good day. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing. today mark the first day of school for a lot of kids and the start of the run for the midterm elections now just nine weeks away. the summer far better for democrats than they could have expected. raising hopes that they could defy political history and keep control of the senate. maybe even the house. for republicans today marks the start of a new effort to reset

the narrative. new reporting from the team showing they are kicking off a million dollar ad blitz today as they try to get their candidates some badly needed momentum. the stetd day drum beat on monday his team got one of the biggest wins to date. a judge granting their request for a special mast tore look through the thousands and thousands document seized. and who in the world is going to step forward and take the job of special master. and then finally, liz truss just hours into her new job as the british prime minister only the third woman ever to hold that position, she's going to take over at a time when british people are facing inflation and energy crisis that could literally force millions to

choose between heating their houses and buying food. liz truss was always smiles as she was given the job by the the queen, but now the real work is beginning. we'll have a live report from london later on in the show. we want to start back at home with the midterm season. we're all geared up and getting ready for it now in full swing. want to bring in vaughn hilliard, jonathan allen, and kurt bardela. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us. nine weeks to go. the training has begun. we have been doing our calls thetices. jonathan allen, let's get into the piece you wrote. calling it the summer of crises for senate hopefuls. they are looking ahead. nine weeks to go. wanting a revival. what's the plan to do so?

>> it's a great question. it starts with a couple hundred million in television ads from the republican party and the candidates and from outside groups led by the senate leadership fund, which is the mitch mcconnell superpac. what you're going to see in most of these races in an effort of to tie democrats to joe biden is numbers have gone up a little bit, but he remains under water. you'll see them in addition to that talk about inflation and perceptions of economic trouble and you'll see them talk about policy contrasts on things they believe favor them such as the border and immigration more broadly and school curriculum. >> we'll get into mitch mcconnell in a second and the compaison to rick scott. on the flip side, i want to talk about the democrats. they have had some major legislative wins. the president's approval rating is up at this point.

they are doing a lot of fundraising as well. they are in a better position. the at this point, how do you maintain this momentum all the way through november? >> our biggest allies in doing that are what republicans are doing now. you have jim jordan saying they are going to lean into their abortion position. they are going to lean into forced pregnancy. the more they showcase their extreme positions and viewpoints, the more voters keep going towards us. never do anything that agitates the other size. that's the gift that republicans have given to democrats. they are get stuff done. we are making progress with gas prices going down. we passed the inflation reduction act. voters are seeing that democrats

are able to deliver on the promises that were made fds. >> talk to me about the abcs if you're looking at the ap reporting, if democrats needed a rallying cry, they know exactly what it is. the numbers are showing it as well. the ap saying in seven states women made up a higher share of newly registered voters following the overturning of roe v. wade. i mean, think about as a democrat going into the mud term elections. you look at what happened in alaska. you look at what happened in upstate new york. the numbers are telling the story of what dems nee to do in order to pull through a win. >> you lock at where we were at the beginning of this year, where there was such controversy about the enthusiasm gap between republican voters and that gap has narrowed. it's now in our favor because of what's happened since the dobbs

decision. this is registering voters and all on our side, whether it's new york, alaska or even in a conservative state like kansas. this issue has moved the ball so further than we thought we would be right now. it's created a fundraising boom. you look at the top 37 competitive districts for this election. we have outraced our republican counterparts by more than $100 million. >> that's astounding. vaughn hilliard, take me to pennsylvania. that state has been inundated. the president was there three times. the former president was there as well. it's going to get a heck of a lot more heated over the next few months. are folks ready for it? >> that's why republicans around the country are not naive they need to get in front of voters and distinguish where they are

on these various policy positions here. because if you're looking at polling, you can see you're consistently down by several points to job fetterman, who is frankly hardly been on the campaign trail and has yet to agree to take part in a public debate. that's why with with you're looking at oz taking the podium just this morning here alongside current senator republican pat toomey for an impromptu press conference, where he was calling on john fetterman to come forward and take part in a debate. essentially maing the case if his health is not good enough part him to be able to articulate his policy positions in front of an audience, he's calling it a question whether he would have the capacity to serve as a u.s. senator. i want to also let you hear an exchange i had. maine mitt oz realizes he needs to turn out the trump wing. he campaigned alongside him over the course of this weekend. and i wanted to make sure to put

