ron klain found in violation of the hatch act.ing government resources for political activities. what ron klain did was used his official government account to retweet a post from a democratic pac hawking its merchandise. here is karine jean-pierre justifying the violation. >> so ron is very careful and takes the hatch act very seriously. but he got it wrong this time. he retweeted something that was political, clearly at the white house before us previously that blatantly openly and carelessly violated the hatch act repeatedly. we are not perfect but our violations have been -- maria: dagen, your thoughts? dagen: ron klain retweets so much utter garbage, he was bound to get caught by not reading what he was actually retweeting which was, hey, buy some of our merchandise. just -- this is a retweet from him just in the last 24 hours. it was saying this, he was on with nicole wallace on msnbc. what are congressional republican leaders talking about to address inflation? well, ironically they say one of the first things they'll do is

let's see if ron klain can message it better. us now, is white house chief of staff, ron klain. thank you very much for joining us, tonight, we really appreciate it! i want to get straight to these questions. what about what we call messaging, or what i hate, by the way, on inflation in this campaign? what can you tell voters that president biden is doing about inflation? >> well lawrence, look, i think that prices are high. we need to bring them down! you covered earlier, the fact that one thing the president did was tackle a price problem that really pinches americans. which is the price of gas. it's the number one price thing we hear about, and over the course of the summer, 98 consecutive days, we brought the price of gas down by the releases from the strategic petroleum reserve. by other actions we took to bring the world together. to get the price of gas down. went down all summer, started to go back up at the beginning of october. the president announced today three steps we are going to take to try to get the price of gas

and with this latest breaking news in mind, let's bring in white house chief of staff ron klain. economy grew, so that's good. but if you could, ron, give us in the most basic terms what the democratic message on the economy is, what you hope voters will take in in these final days before the midterms. >> well, look, first of all, thank for having me, mika. look, what you're going to hear the president say today is three big things about the economy. first, the economy -- we are making progress on the economy. it's not just the gdp numbers you mentioned. the economy did grow. inside that is a measure of price. it came down dramatically. we're seeing easing on inflation. inside that also was a measure about real incomes after inflation. that was negative last quarter -- two quarters ago. it's positive in this new report. incomes up, prices down, economic growth. and the thing that's most visible to people is what they're seeing with gas prices. two weeks ago the most common pump price in america was $3.79. it's down to $3.39. we're seeing improvements. secondly, we know there's mor

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>> so i looked to see ron klain's twitter account, and this is what you do, put the best face on it you can. ron is talking about the fact that social security benefits are going up by 8.7%, and because of the action they took in the inflation reduction act, medicare premiums are going down. for the first time, seniors in a long time will be getting more money in their pockets and medicare premiums going down. you have the president talking about the benefits of the inflation reduction act when you can make more news about things that are getting implemented and happening, and the candidates have to fight the race on the grounds they can. the democrats have really good candidates. the ones who are running the best races, the most competitive one, doesn't necessarily mean they'll win, but they are defining their opponents really well and they're creating their own brands. tim ryan in ohio has been really successful in making himself mr. ohio, and j.d. vance is, like, silicon valley fraud. i'm quoting donald trump, not, you know -- >> right. right. >> and too close to call. >> yeah. >> lo

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let's bring in white house chief of staff ron klain. ron, i know you're focused on your own election coming up, the midterm elections that are going to determine where this country goes over the next couple years, but i'd be remiss if i didn't ask you your reaction to the chaos going on in great britain right now. >> well, you know, joe, the president will have a statement out this morning. all i want to say in front of that is that our country has always had a special relationship with the united kingdom without regard to the partisan affiliation of our president or the politics of their prime minister. that's going to continue no matter who the uk fixes as their next prime minister. we'll maintain that special interest, special relationship. there are so many things, causes and concerns we share in common with the united kingdom, particularly right now in terms of combatting russian aggression in ukraine. we're going to work very closely with whomever succeeds prime minister truss. >> i want to ask you about the white house plans to lo

