i'll be talking to robert gibbs. also to those coming up this hour -- the parents of those killed at the uvalde shooting. they take the message to the texas governor. just days after the police chief finally lost his job. plus teenagers on the front line fighting for abortion rights, fed up with weather school has not been telling them. they've started their own group to educate her classmates. >> let me take a drink of water, before i start with that breaking news, of course. okay let's go. just into nbc news. the officer of federal intelligence says they're now working to facilitate interview of what they label as relevant materials recovered by the fbi from trump's mar-a-lago home. in the end the assess, quote, the potential risk to national security. evan britton charlie savage, you're going through the affidavit right when it was released. charlie, that was also doing the same in realtime as we try to digest it. it was tough to say the least. but, half of it was in fact redacted. we now know for good reason, bec

philip rucker, "the washington post" deputy national editor and an msnbc political analyst and robert gibbs press secretary under president obama and is an msnbc news political news. vaughn, so liz cheney is arguably, i think, now maybe the most high-profile member of congress, because, obviously, of her prominent role on the 1/6 committee. but in wyoming, what has that meant for her? >> right, in donald trump came here directly to casper, wyoming, and held a political rally on her behalf. and he called it the most important race because of what she represents. he said that she represents, quote, despicable things. she has been the leading antagonist after that vote to impeach him after the january 6th insurrection. but allies of liz cheney will say, this is a congresswoman who chose her principles over political expediency, noting that she had won overwhelmingly her primaries historically in the past, cheney has never lost here on the ballot in wyoming. and she could have gone on to victory again if she had, if their words, repeated the lies of donald trump. instead, harriet hageman, a lon

so maybe, maybe robert gibbs, maybe it's the money, right?bet or something and blake masters, dr. oz, marco rubio, herschel walker and j.d., people in violent marriages should enjoy them for the kids' sake. vance, i don't know. >> nicole, in the end, candidate quality is what's ultimately going to decide a lot of these races and as you've seen and talked about and this article demonstrates these are candidates not performing well in the stump and by and large some of them are dodging debates and they're not raising money like they should be and this money is not going to the ads that should be communicating their message. campaign committees and super pacs can certainly help, but the lowest unit cost for an ad is through a campaign committee and if these candidates aren't doing what they need to do, you're essentially paying a lot more money to communicate with voters than you otherwise would and i think democrats in a lot of these races, rafael warnock, we've seen ryan in ohio and a lot of these places are running very, very smart campaigns

. >> joining us now is robert gibbs, which we're all very grateful for. great to see you my friend.se the gop and donald trump immediately react by invoking hillary clinton and barack obama in this information. i'm curious in your role, did you see death classified documents, and what did that entail? but did that tell you but we've learned in this warrant? >> alex, it's a great question. i did have topsecret clearance. i eventually got but a couple of guests have talked about, sci clearance which is sensitive compartmented information. that's a level above top secret. that's the most sensitive information that our government gets. he uses it to make decisions. just to be clear, inside the white house, in the press secretary's office, there's a big safe. if i had classified information and was reading it, it was stored inside of that safe when i was not in control of it physically. if i wanted to get rid of something, you don't throw it away in the trash can. it goes in a burn bag situation room. i can remember getting that clearance, that sci clearance to be in meetings like afghan

joining me now, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary to president obama and brandon buck.we have never seen anything like this. let's start with trump. does this fbi search ramp up his timetable for declaring a 2024 run, make it more advantageous to become a candidate and if he can win avoid prosecution on anything? >> it might speed up his time line. the big affect is it may push out some of his rivals. a lot of early chatter about this that puts this at risk, maybe this helps mike desantis, hurts mike pence, that's silly. as you have seen, republicans are rallying around him. this is right up donald trump's alley. he is able to play the victim card. he is able to circle -- have people circle wagons based on years of groundwork that has been laid that there's a deep state, there are forces within the government that can out to get him. this is vintage trump. i think you are seeing people rally around him. i think that he is probably stronger than ever. i always thought he was going to get in. i always thought he was going to be the most likely nominee. i think you can put

