studies that may eventually tell us why people suffer from long covid. >> i imagine it's a relief to have answers and that validation, that what he is feeling is real. >> yes, and to keep the science moving forward. >> thank you so much for your reporting. that does it for us today. we are back tomorrow, same time, same place. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. moments ago, president biden boarded air force one for michigan. we will speak to a union member about what she makes of this historic move. meantime, president biden has a new message today for house republicans who are holding up a deal to avoid a government shutdown. how the senate will be taking matters into its own hands today. the list of senate democrats calling for new jersey senator,

bob menendez, to resign keeps growing. and then the lineup is set for the second gop presidential debate. we begin with president biden about to be on his way to michigan where he will be joining auto workers on the picket lines, striking against the country's big three automakers. take a look at the live shot right there of air force one. the white house says it's the first time a sitting president has walked the picket line in modern times. the president is not the only one vying for working class votes in the battleground state this week, and tomorrow former president trump is expected to appear in detroit where he will deliver a speech to workers instead of attending the second gop presidential debate. joining us, gabe gutierrez and

maggie vespa. >> reporter: from a soggy michigan where the president, as we said, is expected toland in a short time, and the president, of course, saying that he wants to veer pro union. he considers himself the most pro union president ever. yesterday he was asked if he supported the uwa's demands in the strike, and he said he always supports the uwa. and the president is not trying to antagonize the auto companies, but over the last few days, he has thrown his support increasingly behind the uaw.

clearly the trump campaign says it's aggressive in courting rank and file auto workers, and he called it a photo-op on the part of president biden, and arguing the push for electric vehicles could cost union jobs, and the white house is trying to stress the president is behind these workers, and for some it might be a tough sale. some workers on the picket line this morning, we spoke to one this morning and said she wished the president would have showed up sooner. >> how are workers on the ground reacting to the high-profile visits? >> workers tell us regardless of the political infighting between the former president and president, they are happy to have any spotlight on the ground and any extra pressure on the

big gm, ford and chrysler stellantis, and they are happy to have them coming to the picket line at the invitation of their president, shawn thaeupb. in fact, we have gotten statement from ford and gm, and ford says they are going to be the one this is according to the company, to solve this, by finding creative solutions to toh issues together at th bargaining table saying they had a shared interest in the viability of the industrial midwest and the auto industry. and gm echoing that stiment in their statement, saying our focus is not on politics but bargaining with the leadership, and i have to tell you, workers out here on the picket line say they are not buying it and they

think it will make a difference and are glad for the extra pressure. >> maggie, talk to us about the differences in the uaw and automaker talks, because there are three different automakers, and there has been some progress on two of them and not as much progress with one of them. how is it as of right now? >> reporter: right, so there has been progress specifically with ford, with one of the automakers. i want to point out something right now. if we could widen out just a little bit, and this is a parts distribution facility for stellantis, and this has been happening throughout the day, trucks are trying to get through the picket line and they are saying go to another gate, you are not crossing this one. and both sides are saying they have a long way to go. we have heard about less progress, really, no tangible

progress in the last few days with gm and stellantis, and seems like those talks are still stalled, at the very least. and they are hoping these two high-profile visits will make a difference with all three. >> what is the schedule of the tiktok, and this is a historic thing with the president walking with picketing workers, how will it work? >> reporter: the white house is not saying publicly which plant the president will be at, certainly because of security concerns, but the president is expected to walk on the picket line according to the uaw president. and the white house is saying this is the first time a sitting president has done in in a

while. candidate biden in 2019 visited the picket line, and the fact that he will be with shawn fain, and the uaw workers elected shawn fain, and he's a new leader and seemed to shape up the status quo here, and significantly the uaw withheld its endorsement in the 2024 presidential race thus far, and many of the workers support president biden and they want to get the sense he's earning their vote. and the campaign there courting rank and file workers, and they are looking to cut into president biden's support among union members here in michigan, of course a critical battle ground state in 2016, 2020 and