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just before air time, i spoke with president biden's chief of staff ron klain about the strategy going to midterms. >> thanks for joining us tonight. according to that new monmouth poll, compared the a couple of weeks ago, why do you think that is? >> look, anderson, i'm covered by the hatch act. i have to be careful about what i say about electoral politics here at the white house. what i think is there are a lot of polls. what they show as a whole is a very, very close midterm election. and that's the way you'd expect it to be when the politics are very close, the elections very hard fought. my focus isn't so much on the polls but on us continuing to do our job deliver fog interest american people, doing things that are at the top of people's agenda, like the president's announcement yesterday to try to bring down the price of gasoline further by releasing more oil from the strategic petroleum reserve, setting a minimum price to rebuild the reserve. those kinds of things are going to really help families with their everyday expenses. you heard the president talking about infrastructu

just before airtime we spoke with president biden's chief of staff, ron klain about the numbers in theparty strategy going to midterms. >> mr. klain, thank you for joining us tonight. according to that new monmouth poll, congress is shifting back toward the republicans as compared to a few weeks ago. why do think that is? >> look, i'm covered by the hatch act, so i have to be careful what i have to say about electoral politics here at the white house. there are a lot of polls. what they show was a whole is a very close midterm election. and that is the way you expected to be in a country where the politics are very close, the elections are very hard hard-fought. my focus is much on the polls but honest continuing to do our job, delivering for the american people, doing things that are at the top of peoples agenda like the presence in an announcement yesterday to try to bring down the price of gasoline further by releasing more oil from strategic petroleum reserve's, setting a minimum price to rebuild the reserve. those are the things that are gonna help families with their everyday exp

you heard ron klain say, we've been talking about the economy for quite some time.is not late to the game. nonetheless, it's not resonating with the american voters. >> it's not. while the macro numbers are good, you go in the micro numbers, gas prices are not good. look, democrats spent a lot of the summer talking about social issues. and, look, republicans, especially in the northeast, have been talking about crime, one other issue to keep your eye on, heating oil in the northeast. i'm from there. it's cold, getting colder. heating oil prices are high. it's more than the economy, but it kind of trickles down into other issues as well. >> what do you make of democrats even breaking a sweat in places they would normally not be worried about, like new york and new jersey? you're looking at the new york governor race. lee zeldin possibly has a run for that position. it seems like he's got an 11-point spread between him and kathy hochul. worrisome for a lot of democrats. look at that race. >> well, i'm amused by it. look, we don't have blowout races in the country. you

here is ron klain's take on that when asked about biden's strategy. >> both president obama, i was hereibility for it, and president trump got walloped in the midterms. so i don't think it's a surprise to anyone that we are not using the strategy that failed in 2010 and the strategy that failed in 2018. what you're seeing is the president is traveling the country with democrat elected officials, democratic candidates and he is talking about the issues that really impact people. >> and democrats are kind of having the best of both worlds, abby. we get the president coming to their state where they go to receptions that aren't always on camera and they get to fund raise with the president among party insiders who want to donate money to their campaigns in order to be in the room with the president but yet they also don't have to be seen out there with the president of the united states. he says that there's roughly 15 to 20 people who are asking for him to come out on the campaign trail and we expect him to be out there more frequently, but at the same time some of the states we are not s

when biden's incoming chief of staff ron klain asked his predecessor mark meadows to start giving theresident intelligence briefing, he asked how many days a week he wanted them, proving again trump only hires the best. his majesty made a rally stop in warren, michigan over the weekend where for a 2/3 capacity crowd, he once again painted a norman rockwellesque portrait of this country he loves so much. >> we are a nation where large packs of criminals and thieves are allowed to go into stores and openly rob them, beat up the help, and kill people. they will kill people, and they kill them at will. if necessary, and even if not necessary. >> jimmy: what? >> and there is no retribution. we are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty crowded mess where you sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won't leave. and they have no idea when they will. >> jimmy: this is a man who hasn't been to an airport, a public airport in probably his whole life. i mean seriously, he has no idea what goes on. donald trump thinks a cinnabon is where jewish people go on yom kippu

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ron klain, the chief of staff, tweeted "i trust that meet i can't coverage of jamie dimon's view of the economy will be extensive". then he quotes this. "consumers continue to spend with solid balance sheets and jobs are plentiful and businesses remain healthy." but left off of what jamie dimon said was the following. however, there's significant head winds in fronts of it's, high inflation leading to higher interest rates. he said similar things earlier. now, klain is misleading americans about the true state of this economy. why do they think that will work when it's a simple fact check, tom? >> because they have to. they're putting the best spin on the economy that they have. they can't -- biden did this earlier this week in an interview. he acknowledged a little bit of reality but said he doesn't believe we're in a recession and if we go in one, it will be a little bit. the economy inflation is the number 1 issue across the board for the vast majority of voters across the country. we had the final inflation reading before people go to vote. it was 8.2%. it's the highest in four year

