today, and it's expected to get even hotter, maybe record breaking. the massive man hunt for a murder suspect who used gym equipment and bed sheets to escape from a pennsylvania jail. officials say he's dangerous with the skills of a survivalist and could be hiding in the woods. also ahead, russia furious over prisoner swapping celebrated in ukraine as five commanders who famously dispended a steel plant in mariupol come home at last. president biden gets the royal treatment at windsor castle, meeting king charles for the first time since the coronation. our nbc news reporter are following all of the latest developments. let's get to meagan fitzgerald at windsor castle. >> reporter: good to be with you. president biden arrived this morning. he met the king in the quad of the castle. he was greeted by honor guards who gave him a royal salute, and

they played the national anthem. biden and king charles inspected the troops before going inside, having tea, and one of the larger conversations about climate change. it's a topic that's near and dear to king charles' heart. this is something he has been campaigning and advocating for for more than five decades. earlier in the morning, before arriving at windsor castle, he met up with rishi sunak, the prime minister of the united kingdom at 10 downing street, where the majority of the conversation was about ukraine, continuing to give weapons in the hopes they beat russia. this comes on the backdrop when president biden agreed to send cluster munitions to ukraine, and look, it's controversial. the united kingdom is just one of more than a hundred nations that bans those cluster bombs because there's the potential that they could kill civilians. nevertheless, biden says it was a difficult decision, but one that he decided to make in the

end, and then of course he flew off to lithuania, arriving there just a few hours ago, ahead of those nato meetings, the nato summit, the two-day summit that kicks off tomorrow. we're going to be watching for several things. we know that there's going to be a dominant conversation around ukraine, but also will we see the president of ukraine, zelenskyy, arrive there. he has said that he wants to see a pathway, conversation about his country being able to join nato. he wants to see progress on a statement that nato made back in 2018 that he would be able to join the alliance, and then there's sweden, we have president erdogan of turkey blocking the path way. we heard him say he wants the eu to create a pathway for his country into the european union. he'll create a pathway for sweden into the nato alliance. we know that the president of the united states will be

meeting with erdogan, and you can bet there will be a lot of pressure. a lot we'll be watching. we're going ahead about 1,500 miles east of kyiv where there was an emotional home coming for five ukrainian commanders held as prisoner of war. nbc's kelly cobiella will be following this from kyiv. russia is incredibly angry about these men returning home. help explain this for us. >> reporter: these men were part of the 80 day siege defending the city of mariupol from the steel plant in mariupol, holding off russian forces for 80 days, and finally forced to surrender to the russians. they were held as prisoners of war in russia, and turned over to turkey in a larger prisoner exchange back in september of last year. now, russia says that as part of that deal, those five commanders in particular were supposed to stay in turkey until the end of

the war. russia now says they weren't consulted about

with russia, which is very important to turkey economically. and geopolitically. >> kelly cobiella, we covered a lot of ground. thank you so much. let's go now to nbc's rehema ellis with the latest on the an escaped murder suspect, who triggered a man hunt. >> this massive man hunt for michael berm has been under way for a couple of days now. authorities believe he might be in the warren county area and the allegheny forest, which is near the new york border. authorities say that he is wanted on rape and murder charges and has a history of

kidnapping. how did he escape from the prison where he was being held on charges? authorities say that he was in an exercise area and he managed to hoist himself on top of some exercise equipment. and from there, he got through a metal roof. at that point, authorities say he had bed sheets with him, which were tied together. and he used those bed sheets to hoist himself down the wall and escape from the facility. authorities have been desperately searching for him from that point. they think he may still be in the vicinity because they say they have found some stockpiles and some camping sites. they say this man is a survivalist with military training, and he would know how to hide in the area. authorities say they now have a warrant out for him as well as they have a reward out for him, up to $7,500, but they are warning people, if they spot him to contact authorities. because they suspect he might be armed and they consider him to

be especially dangerous. back to you. >> ehema ellis, thank you. let's go to the heat and the southwest in some of those states over there. i'm from phoenix, 110, that's nothing new. we're talking 11, 12, 13 days. >> i was there when phoenix hit 120 degrees. it was 122. that's the highest that's ever been recorded this the phoenix area. people have seen it before, but it's the duration, day after day, just gets old. >> about to be recording breaking, right? >> the duration of 110 degree days. we were likely to break that record. let me take you through some of the numbers. obviously the dry heat, the extreme temperatures in areas from the southwest, the el paso area, we just passed 24 days in a row of hitting 120 degrees. we're going to blow past the old record. we may get ten days past the old record, and our friends in south florida are brutally hot too.

