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 the maga

republicans represent an extremism that threaten the very foundations of our republic. >> the speech featured some hopeful tones, but it made headlines for its dark warnings about what would happen if americans allowed the maga ideology to grow. with more appearances to come in pennsylvania and beyond the president is showing he's unafraid to draw sharp contract not just between himself and trump but between democrats and republicans. >> not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology, but there's no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. >> the rnc rejected that distinction releasing a statement saying, quote, joe biden is the divider in chief and epitomizes the current state of the democratic party, one of divisiveness discussed and

hostility towards half the country. as for trump he'll hold his own rally in pennsylvania tomorrow, the first since the search at mar-a-lago. he called last night's speech angry and called the president insane. but if president biden's goal is to keep election deniers and the january 6th insurrection front and center, well then trump is doing some of that work for him. just a few hours ago the federal judge ordered the release of a new more detailed list of the items seized from mar-a-lago. it's part of the court battle between the justice department and trump's legal team over the so-called special master, someone who would come through the items to determine what's relevant or what's privileged. the judge has yet to rule on whether a special master is actually needed. i want to bring in senior white house reporter for nbc news digital shannon pettypiece. nbc's vaughn hilliard in west palm beach, florida. joyce vance a former u.s. attorney and professor at the university alabama school of law, also a legal analyst. and tim miller writer at large

for the bulwark and msnbc political analyst. let's start with the latest on this mar-a-lago search. what can you tell us about this list released today? did we learn anything new here? >> you know, this is a list that was revealed here at the urging of trump's team yesterday in that hear. we do not have a ruling at this time on the special master it could come today over the weekend or next week here. but when you're looking at this more detailed list it doesn't tell you exactly what the contents of each of these documents were, but it is telling just the extent to how many documents donald trump was in possession of more than two months after the custodian of his records signed a sworn affidavit on his behalf contending that trump had complied with his subpoena request from the department of justice to turn over all such relevant documents. when you look at which documents the doj seized on august 8th, that is where this is a

compelling break down. you see 18 documents listed as top secret, 54 documents marked secret, 31 documents marked confidential, but then this is where it's interesting here. we don't know exactly what this means, but the department of justice laid out in its findings it acquired 48 empty folders with, quote, classified banners, as well as eight labeled return to secretary or staff. and more than 11,000 unclassified documents and photos. what exactly the contents of each of those are we do not know. and whether the special master will ultimately be appointed or not we do not know that at this time. we do know trump's team requested of the judge they be able to put a potential special master option forward by september 7th, which would be this upcoming wednesday. >> let's talk more about that. it seems so far yesterday's hearing included something for

both sides. on the one hand the judge is keeping the door open for a special master. on the other, she's not telling the fbi, hey, stop reviewing the documents. how do you read what's going on here? >> well, it's important she has not imposed any sort of preliminary injunction, which would have frozen the government in place. they are, in fact, free to continue doing their work, whether that's the intelligence community side review or doj agents and prosecutors continuing to move their case forward. so that's the something for the government. as for trump, judge hannen did hold open this notion and seemed quite frankly inclined to enter an order that would appoint a special master for this case, but that's a very awkward fit. special masters are used almost exclusively in cases where a lawyer's office has been searched, and you sweep up in that sort of a search as you begin to sort through it some material that might pertain to clients who aren't involved in the criminal investigation.

it can be helpful in those cases to have someone who's not a doj employee, someone who's an outsider sorting through items to make sure nothing improper happens. but that's very decidedly not the situation at mar-a-lago where to the extent there's anything that's attorney-client privilege, it's very few documents. doj has already segregated them, and they of course relate to the former president, which means we could conceivably see litigation over whether there's a kraud i'm exception that brings them into political view. this isn't a big case with otherwise privileged material that mandates a special master, and that's why it's very unusual and we'll all be watching to see what judge hannen does in her ruling, but even entertaining the idea is something out of the ordinary. >> let's turn to the current president in the speech he gave last night, really setting the tone in the mid-terms to come. how was the president trying to

square last night's speech and his message of also trying to be a unifier? >> well, the white house has indicated this is going to be a theme we're going to continue to hear from the president. while you heard him in that clip you played a few moments ago trying to thread this needle between main stream quote-unquote republicans, people who identify themselves as part of the republican party but doesn't necessarily believe in some of the more extreme ideology that we have been hearing from the former president from his close allies in congress when it comes to things like denying the election or attacks on law enforcement, so you see the president trying to counter that narrative as well, but you're also seeing a broader strategy here of the white house trying to not just make this a referendum election, oftentimes mid-term elections are a referendum on the party in power. so as much as we're going to hear the white house and democrats talking about things they believe they have accomplished around