. >> so ron klain tweeted out tomorrow the president will be talking about gas prices.ur reporting is the president is expected to announce the release of roughly 14 million barrels from the reserve. that is, as one of our economic reporters says, is on the margin. as opec cuts production, what is the total plan? what more can the president do? >> well, i won't get ahead of specifically what the president will announce tomorrow. let him do that. across the board he has taken every effort to try to increase supply here in the united states to ensure that supply is meeting demand. also to begin to wean us off over the long term, to wean us off of dependence for foreign oil. we're at the mercy of the fluctuation of the price of oil around the country. >> is there a short-term plan? >> well, as you said, he made an announcement we'll release barrels from the strategy ecpetroleum reserve to increase supply here in the united states. he's strongly encouraged the companies to continue to pump. supply has to meet demand so that prices come down. what i would say is we have seen

white house chief of staff ron klain blasting social media. welcome back. lauren: he cracked about the biggest cost of living for social security recipients in four years, 8. 7% and then he said for the first time in a decade social security benefits will go up while medicare premiums are going down so seniors will get ahead on inflation. this seems cruel when you look at your retirement account, the grocery bills, gas bills, not to mention work on healthcare will take some time. stuart: it doesn't keep pace with inflation. who knows if that keeps pace with inflation, we have 8.5%. lauren: real wages went negative. no one is getting ahead of inflation. stuart: stay right there. market watcher friday morning. got a question. the dow industrials down, that might be the bottom because we bounce back up again. do you think it might have been a bottom? >> congratulations. i don't think it was the bottom. don't think there has been a time in history the federal reserve is still hiking rates that we find a bottom, when there's no turning point on that, but i like

white house chief of staff ron klain dedepended the administrations decision and took a shot at republicansll we had republicans saying hey, he needs to do something about gas prices and we did something about gas prices and they're like don't do that. so it's hard for me to take the criticism very seriously. >> harris: don't do the part that decompletes us and exposes our national security. don't do that. there are a lot of ideas. two people on the screen have ideas. power panel now, i'm excited. the director of america rising pac and the former chairman of the democratic party. cassie, your top line thoughts >> well, what we're seeing here is that joe biden is doing exactly what he campaigned on. during the campaign he said i'm going to cancel oil and gas leases on federal lands and stop any new exploration for gas. he has done that. the problem is the american taxpayers and voeders are paying for it big time with rising prices and the country has to make deals with the devil to get oil back into our country. so he has tapped our emergency reserves to try to get democrats cover 19 days ou

here is the president biden's chief of staff ron klain earlier today. >> i think the most important thing i can emphasize here is that there is a choice about where we go from here. are we going do things that control inflation next year or will republican leaders in congress succeed in repealing all those things, helping big corporations, cutting taxes for big corporations and seeing prices for consumers and families seeing the price goes up. that's the real choice between where the democrats are headed on the economy, where the republican congressional leadership is headed on the economy. >> can democrats actually communicate that message to voters in it time? should they be doing more? could they even be doing more? we have just the person to ask. joining us now is jen psaki, former white house press secretary and msnbc host. never tire of saying that, my friend. so it is a tight rope, right? it's complicated. the economy is complicated. the message is complicated. there is this good news, right? but then there is the reality, we keep getting the data points. bloomberg reports that 41%

ron klain is retweeting a million tweets about gas prices going down in the past couple months, right? but then you have them taking credit for the fall in gas prices, watch here. >> i've been working to make sure that when the price of oil comes down the price at the pump comes down as well and comes down in realtime. >> we've seen gas prices go down for 14 weeks straight and that again is because of the work that this president is doing. >> dana: okay. so then is the opposite true? >> that's not according to the white house. it's a very clear line. when gas prices go down the president worked hard and now the problem is solved. when they go up as careen jon pierre explained yesterday there is a lot of nuance and it's putin, covid and all kinds of things the president doesn't control. in fact, this has a lot to do with the administration deciding they don't want to encourage u.s. energy production. here we are waiting for opec for the dictatorships in places like saudi arabia and russia and venezuela to decide whether we are going to have reasonable gasoline prices. >> bill: the trut