2024. the optics of the president, shawn fain, the uaw president, will be significant. we are still waiting for air force one to leave washington and head here to michigan. >> thank you both very much. with us now to continue our conversation, a tiffany simmons, and she is joining us by phone. thank you for being with us once again. what do you make of the president's decision to visit michigan today and join the picket lines? >> wow, we appreciate the support. the support is overwhelming and it's monumental to not only have a sitting president but a former president decide to join the movement. we are very appreciative. we want to make sure the movement stays at the frontline

of the news or of the talk. >> how do you make sure the focus is on the fight for better pay and working conditions as opposed to the politics of this? >> well, that's why we have boots to grounds and we have all of these workers that are walking these lines every day. these picketers and these protesters, that is the -- that is how we keep it at the front, at the center, at the frontline. the politics in all of this, we want to keep the fight. the fight is so important. this is a historical event that is taking place for all three of us to be -- fighting hand and hand, all three companies. that's how we keep this focused on what is happening now with us, seeing these faces on the frontline, and seeing entire

families walking the picket lines, and seeing the support everybody has for the auto industry right now, and that's how we keep it about -- that's how we keep it about the fight. >> tiffany simmons, again, we spoke on the first day of the strike. i want to thank you for being with us. of course, we will continue to have our time for you anytime. i really appreciate you being with us. >> no problem at all. >> thank you. we have breaking news from the u.s. supreme court which has blocked alabama from using a congressional map that includes only one majority black district. lawrence joins us this morning. what more can you tell us about this decision? >> this time the republicans in alabama have less traction than three months ago when the supreme court in a slightly surprising ruling affirmed the key part of the voting rights

act and turned away the republican effort to impose the new map that would have only one black majority district in the state. since then, they came out for a new map that still didn't allow for a second majority black district, and then it seems unlikely the court would go back and it didn't, and there's no brief in the ruling, and it was 5-4. didn't seem like the court was giving this much credence, and the implications are pretty big because this means a new map will be drawn now with a second majority black district in a state with seven districts, six of which are currently held by republicans. this probably means, you know, with black voters more likely to vote democratic, democrats have a chance of picking up a seat in

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federal workers, and here is one worker that lived through this thing in 2018. >> that was a partial shutdown. it was high stressful and high anxiety of not knowing if we were going to get paid. >> i will have to cancel vacation plans we had over thanksgiving and i cannot do holiday shopping. we will have to contact our mortgage lenders, and our car loan servicers. >> joining us now, the co founder of punchbowl news. jake, good seeing you. mccarthy was asked a few minutes ago what he would do if they happened him a gap measure -- >> i am not going to take a question about a hypothetical about the senate may do something. when they do something, come

back and ask me -- >> what is he saying about what could be happening, if he says that's just a hypothetical? >> he is right that it's a hypothetical right now, but there's hypotheticals and then hypotheticals, josé. there's a good chance sometime this week the senate will pass a clean, or relatively clean, stop gap measure to fund the government roughly through november 15th, and that's a reality, and mccarthy will have to figure out what to do. he's trying to pass a host of spending bills that don't mean much for the immediate deadline of september 30th, because if he gets them all pass he will have to reconcile them with the senate's version and get them signed by president joe biden, and there's not enough time for that. the operative question in front of is is what will he do on the short-term spending bill.

and now he is hoping the house will pass the bill and the senate will be enticed to take it up, and it's probably a long shot, and i don't have a good feeling about that, and does he put the bill on the floor and push it across with democratic votes, and if he does that that will be problems for him eternally. >> that's all great, but saturday is the cutoff, right? >> sunday, sunday at midnight, and sunday into midnight is the cutoff when the government will shutdown. a short-term bill, what we call a cr or stop gap, that could pass in a day or two in the house and senate, and a shutdown could be averted. this does nothing to solve the long-term funding problems the government has, and it has to

pass a entire fiscal year of runs out.enever that stop gap we have a long, long road to getting this funding puzzle put back together and it will last for a couple months. >> meanwhile, jake, on capitol hill there's also nine democratic senators calling for bob menendez to resign amid federal bribery charges? >> yes. the hits keep coming for senator menendez, who, as we all know, was indicted last week on serious bribery charges. this is politically expedient for people up for election in 2024 to distance themselves, and could the senate vote to expel him? unlikely. will the pressure become too much? not clear. if you have been indicted, if you are planning to cut a deal with the government, the best place to do that from is from

your perch as a member of congress, as unseemly as that is. and those who have not called on him to resigns cory booker, and chuck schumer, and those key figures have not called on him to resign and we will have to see what they do in the coming days. >> back to the first part of our conversation, do you sense -- do you sense that there's any kind of real concern that sunday night may come and go and there won't be any agreement? >> yes, i would say it's likely, actually. i would say it's likely. as i am sitting here today having covered a number of the shut downs over the last couple of years, i would say they will probably shutdown more likely than not. i would say that republicans, a

group of republicans, let's call it between 5 and 15 of them have been inching for a shutdown because they believe they will be able to extract some border money out of a shutdown, and i don't think that's the case. i don't think anybody ever gets anything out of a shutdown, as they envisioned. but the odds for a shutdown are pretty good right now. >> jake sherman on capitol hill. thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. new this morning, who hunter biden is now suing over a violation of computer fraud. plus, what the trump campaign says really happened when the former president visited a gun shop in south carolina. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. b. and if we proffer it, we know you'll proffer it too. have you been behind me this whole time? yep. this is american infrastructure. megawatts of power, rails and open road,