these excessive heat warnings in the desert southwest, up towards vegas. these are in effect through sunday. it's just day after day of this, and the current heat index, this is what we take in the temperature and the humidity. look at miami, 107. a couple of minutes ago they were at 110. the all time heat index record in miami is 111.7. they were close to that. they ended up about a degree shy. just brutal heat, even by miami standards. used to it being hot but this has been an exceptional period. we're calling this a marine heat wave around the keys. water temperatures are in the low 90s. that's unheard of for that area. here's how it's going to go in the phoenix area, going back to the southwest. this is the dry heat, inside your oven. 110 today in phoenix. palm springs, 109. it only gets hotter as we go through each and every day, through the upcoming weekend. yuma at 110. phoenix goes 114 thursday, 114 friday, and the forecast right

now for saturday is about 117 degrees in the phoenix area. we also have some severe storms to worry about especially in kansas and areas of nebraska. it's not going to be horrible. but we will see isolated cases of damaging wind, and also some large hail. finally, the pictures and images out of the northeast from the hudson valley, connecticut and vermont, tropical air, thunderstorms, slow moving downpours continue over the state of vermont, catastrophic, life threatening flooding is ongoing right now. many people in vermont are saying this is as bad if not worse than hurricane irene. for most people that's the worst flood of their lifetime in vermont. this isn't just like, oh, it's flooding in vermont. almost the entire state of vermont is under a flash flood warning. it's almost impossible to get around. gaping holes like the water eroded away the payment, and so as we go throughout the rest of this evening, the highest totals

will be from rutland towards burlington, where we could see an additional 2 to 3 inches of rain. that's sort of like a breaking news story as we go throughout the rest of the day. we had the one fatality in hudson valley yesterday because of flash flooding. we're afraid similar scenarios are playing out right now. >> we know you'll watch it. thank you. we're going to dive into president biden's nato summit goals, with someone who knows a few things about those summits. former defense secretary leon panetta joins me in 60 seconds. s rails and open road, and essential services of every kind. all running on countless invisible networks, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends the systems running america's infrastructure. for these services. for the 336 million of us living here. ♪ with powerful, easy-to-use tools,

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key nato members are racing to find a security guarantee for ukraine and a long-term commitment to help ukraine win the war against russia now approaching the 18th month mark. this comes after the biden administration approved sending controversial cluster munitions to kyiv, an issue that has divided nato allies. joining us former defense secretary and cia director, leon panetta. mr. secretary, thank you for being with us. it's a privilege to get to talk to you. i want to start first with the cluster munitions. john kirby was asked about how the administration made that controversial call. let's listen. >> this is literally a gunfight all along from the donbas all the way down toward zaporizhzhia and kherson. they're running out of inventory. we're going to send these additional artillery shells that you have cluster bomblets in them to help bridge the gap as we ramp up production of normal 155 artillery shells.

>> given the high dud rate of these, mr. secretary, was this the right call? >> i think john was being brutally honest about what's happening there. obviously we've got a 600-mile front. the ukrainians are trying to keep pressure on the russians, they're firing huge numbers, thousands of artillery shells. as john said, they are running out of 155s, and the only thing to replace it was these cluster munitions, and so i don't think they had much choice. if you want to keep the pressure on the russians, if we want to ensure that the ukrainian offensive moves towards success, these munitions are absolutely essentially to keeping the pressure on the russians. >> why do you think the u.s. never banned this type of weapon while more than 100 other countries did? >> well, when i was secretary, we went through that discussion. i have to tell you that a lot of the military leadership were

concerned that there were countries that had not agreed to stop the use of cluster munitions, and so they envisioned a possible situation where, for example, in korea, if the north koreans had suddenly moved across the 38th parallel in large numbers that cluster munitions would be very important to being able to stop their advance, so there are arguments that are presented that indicate that, you know, it is important as a defensive tool, particularly in light of the fact that there are countries that continue to use these cluster munitions. >> the most difficult question facing allies of the summit will be how and when to ease ukraine into nato. here's what president biden had to say about that. >> i don't think it's ready for membership in nato. i don't think there is unanimity in nato about whether or not to bring ukraine in to the nato

