good day, this is "andrea mitchell reports" in new york today as president biden sharpens his midterm messaging with a blistering attack against his predecessor, slamming donald trump and his followers. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election,

either they win or they were cheated. now the monthly jobs report is out today showing continued strength in some sectors. weakness in a few others. >> with today's news, we have now created nearly 10 million new jobs since i took office. bottom line is, jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work and we're seeing some signs that inflation may be -- may be -- i'm not over promising, may be beginning to ease. >> i will talk to treasury secretary janet yellen about the jobs numbers and today's big g7 announcement that the world's leading economies are capping the price of russian oil to try to limit the profits. helping fund vladimir putin's war machine in ukraine. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin is appearing

before the january 6 grand jury. the congressional committee is asking former house speaker newt gingrich to appear for an interview about his alleged role in helping spark the riot. we will break down the latest from the federal judge in florida overseeing donald trump's request for an independent master to review the documents seized in the mar-a-lago search. we begin with president biden. joining me now reporter shannon pettypiece, susan page and white house editor sam stein. shannon, what were your takeaways from the president's speech and the reaction from his predecessor to the attacks? >> reporter: it was obviously a very direct speech. the president was holding no punches here as he clearly tried to make his case for why he sees former president donald trump and his allies as being a major threat to the fundamentals of democracy. it's a theme that the president has talked about before. actually going back to 2017 when

he first started talking about this what he calls a battle for the soul of the nation. white house officials say that this theme has taken on new importance and new significance as these sort of fringe theories and conspiracy theories have taken hold in the mainstream republican party, something they are increasingly seeing. we are seeing it increase in voters as well. nbc news poll from august showed that now the number one issue for voters is no longer the economy, it is threats to democracy. a major shift there. the white house aware of the numbers, aware of the significance of this issue. as the president and democrats head into this crucial post labor day period right before the midterms, less than -- a little over two months away, the president laying out clearly what he sees as something that's going to be central to the message that he and democrats are going to make heading into the elections.

>> sam stein, we saw this contrast yesterday. the president calling for the preservation of democracy. talking about the threats. president trump saying that he is financially supporting january 6 dependents and is considering pardoning many of them if he becomes president. >> gene:. >> yeah. two leaders on very diverge enter paths, i would say. i think the white house obviously recognizes that that case -- i think to a degree they are seeking to make this contrast. they don't mind trump is necessarily back in the spotlight, even if it compels them to talk about these issues like the president did last night. they view the issue of democracy as something that is not just animating joe biden personally but that animates the electorate itself. it doesn't hurt matters when you have donald trump out there being investigated on multiple fronts but also saying, i would pardon a number of january 6 rioters if i were to win re-election.

>> susan, let's talk about the president. his poll numbers are up in a "wall street journal" poll. gas prices moderating. the abortion issue fuelling democratic enthusiasm. we have seen that in kansas and in the new york special election. how much of a factor is biden now? is he still, do you think, a real problem for democratic incumbents? is that becoming less of an issue? >> neither democrats nor republicans can believe quite where we are as we get to this labor day start of the midterm elections sprint. i think neither side expected things to be lining up quite so well for democrats. it looks very difficult -- it looks unlikely we will see the republican wave had a would sweep in a big majority in the house and perhaps also win control of the senate. that doesn't mean that president

biden is a big asset for democratic candidates in swing districts and swing states. but he is proving not to be the drag that historically presidents with relatively low approval ratings have been. we see in the senate races, for instance, democratic candidates routinely running more strongly than the president. a portion of the electorate is bigger than joe biden's approval rating in that state. that's a little surprising. if that holds, it means that joe bidn is some help but less of a hindrance than some feared a month ago. >> thanks so much for kicking us off on this friday. joining me now, california congressman khana. thanks for being with us. is this -- you are a progressive in the democratic caucus. is this the speech you have been waiting to hear? >> it was a strong speech. you can tell the president has

