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pitch their closing messages to voters. we ll have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this week s jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. it s good to have you with us this hor hour. we have new polling out this morning. a hotly contested senate race in pennsylvania, the latest emerson college the hill survey finds mehmet oz with a two-point lead over john fetterman, within the poll s 3% margin of error. 4% remain undecided. let s keep it in pennsylvania. another new poll shows last week s debate between fetterman and oz appears to have had very little impact in minds of voters. 48% of voters telling monmouth university they will defin ....
immigration or food prices or gasoline prices or crime. they want to talk about race. and to talk about abortion. let s talk about race and abortion. it is time for a true discussion. not the lies we get from media and tenured leftists and the rest. talk about the facts, i won t go to civil war, where democrat party was tied to hip with confederacy, and ddavis of a democrat,. no. i won t go to bl plessy versus ferguson but i will go to woodrow wilson, one of the great so-called leading progressive intellectuals in late 1800s and 1900s president of princeton university, governor of new jersey and elected president of united states, and he overturned every major pro-integration law that was put in place by the republicans who preceded him. recession gated the departments of federal government, fired black forward administrate hours, and openly sympathetic to the kkk . and he was critical of reconstruction. less th than 60 years ago, 1964 civil right act was opposed by 69% ....
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears ....
federal loan payments. none of them have to pay any of these loans back until january of 2023. president claiming that this targeted approach will actually have a positive effect, he says, on lowering inflation. but tax experts and republicans think that those numbers do not add up. this is senator tom cotton. watch this. the president doesn t have the power just to unilaterally on his own eliminate entire categories of de. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this is the dumbest yet. a terrible policy that will harm many more americans that it will help. a former obama economic advisor pushing back as well pouring roughly half a trillion of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless, says jason fuhrman who was with the obama/biden administration and thinks it is a very bad move. jacqui heinrich joins us now live with more. good morning, martha. it is not just the press secretary refusing to admit that taxpayers are footing the bill ....
president donald trump. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 25th. i m willie geist. with us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. let s dive into the story that has everybody talking right now. 43 million people in line to have at least a chunk of their student loan debt erased. as many as 20 million people could clear all of their student debt. those are the figures from the white house following an executive action yesterday by president biden. the president pushed back at criticism that debt cancellation will make inflation worse. by resuming student loan payments at the same time as we provide targeted relief, we re taking an economically responsible course. as a consequence, about $50 billion a year will start c ....