the elites have never paid any attention to inflation, and who's the guy, chief of staff, ron klain, he gave it away early last year when he said inflation is a high class problem. they've never understood how middle and lower class workers have to deal with high prices. they've been completely detached the entire time and they're going to pay for it. i actually, and i don't like nancy pelosi, i'm with nancy on this. you have to just continue to claim you're going to win this thing, right? the guy that leaked this thing to politico that says it is not looking too good for democrats, we peaked early, he should be brought outside and shot because that's off message. you have to stay on message. remember donald trump was like it will be a red wave. you have to go in to keep the troops motivated, so i understand what she's saying. piers, you and i don't agree on much, especially with weapons, but a man should never look an ice cream -- >> never. it is like talking about christmas before december. it should be a criminal offense. >> lock them up. that's what i say. finally, you know what

sandra: as you see that and point out the globe is flat lined, little growth to be seen anywhere, ron klainchief of staff to president biden is still today saying this. >> the economy, we are making progress on the economy. it is not just the gdp numbers you mentioned, the economy did grow inside that as a measure of price, it came down dramatically. we're seeing some easing on inflation. >> sandra: i'm not sure what that means or what to take away from that. >> well, look, if i were mr. klain, i would make the same argument on the eve of election he will be shellacked. putting aside that numbers underneath the 2.6% hood, if you look at the basic core gdp, it was 0.1. in other words, consumption plus investment, housing and business investment, about 85% of the economy. 0.1%. and if you look at the overall top line numbers, we had three quarters this year. there's been no growth. it is a complete flat line with inflation rate that's still 7.1 p 7.1%. hard to say we're in an economic nirvana. >> sandra: this is austan goolsbee on another network. listen. >> by no means are we out of the wood

chief of staff ron klain tweeted gas prices falling again after four-week rise in a second week in a row of decline. 16 states where gas is at 3.49 or lower per aaa moving in the right direction a as poet us announces more actions today. >> the second reason we have so much inflation is the price of energy is so high. because it doesn't just hit families in their budget when the price that he pay for gas is high. it drives up the cost of manufacturing, the cost of doing business and the cost of transportation. >> the white house told the department of energy to be prepared for significant releases from the strategic oil reserves if russia's war in ukraine or other market factors make it necessary. dana. >> dana: jacqui heinrich kicking us off this morning. >> bill: thank you, jacqui. now the source for the trump-russia dossier has been acquitted of all charges. he was accused of lying to the f.b.i. and special counsel john durham expected still to release the report on his three-year investigation. what could be next on his agenda? former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy standing by.

so when ron klain and the president today are touting the recent drop, they are still significantly above when this presidency began. thank you very much for joining us, scott, appreciate your time today. >> thank you. >> john: fox news alert here and more on the cdc voting a short time ago to add the covid shot to the list of necessary childhood vaccines. some doctors pushing back on the move arguing that there is no data to back up the use of covid boosters for kids. dr. marty makary. it's not binding, though a lot of states were quick to adopt cdc recommendations. you have a lot of thoughts, what do you think? >> we saw the same thing with school policy. cdc argued they did not close schools, just sent out the guidance. but local authorities will blindly follow whatever the cdc does and if the cdc is truly putting this on the vaccination schedule as they just voted to do, this will be the first-ever vaccine where there is no evidence to show a reduction in disease in the community. so that's not a very good milestone. it threatens the credibility of mmr and polio and many other vaccine

that republicans are going to be bad for the economy, they'll crash the economy, in fact, you heard ron klain, repeal the inflation reduction act, and this is eventually leading to higher inflation. to that you say? >> that's a great number, but the american people aren't feeling that number as you mention in the report coming from exports and government spending. again, people are feeling a bad economy and rising prices. again, it was only two years ago people lived through the donald trump era, saw how great the economy was, how much money they made, how much opportunity there was at the doorstep for them and their families. to say the republicans will crash the economy, they did no such thing. harold mentioned interest rates. the reason the fed has to raise interest rates is the government spent $5 trillion on top of regular spending over the last two years, so you've seen rampant inflation. so the fed raises rates, has to crash the economy and people suffer all the way through. >> in fairness, i hear you, but 2.9 trillion of the 5 trillion was spent under president trump. we had a pandemi