robert gibbs, you campaigned against sarah palin when she was running for vice president.re on the obama team. what do you make of the prospect of sarah palin being in the u.s. house? >> well, i mean, it's a far cry from what i think we expected when we watched it all unfold in 2008. i think you see in that clip that was shown right there, the real rap on sarah palin is she's not alaska, she's everywhere else. i think we watched from the governorship and then embarking on kind of a reality tv career. i think it's going to work against her. now she's spent a lot of time trying to convince alaskans that she wants to represent them. i think it's going to be interesting to watch these results. it doesn't appear as if she's gained a big foothold. it will be interesting watching this rank choice voting. lisa murkowski could -- because alaska is different with an independent streak, this rank choice voting that allows really to build a broad coalition from the get-go, is probably why the fate of lisa murkowski is different from liz cheney. >> lisa murkowski won on a write-in when

give robert gibbs a call and say what can i be doing better? how did you do your job? psaki and learn from those who have succeeded. instead of just doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. >> gillian: a couple seconds left, joe, it is often the case these press secretaries come out of the gate not fully formed. it takes a while to adjust to the chaos and presser of the beat, right? >> sure. ist is -- it is one of the hardest jobs. when inflation is approaching 10% and, it is a hard job. she could be doing it better. >> gillian: joe, thanks so much for joining us and thank you for everybody watching "the faulkner focus". stand by for "outnumbered" coming up next. it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. veteran homeowners, i've got great news. and borrow up to $100k. home values have climbed to record highs and your home equity has climbed too. now's the time to turn it into an average o

national committee, michael steele, former white house press secretary under president obama, robert gibbs, host of msnbc's politics nation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton, former george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan and former white house director of communications, to president obama, and director of communications for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, jennifer palmieri. michael, let's start with you. you ran the rnc. i need you to explain something to me. how could it be that the republicans have, i would say, the best environment, if you just look at leading economic indicators right now, as they've had since ronald reagan's massive victory in 1980 and yet look at the senate race, behind in all of the key states, behind in pennsylvania. they're behind in ohio. they're behind in georgia. and their candidates, talk about a leading indicator, republican candidates are getting wiped out when you look at the money that both sides are raising. what's happening out there? >> well, i think there are a couple of things tha

robert gibbs and julia jester is in washington.us a sense of what these inflation numbers mean for the average american. >> make no mistake about it, it is hot and steamy in washington and inflation is still hot. but maybe some of the steam is coming out of it because that number you showed, the month over month number is what is so critical, no change in inflation from june into july. in other words, it did not get worse. as a result, we're starting to see the year over year number come down. 8.5% is a big, bad number, but it's better than 9% that we saw in june. where did we see the decrease. gas prices are dropping, $4.01 is the national average down from just over $5.01 back in june. that's helping. so is a drop in airfares. airfares have dropped i think it's 20 -- make it 7.5%. however, however, they're still up 28% from a year ago, gas prices up 44% from a year ago. across the board, food is up, home energy is up, home prices are up, all of that is what is driving the inflation picture. bad timing on apparel when kids need ba

i am reminded of a conversation i had with robert gibbs, press secretary for the obama administration. he said there are photos of convicted spies on the wall inside of the scif, and that's, wow. that's sobering. >> i think what harry said is true. i have, spent way too many hours inside the scif, no daylight, phone turned out. those are the policies of procedures out there. for the, five in certain cases they have photos of former spy and techniques to remind people of the awareness they need to have so they don't violate those policies and procedures, because there are number of ways that they could take advantage of technology for insiders to penetrate. you have to be constantly thinking about what i hostile nation may do to try to gain classified information. this is not a new thing. we have been at this for a while. that's what i've seen before, the policy and procedures are out there, and people given the privilege of having classified information should follow those policies and procedures. >> harry lippman, brian murphy, and happy birthday to sadie, who i know you are celebrat

dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. "the washington post" is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. >> that's all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that's according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said that they were able to complete this audit of the information and find anything that was attorney-client privilege and set this aside. they did this job that a special master would do. we're going to see the trump team arguing that the special master should do more than just attorney-client privilege documents. they are going to argue that executive privilege should be applied for whatever trump's view of that's in the hands of the current president. >> there's plenty of precedent on that. even before this hearing, though, the do jux just that unusual and would tha