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breaking news. we want to go back with jake sherman on capitol hill. there's an important senator from new jersey now asking for senator menendez to resign. >> yeah, that's cory booker from new jersey, a junior senator from new jersey who we just talked about as being a key figure in the public narrative, the public dialogue about bob menendez' future, and in a statement booker says he served with menendez for many years and learned a lot from him, and he can defend himself, but at the same time public service requires a higher standard and

bob menendez gets to make the ultimate decision, unless the senate moves to expel him, and unless it gets to a point where members of the senate are saying he's got to go, he's a distraction. these allegations are serious enough that he should not stick around. i just think that we are very close, if not at that tipping point where there's enough senators saying he has to go and people in his orbit are beginning to think that as well, and frankly, i will put it this way, you know, the number of calls for his resignation in mass, like we are seeing right now, in a short time period indicates to me as a reporter that democratic leadership is not trying to do anything to stem the calls for his resignation, and they are not trying to keep him around. the fact that so many people felt the openness to do this is a pretty bad sign for menendez. >> thank you very much.

appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. meanwhile gop contenders will make their pitch to voters at the ronald reagan presidential library for the second presidential gop debate. and the frontrunner, former president trump, will be missing. joining me, darsha burns. what are you watching for tomorrow night? >> the last debate moved the needle, and didn't do much to cut into former president trump's lead as you saw the poll that came out over the weekend, but it did shake up the contenders on the first debate stage. it did give nikki haley a pop, and also for ramaswamy. and ron desantis has seen the biggest slide in recent weeks, and right now he needs to have a

moment. we saw over the weekend nbc news received a copy of a memo that was sent to donors and supporters over the weekend where the campaign sort of laid out their predebate strategy, a preview of what we might see. in that memo, the campaign criticized former president trump on the issue of abortion, on his strategy in iowa and other states, and sort of stuck to their guns on the last debate performance, saying that, you know, other candidates in this debate, as they did last time, might get into the fray and might attack and level some attacks, but that the governor is going to stay focused on the mission. that's really what happened in the last debate. you know, a lot of candidates threw some shots, and the governor, while he expected to take some heat didn't get attacked very much, not as much as we expected, but he stayed on the mission and got his message across, and they felt that was successful even though he didn't

get attacked, which some people said is kind of a sign that people were not paying much attention to him. but he's looking to sort of stay the course with that this time around. we'll see if things change, if he gets a little more heat from other candidates, but right now this is a strategy they are laying out to see if folks take aim at nikki haley this time, considering the spotlight that has been on her since the last debate. and vivek ramaswamy took a lot of shots, and we will see how much attention he steals this time around. mike pence came out with some punches, and a little surprising but he has been a little looser in this iteration of his campaign. those are some of the things that i will be watching for, but certainly a debate that could have impact given what we saw last time, josé. >> darsha burns in los angeles.

thank you very much. joining us now, a chief strategist for george w. bush's campaign, and a former communications director for vice president harris. how critical is the debate for the gop candidates? and i am sure more critical for some than others? >> i don't understand their strategy at all, and if they keep the same strategy, it won't be critical for them. all of the candidates seem to be fighting for 45% of the vote, while they do nothing about the 55% of the vote donald trump has. since the last debate or even in the last three months, they have been at the expense of each other, and ron desantis falls a little, and pence falls a little, and ramaswamy and nikki

haley pick up a point or two, and it's not directly related to the guy they have to beat, donald trump, who is at 50%. if they continue to do that, this debate will not be critical. donald trump will continue to solidify his support. >> is there anything you think that anybody could do to make that change, to make that difference? >> yeah, i mean, i think somebody other than chris christie who has been taking the attack to donald trump and has risen slightly in new jersey where independents can vote, and somebody should go after donald trump, somebody like ron desantis should go after donald trump, and if you want to beat donald trump you have to run against donald trump, and some of the candidates are doing exactly what they did in 2016, and all these republicans fight against each other and donald trump wins the position.