the question to him about the january 6th certification process and whether he would have objected to the certification. take a listen to what he said. >> if you had been in the senate on january 6th of 2021, would you have objected to the certification of the elections and joe biden's win? >> i would not have objected to it. by the time the reports were center to the senate, our job was to approve it. that's what i would have done. >> do you support senator toomey's vote to convict donald trump following january 6th? >> i would not have voted in favor of impeaching president trump. i think the president was already leaving office by then. >> reporter: this is a fine line that oz is trying to walk. trying to win over the trump voters who were new to the political process while also not scaring off a part of the constituency he needs in order to pull off a victory against john fetterman. >> i'm wondering just kind of

anecdotally with the folks you have been speaking to on the ground there and thinking about the answers we just heard from dr. oz. how do you think folks would have reacted to that answer when it came to january 6th? considering the tepid response he's been getting throughout the state in spite of getting that endorsement from the former president. >> reporter: the big question is how would that impact the far right voting population here that saw him on stage with donald trump, but donald trump just in the last week said he should be reinstated into the white house right now here. and anybody that is not in line with donald trump for a great many voters, they view them as not worthy of their voet to send to the congress. we know there's a part of the american constituency that are willing to even cross. you see this georgia, nevada, here where josh schapiro realizes he's running for

governor here. he could pull off mehmet oz saying he has no intentions of campaigning alongside the gubernatorial candidate, who is called for the decertify indication of the 2020 election. he was outside the capitol on january 6th, and again, he's not ignorant that he needs to pull off some of those josh schapiro moderate voters, even individual who is are conservative but no longer want to identify as republican because they view the trump style of republican politics not worthy of their vote. >> talk to me about the position specifically that republicans are in. we're talking about this ad buying blitz when it comes to republicans. it seems like republicans still have a leg up. how difficult of a position are republicans in right now, and is

there a sense or a fear for democrats that they could feasibly take this confidence or leg up at this very moment for granted heading into the midterms. >> there are two things to look at. number one, if you look at the polling across the country in states where there are competitive senate races, democrats are leading in most of them. but the leads are small. the possibility of becoming complacent or the electoral winds shufting to form where you usually see the president's party losing seats in a mud term, all of that is certainly still possible. we're not looking at races where democrats have opened up leads that are insurmountable. the one possible exception is that in arizona. they are concerned about their nominee. that's part of the fight going on between mitch mcconnell's group and the committee and tech

investor peter teal, who funded blak masters to get through the primary. what i heard is that senate leadership fund is likely to look at that race in september and see if it get nis better and may not end up spending money there in october if it doesn't. >> let's take a 30,000-foot view. pennsylvania was inundated over the last week with both the president three separate times and the former president as well. want to take a listen to what we heard from both of them and then we'll talk on the other side. >> it's clear which way the new maga republicans are. they are extreme. the democracy is really at stake. it can't be democracy to call yourself one if you continue to do what they are doing. >> republicans in the maga movement are not trying to undermine our democracy. we are the ones trying to save our democracy.

>> the danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right. >> so the the former president at the rally over the weekend and then that was the president on labor day in the state of pennsylvania as well. we have heard from the former president this type of messaging over and over again. the new messaging we're hearing from the president right now, that is certainly really a shift for president biden because at one point he was seen and wanting to be seen as this united force. now he's pointing out, calling out maga republicans. talk to me quickly about the shift in thinking here for the biden administration? >> it's a three-act play. act one was covid. act two was getting stuff done. and act three is setting the stakes at the level of what this midterm election is about.

it's about continuing the battle for the soul of our nation. it's about the extreme wing. when donald trump speak, he makes president biden's point for him. he continues to relitigate an election that was free and fair and overly scrutinized and probably the most accurate election we have ever had when you consider how many votes were counted and recounted because every time donald trump and republicans spend time talking about the last election, they are making joe biden's point for him. that resinates with voters. >> nine week, kids. it's a marathon, not a sprint. thank you all. appreciate it. the general election is right around the corner. have you made a plan to cast your ballot? nbc news's plan your vote tool is here to help you get key information on the voting rule where is you live. scan the qr code on your screen. we expect to hear from the president at the white house this hour. he's expected to hold a cabinet meeting shortly.

