in its investigation. >> neal katyal is right in front of us. going to be here very soon. he doesn't think much of this decision. >> talk about what it means and if it does impede the doj. president biden touts his administration accomplishments to union workers yesterday. labor secretary marty walsh was with him at those stops and he'll be our guest this morning. and, tracking gun purchases. via your credit card. cnbc's andrew ross sorkin has new reporting on an idea whose time may have come. willie. >> but we begin this hour in uvalde, texas, where today is an emotional day. public schools have reopened for the first time since 19 students and two teachers were killed there in a mass shooting. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky joins us live from uvalde. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

and as you could imagine, a mix of emotions here in this community today. with robb elementary being torn down, the students who went there are now splitting up against several area schools. that will look far different than they did just a few months ago. everyone here tells me that they're on their own timeline when it comes to grief. but they are hopeful that this first day back to class will bring about some real healing. for many in uvalde, summer break was a blur. now this tight knit town is asking how to go back to school. priority number one, helping their 10-year-old daughter who was at the school that day. >> i want to shelter her but i don't want her to live in fear. >> so they enrolled her in a private school in uvalde, which they say made immediate safety upgrades for everyone's peace of mind. >> when you walk into your new

school, do you feel safer? >> yeah. >> reporter: uvalde public schools promising extra law enforcement will be on hand. along with counselors and comfort dogs. and outside, some schools have new high fencing. >> you need to clean house. >> reporter: the changes coming after a painful summer as parents demanded more for student safety. >> i can't help but wonder if they didn't just find our children worthy of being saved. >> reporter: former robb teacher said after she was shot through a window, she texted for help. but no one came. for more than an hour. >> has there been any moment at all that this tragedy hasn't been on your mind? >> no. no. sometimes it just so bad i can't -- i have to sleep with my life on because i can't handle being in the dark. >> and despite the pain, she

believes her up to is healing with the help of some friday night lights. >> reporter: uvalde football team, the coyotes earning a hard-fought first victory handed owl by players of the houston, texans. and this mural capturing the 21 beautiful souls taken far too soon. >> it is a powerful image. and when these uvalde elementary school students go back to class they'll be sporting maroon and white and they won't be alone. schools across the state of texas will be coyotes for the day and for this community that has a long road to recovery ahead. >> it is a difficult day there. morgan chesky in uvalde, thank you so much. joe and mika, your heart just breaks for the 19 parents who should be dropping their kids off at school in uvalde. the two teachers that should be going back into the classroom and all of those surviving kids

and those surviving teachers who experienced that now have to step back today into a classroom and not just learn math and english but try to get through this together somehow. something that will be with them forever. >> these children will live for the rest of thur lives with the trauma of that day. >> and it will impact how so many parents and so many children are looking at school as they go back to school. i think, willie, you, mika, me, some other parents, we've had to explain this to our children. and obviously it is caused great, great tension, great fear not only among children and teachers, but also parents across the country. it is really something, though, that uvalde and the tragedy there, those children and teachers gunned down and slaughtered by a weapon of war. actually at least for a short

time it shifted the public safety debate in america or at least in the united states senate. and there were small reforms, but there were bipartisan reforms that weren't even passed after the tragedy of sandy hook. something that still haunts so many americans just like uvalde will. there is also, though, an image -- an image of police officers frozen outside of a school while children were dying, while teachers were dying. while they were pleading for help. and it really turned an argument, a survivalist argument on its head. and we've always heard, oh, well if you try to manage to regulate weapons of war in any way, then you're giving the government too much power. you're giving the government authority that hitler poll pot

or stalin would want to have. those are arguments i've heard for 30, 40 years. what we saw in uvalde actually was a twisted, warped system that allowed a deranged 18-year-old to buy a weapon of war that outgunned our own police officers. our own law enforcement officers who had to sit outside as -- they didn't have to. but they were ordered to sit outside while lit children bled out and died, and while teachers bled out and died because our police were outgunned because of the whackos, the extremists that say that the government can't do anything, can't ban weapons of war from 18-year-olds with psychological problems. i'm sure 90% of americans don't