donald trump wins. the other candidates have to figure out, their opponent is not each other, but donald trump. >> meanwhile, in a news nbc news poll, democrats are ahead of republicans on issues like covid, abortion, education, but in this poll, voters trust republicans more on issues like the borr and the economy. and these are rough nbers from the white house when the unemployment rate is at 3.8%, and hundreds of thousds of jobs are being created every month and the rate of inflation has been declining. what is the disconnection between these positive statistics and these numbers? >> josé, if you dig deep into the poll, what i saw was that swing state voters give democrats the advantage on all of the kitchen table issues, from caring about the middle class to the economy to health care to covid. we know -- and even abortion.

those are the issues that have always driven out voters. what i mean by voters, those that will make the difference in the next election, the swing states, those moderate, republicans, independent voters that make the difference on the presidential election, and i just think the democrats and the president is in a strong position. if you look at it globally, it's concerning, but if you look at where it matters with the swing states and the independent and marginal voters, it's encouraging for democrats. >> you would say the message to democrats is don't panic, don't fear? >> no, i mean, i will say one thing that i found very concerning about this polling is that when asked who is best to protect american democracy, that

number is tight between democrats and republicans, and the reason that's concerning for me is th w a central argument where we had an advantage of defending and protecting american democracy, and it's surprising given the effort to undermine the truth, and it's aided by disinformation and the republican party that refuses to be honest with the american people and hold donald trump accountable, and so that's not surprising. that has to be concerning for the democrats, because, again, that was the central argument that produced wins, and it's also the strongest argument against donald trump. >> our thanks to you both. appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, the latest in former president trump's legal saga. what his team is arguing for the prosecution's call for a gag order in the elections interference case. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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36 past the hour. now to the latest on the dell drama surrounding former president trump, and there was a filing for a gag order, and special counsel jack smith's office filed the proposed gag earlier this month arguing it's necessary given the threats trump has targeted. what else did the trump legal team have to say in response to the proposed gag order? >> the response that i found the most notable is the trump's team is saying president trump never intimidated anybody, and that's literally a sentence taken from

their brief. they are arguing anybody that felt threatened by former president, they can't prove it was attributable by any actions or statements made by president trump, and they will have to do better in connecting the link between threats and harm. >> while the judge over seeing the georgia case has imposed strict limits, what is the significance of this ruling ? >> josé, what looks like strict limits is less stringent than what fani willis and her team asked for. we can't videotape the jurors or take audio of them, and certain

demographic about those chosen in the jury will be available to us, we can report on their gender and race and occupation, and some employment information is provided and that doesn't allow folks from the outside to identify these people and there by harass or intimidate them, and it's a victory for the media in terms of our coverage of the upcoming fulton county proceedings. >> and now to hunter biden, his legal team filed a lawsuit against giuliani and his businesses and his former attorney citing violations of computer fraud, and this is the third lawsuit he filed in recent weeks. what is the strategy here? >> i think hunter biden is trying to demonstrate that those involved in disseminating

materials that are allegedly his have not only invaded his privacy, but in many cases manipulated or tampered with data that has belonged to him. that's certainly the accusation in the giuliani suit. the accusation against the irs is what they have said is a violation of his privacy. this one ups the ante. when robert costello received the laptop from hunter biden, just access what is on the laptop is a violation of hunter biden's privacy and a violation of state and federal law, and he has reason to say they manipulated and tampered with that material, and it's a huge argument because it causes people to think about what we have seen and how republicans have been hammering image after

image, including in the recent hearings, it's really true. >> he alleged in there in part of that is he's not saying it was his to begin with, and that's interesting and it's a legal issue. former president trump visited a gun shop, and it was posted on x that he bought a gun, and the campaign denied he bought a gun, and that post was subsequently deleted. here's how that unfolded. take a look. >> that's a glock. these are great sellers. >> it comes exactly like this from glock. >> they sell well, huh? >> it's a .45. >> sir, if you want one -- >> i want to buy one. >> can you explain why this

would be an issue for the former president? >> yeah, there's two issues here, josé. let me take them one at a time. owning a gun when you are under felony indictment as the former president is in multiple jurisdictions is a violation of the law, it's a provision of the law under hunter biden has also been charged and it's the same law that prosecutors are charging that biden violated when he lied on a form for the handgun application, and the problem for former president trump is larger than that, because even if he is never charged with that crime, and let's say he were to have bought the gun and is never charged, it's a violation of the conditions of the release, and where the conditions his bond say on bond he's not allowed to commit any further federal, state or local crime. you may say, of course, of course that's a condition of