his momentum back. he is calling out extreechl -- extreme threats. the threat of conspiracy theories. he is not attacking democrats, independents or republicans. he is attacking extremism. >> at the same time, to play difsh ill's advocate, this is what the republicans are saying, he ran as a healer. this was the most blistering attack, name checking donald trump and really saying that there's a threat to the democracy going forward. one of the worst threats to the very existence of america. >> the president does want to bring people together. he is. we passed the chips act bringing semiconductor manufacturing to ohio. republican governor dewine in ohio was part of that. he is not calling out republicans. we want republicans to join us. here is what he is calling out. he is saying, let's condemn

violence against the fbi. let's lower the temperature in this country. let's not say the election was stolen. these are some basic things that i think there are a lot of republicans who are going to agree with the president that extremism has not place in american politics. >> doesn't it make it harder for republicans to vote for him when he has this kind of a frontal attack on republicans? he said maga republicans. but doesn't that also translate to a large number of voters who might have been open to working with him? >> like many people, i have friends who voted for donald trump. i have extended family members who voted for donald trump. no one is saying every person of the 74 million who voted for donald trump is somehow extreme. what we are calling out is some of the leaders and people in social media who are inciting violence, who are engaged in conspiracy theories. that toxicity is what this

country doesn't need. if people want to work together to rebuild manufacturing, to help make sure america leads, i'm open to it, the president is open to it. that's what i think we need as a new economic patriotism. we have to get the extremes out. we want to win over a lot of the people who we didn't have in the last election. >> you are on the oversight committee. you are awaiting that assessment from the director of national intelligence about the fbi search of what was such -- so many classified, top secret, top secret compartmentalized documents. are you concerned about the federal judge indicating she's inclined do this and not challenging at all the trump lawyer on executive privilege, which donald trump no longer has? are you concerned this might slow down that damage assessment? >> i am.

the good news though is that it can be appealed right away to the 11th circuit. i think the judge would have a hard time writing something that wouldn't be overturned on appeal. all the justice department is saying is that they should be able to review these documents if the president has attorney/client privilege, that has been accounted for. the executive privilege, he is no longer president of the united states. i think this will be resolved in a favorable way. i'm concerned it's a delay tactic. >> thank you very much, congressman. thanks for being with us today. >> thank you. on that subject, the transfer list. the department of justice detailing what the fbi took from the mar-a-lago as we await a decision on whether the court is going to appoint that special master. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. . ♪ ♪

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the justice department has released a more detailed list of what they seized at mar-a-lago in response to the florida federal judge's order last night. it shows 48 empty folders marked classified, raising questions about whether there is more material that may have been removed before the search. the federal judge is still considering whether to grant donald trump's request for a neutral party or master to review the documents for any that might be privileged, despite the government's argument they completed that filter review and granting trump's request would interfere with the investigation. joining me now ken dilanian, harry litman and glen kurstell. ken, take us through what we know from the inventory released and from what many people thought was a remarkable hearing yesterday. >> reporter: right. i think in terms of the inventory, the thing you mentioned is a very important

observation. so many empty folders marked classified. what happened to those documents? the other thing we can glean from the inventory, it doesn't tell us more detail about the nature of the classified documents or really about the nature of many of the other documents, but there were 10,000 non-classified government documents they seized. it tells us that classified documents were mixed and intermingled with other records. it tells us that they were in a lot of different boxes that were sitting in that storage room in mar-a-lago. remember, they were found there after the trump custodian of records swore to the justice department that they had done a diligent search and found no further classified records. after they denied a justice department official the opportunity to open those boxes when he toured the storage room. it's inexplicable how the trump people tell them it wasn't there. the biggest takeaway from the

hearing is that while donald trump continues to say he declassified the documents, his lawyers are not making that argument. they didn't make it in the brief or in the hearing yesterday. they said that these are presidential records and, of course, they contain highly sensitive material and they said this is really just a dispute with the archives. they liken it to an overdue library book, which, of course, to the justice department is absurd. that's not how they see the case at all. >> harry, she didn't seem to challenge the argument that there was executive privilege on these by a former president. >> she was at least intrigued by it. the more you think about it, the more forboden it is. she would be pulling a string that just has never been pulled before. think about it for a second. attorney/client privilege, sure. trump has some interest there if he was speaking with his own lawyer. executive privilege? what does that mean? it must mean he is a former president and has some interest in the documents.