questions from the press after the speak, now we know who he was getting in trouble with, it wasn't ron klainconfidence the first lady has in her own husband to answer questions from let's face it a mostly hospitable press outside peter doocy and jackie h1n1 rick. behi americans have seen enough despite seeing little of him. poll after poll, three-quarters americans don't want this president to seek a second act, including 8 in 10 independents. number one reason, he is too old. >> here's some reaction, congressman austin scott in georgia, apparently the first down knows a train wreck when she sees one. elise stefan he can, the president of the united states shouldn't need a baby-sitter when he talks to the media. you look at this morning's news conference, more statement on gas prices and how they're going to bring down the gas prices. looked unrehearsed, not exactly a confidence builder. >> it hasn't been. when the president keeps saying over and over that gas prices are coming down fastest in history, he is using the bar from the all-time high number, right, so it is misleading. and the num

. >> dana: ron klain said this morning and what he had to say. >> we're going to see record oil production to continue to responsibly increase that as we make the transition to clean energy in the long run. we think this country can have energy security and a clean energy future. that's the direction we're moving america in. >> dana: how would you respond to the chief of staff? >> this is exactly the type of fast and loose use of numbers that makes people really dislike washington, d.c. and distrust their government. if you recall just a couple of years ago the obama administration would give out their unemployment numbers and say jobs saved or created. 800,000 jobs. everyone would scratch their head and say where does the statistic come from? the biden administration is taking the million barrels from the reserves and adding it to the production numbers. they're saying we're producing over 12 million barrels a day. they're not. they're producing 11 million a day and 1 million from the reserve and calling it 12. these are the types of statistics they manipulate for political gain that make

ron klain, the chief of staff at the white house, to anderson said we're doing this on purpose, not because, listen. >> both president obama, i was here, i'll share responsibility for it and president trump got call cropped in the mid-terms so it shouldn't surprise anyone that we're not using the strategy that failed in 2010 and the strategy that failed in 2018. instead what you're seeing is the president's traveling the country with democrat elected officials. >> we're just trying something different. >> all right. >> this time he says. believable? >> you know, obviously ran chain is trying to put the best face on it that he possibly can. i'll note this. research done after 2018 where they looked where donald trump had gone at the tail end of the election and found he may actually is have had a suppressive effect on republicans. >> suppressive. >> and the reason why is democrats saw him on tv and they are like oh, right, he's for that guy. the heck with that. i'm going out and voting and there was an effect in research. biden knows he's not super popular and by not going out he doesn't the

. >> so white house chief of staff ron klain this is a strategic decision on their part not to have the at rallies because they don't view them as effective. what is the real story here? >> the real story is that biden is a huge liability for a lot of these candidates in very tielgt ra -- very tight races. and whether they want biden out on the campaign trail with them, a lot of them hedge. and that is because his approval ratings are so low, and reminding votes or getting out there could end up in attack ads from republicans at this point. so, you know, the white house could argue that these speeches are a more effective way of driving the messaging. but the person who is the most wanted surrogate out on the campaign trail at the big rallies is going to be former president barack obama who we're going to see hitting the campaign trail in a lot of those key states coming up. >> earlier i spoke with congressman ruben gallego and he's on the ballot as well. and he talked about the most pressing issues among voters and hispanic shvoters as well. you were visiting nevada and arizona. what a

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it seems like the white house is, to ron klain he was denying they are getting to the committee pitch there is good economic news. we talked about it some of it today. we have had record job growth. record low unemployment. but, of course, inflation is the thing that most people care about. gas prices are coming down and the argument that this is a global phenomenon which it is isn't a great one on the campaign trail. we have passed legislation that will reduce prescription drug costs. we have helped get gas prices down the things the democratic led congress has done are pushing costs down and if republicans take over they will repeal those things or they just don't have a plan. that's the argument democrats are making and don't forget 11 million americans have already voted, bret. some of these day-to-day fluctuations a lot of people have already cast their ballot. >> bret: that's fair. i want to play a soundbite from an economist on the show. >> but when i look at today's report, i caution against looking at this and indication from upward momentum from here. this is likely a static