infrastructure, around prescription drug costs, around trying to lower gas prices, also expect to hear more of this talk about painting the picture of what the choice is between the democratic party and the republican party. and the picture that the president is painting last night and we can certainly hadn't to hear more of, is a republican party that has been, you know, essentially co-opted by the former president, by extreme quote-unquote maga republicans who buy into some of these conspiracy theories, election lies. that's the picture the president is trying to paint of the republican party at this point going into the mid-term elections to make this a choice on the referendum as much as it's been the last few years. >> he said, quote, the question whether focusing on the battle of for democracy will move his own voters as more than inflation, crime, immigration and other issues will move the

other side. he's tried this appeal for democracy before, hasn't really changed the national conversation. are things changing now? could this be the point where things start to change and democracy does become a bigger issue? >> look, i think democracy has been becoming a bigger issue. i think that's it's been tied to -- if you look at the polls it's been something people care about. they see these extreme republican candidates getting nominated and more people are concerned. obviously abortion has become a greater issue after the dobbs ruling. i'm not sure what last night's speech did to advance that objective. it seemed like something that was probably cathartic for democratic partisans who want to hear their president fighting. i understand that impulse, and i think everything he said was true, by the way, about how extreme the maga republicans are. but as a strategic effort i think what this president's job is not just to -- not just to

satisfy the anger of his own base but to try to bring more people into the tent, and this is what he did successfully in 2020. it's why he won handily, and i didn't see anything last night that was bringing in when he tried to divide between the maga republicans and other republicans. what is he offering to that other group to say, hey, stick with me, we'll protect democracy together? that part was missing last night for me. >> vaughn, i want to bring you in here because you for years have talked face-to-face with tons of both trump supporters and more moderate republicans. clearly president biden he was trying to draw a line between the two, reaching out to republicans who are closer to the middle, trying to drive a wedge between them and more conservative republicans. do you think that can be effective as we head into the mid-terms? >> right, i think, you know, i've been covering hundreds and hundreds quite literally of republican events over the last seven years from iowa barns to alabama churches to megarallies

in phoenix on up to almost every state in the country here. and i can tell you this republican party -- joe biden said that the majority are not maga republicans, but frankly that turned my head because i think the election results over the last five months in these republican primaries speak counter to that declaration that joe biden even made here. we're talking about the ousting of liz cheney. you know, actually some of those earlier republican events that i went through back in 2015 were alongside mr. tim miller himself and there's not many i've felt outside of liz cheney events in wyoming or jeff flake in arizona. that wing of the party is all but gone in terms of infrastructure wise. at the activist level, at the republican party apparatus level, that element of the republican party is all but gone here in the united states of america. and when you're talking to voters here, by and large, you're talking to election denying republicans. you're talking to folks that

are, frankly, bought into an alternate reality of conspiracy theories. at the same time there are a subset of voters here that did at one point call themselves republicans. they don't identify as such now. that is how democrats are able to pull off wins in georgia, in arizona, in the likes of alabama congressional seat. you know, i think that alaska congressionalerates here this last month i think was telling. you saw republican -- among the republicans that voted for him half of them said we're not going to vote for either sarah palin or we're going to leave it blank, which is telling there is a subset of this american ecelectorate that is looking for something beyond it, but frankly it has not been presented to them in any form outside of what the democratic party has been offering as an alternative. >> and no matter which party you do identify with them, tim, everyone seems to think things are bed. there's a new quinnipiac poll out this week that shows 69% of

both parties think democracy is in danger of collapse obviously for different reasons. how do you think this sets the tone for 2022 and the then the campaign for 2024 in. >> that's an important poll for this conversation. if you're a democrat, if you're president biden obviously the 69% of republicans so deluded about the 2020 election because they think democracy is in threat because they think it was stolen by president trump is not reachable. those are not people gettable in the mid-terms. it's that other 29% of republicans who president biden has to reach out to and the case needs to be made to them that the rest of the party has gone so extreme, has gone so far off the deep end that joe biden is somebody they can trust to be a steward for them even and a democratic congress is something they can trust to be a steward for them even if they disagree on some of the particulars of the issues. it's a tough sale and i think that's why as we get further into the fall you'll see the