want 18-year-olds with psychological problems be able to have weapons of war. and yet there are still people who are fighting to change that 18 to 21, to make it tougher for them to get weapons of war. i know they're certainly fighting the idea that 90% of americans want universal background checks. so the debate has changed. the cause of the tragedy in uvalde, and because of the horrifying scene of dozens of police officers sitting outside while little children were bleeding to death inside. >> yeah. and we heard from a robb elementary parent whose child is going back to school today who said earlier, i want to tell her it is safe to go back because the heroes are there and they'll save you, if god forbid anything happened again and she looked at her dad and said they didn't save you last time. what do you say that as a parent? it's devastating. maddening knowing some of those

lives could have been saved so we're thinking about everybody today in uvalde on a really tough day. >> yes. we are. we're going to turn now to the latest development following the fbi's search of former president donald trump's home and club. a federal judge has approved a request by trump's attorneys for a special master to review the materials seized during last month's search. temporarily blocking parts of the justice department's investigation. u.s. district judge cannon stated in her ruling yesterday that the special master should be able to review the seized documents to address any questions of attorney/client privilege and to litigate claims of executive privilege. the just department had argued a special master was unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interests including national security interests. judge cannon rejected the government's arguments that

trump's special master request was filed too late. that it was superfluous and trump had no right for review because he didn't known the documents in question that were seized. at the same time, judge cannon allowed a national security review of the records to continue. but temporarily blocked the government from reviewing and using them for its, quote, investigative purposes. >> let's bring in former acting solicitor general neal katyal. a msnbc legal analyst. in some of your comments, you've said that this judge used a bazooka when at most she needed a scalpel. any of your first year law students could have written a better opinion. and when talking about damage to trump's reputation, you said that is insane. and harry truman during a campaign stop turned to an aid and said we'll put him down at undecided. i guess your undecided on this opinion, right? >> yeah, joe.

i mean, this is the most important professional thing that this judge has ever done in her life. and you would expect an a-game. and this is riddled with errors and silliness. it is kind of like someone playing in the nba finals, and missing 20 free shots and not just missing the shots but missing the net, the back-up board and the hoop. look, every defendant would love a special master. every defendant said they're being unfairly targeted and set up. every defendant said their reputation will be sullied. they never get special masters for this reason and they certainly don't get a federal judge a special master but the investigation has to stop. that is something i have never seen in federal law before and she has no authority for doing it and on top of it she's a foreign shops judge, trump was afraid to go the magistrate judge, who authorized the warrant and went shopping for this judge. it is bad top to bottom. >> so, neal, you say that she has no authority to stop the

investigation. if that is the case, does the -- if the doj has reason to move forward with something like an indictment, does this situation prevent that from happening? >> it is so hard to know. because the words she used which are totally vague. we have in idea. it enjoins that department from using any of the material, anything in the photo, or anything else, for, quote, criminal investigative purposes. prosecution occurs after the investigation. so it may be that they could just go ahead and indict right now. but no prosecutor would like to do that because you often want to give the defendant a chance to say, hey, what is this -- here is why i have this information. here is why. but if they can't investigate, if all they can do is prosecute, that ties the department's hands. and, look, i know that a lot of people think, hey a special master, won't that help with the perception of fairness and so on.

but the special master ruling is only one part of what she did yesterday. the bigger, more important part is that she stopped the investigation wholesale. and i've never seen anything like that. and that has a very serious separation of powers problem. judges can't be stopping federal investigations because they want to appoint a special master and things like that. >> so neal, this is jonathan, let's pick up right on that point. if she's stopping the investigation, what recourse does doj have, is there an peel that they could seek? tell us about appeal the they could seek and also just what sort of extraordinary delay this may put on the proceedings. it seems well beyond the midterms into next year and beyond. >> there are two different options they have. and i sat in the chair at the justice department and making these decisions, it is a hard one. one is to go back to the judge and seek reconsideration and clarification. because of questions like the

one micah just posed. could we indict. what does it mean not to use the investigative material, how come it is all investigative material when trump is claiming a tiny percentage at most of the documents are classified. why is it that everything in the search is now enjoined and you're not allowed to use it. i expect they will go back to the judge with this today. if the judge sticks with this hor end usa ruling. they have to appeal on an emergency basis to the court of appeals for the 11th circuit. it is a conservative circuit burks there are judges that believe in the rule of law. this is not a hard decision to review. it could be done in a couple of weeks quite honestly. and this -- this monstrosity overturned. but whenever you're going to the court of appeals, it takes a long time. it could take a year. supreme court review, which trump will try to avail himself of, that will take time.