chief of staff ron klain said rallies don't work, but could a factor be few candidates want to campaign catch 22 if you're the candidate. on the one hand, you want his funded raising, want to have the the imprint of a president showing up if or you, and on the flipside, he's not that popular. approval levels in the low 40s, upper 30s. if i were running a campaign, until be nice to have him come in and make some money for us, but having him campaign or against -- with us, rather, side by side, probably not. howard: yeah. meanwhile, it was just announced for all the arguments that rallies don't work, the president will be doing a rally this week, a dnc rally in florida. so i think the press criticism may have been a factor there. msnbc had an exclusive interview with president biden x i want to show some of the questions he asked. >> mr. president, i'll be honest, i'm scared. millions of meshes -- americans are scared. they're concerned about concert ised attacks on democracy. can our democracy survive when the republican party is, it only cares about power? given what leader mccarthy sai

president biden's chief of staff ron klain getting a slap on the wrist for violating the hatch act iten kayleigh mcenany retweeted a post from a partisan political group encouraging users to use democrats deliver t-shirts. the hatch act was created to limit certain political activities, the federal employees such as endorsing political contributions. now the chief who oversees the act says he will not be pursuing discipline action against klain instead issuing a warning. and did you see this? brooklyn nets head coach steve nash ejected from last night's game after flipping out on the sidelines. assistants and players actually holding nash back while he was berating the referees over what he found was a bad call. outscored 44-29. following nash's ejection. yikes. guys, over to you. >> steve: it happens. >> brian: i think they need a bench coach. it doesn't seem like they have a strategy. their strategy is to get the ball to kevin durant. for more on that go to ainsley. >> ainsley: nash doesn't have a temper. wasn't he everyone's favorite player back in the day? >> brian: favorite playe

ron klain, the white house chief of staff, was asked on cnn last week about the president's travel scheduleot attending many rallies. here is what he said. >> both president obama -- i was here. i'll share responsibility for it and president trump got walloped in the midterms. i don't think it should surprise anyone we're not using the strategy that failed in 2010 and the strategy that failed in 2018. instead what you're seeing is the president is traveling the country with democratic candidates and he's talking about the issues that really impact people. >> reporter: the problem for the president, low approval ratings, high inflation and concerns about a possible recession, forcing the white house to highlight the president's record. joe johns, cnn, rehoboth beach, delaware. >>> here in london, all eyes are fixed on the tory leadership race. and today we could find out who will become the next leader of the ruling conservative party and the new prime minister. former finance ministeree sheed sunak and penny mordaunt are in the running. they will announce which candidates have received the

gop house lawmakers are sending preservation notices to white house chief of staff ron klain, educationtary miguel cardona, also dhs secretary mayorkas. looks like they're ramping up probes into ag garland as well. school board parent as terrorists, afghanistan, the botched exit there, the border crisis and more. which probe is launched first, first if the house is taken over by the gop? >> these are different committees. all of this is going to go through different committees and you're going to see each of them move forward on things that are part of the commitment to america that the house has made but also in holding the biden administration accountable. people want to know what is happening at the irs with 87,000 new agents. they want to know why the border hasn't been secured with dhs. you look where women are in their voting patterns. crime, drugs, that open border, inflation, those are the issues and because of that people want answers. >> the other thing too, watch joe biden say that he knows nothing about what hunter biden was doing. that will be one of the probes. you will se

more official events to talk about policy than rallies, here is the white house chief of staff, ron klain. >> both president obama -- i was here, i will share responsibility for it -- and president trump got walloped in the midterms. so i don't think it should surprise anyone that we are not using the strategy that failed in 2010 and the strategy that failed in 2018. i don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms so we're trying something different that we think will be effective. >> reporter: and so while you won't see the president holding many rallies according to the white house chief of staff, what you will see is him continue to fund raise, he's held multiple fundraisers a week and he has gotten requests to get to 16 to 18 states over the coming weeks, already next friday we know he will be back in pennsylvania to hold a fundraiser for the state party in pennsylvania. >> and he had two favorable court decisions yesterday on student debt relief as well. jeremy diamond, thank you. >>> right now hospitals are seeing an unprecedented surge in a respiratory il