how does it stack up against biden's interests? when does it give ground? it undermines the theory of the case that he had no right to be taking these away at all. the implications and the sort of unintended or maybe intended consequences of recognizing, flirting with the idea are immense. that's why it has never come up in a special master situation, all the cases that trump proffers are about attorney/client. that's what i and others are holding our breath about, hoping that she doesn't go any further on the sort of flirtation with it, that she definitely had in yesterday's hearing. >> glen, help me on something i've been wondering. you are the ultimate expert here on all things classified, having dealt with so many issues, of course, in your job at the nsa.

how can the director of the national -- how do they know what happened over the months, more than a year where the documents where at mar-a-lago? whom did he speak to about them? whom did he show them to? if anyone. what happened to those documents during that period? during part of that time, a chinese spy was stopped and convicted and eventually deported back after serving some time for trying to penetrate mar-a-lago. it's an open place. how will they ever assess the damage? >> andrea, you hit the nail on the head. that's the issue. there's two parts to this. one is figuring out what was in the classified documents for purposes of determining just if a particular secret was revealed, how bad that would be. the other piece of this is trying to rule out the

possibility that anyone else, as you suggested, could have had access to it. the analogy i would use is, think of what would happen if you, say, lost your keys to your house and your car and several hours later, a day later someone turned up at your front door and said, here are your keys, you would worry about, can i sleep at night at this house? do i have to change the locks, the lock on my car? how do i know for sure that no one copied the key? you get the analogy. the same principal is true in counterintelligence. when we believe that a code has been compromised or a communication has compromised, we sort of have to take the worst case analysis for national security purposes. we're not going to take the risk of, maybe some chinese spy was able to get it. we will take that risk. of course we wouldn't do that. especially when some of these secrets could involve the safety of our men and women in uniform. that's the task for the intelligence community to figure out what is covered by this and

equally importantly, can we rule out the possibility -- just the possibility that someone had improper access to it? >> that would include potentially improper access to human intelligence, to a source because of the kind of codes that were put on some of the documents as well as signals intelligence. >> right. based on the codes we have seen, the documents did, indeed, include everything from material relating to targeting foreign terrorists and foreign parties to human source intelligence such as our cia agents, maybe informants for the cia, foreign informants. if any of that information was compromised, boy, that could have really deadly serious consequences. that's why, based on this intelligence assessment, the united states government might well have to take very significant action. we might have to pull agents out of foreign countries, out of fear, just the possibility that their identities have been

compromised. maybe we have to change codes on weapon systems, et cetera. we have to see just how significant this is. my fear is that we're not going to be able to make a definitive judgment and we're going to have to assume the worst. that could be very expensive and problematic. >> that was exactly going to do be my question. one more question to ken. we know that pat cipollone is in with the grand jury on the january 6th issues. what do you think is -- we know how careful he was about not saying anything that was lawyer/client privilege. what do we think we could get from him and from his deputy today when they are both appearing? >> reporter: andrea, as harry observed, when it comes to a grand jury, he has far less leeway to claim executive privilege. he could claim some of it, but in the nixon versus the -- u.s.