family now at this moment, in the middle of a war, so i think we have to lay out a path, a rational path for russia, excuse me, for ukraine to be able to qualify to get into nato. >> if not now, mr. secretary, when? what would need to happen before you see the president supporting that? >> well, i think there is unanimity in the nato alliance to providing a security guarantees to the ukraine. look, there may be different views as to whether or not they ought to suddenly be admitted to nato. i can understand the arguments that this is not the time and that frankly if we did allow them to get into nato, we would be at war with russia officially. so i think the important thing right now for this summit is to

agree on a set of security guarantees for ukraine that will allow them ultimately to transition once they are successful, to transition in the future to nato membership. that i think would be the best place for this summit to arrive at an agreement. >> let's talk about russia because the kremlin today confirmed that president putin and wagner boss prigozhin personally met just five days after the mutiny. his exact whereabouts remain a mystery and russian state media has been airing videos of guns, golds and wigs found during a raid on his home. what do you expect the future holds for prigozhin and those mercenaries he led. >> i don't know, this is the strangest story i've ever heard at this point. you've got putin who basically labeled these people as traitors. they almost were on the march towards taking moscow. they were 120 miles away. and for putin to now suddenly

have this situation where he's meeting with prigozhin, the very person who instigated this coup and talking with him, tells me that putin must have some huge fears about taking any steps that could go after prigozhin. what it confirms is that putin has been weakened by this coup, and continues to be weakened by the likelihood of having to deal with prigozhin and the wagner group. >> former defense secretary leon panetta. thank you for your time. a major update now on a story we brought you last week about u.s. drones. harassed by russian fighter jets over syria. officials say the same drones later carried out an air strike that killed a top isis leader. u.s. central commands says no civilians were killed in the strike but it is still assessing

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six months and counting, that's how soon voters in the 2024 primary process will begin the selection process after the iowa gop announced the date of the presidential caucuses. and this comes as ron desantis is defending himself against questions about his persistent polling deficit where he continues to trail donald trump by double digits nationally. here's how he responded in a sunday morning interview. >> we're doing what it takes to win. it's not a national primary. that's not how these things are going. it's really on the ground in those key states. >> will you be on the debate stage next month? >> of course. i look forward to doing it. i think really, maria, that's when people are really going to start paying attention to the primary. i think up to this point, a lot of that has been about some of these legal cases. a lot of the voters concerned about that and understandably so. >> let's bring in nbc news

senior national politics reporter, matt wilson. and rick, we heard a little dig here at trump's legal drama. what do you make so far, though, of desantis's seemingly inability to improve his polling against trump? >> this is a case of what i jokingly call electile dysfunction, this is a guy who has all the money in the world, who has an enormous campaign staff costing him an enormous super pac costing him millions of dollars a month, and yet, he lacks the gift of performance. he lacks the ability to truly connect with people. he's got a weird chip on his shoulder. there are a narrow number of folks in the republican primary who find this appealing and his numbers frankly have gone down by almost 2/3 in some polls from where he was in the beginning of the process and a guy who's polling now in the teens who basically is doing twice what chris christie is posting on the boards is not a guy whose

campaign is in great shape. he's hoping against hope that donald trump, you know, gets eaten by a shark or stripped by a meteor, but until then, he continues to recede in the minds of the maga voters who make up the vast majority of the primary electorate. >> in a new piece nor nbc news you write desantis's inability to close the polls is giving life to democrats in his home state of florida, what can you tell us? >> it's momentum by default. the national failure of the guy who has sort of been their biggest boogeyman is injecting life into the party. it's important to note as far as florida democrat goads, they have no power in the state, republicans have a large voter registration, and just their general infrastructure is crumbling, it has been over the past few years. this weekend they have their big statewide convention, and there was significant excitement there, more so than years past. i went one in 2021 that felt

more like a funeral for a political party than a statewide political convention. that was not the vibe this weekend. they were in miami beach, bradley whitford of west wing was there and had a bunch of laugh lines, the energy was high, and it's a more energetic event than i have seen in quite some time, and the butt of most of the jokes was ron desantis. >> is there a real concern that desantis's struggle on the national stage is hurting him again? >> there's new polling that had him down double digits in florida, which is something that's relatively new. what i think it's going to do is exacerbate desantis fatigue at the state level. there are republicans at the state level who have publicly endorsed him but have been bullied by him for the past couple of years. so far all of them say the right things publicly. his aspirations nationally sort of fall apart a little bit, at least to this point some of those folks might be able to