release, but former president trump seems to have come very, very close to a violation of those conditions yesterday if he had gone ahead and purchased that gun. >> lisa ruben, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you, josé. turning to the humanitarian crisis at the border, once again record numbers of migrants are crossing the border into the u.s. on a daily basis. mexico says it has struck an agreement with the u.s. to deport some migrants from mexican border cities. and we spoke with a migrant from venezuela that shared his fear about the new agreement to deport migrants. >> he says it's tough to hear mexico may deport him after he made so many sacrifices and

almost died. julia ainsley has the latest. >> reporter: the border crisis up close, and our cameras were there as this group of migrants illegally crossed the rio grande into texas. and the border agents says the wire can cause a humanitarian risk, and border agents cut the wire so they could come into the u.s. we meet this family with a 6-year-old son that just cut his arm on the wire. what we have gone through on this journey, it's not worth it, he tells us. why do you say that? they rob us and kidnap us, he

says. this woman was sexually assaulted and extorted in mexico. they gather with hundreds of migrants under this bridge, and most migrants illegally crossing the border are processed and released into the u.s. we just learned in august, over 300,000 migrants crossed the border, and the highest monthly number ever. the mayor of el paso sounding the alarm. >> we have come to a breaking point right now. >> reporter: republican texas congressman blames biden border policies for encouraging more migrants to come. >> the president needs to close the border. he needs to do the right thing. stop abandoning us. this is not normal. >> our thanks to julia ainsley for that report. and then we are covering breaking news as more democratic

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construction. those new homes are better than they were. 675,000 new single-family homes is down 8.7% from july but up almost 6% from the year prior. the sales price of a new home sold in august, $430,300. this is census bureau data. the median existing home sale price rose about 4% in august from a year earlier to $407,000. this is according to the national association of realtors. that's existing versus new homes. zillow's chief economist said there's a backlog of new homes that should become available. available existing homes for

sale right now is tight. if you talk about overall prices, the s&p national home price index says prices overall for housing gained 1% from a year earlier in july. home prices grew a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in july from the month prior in june. chicago and cleveland, the two fastest areas for the annual home price appreciation in the nation. inventory is tight overall. the average 30-year mortgage rates, above 7.6%, put together, it's not inexpensive right now. mortgage rates are elevated and inventory is tight. would-be sellers that might want to sell, they are staying put because the cost for them to buy a new home is also very high. >> thank you so very much. up next, we will go back to capitol hill with what happens next after new jersey senator cory booker has asked for senator bob menendez to resign. n

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56 past the hour. the man who shot and killed 23 people in a walmart in texas, specifically targeting hispanics, has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims' families. the gunman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 90 life sentences. has a state trial ahead where the death penalty is on the table. it's unclear whether victims will get a dime. a relative of one of the people killed said, nobody could bring back the people that were lost, including my mother. you can't put a price on somebody's life. it has been almost two months since the devastating wildfires ravaged lahaina. yesterday, thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blazes returned to their

scorched properties for the first time. some stopped for a moment of reflection. others sifted through the ruins for anything they could find, any belongings they could possibly find. the burned area has been restricted to authorized workers. the fires killed at least 97 people, destroying more than 2,000 buildings, most of those destroyed, homes. now back to breaking news from capitol hill. more democratic senators, including cory booker, are calling for bob menendez to resign after he was charged in an alleged bribery skill. ryan nobles is with us. ryan, at least 13 democratic senators have called on menendez to resign? >> reporter: that's right. this started out as a slow trickle and is now starting to look more like the floodgates are opening in terms of members of the democratic caucus calling

on their fellow senator to step down. you are right, perhaps the most notable is his colleague from new jersey, senator cory booker, who in a lengthy statement explained the process, the thinking he went through before settling on the conclusion that he believes it's time for senator menendez to step down. booker making it clear that he has every right to argue his case in the court of law, that he is innocent until proven guilty. but the allegations are too great and too big of a cloud hanging over him for him to continue to effectively serve the residents of new jersey. you will remember booker served as a character witness for senator menendez during his original corruption trial in 2017. this is a remarkable turn for booker to now come out and say that he should step down. he enjoins with several other members of the senators, including warren, bennett, klobuchar, mark kelly, john

tester, bob casey of pennsylvania. these are all members of the senate who have said that it's time for senator menendez to step down. jose, you and i watched that yesterday. he was defiant in his belief that he had no reason to step down. he said he will be the sitting senator from new jersey once this legal trouble is behind him. right now, many of his colleagues here in washington simply do not agree. >> ryan nobles on capitol hill, thank you very much. that wraps up the hour for me. you can reach me on social media. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden heading to michigan at this hour to make history, walking the picket lines with auto workers while facing a barrage of criticism from former president trump who is heading to detroit tomorrow. this hour, the walls are closing in on