v. nixon case in watergate, it established that a criminal investigation overcomes most executive privilege claims. he will have to answer more questions presumably about his conversations with president trump, which could give that grand jury really important information about trump's state of mind and whether he knew this stuff was a lie and whether he was perpetrating a fraud when it came to claims about the election. >> ken, harry, glen, thanks so much to all of you. a chilling scene in argentina. the country's progressive vice president and former president had a gun pointed directly in her face as she greeted supporters. she's lucky to be alive. >> reporter: cameras were rolling. argentina's vice president smiling, then suddenly a loaded pistol is pointed at her head. a click is heard. the weapon does not fire. an attempted assassination according to one government minister. another angle showing her

greeting the crowd, when in seconds the man pushes forward and holds the gun inches from her face. argentina's president addressing the nation. she remains alive because for a reason not yet technically confirmed the gun which contained five bullets did not fire. within minutes, the suspect was detained, dragged down by a crowd. two officials identifying him. his motive unclear. forensic police out in force. overnight, supporters rallied outside the vice president's home. a towering figure but controversial. argentina's politics increasingly bitter. she faced protests and corruption allegations that she has denied and branded a media judicial firing squad. now these images, the most serious challenge to democracy for decades, the president said. warning that hate leads to

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limit the billions he can pour into foreign fighting in the war in ukraine. thank you for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea, for having me. >> get to that very important g7 move, but first your reaction to the jobs numbers. >> i thought it was an excellent jobs report today. you mentioned 315,000 new jobs added in august. that brings the total since president biden took office to nearly 10 million jobs. that's the fastest job growth in our history. importantly, these jobs came -- they were sourced from people who had been outside the labor market. so the strong job market and containing the pandemic is encouraging people to return to

the labor market. nearly 800,000 workers rejoined the labor market in august. so those additional jobs were consistent with some loosening overall in labor market conditions. we have a really tight labor market. the unemployment rate actually went up. so many of the new workers found jobs. some are still looking and in the unemployment pool. this is important to see our economy grow while containing inflation. so actually for working age women, the labor force participation rate is now back up to levels we haven't seen since the pandemic began. >> secretary yellen, what about the inflation concerns though? fed chair powell, very explicit

in jackson hole, there has to be pain as they continue to fight inflation. with these numbers, you are not seeing the pain yet. do we have a long way to go in terms of -- i know you won't talk about interest rates. but he has been very explicit about it. there's no secret as to he is determined to stop inflation. this economy is still growing. >> you bet. inflation remains too high. it's really causing a great deal of suffering for american households. it's, first and foremost, the fed's job to bring that down. i know chair powell and his colleagues are committed to do that. as you said, i'm not going to comment on the steps they are taking to do it. we're trying to supplement those actions with actions we can take to -- on the oil price front and also on -- with respect to

supply chains. the inflation reduction act will bring down the cost of prescription drugs and keep health care affordable. it really is priority number one to bring inflation down. >> how concerned are you about whether that's even possible without tipping the economy into a recession? it's a very difficult task, the soft landing. not always achieved. >> well, it is a difficult task. i personally believe there is a path to accomplish that. we're at a point where we expect the pace of growth in job creation to slow to a more steady and sustainable rate. but when we see, as we did in this report, an increase in jobs that come from more people

joining the labor force, that's important, because it means the growth in our economy isn't creating pressure on inflation. so i'm hopeful that we can achieve a soft landing, but bringing down inflation is clearly a key priority. >> let's talk about the cap on oil prices that was announced today. you led this. you worked very hard on this, getting the g7 behind it. how does that work to really stop his war profits? he is threatening to stop selling oil to the countries -- to these countries that need russian oil, who go along with it. do you think he is bluffing? >> well, look, let me, by way of background, say that what's happened since putin launched this brutal attack on ukraine is that we have seen huge increases in energy and food prices that

have been harming americans and people all around the globe. at the same time, higher oil prices have actually boosted, not diminished, putin's revenue that he needs to fight this war. our objective since day one has been to deprive putin and russia of the revenue they need to conduct this war while shielding americans and citizens around the world from the impact of the war in the form of higher energy prices. so the actions that were announced today really serve to accomplish both goals, to diminish putin's revenues and harm his ability to wage war against ukraine and at the same time to help americans and