talk more publicly about things that have been happening in tallahassee and other corners of the state here. >> the iowa caucuses have been scheduled for january 15th, both martin luther king jr. day, and day one of e. jean carroll's second defamation trial. what effect did all of that have on the primary test? >> the e. jean carroll trial will probably not affect maga voters. it's baked in the cake with trump. as for martin luther king day, this will not exactly be something that resonates with the folks that are most likely to turn out in that first contest, and i think to echo matt's point, you know, there is a desantis fatigue setting in right now. there's a little bit of trump fatigue, but he's still the dominant figure in that race right now, and his campaign has led more effective than it was in '16 or '20. >> we're six weeks from the first gop debate. desantis says he'll be there. he just said that. it's unclear if trump will join

him. should republicans expect that to be a last-minute decision? >> i think trump has no real motivation to do it right now. why not have the kids table, they fight amongst themselves. strategically for him, everyone in that room is not going to go after trump, they're going to go after ron desantis, his number one rival, even though he trails trump badly, everyone in the room is going to go at desantis. they're not going to say donald trump is not here, he's a coward, let me make a case against him. they're going to try to pick off the other guy. every one of them understands their only hope is, every path to victory is if everyone else gets hit by a bus, and particularly, everyone else in that room, and they'll be looking at desantis as the guy they're going to make their bones taking out a guy weakened by donald trump. >> we'll have to leave it there. matt dixon, rick wilson, thank you both. the breaking news on the investigation into hunter biden. a new letter of the attorney

running the investigation under cuts claims republicans are making about his work. what does the letter say, and why did the u.s. attorney send it now? >> because he's trying to counter informing that's going through republicans in congress, principally from an irs whistleblower. one of the big things is he said he never sought authority to become a special counsel, one of the claims made by the whistleblower, and repeated by members of congress. what he did say, though, is that he sought specific authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction without the acquiesce of the u.s. attorney in that district. this is important because the whistleblower has come forward and said there were a couple of instances where he talked to u.s. attorneys, one in california, one in washington, d.c., and those u.s. attorneys blocked him from bringing charges against hunter biden. he says that's not true. he had full authority to bring those charges. ultimately he decided not to bring those charges. he also said that he got that

authority well before a crucial meeting where the whistleblower says -- quotes david weiss saying i'm not the final decision maker here. i don't have authority. weiss is saying he did have authority. of course all tax cases at the doj have the input of the tax division which at the moment is run by a career employee at the department of justice. the bottom line here is that the justice department's position is that there was no politics, nothing improper involved here. the whistleblower from the irs says different. he argues that the case was treated with kid gloves, treated differently, but here david weiss. the u.s. attorney who brought the case is saying he had full authority to bring whatever charges he wanted to bring. >> ken dilanian, thank you. aretha franklin's sons battle it out over the late music legends estate in court. franklin's former entertainment lawyer of 28 years joins me next. y unlimited data, and unlimited hotspot data.

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the last wishes of the queen of soul, aretha franklin, remain an open question and a debate amongst her children. as "the new york times" wr months after the funeral, families found documents scrawled by hand. one said under a couch cushion in her hand in suburban detroit, another in a locked cabinet, plunging the estate into

uncertainty. now at a trial that starts today, the big question, which one will be deemed the soul singer's true will. i want to bring in former entertainment lawyer for aretha franklin, don wilson. you were her lawyer for 28 years. you know her well. what background can you give us about how she handled her estate when you knew her? >> thank you, lindsey. aretha was a very private person. she didn't like her business and affairs made known, so it's not surprising that despite my insistence to go to an estate attorney in michigan and have it formally done, she chose to write it in her own handwriting in her house. >> two of her sons argue that the document found in a spiral notebook should be the primary document because it's the most recent, and they argue it includes her signature.

