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between the u.s. and russia and how soon paul whelan and brittney griner could be home as we go one-on-one with national security spokesperson john kirby. i m hallie jackson in washington on this thursday afternoon. carol lee over at the white house, jake ward posted up for us in san francisco, our business reporter. carol, let me start with you. this is time number two we re hearing from the president today on the economic news of the day. reporter: that s right, hallie. what you re seeing is not just the president but across the administration, a number of officials are out talking about the economy today addressing these gdp numbers. this is an effort to try to shape the narrative. part of what you re hearing from the president, you might be hearing bad news about the economy, but it s not that bad. he s also saying this is no surprise, that the economy was always going to slow down as the fed steps in and tries to address inflation. he s pointing to things like a ....
Address inflation. he s pointing to things like a strong jobs market as reasons why in his view it s not his say, to determine whether or not the country is in a recession, but he s saying the economy is absolutely not in a recession. take a listen to some of what he said today. there s going to be a lot of chatter today on wall street and among pundits about whether we are in a recession. if you look at our job market, consumer spending, business investment, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. reporter: so the president also saying that the economy is essentially on the right path, but there s more work to do. this is the message we ve heard from this white house for a number of months now. and part of what he has in terms of momentum is the possibility of getting some legislation through that he says will tackle inflation and also try to deal with the deficit. so making a plug for those bills, too. jake, to be clear, i think ....
Some significant developments in the last few hours in the investigations, plural, into the january 6th insurrection. let me start with house select committee chairman bennie thompson. he s confirming to nbc news that the panel has a formal path, an official way to be able to share material, evidence, documents, et cetera, with the justice department. the doj has been wanting to get their hands on thousands of pages of documents and hours of testimony that the committee has. by the way, that testimony being added to today with this guy. sources telling nbc news former trump chief of staff mick mulvaney is being asked to appear today. can i just ask what you plan to tell the committee today? the truth. how about that for a start? were you asked to come in or did you volunteer? i was asked to come in. subpoena or no? ....
i was just asked to come in. let s bring in capitol hill correspondent allie raffa and justice department correspondent ryan hallie, remember a couple weeks ago chairman bennie thompson said the committee was willing to share these thousands of pages of evidence and transcripts of witness interviews with the justice department. he said that will have to wait because it was a very big burden to put on his staff. now you see them saying there is a path, a working path between the committee and the justice department. that s likely because the committee s work is extending further and longer than originally expected. they left at the last hearing saying they re going to take this month-long break in hearings before coming back in september for possibly more, releasing that interim report in september. this appearance by mulvaney today was sort of a surprise, but also we saw committee ....
Seemed to think i had one say it s within reach. you throw it all together and it s reading tea leaves which can be very dangerous at moments like this but there clearly seems to be a working path that they re on when you talk to some folks behind the scenes in this building and on the other side of pennsylvania avenue. the question is we know what the issue is that s dwigd them. it s this issue on abortion and it s this issue involving planned parenthood more so than it is the actual number. no word on whether the the number went up from $33 billion to something higher but the biggest sticking point for the last 12 hours has been the wording of this rider on abortion and on planned parenthood. chuck, can you sense from the white house how they feel about the number of policy riders that have been attached to this discussion in the 11th hour? well, look. this is it was and non-starter you know, they ve moved on this. remember four or five weeks ago, ....