citizens in countries all around the world, including low and middle income countries that are really suffering from boosts in energy and food prices. so today, the g7 finance ministers announced that they will implement a comprehensive ban on the provision of services, things like insurance, trade financing and brokering, that are involved in and enable the maritime transportation of russian oil. provision of these services by companies based in our countries will be completely banned unless the oil is purchased at a price below a, let's call it, a price cap level that will be jointly determined by the coalition countries. in other words, purchases of russian oil will only be able to

access these critical services needed to ship maritime oil as long as the oil is sold below a capped price. i want to point out that the g7 countries and the european union are critically important suppliers of these services. for example, close to 90% of insurance for maritime oil is provided by the eu and the uk. the price cap will be set at a level that will continue to make it profitable for russia to produce and sell oil. so they will have an incentive to do that. it will be a price that they have chosen to sell oil

historically, that it's profitable. i believe they will find it greatly to their advantage to sell oil even at the capped level. their revenues will be lower, which is what we want to see. so it will harm their ability to wage war. but they will do much better economically if they choose to sell into the price cap than if they were to shut in that oil. of course, they will be able to sell some oil around the price cap. we understand that. countries will be able to some extent to procure these critical services at greater cost elsewhere. importantly, even countries that don't join the coalition or implement a price cap, their bargaining power in bargaining with russia for -- over oil prices will be enhanced by the

existence of this cap. frankly, we are already seeing this initiative pay off, because countries that are buying russian oil are signing deals with russia to sell oil at greatly discounted prices. so we're having an impact. and if russia were to choose to shut in their oil -- i know they have threatened that -- not only will it not be in their interest in terms of revenues, they have aging oil equipment and oil fields, and it will create permanent harm to their ability to restart oil production after they shut down those fields. so we believe that russia will -- the revenues will be reduced, but they will continue to sell into the price cap. we will seek to broaden our

coalition. of course, the larger the coalition is, the more effective it will be. even with the coalition of the size we have, this will make a real impact on russia's revenues and protect countries all around the world from spiking oil prices. >> janet yellen, treasury secretary, on a major new initiative against vladimir putin. thank you very much. good to see you. >> thank you, andrea. take two. artemis is ready for launch. what the giant leap means if it takes off, for the future of humans in space. that's coming up with former astronaut mike mesanino, joining me here in new york. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc.

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scheduled new launch date for artemis, the first step to return people to the moon and beyond. an issue with a temperature sensor scrubbed the original launch date monday. now nasa says there's a 60% to 80% chance the weather will be clear enough during tomorrow's two-hour launch window to go for it. >> we're comfortable with our risk posture. that said, there's no guarantee that we're going to get off on saturday. but we're going to try. >> with be now a former nasa astronaut, space advisor at the intrepid museum, a professor at columbia university. for space geeks like me, it's great to see you and to see you in person. we have talked remotely before. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great. what's the likelihood? 60% to 80%? if this were a crew launch, would they be going with a --

they didn't replace the sensor. >> they didn't. i think the answer is, they are treating this like it's a crew launch. everything that you would think about, it's a dress rehearsal. it really is just as important as a crew launch. you need to be successful here to put a crew on board on the next couple flights. they are treating this as if there were crew on board, taking the same factors into consideration. it was a sensor. you can think it's -- sensor goes bad every once in a while. there's another way to get that data. i think that's what they looked into over the last couple days. the temperature sensor won't showing the real temperature of the engine which needs to be cool. they checked that out. there's other ways they can tell that the engine was performing well, the system was going to perform well. they're going to go without changing that sensor out. that would require a roll back. that would delay longer.

