also tonight, after the hottest days on record, has climate change already reached a tipping point? the meteorologist who left local news after his climate coverage led to a death threat joins me tonight. and america s economy is red hot. jobs and wages are growing. inflation is easing. so why isn t joe biden more popular? but we begin tonight with a crisis that is impossible to ignore. i often start this show with the most recent to solve on american democracy at the hands of the modern republican party or the supreme court, but tonight i want to talk to you about a different type of existential threat. y all know it s hot. some of you in arizona spent the day trying to avoid 115 degree heat. next week, it might hit 120. earlier this week, i shared some really terrifying news. some scientists believed that july 4th of this year may have been one of the hottest days on earth in 125,000 years. guess what. we keep breaking those records. new york s temperature set a record
here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, we ll talk about the sanctions imposed today. and i m hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell joining us live from outside of the white house. i want to start with you here. and what we ve just heard now, from president biden, as he is casting his eye toward 2024, although with no formal announcement. at least toward the next two years of his presidency. while also having to manage the political footballs that he s got on his plate right now. to mix a metaphor and i m sorry about that. the white house has just released a clip of a conversation between the president and his vp. i want
killed during a shooting at a military checkpoint, we will have the latest from jerusalem. announcer: live from the cnn center in, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia where residents are now urged to head to air raid shelters after a second deadly rocket strike within days. have a look here. these are scenes of the aftermath after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. further south moscow is scrambling to get the bring linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed but divers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feelin
i m going to go in reverse and start with you, cornell. the numbers on the economy are actually very good. today, we got another jobs report that is excellent. people who were swearing it was going to be a recession are like where s the recession. all the indicators of the economy are in good shape. number one, why do you suppose that is not impacting joe biden s poll numbers more and why in some polls of the democratic potentially voters base interested in one robert f. kennedy jr., who is a strange guy. well, let s put some context around this conversation. joy, if you you go back to 2011, the summer of 2011, before going into his re-election, barack obama s approval numbers were in the mid to low 40s. he was digging out of an
juncture. the two-year, it is now been in office for exactly two years. but there are challenges ahead. and not only with this document situation on the classified documents that are dealing with at an opportune time before the state of the union and before they make their 2024 intentions absolutely clear. but, hallie, it is also worth noting despite all of those successes, it is not like necessarily that the midterm environment, which was a very good outcome for democrats, better than they expected, was a referendum and a thumbs up on president biden and his leadership. still, the exit polls from what we ended up seeing in 2022 had president biden with an approval rating in the mid to low 40s. obviously kind of a dangerous place. and a lot of the republican underperformance that we saw was due more to concerns about