democrats focusing more on animating their own base, which they'll do this summer and doing their best to try to cleave off a very small portion of folks vaughn has been talking about like happened in alaska. >> joyce, you get the last question here from this panel. we know former white house counsel and trump administration pat cipollone and his deputy they're expected to appear before a grand jury investigating january 6th that's supposed to happen today. what are you watching for there? >> well, we won't know anything that goes on because of grand jury secrecy unless the witnesses choose to reveal some of what goes on today. but prosecutors are undoubtedly hoping to hear first-hand about conversations between these two and the former president. the most difficult part of putting together any sort of a white collar case or any sort of a case that's based on fraud or any sort of a case where the state of mind, the intent of the individuals subjects or targets, proving that state of mind

really requires a lot of circumstantial evidence. and here's a rare opportunity to talk with witnesses who spoke with trump, who can explain what they saw with his state of mind. did he intend for events on january 6th to unfold they withey did or not? this could be some of the most powerful testimony that doj will have access to. >> all right, shannon, john, voice and tim, thank you all. wishing you all a very happy labor day weekend. another investigation to talk about, the january 6th committee has reached out to former republican house speaker newt gingrich. they're calling on him to testify voluntarily about his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. a letter sent to gingrich and released by the committee says members have evidence gingrich was talking to top about tv ads and also allege he tried to

arouse around the country and set september 19th as the date for gingrich to testify. no word yet if he intends to do so. hours go the new jobs report was released and we're going to break down what it means for the economy, and the mid-terms. plus the latest in mississippi where hundreds of thousands still don't have water. we're talking about homes, schools, hospitals without ac and 90-degree heat. in about 24 hours the artemis 1 launch will be getting a redo after the delays, so will tomorrow be a success sphi'm going to ask a former nasa official ahead. you're watching msnbc. watchingc ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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the latest jobs report is out and shows a labor market that is still hot but maybe starting to cool. the u.s. economy added 315,000 jobs in august. it's a solid number on par with expect eggs but far less than the 528,000 jobs added in july.

let's dig into these numbers with seema modi and ben white, politico's chief economic correspondent. >> it shows the job market is slowing, but still remains a bright spot in the overall economy. we still see jobs grow in retail, health care, hospitality adding 31,000 jobs in the month of august. slightly slower pace than previous months, but another encouraging sign is the labor participation rate, which shows us that more people are returning to the workforce. he questioned, though, how this all impacts the fed's suspicion on raising interest rates. bank of america economists writing this morning this jobs report shows that the rise in unemployment will allow the fed to slow down the pace of rate hikes. that's probably why stocks are up today, joe. >> so, ben, what do you see in this report? does it mean the hottest job market we've seen in decades has

hit its peak? >> it probably has hit its peak, and that's not necessarily a bad thing as seema very well laid out there. what the fed is looking for is a slightly cooler jobs market down from 500,000 to 300,000 or so right in the sweet spot today and to see the labor force recovering, which is good news today, 786,000 added to the labor force. we're still not where we were pre-covid, still missing jobs and that is a key element because that means the fed does not necessarily mean feds have to bump up interest rates very fast to cool the economy. more people coming back to the labor force taking a little pressure off of wages so prices should start to come down a little bit without radical fed action that could drive us into recession. if you're sitting at the fed today or sitting in the white house today, yes the headline number is down, but you want it to cool off a bit and inflation to come down a bit without it

stalling out. i hate to bring up the goldilocks line again. that's kind of what this is. goldilocks, sweet spot, whatever it is we hit it today. >> that seems to be the fed's goal. inflation, the economy are consistently among the top concerns for voters. president biden didn't mention either of those in his speech last night focused on democracy. so what does this jobs report mean for the president and his party? we're less than four weeks out in the mid-terms right now and we know when the job numbers are good americans tend to pay more attention than the prices they pay at the grocery store. >> right. for biden's numbers to really improve on the economy inflation needs to come down more. we need to pay less for food and gas coming down and you've seen reflecting and increasing a bit. this number is helpful to him on that front because it means inflation is coming down. the big overall picture here politically is economy and inflation remain huge issues, it receded a little bit, and, you

know, the trump stuff and democracy and protecting democracy and abortion and some of the other supreme court decisions which is generally good news for democrats who do not want to run on high inflation, would rather run on some of these other issues and see an economic picture that's improving. right now they've got both of those, good for the white house, good for democrats a little bit troubling for republicans right now. >> ben, the fact the unemployment rate went from 3.5% to 3.7%, that was unexpected. what are we supposed to read into that? >> that can happen for good reasons and bad reasons. the bad reasons are people are oo losing jobs and so the rate goes upch the good reason that can happen is lots of people are looking for jobs, and that's what happened here. nearly three quarters of a million people came back in the labor force, so that ticked up unemployment from 3.5 to 3.7. but don't despair over that. that's actually weirdly a good

