mar-a-lago, there would be a fired up republican electorate. that was not what happened in upstate new york. there are real question marks about republicans' enthusiasm with just a couple months to go here. >> you said back in may that the house outlook was a gop gain of 20 to 35 seats. that was i'm sure good news to kevin mccarthy. you've changed that outlook from 10 to 20's for the gop but you also say it's not out of the question that democrats maintain control of the house. what will you be watching for? >> we're going to be watching to see how democrats in these key district are they going to be running exclusively on dobbs or are they going to be trying to disqualify their republican opponents as too extreme?

keep in mind, they have little money to counter democrat incumbents' spending advantage, particularly in the coming months. >> there's cost of living going down, prices at the pump are going down, all of this stuff that the republicans have been campaigning on, that the economy was terrible, deficit was looming and democrats weren't helping any, only making republicans worse. yet republicans, as far as i can tell, is something and yet gas prices coming down has taken a bite out of that. it doesn't resonate with voters as recently as the democratic attacks of republicans being too

far yet democratic voters are still focused on the economy as their number one issue. this could be a case where in the mid term it's a referendum on the incoming president and looking at biden's approval ratings being it and that has helped flip the kr. >> reporter: there was a great frustration in the middle of the pandemic where a lot of folks were leaving folks in cities and populated zones and moving to suburban areas or rural areas. have enough folks moved from more democratic areas into republican areas to make a difference in these races? >> i do believe you saw that on display in the special election in new york 19 yesterday because there are so many white collar professionals who have moved into the hudson valley in the last couple years and can do

their jobs from home and they're voting in this election. that said will be a significant impact in most of these districts this are that are more or less toss-ups. if they split down the middle, republicans would still gain in the mid teens but our forecast of their gains seems to be diminishing by the week. >> and the senate, what are you watching out for there? i know we're talking about mitch mcconnell is worried and thinks democrats are going to maintain control. is there a surprisingly vulnerable republican right now? is it marco rubio maybe in florida or are you looking at someone else? >> right now i think both florida and ohio are mirages for democrats. i see no reason to believe that we're going to see val demings come close given that the

registration patterns in miami dade county of favorable to republicans. i don't see how democrats win statewide without rolling out a huge margin there and marco rubio is quite popular in that part of the state. the surprise race could be ohio where j.d. vance has seemed allergic to campaigning and that has given tim ryan the airwaves. in the end, i still see republicans still holding both those stays. >> dave wasserman, thank you for joining us. we are still keeping an eye on the white house where president biden is going to talk about his plan to forgive student loans. how much money is he talking about, who will get it? plus police arendo but at the

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astepro and go. president zelenskyy says at least 15 people are dead and another 50 are injured in a russian rocket attack at a railway station in ukraine. today is ukraine's independence day, the 31st anniversary of its liberation from soviet rule. the usual celebrations have been scaled back over fears russia may use the symbolism of the day to step up attacks and it seems like they have. this morning president zelenskyy addressed the u.n. security council to mark the anniversary and declared the country reborn and reconfirmed that ukraine's ultimate goal is victory. british prime minister boris johnson marked the day with an unannounced visit to kyiv to show the u.k.'s continued

support and president biden announced a nearly $3 billion package in military aid for ukraine. joining me from kyiv is josh lederman. they were worried about attacks and they got one. >> reporter: that's right, katy. president zelenskyy warned they might expect something particularly vicious as this country marks six months of war. today president zelenskyy telling the u.n. this this rocket strike that hit a railway center in nipro people died and we heard air raid sirens go off half a dozen times, more than usually. and as the iaea warns that there

has been additional shelling at the nuclear plant, president zelenskyy is urging the world to resolve that crisis as well. >> let's go to the white house where the president is speaking on student loans. >> i was would argue that's one of the reasons why we were so successful and had been so successful. as you've always observed other nations have caught up. in the 21st century in my view, i think the vast majority of americans, 12 years of university education is not enough and that we're going to be outcompeted by the rest of the world if we don't take action. here's the deal -- the cost of education beyond high school has gone up significantly. the total cost to attend a public four-year university has nearly tripled in 40 years. instead of properly funding public colleges, many states have cut back their support. we were just talking about that in the oval.

many states have cut back support for their state universities, leaving students to pick up more of the tab. for 50 years pell grants had been a key way for the federal government to help lower income families, particularly those earning less than $60,000 a year to send their kids to college. those pell grants used to cover 80%, 80% of the cost of going to a public four-year college. today pell grants cover 30% -- roughly 32%. that's one third of the cost as opposed to before. it matters. i remember walking up -- my dad like probably a lot of your folks, my dad cared a lot about education. my dad's greatest regret was he never got to go to college. my dad was a very well-read man, particularly history. but it was a great regret.

he'd always say, "joey, you're going to be a college man." and i'd say, dad, what does that matter? you can still get fired if you're a college man. he said, yeah, but they can never take it away from you, never take your education away. i remember my senior year i got into one of the ivys and into a number of schools. we were trialing to get the financial assistance to go there. we had four kids, all of us wanting to go to school. i remember going down after a baseball game, i went to a really good school up in claymont, delaware and i drove down to newark where my dad worked, and when your dad works as an automobile agency, great advantage, you get a new prom to go to the prom or a good used car. you think i'm joking. i'm not joking. i went down in my '51 plymouth

with beach towels for seat covers. i had my uniform on and i said where's dad? she said he's out in the lane going into the my word, true sty dad was a well dressed refined fellow and my dad was pacing back and forth between the big garage door going into the repair shop and the door going out of the showroom. i looked up. joey. i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. i thought, god, something happened. this was before cell phones. i thought something happened to one of my brothers or my sister or my mom or something. what's the matter, dad? he said, i went to he see -- the guy's name charlie, a vice president of the farmer's bank which was a state-owned bank that did a lot of the financing of people wanting to purchase a car, he said i went to charlie