as "the new york times" points out, there's a dispute over whether she signed the document. a smiley face paired with franklin, represents her signature on the final page of the document. the other has disagreed, what do you think? >> i know in notes to me and other things that i have seen, aretha had signed franklin and put a smiley face. that was definitely a moniker that she used in the past, certainly with me and probably other people, so it wouldn't surprise me if a court said, no, that constitutes her signature. >> are you taking any role here in this trial? it sound like a jury or a judge might want to hear from you. >> no, i've not been approached by either side nor the court to have any input. >> what options does the family have as this unfolds in court? >> well, i think the best option would be to settle the matter

and stop the trial. there's a couple discrepancies between the 2010 and the 2014 document. but i think the most significant one is probably who would more the estate and who would be the executor. i think that could be worked out between the two sons so that they could jointly work it without having a trial and split any executor fees that would be paid under michigan law. >> how long could something like this last? i mean, we know some family disputes have dried out years. >> yes, i mean, depending on the number of witnesses they want to call and the trial's schedule, this could easily run three to five years or more. >> wow, all right, don wilson, thank you for your time and expertise. appreciate it. still ahead, a drink with the caffeine of six cans of coke. how a popular energy drink drew the ire of a top senate leader.

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a "new york times" investigation is raising new ethics questions for supreme court justice clarence thomas. the reporting centers on thomas's membership in an elite club shortly after he joined the bench, called the his or her -- horatio, friends invited him to sporting event, many of which went unreported. these elite friends financed the marketing of a pro thomas documentary in the wake of a film about anita hill's sexual harassment allegations. justice thomas gave them quote unusual access to the supreme court including hosting the group's annual induction ceremony in a courtroom. the "times" says justice thomas declined to respond to detailed questions from them, and nbc news has not been able to verify the times reporting. joining me is former federal

prosecutor shan wu. >> the harder you look at the supreme court, the uglier the perspective comes. the particularly reporting points out the problems that they don't have a judicial code of ethics for themselves. in terms of a criminal possibility, doesn't look like too much. the issue is maybe there's falsification, something inaccurate on what he did disclose. the big problem is what is he required to disclose, and who's actually forcing him to disclose it. there's i guess a rule or a practice that the supreme court they don't like the building to be used for any fundraising activities and reporting indicates that it was used for that. and again, the question is who's going to enforce that rule. that's what the original sin is here. >> back in april you wrote about justice thomas and ethics questions and the common theme is that thomas is forthcoming

only after public interest groups discover his omissions. thomas's argument is he has been advised by colleagues and others. what do you say to that? >> i say to that, he shouldn't have to be relying on his colleagues, that first of all, turn him into witnesses. if he wanted to rely on outside counsel, he could do that. that would be privileged. but the real problem here is that the way the court is set up in this sort of a self-policing or non-policing mode, there's nobody to say what's right or wrong about those disclosures. who's going to push back on that and say who told you that, why is that correct? it's part of the black box, and frankly, congress and the executive branch both need to figure out ways to observe pressure on them to change that. it can't be that because they decide constitutional questions, it means no one can actually

look at them, scrutinize them because oh, it's unconstitutional if you do that. >> what does that look like, either congressional or executive action. >> congress could have some hearings, and they could also consider having better forcing rules in terms of the disclosures, in terms of putting a code of judicial ethics upon them. certainly could get push back from the court itself, but that kind of push back will exert pressure too. from the executive branch, the justice department could open up an investigation, doesn't have to be a criminal investigation. it could be looking at these issues about disclosure, thomas in particular looks like he has done a lot of amending, and they could take a look at that to see, you know, is there any sort of falsehood there. likelihood of doj, particularly under merrick garland wanting to open a criminal investigation or charge a sitting justice, very very low. but that kind of pressure could ultimately, i think, cause the court itself to feel like we really better do something here,

and could cause roberts to really try to start to, as best as he can, you know, twist some arms there. >> one last question before we go. a new york judge has ordered a former trump adviser, a half million dollars to lawyers who stifled him after a pardon to the former president. what do you make of that development? >> it's a bad development for them because when you get sued that way over fees and such, he loses a lot of the confidentiality. you're already seeing what they're arguing about. it looks like it's what's called a summary judgment decision, and that means they didn't have to go through a trial, and the judge has decided that there are no real facts in dispute, and that as a matter of law, he's supposed to pay them. it seems like a bit of a slam dunk for them. i don't see any issues he could try to appeal the summary judgment on. >> shan wu, thank you for your time. we want to get now to some breaking news from a federal

judge in louisiana who just denied the biden administration's request to put a temporary hold on that order that puts extraordinary limits on government communications with social media companies. the judge rejecting the biden administration's argument that his sweeping order would impact law enforcement activity to protect national security interests. we're going to keep on top of this and bring you any further updates. senator majority leader chuck schumer is calling for the fda to investigate a massively popular energy drink, prime, the it has gained viral popularity among kids nationwide but contains more caffeine than a cup of coffee, can of coke, the equivalent amount of caffeine to six cans of coke or nearly two red bulls. nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill. i know you consume a lot of caffeine, i don't know if it's that level, but what is senator