thing. it's still very low unemployment rate. it means people on the side lines see you can get good jobs with good wages and finally coming back to the labor force in hospitality and other areas. so that's a good thing. you never want to say, hey, high unemployment is good but in this instance it happened for a good reason. >> seema, the markets have been open for a few hours now. what are they telling us how wall street feels about these number snz. >> what we're seeing today with the dow, spiefb all sharply higher suggests this jobs report was weak enough to suggest federal reserve will not raise rates as fast as the rate rise. it's not just the jobs report they will take into account but the next consumer price index data for the month of august which comes out in mid-september. once we get that read, that crucial read on inflation, that will tell us whether consumer prices are in fact slowing down

and could give us much more clarity what to expect from chair jerome powell at their next meeting in september. >> yep, that's the big one everyone is waiting for. seema mody and ben white, thank you for helping us break this down. new omicron boosters for millions of eligible americans. who can get the shot and how much difference will hay make in this anticipated winter surge? i'm going to ask one of our experts next. stay with us. you're watching msnbc. h us you're watching msnbc. they said it couldn't be done. because the big drug companies have billions of dollars and an army of lobbyists.

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labor day, maybe sooner in some pharmacies. if it's been two months since your last shot you can get it. so if it's been two months since your last shot or more you can get it. and people have asked me if you've had covid, all these questions i think are on point because so many of us have had infections over the last several months. so if you've had covid we'd like to have at least 30 days since you've had your infection but also talk to your doctor in case you think you might need it sooner. but two months since last shot, at least a month since your last infection. >> i don't care how many times you say two months -- over the next two months or so. so a lot of folks immunocompromised the boosters and shots have been most important to them. and there's a chance if you're immunocompromised you've had one booster, maybe even two boosters. what's the new time line for those folks to get those two? >> in terms of recommendations the immunocompromised people fall into exactly this category. we're not asking for people to

wait any longer. in terms of whether or not they should get it sooner, we do not want them to get it sooner than the two months. but we also are trying to educate people in addition to the boosters, joe, there's actually a monoclonal antibody we're recommending for immunocompromised people. it's been around for months so we can prevent infections. so vaccines can help prevent hospitalizations and death, and immunocompromised individuals don't have enough to mount that antibody response, they qualify for something that's a monoclonal antibody to prevent infections. so there's a lot of options out therial bet most americans don't realize. it's a good time to get refreshers on this, and it's going to be flu season soon, so and ask about a flu shot when you get your booster shot. >> i almost forgot about that one. these are the first shots, the first covid shots we've had without any human trials completed. so talk a little bit about that, and what do we know about the side effects for this.

do we think they're the same as the original booster shots? >> yeah, so we saw some preclinical data at the cdc yesterday. it showed a really strong antibody response. again, preclinical means in animals. this is something we do when we update flu shots. we don't wait for clinical trials in humans. from a safety perspective and to your point about side effects we expect those to fall in line with previous booster shots. of course we need to monitor this closely but there was no signal or indication we should see something more severe from these shots. the doses, the type of technology are all the same, they just use a different virus strain to develop those vaccines. so all the same side effects you might have had in your previous shot, you could expect, usually not severe but mostly tylenol, ibuprofen, some pain medication hours after you get the shot can help with some of those side effects. >> do you expect this booster to

rollout for kids under 12 anytime soon especially with school getting started? >> yeah, there were hints of that at the recent meetings and comments made by fda officials they are expecting action to be taken for the under 12 group. i would expect that to rollout similar to what we saw to vaccines 5 to 12 first and under 5 after that. remember we still have a very low rate of under 5 who are vaccinated with that primary series. and this is wurgs mentioning in order to get this booster you had to have had that original series completed, either the first two shots if you're an adoesn't or first two or first three shots if you're under the age of 5. >> hopefully we've answered most of the questions, dr. kavita two months patel. we're getting our first real look off the seismic impact of the pandemic on schools, specifically on our kid's ability to learn. a new federal study compared student achievement right before the pandemic to kids performance two years later, and their scores plummeted. take a look at this.