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right now, we are keeping a close eye on the white house. looking at live pictures outside the white house where the president is set to hold a cabinet meeting. we'll bring you that when it begins. we are also following breaking news ut of georgia. involving one of the many investigations surrounding donald trump. "the washington post" is reporting that two trump operatives seeking to overturn the 2020 election repeatedly visited an election office in rural fwa and that a local fwrks

op official helped another trump-linked group gain access to the voting machines. that office is now at the center of a criminal investigation. this news is coming as the department of justice decides how to respond to a major curveball thrown into the federal investigation of the former president's handling of classified documents. a trump appointee gave the former president a major legal victory on monday when she aprued the request for a special master. it paves the way for a third party review of the documents seized at mar-a-lago to address questions of executive privilege. for more on this, we want to bring in blayne alexander. let me start with you on this one. you're outside that federal courthouse in georgia. what more can you tell us about what's going on there? >> reporter: this is something that actually involves a really centers around a small rural county here in georgia. about 200 miles to the south of atlanta.

it's called coffee county. the gbi is investigating an alleged a data breach in the county's election system. now this is something all of this, which was brought to light by an ongoing lawsuit filed alleging these machines could easily be hacked into, but for the purposes of this, the is surveillance video that came out today shows a couple things. one, we know that a data firm out of atlanta hired by sidney powell actually tracks members down in the weeks after the 2020 election. the purpose was to copy information from the voting machines. what this surveillance video shows is that they were met by a woman who at the time was the chairperson of the county gop. the chairperson of the coffee county republican party and she met them and essentially walked

them into that office. all of this really shows more insight into just the amount of coordination and really some of the actions that were taken in attempts to overturn the election in those weeks after the 2020 election. we should mention that it was never knowingly part of any sort of effort to thwart the election, but a notable thing. it's wort pointing out this woman is one of georgia's 16 so-called fake electors who as we know is linked back to the investigation and has been notified that all 16 of them are targets of the da's investigation here in fullton county. >> let's draw on some of the reporting there in georgia along with away we're hearing from the "washington post" as well. i want to read for you some of the piece. that woman in that video, a teacher and then chairwoman of the county greeted a group of outside data forensic experts.

when ta arrived at the election office before noon on the day of the alleged breach, she was one of 16 republican who is signed certificates declaring trump the winner of the 2020 election as part of the fake elector scheme now under investigation by federal and state prosecutors. as we're looking at this, drawing apart some of the pieces, we don't know the full story. what are the potential legal implications that you can already see here? >> this gop county chairwoman is not only reported to be one of the fake electors, not only signed fraudulent certificates saying that essentially donald trump won the election when the election results showed that he lost and joe biden was the wiper. winner. she was questioned a about this incident and she invoked her fifth amendment right.

that's a constitutional right that frankly i a.m. embrace. we should all embrace, but what it does suggest is that she knows if she were to testify truthfully about what we have been discussing, including that surveillance footage when she is seen leading somebody hired by sidney powell into an election office where later that day it was determined that voting machines had been braechd, it looks like her truthful testimony would tend to incriminate her. this is something that the georgia da and perhaps other prosecutor digging into and see how this might fit into the larger investigation. >> this might go beyond state lines. i want you to weigh in on this idea that the two men seen in the video we're now learning are under investigation for separate alleged breaches of voting machines in this state of michigan.

>> this feels like a much larger potentially overarching conspiracy to use this fake elector scheme. not only to sign these false certificates and use them to transfer to the national archives, using the further into the fraud leapt scheme like this is a federal offense, but when you talk about potentially hacking into or breaching voting machines, that really adds another layer of possible criminality on top of the fake elector schemes. i can only hope the officials of the various states, georgia, michigan and elsewhere are coordinating closely. it looks like there's some overlap in what some of these potentially bad actors were doing. >> stick with me.

want to bring in ken dilanian as we're talking about the appointment or the possible appointment of the special mast master, getting this judgment from the judge on labor day. certainly a win for the former president. talk to me about what we heard in that judgment from the judge along with what this is going to do to the investigation happening inside the doj and the appointment process of a special master. who is it going to be? >> good afternoon. all great questions. in terms of the ruling, she gave one to the justice department. she said they did not display a callous disregard for donald trump's fourth amendment right. but every other of the prongs of of the test she was imposing, she decided that a special master was required. this is a very controversial decision. but at the moment, the justice department has not said whether they will appeal. the strategic issue is it could take longer than the entire

special master process, which at the end of the day the doj maybe able to live with. here's what's going on with the investigation. it is still continuing. there are some impressions that somehow this stopped the investigation. it did not. what they said is the doj and the fbi cannot use the fruits of the august search. so any of the documents they seized in august, let's not forget there were lots of classified documents found in boxes that went over from mar-a-lago in january. there was another batch turned over in june. then there's the fundamental questions of who knew about this, how did those documents get to mar-a-lago, what did donald trump know and why did a trump lawyer lie to the justice department and say there were no longer classified documents. the fbi is continuing to pursue those questions, even as they have until friday to submit possible names far special master. >> one of most surprising things