and people are dispirited about the courts in a decision like yesterday, i think that feeds that. but remember 62 courts ruled against donald trump's claims of election fraud before. if this does go up, i do not expect any possible way that the federal courts could ultimately interfere with the investigation here. it is far to serious. they're authorized to do so. garland has been coloring within the lines at every turn. >> neal, what do you make of judge cannon's argument that simply because of the sheer volume of material here that this special envoy of sorts is needed to review the documents? >> yeah, it doesn't make much sense because there is actually not many documents that are subject to attorney/client or to executive privilege. the problem for her is she doesn't tell us what might be subject to it. there is the -- the supreme court said it is up to the current president to decide

whether or not anything is protected by executive privilege. she said maybe the department overplays its hand but doesn't give the special master any guidance. why should it be that all of the documents have to go through a privilege review when donald trump never said the documents have to go through a privilege review. and remember his lawyers have been dealing with the archives for months and months about these documents. did they ever say executive privilege? no. did they say standing order to de classify these documents? no. so, this is kind of a grafted on solution at the end that looks like, unfortunately, it is designed to try and protect their guy or at least delay-- justice from being reached. >> neal katyal, thank you very much for your insight this morning as we continue to follow this story. coming up, a group of high-profile senators has sent a letter to credit card companies pushing them to help track gun

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how about actually having a union guys as a secretary of labor. i'll tell you what, if you're going to be in a fox hole, you want marty in there with you. now you may have trouble understanding me and started

caulking about combines and garages and talks kind of fun yu but he knows what he's talking about. i promise to be the most pro-union president in history and he's helping me keep that promise. >> speaking to union workers in milwaukee. and secretary walsh joins us now. we will not mock your boston accent. mike barnicle would talk you through that if he were here today. but he's not. but when you're out with the president and talking to people, there is so much going on in the world right now in this country and the president of the united states is making the case about democracy as a fundamental question in these midterms. but at the end of the day, it is about jobs and it is about inflation. is it not? >> it really is. it is about the economy. and it is about supporting businesses as well. you know, i think keeping our economy moving forward creating opportunities that the crowd in milwaukee yesterday was amazing and they were pumped up and most

of them were union members and most of them were working pretty steady. but our focus here and our focus should be creating more and more jobs for people, good-paying jobs. >> so mr. secretary, on that note, the last jobs report came in at 315,000. which is just a smidge below estimate. but still another positive sign here in the economy is regained all of the pandemic losses. as supply chain issues have eased and has inflation has peaked, where do things stand right now in terms of american workers getting a job and why are so many businesses have troubling finding workers to take those jobs? >> well, the first thing is we don't have enough works in the united states of america to fill all of the job openings out there. at this point in time, more americans are working in this country than any other period in the history of america. so when you think about the amount of jobs and people that are working, it is an incredible number. the problem is that we don't

have enough people, there is about 5 million people i think still roughly that are looking for work or just not in the work force, for a whole host of reasons. illnesses, childcare, whatever it might be. so, at some point we're going to have a real serious conversation in this country about immigration and immigration reform and when i talk to big business in america and i talk to businesses, every single one of them to a person said to me, we're going to have to think about this long-term and how do we deal with these issues. >> let's talk about that for a minute. because we have people conflating two different things. it seems to me, and i don't know why more politicians don't talk about this, but we have people conflating the chaos at the southern border with legal immigration and work visas. and who are the people that are hurt by this? not hosts on podcasts or cable news shows that are screaming and yelling and trying to conflate the two, but small business owners, family

restaurants, family hardware stores, who can't get migrants on six month working visas. can you talk a little bit about that and when people go into a restaurant, in their home town or a family restaurant and half of it is dark because they don't have enough workers to seat half of the restaurant. can you explain that. >> yeah. i'll even add one more. some big businesses look for engineers and businesses where there is no workers, i think in this country when you think about our economy, you think about our country, there is two sides to immigration. we want to see legal immigration. but the problem is in america, if we don't have workers to fill these jobs, it is going to hurt our economy overall. and if you have 6 million jobs, let's play with that number, assume that 6 million jobs that if everyone went to work tomorrow in eligible, or went to work, we have 6 million job openings. as you just said, it will hurt business in our country, it is