and asked to borrow the money, and he said he won't lend it to me. he said i'm so ashamed. i'm so dam ashamed. you know, my dad would -- you know, my dad was like millions of parents all across the country. want to help their kids get to school but there was no way to be able to do it. you know, and because he believed, as i do, that education was a ticket to a better life. but something jill and i and kamala and doug understand deeply, and the vast majority of you do as well, over time that ticket has become too expensive for too many americans. all this means is the entire -- an entire generation is saddled with unsustainable debt in exchange for an attempt at a college degree. the burds son heavy, even if you graduate you may not have access to the middle-class life that college degree once provided. many people, many people can't qualify for a mortgage to buy a

home because the debt they continue to carry. you know, they carry -- it's too high and they can't come up with the down payment anyway. a lot of folks are putting off starting families. many of you had to leave school because borrowers. the burdsen is heavy on black and hispanic borrowers. they don't own their homes to pay for college. the pandemic made things worse. but we responded aggressively to the pandemic to minimize the economic impact and the harm covid imposed on individual

family and businesses. we provide loans to small businesses to stay afloat and take care of their families and employees. we provided assistance to put on the table. remember the long lines you would film of cars, decent looking cars, not bad, nice cars, waiting for a box of food to be put in the trunk in the united states of america. waiting for over an hour to get food in the trunk. we provided rent and mortgage assistance to keep people from being evicted and thrown out in the street. our approach to help americans who need it the most was necessary and it was the right thing to do, and it helped people avoid financial crises which helped our whole country as a consequence of that. it benefitted the whole economy. our approach is why america's economic recovery was faster and

stronger than any other advanced nation in the world. now it's time to address the burden student debt in the same way. working closely with the secretary of education -- he's got the hard job. secretary cardona, here's what my administration is going to do to provide more breathing room for people so they have less burden by student debt. quite frankly, to fix the system itself. which we came in and both acknowledged was broken in terms of -- anyway. there are three key factors. first, we've made incredible progress advancing america's economic recovery. wound down pandemic relief programs like the ones of unemployment insurance and small businesses. it's time we do the same thing for student loans. student loan payments is going to end, going to end -- i'm extending it to december 31st,

2022, and it's going to end at that time. it's time for the payments to resume. second, my campaign for president, i made a commitment, i made a commitment that we'd provide student debt relief. i'm honoring that commitment today. using the authority congress granted through the department of education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding federal student loans. in addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a pell grant, will have their debt reduced $20,000. both of these targeted actions are for families who need it the most. working and middle-class people hit especially hard during the pandemic, making under $125,000 a year. you make more than that you don't qualify. no high-income individual or high-income household on top of

the 5% in the top 5% of incomes, by the way, will benefit from this action, period. in fact, about 90% of the eligible beneficiaries make under $75,000 a family. here's what that means. if you make under $125,000, you get $10,000 knocked off your student debt. if you make under $125,000 a year and you received a pell grant, you'll get an additional $10,000 knocked off that total for a total of $20,000 relief. 95% of the borrowers can benefit from these actions. that's 43 million people. of the 43 million, over 60% are pell grant recipients, 27 million who will get $20,000 in debt relief. nearly 45% can have their student debt fully canceled.

that's 20 million people who can start getting on with their lives. all this means, people can start finally to crawl out from that mountain of debt to get on top of their rent and utilities, to finally think about buying a home or starting a family or starting a business. and by the way, when this happens, the whole economy is better off. in the coming weeks the department of education will lay out in detail a short and simple form to apply for this relief along with information when this application process opens. by resuming student loan payments at the same time, as we provide targeted relief, we're taking an economically responsible course. as a consequence, about $50 billion a year will start coming back in to the treasury because the resumption of debt. independent experts agree that these actions, taken together,

will provide real benefits for families without meaningful affect on inflation. let's be clear. i hear it all the time. how do we pay for it? we pay for it by what we've done. last year we cut the deficit by $350 billion. this year we're on track to cut it by $1.7 trillion by the end of the fiscal year. the single largest deficit reduction in a single year in the history of america. the inflation reduction act will cut it another $300 billion over the next decade because medicare will pay less for prescription drugs and over a trillion dollars if you add it out the next two decades. the point is this -- there's plenty of deficit reduction to pay for the programs cumulative to pay for the programs many times over. i will never apologize for helping americans working -- working americans and middle class, especially not to the same folks who voted for a $2

trillion tax cut that mainly benefitted the wealthiest americans and the biggest corporations that slowed the economy, didn't do a lel hell of a lot for economic growth and wasn't paid for and racked up this enormous deficit. just as we've never apologized when the federal government forgave almost every single cent over $700 billion in loans to hundreds of thousands of small businesses across america during the pandemic. no one complained those loans caused inflation. a lot of folks and small businesses are working middle-class families that needed help and it was the right thing to do. so the outrage over helping working people with student loans i think is simply wrong, dead wrong. third thing, we're fixing the student loan program system itself. we've talked about this at length. this is really important.

we're proposing to make what's called an income driven repayment plan simple and fair. here's how. no one with an undergraduate loan today or in the future for community or a four-year college will have to pay more than 5% of their discretionary income to repay their loan. that's income after you pay the necessities like housing, food and the like. you currently pay 10%. we're cutting that in half to 5%. after you pay your loan for 20 years, your obligation will be fulfilled if it hasn't already, meaning you won't have to pay any more period. and borrowers whose original balance less than $12,000, many of whom are community college students, will be done paying just after ten years. these changes will save more than $1,000 a year on average from a borrower. it's a game c