We expect any moment that we will hear from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rule Weve heard them quite a bit lately after we didnt hear a lot for quite some time but he is expected to also take questions after this announcement of a Doj Being Action against visa but what is going to happen in the Question And Answer period we expect are some questions about the dojs handling of now the second Assassination Attempt on former President Trumps life. Trump this blasted justice and the fbi and says that the florida investigators should take the lead on this so well see what Aji Garland has to say in Response Or David spunt is in the room at the Justice Department that will bring you that of course live as that played out but first former President Trump Today in georgia speaking about his plan to make America Rich again cutting inflation, cutting taxes and rewarding cant companies who make their products here in the united states. Watch. Mr. Trump under my leadership we are going to ta
From msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with decision 2024 and 66 days until election day, 10 days until the first residential debate, and six days until voting by mail starts in north carolina. New today, another push by the harris campaign for open microphones at the september 10th debate with donald trump. We will have more on that in just a moment. Also new, reaction from the first gen z member of congress, touring college campuses and talking with potential student voters. Maxwell frost is telling my colleagues at msnbc s, the weekend, that young people are energized. People are fired up all across the entire country. North carolina, arizona, ending today in pennsylvania. The rooms are packed. Students are assigned to go organize. Young voters have been so neglected in politics for generations, and we are seeing a candidate run a full campaign to court the youth about, and people are saying, this is out of this world. Morning rea
Thing happened who is somebody you will want to meet. Im looking for to that coverage tonight. We have a big show. But where we start tonight is a story in todays news that starts one way, and then at the very end it veers off in an unexpected direction. This is like youre going along singing the alphabet and then you say 47. 47 is what comes next . Why did we viewer off . Here is the story. See if you can see where the unexpected fear, pluck twist comes in. Heres how the story is headlined in the detroit free press. Michigan republicans michigan republicanled investigation rejects trumps claim that November 3rd Election was stolen. Heres the Associated Press headline, Senate Republican probe, no systemic fraud in michigan election. Heres the New York Times headline, this was just posted tonight, Michigan Republicans de bunk voter fraud claims in unsparing report. Unsparing is right. The lead in the times piece tonight i think some sub why thats the right word. Quote, a Committee Led b
here s the deal. take the debt limit, pass it like you did three, four times, when trump was president, and he increased the whole national debt by 40%. republicans would argue that donald trump, at the very least, they d say, played ball. you re not willing to play ball. play ball? play ball. he ballooned the debt, he created unemployment look, when i came to office, we had incredibly high unemployment. we were in a situation where we had very little movement on anything going on. look, look at the employment right now. just today, 250,000 new jobs. highest participation in 75 years of women in the job market. lowest unemployment rate for african americans. things are moving. as i said, you have a good economic recovery story. this is a very volatile congress. there were members of congress that might be okay with a stifel dane, because they think it could hurt you more politically given that, are you prepared to invoke the 14th amendment and blow through the debt ce