going to hurt our economy and in some cases i think it is a bigger stretch to our economy that inflation is at this point. than a recession. because we need to fill these jobs and then with all president biden has done, that is about creating more manufacturing jobs, companies are still growing in america, businesses want to expand in america and people -- i think the elected officials sometimes on capitol hill, what they do is they talk about the southern border and that is immigration. that is not immigration. immigration is what we've always survived on as a country. and really it is thinking about how do we use immigration in a positive manner. if we have legal immigration into the united states of america, legal path ways where people could apply for visas and come into this country for three months, six months, nine months, maybe five years, then we wouldn't have the challenges to the magnitude that we do at our borders in our country. >> all right, u.s. secretary of labor marty walsh, thank you very much for coming on the show this morning. up next, the very latest on a

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it is half past the hour. canadian authorities say one ever two men suspected in a stabbing spree that killed ten people has been found dead. investigators say damian sanderson and his brother myles stabbed 28 people an indigenous community. place found dammien's body in a grassy area near a house they were searching and it doesn't appear his injures were

self-inflicted. myles remains at large as the massive manhunt continues but investigators say he may be injured and could try to seek medical help. police have not determined a motive. but it appears some victims were chosen at random, while others were specifically targeted. chilling. horrific. police in memphis, tennessee, say they found a body about 20 minutes from where teacher eliza fletcher was abducted four days ago n. a tweet police have not confirmed the person's identity or cause of death adding the investigation is on going. fletcher was abducted early on friday morning. while jogging near the university of memphis. her alleged abductor was arrested the next day after police detectived his dna on a part of sandals found near where fletcher was last seen. he has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence, according to jail records, he is

scheduled to appear in court today. willie. >> that is a terrible story. she's a kindergarten teacher and mother of two. let's turn to andrew ross sorkin. it is good to see you. let's remind people that after shooting in park land, you wrote a series of articles the way credit card companies and companies finance the mass shootings. a majority use credit and debit cards to buy guns and ammunition and body armor beyond normal spending patterns leaving the companies in a unique condition to identify red flags sox what is the update on that, what is the latest. >> the big update is it appears that four years later, potentially as early as this week, the what is called iso, the industry standards organization, may be able to make a final decision that would

allow the credit cards and the banks to know that when zbou to a gun store, that you are at a gun store. so currently, unusually there are what are called mer chant category codes, if you look at your credit card, they say you spent this on restaurants and health care and because even store has a merchant category that said you're at a grocery store. anyone without a merchant category are gun stores. footlocker often times could be the same as a gun store, it is a considered sporting goods at best. and sometimes they get sort of fall between the cracks. but what could happen as a result, they could be adding what is called a new mcc code, so banks since 9/11 we've used them for domestic terrorism to look out for things and if you try to buy too much fertilizer in this country, they call the police. this is not an attempt to infringe on people's secondary

amendment rights this is a way to track patterns and to the extent that there is crazy spending that you could see the spending, the credit card companies are the only people that could see the spending. now interestingly the credit card companies have been pushing back on this. they have not wanted to do this. but over the past month and a half, some of the big pension funds in america, a dozen politicians have sent letters now, the a.g. in new york, the a.g. in california and some other states are putting pressure on them and it looks like this week we will finally get a decision one way ort other. >> so i could hear people saying if an american legally walked in and purchases a gun and has no track record -- >> no problem. >> the banks throw up a nag. >> that is unlikely. if you look at the shooting in aurora and parkland, there were flags along the way and when the fbi looking into the investigations afterwards the first thing they do is get the

credit card receipts. that is the fir thing they do. and you see body armor, guns over here, body piercing bullets over here. and you see and by the way, all bought typically within two or three weeks of each other. so it is looking more for the trends in the same way that if you use your credit card at a restaurant or gas station, they'll call up and say is this really a purchase. that is what this is going to be about. it is about somebody occasionally making that call and hopefully that call can save lives. >> andrew, i'm surprised this doesn't already fall on the auspices of the patriot act. how did this not be included when we're looking at fertilizer, we're looking at other patterns of behavior, it seems like guns and arms and body armor and weapons of war would be something to be categorized. >> for whatever reason, they have been protected, i want to say avoided in this context.