that you read through the decision from the judge is her taking into account the political implications into her decision. i want to read a little bit from it saying this. the plaintiff has claimed injury from the threat of future persecution and the stigma associated there with. if it you're looking at this decision inside the department of justice and you understand she has considered the political implications in making this decision, do you move forward with an appeal for that very reason? >> that's one of many reasons. you don't impose one set of standards, rule, laws on political folks and then another set on others. but there are a number of reasons that i hope the department of justice will file an appeal. what ken notes is that large swaths of this investigation will continue, but here is what i'm really troubled by. the judge issueed a stop work order. she said with respect to all of

the materials, and they were consequential, that were seized on august 8th pursuant to the search warrant, you may not engage in any criminal investigation or follow-up regarding that seized evidence. that will do real mischief not only to the investigation right now because it may very well be. they sent those out for forensic testing. we have dna on those documents to see who may have handled them. but in the long-term, it could really create some mischief. i can promise you when and if donald trump is charged with any crimes, to what was seized to mar-a-lago his attorneys will argue the prosecutors investigated in violation of the stop work order and that can create real mischief in a prosecution. >> thank you both. let's talk mississippi for a

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they spoke to jose diaz-balart about how it feels to send their other kids back into the classroom this year. >> this week we had our youngest son's meet the teacher. it was incredibly difficult. it was difficult to go on campus knowing that lexi is not going to be meeting her teacher this year. >> uvalde school district is adding new security measures across schools like fencing, and cameras and increasing the presence of officers. here with me now is antoni hilton. i can only imagine the fear and anxiety, the sadness so many parents and kids are feeling as they return to their first day of school. how is everybody doing? >> reporter: it was a tough morning. as we were watching parents come into the school behind me here, some of them were actively

grieving in the car and trying to council their own children a as in some case thas got out of the car and walked them all the way into the school for their first day. people are caught between different emotions. they are angry still. they are hurting, they are fearful about stepping foot back on these campuses, but they also keep telling us they want their kids to have some semblance of normalcy in their lives. they want them to see their friends and not to fall behind in school. so they want them to be in a school environment. it's just really tough to be here. take a listen to some of the conversations we had this morning. >> how are you and your family doing? >> we're good. we're okay. we're scared, but we're here. >> it's hard for a lot of people to just keep going because of what happened. but we still have to keep going. our kids can't just be suffocated. >> we're leaving everything in god's hands and hopefully it's a better year for all the children.

>> reporter: you mentioned some of the new security measures taken in the district. in fact, some of them are a little bit delayed. there's still some steps that need to be taken. some of the fencing isn't complete. some of the hundreds of cameras they promised to have up across the district are not up and running yet. so parents are eager to see this district gets those steps done and is really taking the health and safety of their kids very seriously. some of that has to do with logistics and some has to do with relationships. that every single day the school year they are going to have to prove over and over again to these families this is never going to happen here again. >> absolutely. thank you. so that's what's happening in uvalde. schools are opening across the country. kids heading back to school today. there's this renewed focus on student's mental health as they are heading back. with some teachers adding mental health check-in to their lesson

plans. want to bring in a pediatrician and the chief mental and behavioral health officer at children's wisconsin. doctor, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. i want to be real. there are unique challenges in uvalde, texas. that is within itself. put as we look at this on a broader scale, we're heading back to school after two years essentially of covid lockdown on and off. a lot of mental health issues these kids have been dealing with throughout the last two plus years. as they head into the classroom, what are the kind of best things that kind of parents, kids, teachers can do to ease back in? >> it's important to remember our kids were in a mental health

crises before the pandemic. we were already seeing an increase in anxiety and depression. adhd, stress disorders, and the pandemic has only exponentially made that worse. so i think this is going to take a community solution and so i love the question about what parent cans do. we need to normalize the ability to talk about our feelings and emotions. really creating safe spaces for our children to be able to talk about their concerns and fears they have. they have gone through a lot of change in their lives over the last several years and going back to school didn't feel the same as it was before the pandemic, so it's getting use to a new normal. that's really important. i think opening up the ability

