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exclusive audio of congressman matt gaetz discussing pardons with a key trump ally. then, the new maga, forget trump, we are talking about mothers against greg abbott, a new group that wants change for texas families. i am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. all right, mitch mcconnell got played, there is no other way to say. he got duped, he fooled, he got bamboozled, whatever word you want to use, that is what happened to him. it is a statement i dont think i have ever said before on ...

i have ever said before on the show. im about to say something else rather unprecedented, kudos to joe manchin, working together with senate majority leader chuck schumer. joe manchin pulled a fast one on old mitch and in doing so, resurrected president biden stalled legislative agenda. how did they manage it? it is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a second. you see, the white house and senate democrats had two pieces of legislation that they wanted to pass before the midterms. o...

and well go inside the negotiations. and this cnn exclusive, sources say donald trumps legal team is now talking to the justice department. it signals that there is a big and ugly fight coming over what the former president can shield from federal investigators. but we begin the hour with a wow. the july jobs report gives president biden important economic momentum on employment hitting a 50 year low. 500,000 plus more americans hired just last month. so forget recession talk. at lea...

unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trumps mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all class...

To need it the most. were ready for this influx of this climate change, weve got to make sure that this is a climate rescue. we are rescuing our climate with this landmark legislation, landmark dollars, and making sure that were utilizing these resources to make sure that we are preparing for the future. the crisis is already here in the state of florida. unfortunately, weve had three decades of republican control of our state that havent been making this a priority. now i have to ask you this. ...

Campaigned on this. why did it take 19 months, i know it is 50/50 hard senate math, but you are a mayor, a governor, a businessman before you came to washington. why couldnt the democrats figure out what do we need to strip away, why cant we just get at least pieces of this done and get to 50 a lot sooner than 19 months in and a lot sooner than three months before the election where maybe people dont see the results in time to give you credit? >> i think that president biden deserves credit for ...

Create some need for adjustment. so i suggested that some sort of an excise tax on the stock buybacks which had been in play before but disappeared and i never -- it wasnt one of those things that i had heard joe manchin complain about, so i just suggested that this is something, maybe go to half of what it had been. it had been a 2%. maybe make it 1% to make it more bearable. >> and so i want you to talk what you can about the substance first. these are landmark investments in the climate. thes...

Back on reconciliation. it is good for us in the climate. tell me what you are saying to get them back to the table. >> lets be clear that chuck schumer and joe manchin were the ones that created this and negotiated it. i just wanted to be the positive and optimistic force, anytime there were disruptions. i tried to push through them and make sure that everybody else was coming along. for a while there, democrats all over the country were giving up. it was just too important for us to give up. >...

Really helps the entire world. if you look at solano, over the last ten years, it is dropped over 90%. wind has dropped 80%. these are huge benefits of these kinds of government incentives. >> thats if you can talk about the specifics of the reconciliation deal. there are big investments, as were just saying on climate change, on prescription drug pricing. walk me through some of the specific contours of the reconciliation bill that you think are important to highlight. >> i think, again, 369 bi...

It was just too important for us to give up. >> yeah, no, absolutely, i think that is why a lot of people are appreciative to your efforts and certainly to senator schumer and manchin, as well, for getting the deal done. do you think senator sinema will get on board? >> i think so. i hope so. i have not talked to her. but she is a real patriot in terms of climate rescue. she understands a sense of urgency that we all need to have, that the clock is running on how we are heating up the planet. i ...