he said that he has mostly spoken with the president's chief of staff, ron klain.tense conversations, tense conversations that he has had with the head of abbott. that makes a lot of sense, given that abbott has been at the root of all of this, really. >> i can't believe it's still going on. mj, thank you for that. >>> supreme court justice amy coney barrett delivering something of a victory for president biden, at least for now. justice barrett rejected a challenge to the president's student loan forgiveness program, declining to consider an appeal brought by a wisconsin taxpayer group. barrett acted alone, because she has jurisdiction over the lower court that ruled on the case. separately, a lower federal court dismissed a challenge to the loan relief plan brought by six republican states. >>> a new york jury found kevin spacey not liable for sexual battery. jurors determined that rapp did not prove spacey touched him intimately in 1986 when rapp was 14. two other charges were previously dismissed. spacey's legal trouble doesn't end here, though. he faces multip

here's white house chief of staff ron klain responding to that. >> first of all, we had republicans sayeds to do something about gas prices, and then we did, and they're like, well, don't do that. so it's hard for me to take the criticism very seriously. >> reporter: so will the president's moves be enough for democrats and their voters? if we'll find out in just about two weeks. neil? neil: art -- all right, thank you very much for that. aisha hasnie on capitol hill. it wasn't necessarily tapping the reserve to ease the pain, but republicans were calling for more u.s. domestic production. meanwhile, sometimes administrations will release important or what they might consider to be controversial how even depressing data on a friday night. hay call that the friday night data dump assuming no one will pay attention, but they did not factor in that we have a live show on saturday. we're up on that, after this. ♪ biofreeze, the number one clinician recommended menthol topical pain relief brand. works fast. lasts long. cool the pain with biofreeze. neil: all right, we knew it was going to be

. >> john: you mentioned gas prices have gone up again, since trended back down, ron klain noted in a lengthy tweet, again just to recap where we are after four weeks of gas price increase we are in the second week of declining and trending down. back below 3.50 in 16 states, dropped $0.10 or more the past week in 13 states. raises the question, marc, if gas prices are trending back down, why do you need to release oil from the strategic reserve? >> exactly, they want to take credit when the prices are going down but not when they go up. so basically what he's saying, transitory gas prices. >> john: you can always blame putin. abortion is a big topic, oil today and yesterday abortion. what he said he would do if democrats retain control of congress. >> here is the promise i make to you and the american people. the first bill that i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. and when congress passes it i'll sign it in january. >> john: put up the "new york times" poll about what independent women voters are thinking. in september, favoring the democrats by 14%, maybe on t

deductions in your bank account without realizing it and talking about gas prices which we know ron klainost important economic indicator that people are following, this ahead of what we're expecting to be another big fed interest rate group boost just next week. so the fight against inflation continuing. all that, of course, the backdrop for the big election that we'll cover here. and next up, the fight for freedom. we're on the ground in ukraine where combat is heating up. plus, intensifying protests in iran today as the u.s. unveils new sanctions against iranian officials for the way they have cracked down on the protestors. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we're live in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. only on msnbc. gh, pennsylvania only on msnbc. what will you do? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new? ♪ our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things. because we believe there's an innovator in all of us. becoming a morning person starts the n

i want to play for everyone what ron klain said. >> both president obama and i was here and i'll shareesponsibility for it, and president trump got walloped in the midterms so it is not surprising that we're not using the strategy that failed in 2010 and failed in 2018. >> who do you think of that, david? >> my ears perked up when i heard the chief of staff say that as well. the facts are on his side. so give him that. he is right that obama and trump -- >> it is good to have facts on your side. >> in their midterms. but it is a convenient way to -- but joe biden is upside down. he's more unpopular than popular so a lot of battleground district democrats are not eager to stand with him as tear trying to win over, they need to win over some folks who disapprove of the job biden is doing if they have a chance at getting re-elected. this is not uncommon by the bay for us to see throughout modern political history at midterms. as even sort of district and state candid sort of makes the calculation of whether or not the president brings more good or harm. you see in pennsylvania, a key batt

earlier, chief of staff ron klain addressed the economic conditions giving republicans a boost with nowerms. >> look, i get the fact that prices are high, that's pinching family budgets. here in america, the president is fighting to bring down prices of everyday things like prescription drugs, like gasoline and i think, you know, that's our message to voters at this very tough time. >> joining me now is mike memoli, we have alyse jordan who has just held a focus group with voters, also with me, cornell belcher who has working on the obama presidential campaigns as well as at the dnc. welcome all. mike, you first, you have new reporting that john fetterman is going to get a boost from the white house today, also going to get a seat on air force one traveling between cities with the president there. the president's events today are not a typical big rally in the closing weeks of the election. talk about the calculation at the white house about how much the president can and should do ahead of november? >> well, alex, you and i have been talking about this since the early days of the 2020