to have conversations with your children about how they feel, asking open-ended questions, i think that's another one. >> talk to me about anxiety. because a lot of kids deal with anxiety. my children along with many of them. and a lack of eye contact. and dealing with kids with higher anxiety levels and returning to school. what's best to do? >> sometimes really thinking through how you're preparing for the school day. having a consistent structure and making sure the children are getting enough sleep, that they are waking up at the same time, planning and preparing for the day helps. maing sure you're recognizing

the hardest time for your children. when they are going to be stressed out, making those transition points easier for some children is the morning. for some it's right after they come back from school. making sure they have an activity that they can do at that time a that actually keeps them calm and helps them through that. those are other good ways. sharing your anxiety and being able to talk to your children sometimes it's about asking questions about what was the best thing that happened in school. what was the thing you're most worried about. did you help somebody? i think children are naturally altruistic and it helphouse have positive feelings. do you want to thank somebody today for what they did. those are all things that can help with that conversation and work through the anxiety. >> really engaging with your kids being open and honest about our day. doctor, thank you so much. we appreciate it.

the president has begun his cabinet meeting inside the white house. we want to go to that now and take a listen. >> over the past ten months, we won passage of some extraordinary parts of our economic agenda. the bipartisan infrastructure law, the biggest infrastructure package since the eisenhower administration with the help of some of our friends from the other side of the aisle. the chips act, the law that will spur investments in microchips, which i might point out were invented here in the united states of america and refined. it's going to create a number of jobs for the future. the inflation reduction act, the law brings down the cost of prescription drugs, health care premiums and invests in made in america and a clean energy future. the three things along with other steps we have taken like the american rescue plan, student debt relief and proof

that democracy can deliver for the people. and there's a foundation of the kind of strong, forward-looking economy that we want to continue to build. the economy with lower prices, more breathing room for middle-class families, an economy with good-paying jobs you can raise a family on and just have a little bit of breathing room whether you went to college or not. an economy that leads the world in technology and clean energy and an economy that ends ur our dependence on foreign sources across the entire supply chain. and so this works from the bottom up. i'm not a big fan of trickle-down economics. i find the trickle stops fairly quickly coming down. but when the middle class is doing well, the wealthy do well.

so today i have assembled a gab net to lay out how we're going to implement these laws that we worked so hard to get past and we have got passed. and because this is only the first step in delivering to the american people, i have asked each agency to come forward with a plan to help people to get things on the right side as possible. i might add with all these legislations we have passed, we have still reduced the deficit substantially. and our first year over $300 million. and this year it's estimated to be somewhere in access of $1 trillion. so we're going to spend the money wisely. to buy american, we're going to lower the cost of prescription drugs by letting medicare

negotiate prices with the drug companies. we have been proposing that for a long time. we finally got that legislation through. we're going to reduce the cost of health insurance under the affordable care act because of acts taken in the past. about $800 of premium this year. and we're going to hire more teachers, we're going to create millions of good-paying jobs, union jobs and manufacturing. i know it's not always a case not everyone not even my own team necessarily agrees with me, but i don't know where it's written we can't be a manufacturing center for the world. we have created over 600,000 manufacturing jobs. i think we're going to continue. just last week major companies announced billions in new investments to make new solar panels here in the united

states, here in the united states we're going to be employing american workers and using american products. on friday i'm going to be going to the ground breaking of a new state of the art semiconductor facility in ohio. the biggest investment of its kind ever in our nation. and we're making things here in america. we're making our supply chains more secure and i believe winning the race to the future. details matter though. execution matters. i look forward to everyone here today giving me an update on your departments. and i'm optimistic about the future that we're building here in this country. but it requires solid work making these laws work. the devil is in the details.

mitch landrieu, who can't be here today because his dad passed away. hi knew his dad in the '60s. was way ahead of everyone in terms of dealing with racial equity in the south. he passed away yesterday. mitch is doing a great job leading our team in implementing the infrastructure bill. earlier today the secretary announced the plan to get chips act off the ground. that's just the beginning. separately rgs we're also hearing the latest from the vice president and attorney general and everything our administration is doing to protect women with the right to choose in the wake of the dobbs decision. and finally i want to welcome john president obama december to. podeto. john is a good friend.

this is his first day on his new job. thank you for agreeing to come aboard. he's accepted the task of helping implementing the clean energy investments in the inreduction act. his experience at the highest level of government are getting us to the point where we're going to hit the ground running. this cabinet experienced dedicated and devoted to working families. we're going to keep building a strong economy and good-paying jobs and products made in america. and lead the world in an innovation success. and i'm going to stop there and thank the press for being here and be careful leaving. >> thank you so much.

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