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this post in 2017. he is also a registered republican. but that did not matter to the gop members who used todays hearing to go after him personally. >> when the court says the fbi misled, but its a nice way of saying they lied. >> the american people fully understand that there is a two tiered justice system. that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs. and that you have personally been worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> i would dis...

report on inflation was better than ever expected, prices rose just 3% in june, which is the lowest increase we have seen since march of 2021. there is so uncertainty out there about what this means long term, we are gonna hash all of that out later in the hour. but inflation was not at the top of the agenda for some lawmakers on capitol hill today. the republican-led house judiciary committee spent about six long hours questioning fbi director chris wray. the house gop along with form...

bases. russian ally and neighbor in belarus helped broker a deal with prigozhin, to escalate the situation. prigozhin agreed to leave russia for asylum batters, but not before getting a heroes sendoff from russian residents. [crowd chanting] [sound of gunfire] >> nbc news correspondent ali arouzi joins me now, live from london. ali, thank you for being here. the situation in russia has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours, whats happening there now? >> jonathan, it has been an ext...

in just two days, 118 congress will be sworn in with republicans in the majority in the house and kevin mccarthy is vowing to fight to become house speaker until the very end. but the question remains. could a group of heart rate lawmakers keep them from reaching the magical number of 219 votes. also one of the most controversial members of the new congress, new york republican george santos said take his seat -- lying about everything for his family history to his finances. well talk ...

And it has never been stronger and more united and more focused, why? because what putin has done in ukraine. putin has created this strong powerful alliance, president biden gets a lot of credit for rallying the troops. rallying the nations and rallying the allies. and in addition to the rest of the world, i mean he had the japanese, the south koreans and the australians and the new zealanders were there. so this is a very strong alliance coalition that they have put together. and this is the o...

And then just recently, he had a direct threat to his kinship. he staved off that checkmate, but he has a very bad position on the s-word. he has to move some pieces, what we do with prigozhin, or the muzzle him in belarus? is he going to try to exact revenge against him? what will he do with these wagner forces, who only bought in charge of the round? how will he integrate them into the russian military? what will he do with sergei shoigu, and chief of staff valery gerasimov, the ones who are b...

Tried to coalesce, then we can see some movement. but i do think that republicans are actually coming into a pretty weekend position, not just internally, but they havent put forward any real ideas other than trying to scare voters into crimes up, immigration is everywhere, but that is just a statement that is not a policy position and it is definitely not a solution. >> and, brandon, as we talk about sort of what is going on in the republican party, former president trump, he posted an article ...

Dining with antisemites a few weeks ago and then there is new reporting that the former president hosted a qanon official down at mar-a-lago -- >> that came out today. >> when he feels the walls are closing in, he caters to the most extreme part of the base that most respectable republicans will not go near. my projection of what he will do now that he is not in a weekend position, and most people thought that was a poor announcement, and he was not doing well, he will cater to the craziest part...