and there was pushback. visa and mastercard and american express, their view is it shouldn't be on us. because it is not on them, the banks don't have visibility into what is -- what the purchases are. your purchase, by the way, at a restaurant, or at a gun store, doesn't go back to the bank. all they do is see the category code of what it is, and they see theal price. so also that is the other thing, it is not that that information is going to say you bought this and this. it is going to see the patterns of you going to this store and this store and this tore at the same time. >> so what was the credit card's company's objections. they don't want to be on the hook. if they were at least somewhat responsible, like if their playing ball with say mass fertilizer purchases, why wouldn't they want to do the same here. >> and we talked about pornography on the program, our underage child pornography, they stopped that but only under pressure. i think by enlarge the credit

card companies have wanted to avoid this and there is a potential political cost which is to say we've seen banks in various states across this country saying look, we're not going to loan money to gun retailers for example or gun manufacturers and the pension fund in those states, the state of texas, you have to write a letter to the state of texas, if you want municipal bonds, you have to write them a letter saying you will not discriminate against gun companies, oil companies, all sorts. so there is a political pushback on all of this and that is why what is so interesting in this case, it is an industry standards organization based in switzerland that is making this decision. >> and i bet there is pushback from gun shops. they don't want to participate in a system that reports their customers. >> absolutely. there is a law in this country, which is to say that we don't keep a master list, there is no master data base in america of guns. and some people look at this and say, well is this a back door

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do they buy in to politicians like trump that push tax breaks for the wealthiest billionaires for multi-national corporations and actually make sure that they billionaires and multi-national corporations don't have to pay their fair share of income taxes. i say this as a conservative, you hear it as a progressive. why do these middle class and working class voters keep voting against their own economic interests and help the richest billionaires on the planet? >> well that is a great question. and thanks for having me. i appreciate it. the answer to your question is that the democrats for the last 40 years haven't done a very good concerted and effective job of explaining to those people an alternative vision of what an economy should look like and work like. and that is what their starting to do now. and that is the story i'm trying to tell in this book.

it is about changing the economic paradigm in this country. i think everybody watching this show has heard joe biden use that phrase. he started to use it during the campaign after the pandemic hit. and used it frequently through the first year of his presidentially. my book explains what that means and explains that phrase didn't just pop into joe biden's head one day. it came from the better part of a decade of work by literally hundreds of people. economists, people in the political realm, people in the very undercover but quite important to efforts like this foundation and think tank world, who, after the great recession,a that things were really bad and things were very wrong and they said how do we change this. how do we get a new economic thinking and footing in this country. so it is really taken that effort to bubble its way up to the white house. when a president said something like that, because of years of

work that other people have been doing and that is the story my book tells. >> so you could also, we understand that this is been republicans that over the past 40, 50 years that have wanted to give tax breaks to the wealthiest of americans. i'm curious though, explain the democrats who there are some democrats that fight a fairer tax system. that fight for tax breaks for hedge fund managers, for venture capitalists. why is that? >> well, first and foremost, it is their contributions. and their donors. but second of all, it is that i think they're stuck in this old way of seeing things and they haven't come around to understand that the priorities that the biden administration is trying to do in build back

better for example, the subsidized child care and paid family leave, all of these things in, old conventional thinks those are expenses and their burdens. they're not. they're things that will help people achieve their fullest potential. they are things that in my view will give people more freedom. and this gets to the heart of what i argue in my book at the very end. that the democrats need to redefine freedom and sell the american people a different definition of freedoms that the right has been selling them for the last 40 or 50 years. democrats, some democrats are still stuck in this model that you just spoke of in your question to me, joe. but i actually also see it kind of optimistically. of the two, and i write this in the book. of the 271 elected democrat legislators in washington, d.c., 269 either did vote for in the house or were willing to vote for in the senate a big, big

package of economic changes, the at least a couple of million dollars. they fell short on build back better but i still call that progress in a way. >> the new book is entitled "middle out", author michael tomasky. and the morning papers are back. we're back in just a few moments. ew moments.

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good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. today is the first day of school for students in uvalde, texas. just three months after the massacre that took the lives of 19 students and two teachers. we'll go to uvalde community still in so much pain. i sat down with the parents of 10-year-old lexi who was killed that day and would have been starting fifth grade today, share their thoughts as they try to get through the start of a s