i hate to make prepredictions. you look foolish when you do. everything is looking like tomorrow. they have had a couple days to think about it on top of checking the sensor out. i think they will give it a good shot tomorrow. they might actually go. >> we're all going to be watching. talk to me about the significance of being able to establish a base and stay up there and derive all this information, especially preparatory to going to mars. and beyond the south pole of the moon for the first time. >> there's a lot. the south pole is important because the next mission they plan to launch with same configuration in the spacecraft will have people on board to go around the moon, make sure that's working, that that's all good. the third mission, which probably will be in three to four years from now, if everything goes well, will land people near the pole. the reason it's interesting to go near that pole is there's water there. they don't know how much. they don't know the best way to extract it. water can keep people alive.

it can be broken down into oxygen and for fuel to go further into the solar system. this is the first step in getting us back permanently to the moon as opposed to the visits we did. we were talking about that earlier. amazing to be alive 50 years ago. this is a different model where we would be going there to stay. >> 50 years ago, the entire world and certainly america was engaged in the moon landing. everyone was watching. finally leaped ahead of the russians. that was a big deal. this is grabbing us also. >> it is. i think it's unfair to compare anything to the first moon landing. 18 years as an astronaut, i would hear, we can't get people excited like we landed on the moon. that's because you landed on the moon for the first time. i don't see how we top that. we shouldn't look at this as

compared to that. that was a great accomplishment. this is a different accomplishment being -- when we are successful here, getting people to stay and live off our planet, on another planetary surface, for a long period of time, permanently hopefully. i think if you look at it scientifically as something that we have accomplished as people, this is as big as that. >> mike, thanks so much. we will be watching tomorrow. friday night lights. serena williams on the court tonight after an encore doubles performance with big sister venus last night. reminding the crowd of their past magic together. they did fall short on victory. will she continue her incredible run tonight? that's next.

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together since 2018 before a sold out awe struck crowd. >> reporter: all eyes will be on serena williams tonight taking center court in the third round of the u.s. open in what could be the ultimate swan song of a legendary career. the 40-year-old who recently said she's evolving away from tennis must win their match up against the australian to advance. >> she's playing pretty intense and i think it's good. i have to be ready every match. >> reporter: the 23-time grand slam champ proving she's still got game, dazzling the arthur ash stadium crowd wednesday, defeating the number two ranked player in the world. her coach noting fans are giving williams that extra boost. >> it's been remarkable to see the love that she's getting, which she deserves, so there's

no question the crowd is pushing her to do some incredible things because she doesn't want to quite let go yet. >> reporter: last night a standing ovation for serena and big sister venus. the rarksable duo falling in the first round of doubles. a hug marking what could be their last match on the court today. >> i think they give new meaning to the dynamic duo because their energy is explosive. >> what a performance from serena and venous. >> reporter: the williams systems one of the greatest of all-time winning three olympic medals and 14 grand slam womens doubles titles together, the second highest in history. >> there it is, serena williams. >> reporter: venus and serena also spectacular as rivals, going head to head 16 times in majors often for the championships. now serena with the chance to raise a trophy once more, but first she must make it through tonight's match. >> i'm having fun, and i'm

enjoying it. >> our thanks to maggie vespa. you've got a great seat there. and before we go all of us at amr want to congratulate our beloved long time washington producer on her well deserved retirement. vicky has been a central part of our d.c. newsroom for 36 years even helping launch msnbc. she's covered some of the biggest stories from the past 3 1/2 decades, anita hills congressional testimony, the clinton walensky scandal. for years vicky was the first person i would see early morning, always graciously thoughtful no matter how late i was. we'll miss her keen intelligence and flawless news judgment. i'm so happy, though, vicky is heading off for other great adventures. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow us online, facebook and

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hello. i'm joe friar in for chris jansing live in new york city. labor day kicks off today and we're also accelerating into the final stretch of the mid-terms with president biden throwing the first political punch. he used last night's prime time speech to slam former president trump and millions of his followers. the president is calling them maga republicans saying they're a threat to america. with that theme president biden hopes to set the narrative for the campaign season to come. >> as i stand here tonight equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and t