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patients get the treatment they need. today the fema administrator is expected to tour the city one day after calling the situation tragic. nbc's morgan chesky is in jackson. so, morgan, what's the latest on the ground there? how are people coping as we are several days into this? >> yeah, joe, it's a frustrating situation that's impacting every aspect of life here in jackson. nearly 180,000 people rely on this water supply. and it's not just people. it's also businesses and restaurants. we're in the kitchen of bravo italian restaurant and bar. this is the first day back open this week because it's finally gotten enough water pressure to be able to run some of the water here. but anything they cook with, anything at all, is coming right out of these bottles they have to have shipped in pretty much every day. and an important note here, joe, these bottles have been coming in now for the past 38 days because of that's how long this boil water notice has been in effect. they simply lost pressure as a

result of this water treatment plant coming down. now, as you can imagine there's no firm time line on when this plant will come back online, and that is why residents we spoke to are incredibly frustrated. take a listen. you've never drank the water? and how long have you lived in jackson? >> since my daughter was 6. >> reporter: how long ago was that? how many years? >> about 15. >> reporter: 15 years. >> more than that, about 25. >> reporter: so you haven't trusted the water coming out of your faucet for how long now? >> 25 years. >> reporter: 25 years. and that woman has a key point here, joe, and that is the fact this is not the first problem this water system has had. it has been decades of issues. they say that this flood that caused this water treatment plant to go off-line has simply

been the worst they've seen during this amount of time they've been experiencing problems. we did have a chance to speak to the mayor yesterday. he said they hope pressure will come back up to the full amounts hopefully in the next couple of days but there's no definitive proof that's going to happen. in the meantime they have rigged a pump trying to help that out. but when i talked to restaurant owner here she called it a band-aid to a bigger problem. >> i'm sure the restaurant burns through them incredibly quickly. morgan chesky in jackson, thank you so much. the physical integrity of europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated, that's according to u.n. inspectors. members of that united nations team inspecting the zaporizhzhia plant in ukraine returned today to continue assessing physical damage there. the head of the international atomic agency will continue an established presence there. concerns over a nuclear melt

down has escalated as the fight around the plant increases. jay gray in dnipro, ukraine. so what has the team at the plant found so far? >> reporter: well, they've found structural damage there. they continue to inspect and investigate the area. it started with more than a dozen inspectors. there are five that remain in the plant and have been there for the last 24 hours or more, and they continue to try and piece together what damages come from the shelling that's been intense over the last several weeks there and what it could possibly lead to as far as problems with what is europe's largest nuclear powerplant. now, look, depending on who you ask they've either gotten a good look at everything that's going on there or they haven't seen what's really happening. many of the inspectors have said that they've been through the plant and seen much of it but not all of it, and that's where ukrainian officials say there is a significant problem. they say the tours are being led

by russian soldiers who occupy that plant, soand so they're not being shown everything including a crisis room that they say is really vital to this inspection that they're not being allowed into, again, according to ukrainian officials because troops have kind of taken that area over as their spot and are using it and not allowing the inspectors inside. they also say that interviews with the ukrainian employees that are inside and being held there to operate the plant are done with russian soldiers standing there. and so it's not an open discussion, according to ukrainian officials. one thing that does seem clear, there is no matter where they've looked or how much they've seen, significant damage. >> and jay, i worry -- i worried and i will continue to be worried about the plant until we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious that the plant and the physical integrity of the

plant has been violated several times. >> reporter: yeah, and as you said coming into this, joe, there were five inspectors in there and continue to be five inspectors right now. now, some are scheduled to leave in the next couple of days. but there's a real push right now from iaea to keep a presence in the plant continually, to make sure it's being run properly, to make sure there are no problems and to really assess the risk as they move forward. >> jay, let's talk big picture here. the european commission said no more than 9.9 million people have fled ukraine and arrived in the eu since russia invaded. that's just under the population of the entire state of michigan. and know you've reported from the border and refugee camps earlier than this. real quickly what resources do still exist for folks? >> reporter: it's very slim, and it's going to be difficult. a lot of people riding it outright now won't have power, won't have heat and obviously

will struggle just to find the basic necessity. as you know and we've talked about along the polish border, they've run out of space and so have a lot of other countries. they're going to have to come together and figure out what to do next. >> jay gray in ukraine. jay, thank you so much. argentina's vice president survived a shocking assassination attempt caught on video. a gunman tried to shoot her, but the gun jammed. she was outside her home speaking with supporters when the gunman pulled out a pistol just inches from her face. police arrested a 35-year-old brazilian man seconds later. he's currently on trial for corruption charges and is facing the possibility of 12 years in prison. in just 24 hours artemis 1's moon mission will prepare to launch again. so will round 2 be a success? former nasa administrator is here next. and before we go, you know you can hear the latest news and updates from all of your famous msnbc hosts anytime, anywhere,

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