speaking of what jason just said now, earlier today, ron klain, the chief of staff, t tweeted, i trust that media coverage of jamie diamond's view of the u.s. economy todayt" will be extensive. then he quotes thiths consumeres continue to spend with solid b balance sheets. job openings are plentifulal shs and businesses remain healthy. but tom leftn off of what dimon said right afterward was the following from jamieid was e hewever, therer, are significant headwinds immediately in frontdt of a stubbornly high inflation, leading to higher global interest rates. interestes.he saihe said simila. now, clearly, this is miss leading americans abouttr the true state of this economy. whuetate y do they think that'sg to work when it's just a simple fact check top ? >> well, because they kind of have to i mean, they're tryingss to putpi the best spinhave on the economy that they have. they can't acknowledge. and biden din did this earlier . week in an interview, you know, acknowledged a little bit of reality, but also said he doesn't believe that we're in a recession. if w i go into one , ition

cut production recently, which they feared would increase prices at the pump, and the white house ron klain, the white house chief of staff, tweeting how prices are coming down and begs the question which is why you need to continue to release oil from the product reserve and they need to keep doing that in order to keep the prices falling. certainly at this time of the year, he wants people to understand he is focused on their concerns, on their pocketbook concerns, things like the batteries you're about to hear him talk about, it is another tangible thing that he wants americans to know he's focused on. >> vaughn hillyard, you are out on the campaign trail in arizona, a lot of action out there today, moments ago, you had the republican nominee for governor kari lake getting help from virginia governor glen youngkin who was the right darling last year when he pulled off his own win in virginia across the river from me. i want to play some of what he just said on the trail. >> it's the grit, the determination, it's the understanding that there's dignity in work and that freedom and liberty

saying to ron klain, every day? yes, every day.out classified material. is it -- is the body of classified material the government possesses a puzzle, and when a piece is missing, they know what's missing? >> that's exactly the way this works. particularly at the highest level where documents can be testimonied, could have markings on them to indicate that if we see two people with number three, somebody's copied one of those, right? so yes, indeed. i think what first alerted the national archives was pages are missing, the parts, the footnote, the photo is missing. so as you put that back together, we now have national archives telling a congressional committee, yeah, we can say with certainty that we don't have everything we should have. >> and committee member, oversight committee member said to me, the fbi investigation is walled off for this reason. they know exactly what's missing. and getting it back is the only way you can commence the after action damage assessment. what do these delays, even if it's as joyce predicts, wha

ron chain klain, the president's chief of staff saying maybe they have some tail winds right now with gas prices ticking down in the last week, and openings like the one they will announce today where there will be some six figure jobs they will be able to bring into place in the future. we're not talking though just about the president of the first lady is headed to new york this week. she there. for sean patrick maloney, the d-ccc leader, the head of the house campaign wing, who suddenly found himself in a tight race. her participation is notable, i think, as well. >> yes, absolutely, peter. as we look at the president's lack of really campaign travel, very quietly, the first lady is racking up quite the itinerary. we've seen her this week campaigning in a tough congressional district in rhode island. democrats are trying to hold. she will be in new hampshire in the days ahead. helping the incumbent senator there as well as chris papas, one of the incumbent congressmen. and we have learned in the last few hours, she will be coming here to new york, to that district held by the chair

ron klain said no, it's been front of mind throughout.ly called inflation transitory. this is a white house that has been talking about other things, and they passed the inflation reduction act. this is a president who has a lot of political gifts but his best is probably empathy. to sam's point about the pollster, there hasn't been as much empathy from the president. it's more about, hey, this is what we've done. what should his closing message be in the last eleven, twelve days to get across the idea, that, hey, i can feel your pain. >> i think it's i can feel your pain and here's what we're going to do. not just what we have done. you know, what has been done has been done, and if many people still feel that that's not enough, then part of the message has to be, and here's what we're going to do. and there is a part of the message that he's gotten to. if you elect the other guys, here's what they're going to do to medicare, here's what they're going to do to social security. here's what they're going to do to your pocketbook, and i thi