majority leader chuck schumer saying about this. >> maybe over the case of a long day or long stakeout, but as a father of four, young kids who certainly have a desire to drink as much prime as possible, this was pretty eye opening, just as a dad, and this is something that the senate majority leader needs the fda needs to look into and put potential regulations and prevent young people from consuming that much calf teen in a short period of time. describing these drinks as a caldron of caffeine. listen to him talk about what he would like to see the food and drug administration do. >> one of the summer's hottest status symbols for kids is not an outfit, it's not a toy. it's a beverage. but buyer and parents beware because it's a serious health concern for the kids that so feverishly targets. >> reporter: and i can tell you just from my own perspective that the senator's exactly right

about the status symbol. i have heard stories of my kids' friends taking an empty bottle of prime and filling it with water and walking around with the prime bottle this their hand because they think it looks cool. there's no doubt that the influence that the social media stars have had on this product have made it something that kids really really want, and then when you add in the allure of caffeine, that feeling that it provides is something that just creates a circle of which kids want it more and more. the company's pushed back on the criticism. they say the drink that contains the caffeine specifically says it's not for consumers under the age of 18, and they do have a separate product called prime hydration which contains no caffeine, but the difference between the two are pretty important and of course when it comes to status symbols, kids can sniff that out quickly, which is one of the reasons the senator wants the fda to get

involved quickly. >> as the mom of 16-month-old old, i have so much to learn. i want to ask you something, the company is pushing back, nobody under 18 should be drinking this. is there anything to suggest about marketing, they so feverishly target. what does that look like? >> i think that's a big part of it, the marketing behind all of this, and it's very similar to the push and the criticisms that were leveled against the tobacco industry, and of course then later on the marketing of things like e-cigarettes to young people with fancy flavors and things that would be gateways for children to take advantage of these products, so that is certainly an area that the fda has control over in terms of regulation. that's part of what senator schumer wants to see enforced and then, you know, this is, at this point, congress saying, fda do your job. if they find they're not doing it in the way they see fit, you could see legislation come as a result of all of this. we're at the early stages of this. this is essentially congress putting the fda on notice saying

to try and solve this problem before it becomes too big. >> ryan nobles, thank you so much for bringing that to us. americans are embracing what some on the internet call little treat culture, making small, inexpensive purposes for a short-term boost during hard economic times, and with amazon prime day tomorrow, other competitors are jumping in to sway customers over to their deals. joining us for cnbc on msnbc, morgan brennan. what can shoppers expect to see tomorrow, and what are the competitors up to? does that mean the consumers win? >> it's really considered a form of self-care. it's this notion that small inexpensive purchases are going to give a temporary boost during stressful economic times. that's what's in focus for the kickoff of prime day tomorrow, persistently high inflation, and amazon's ceo, andy jassy talked about this on my show on cnbc

last week. noting that consumers have become price conscious. and that was the impetus for the deeply discounted events. everything from consumer electronics, home items, apparel toys and more and what started as a purely made up, amazon specific creation eight years ago to get ahead of holiday shopping and shipping, it's become a sale extravaganza for the retail industry. target is launching its own full week of sales, what it calls target circle week. walmart has walmart plus week which will expand several days. retailers like best buy like black friday in july, and retailers u cutting prices as much as 50%. all of this as a strength that the u.s. consumer has shown signs of waning, specifically when it comes to goods and

apparel. that's a dynamic that's affected retailers, a build up in inventories, spurred sales by brands this year, even ahead of this summer time sales blitz that is kicking off with amazon tomorrow. >> a little treat. that's how i justify chocolate every day, right? >> i love that thought process. >> i deserve this. morgan, thank you. that does it for this hour. make sure to join "chris jansing reports" reports every weekday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. chris will be back tomorrow. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" after the break. continues with "katy tur reports" after the break. but we ended up using three times as much and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back with tide, and the clothes are clean again. do 3x the laundry and get a tide clean. - "best thing i've ever done." it's got to be tide. that's what freddie told me. - it was the best thing i've ever done, and- - really? - yes, without a doubt! - i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. - great people. different people, that's for sure, and all of them had different reasons

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