wads "inside with jen psaki" at noon eastern, and "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >> good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. if president biden can turn his poll numbers around and win re-election, history may look back on this week as a key moment. the latest on his eye popping new fund-raising numbers coming on the heels of good economic and political news both at home and abroad. plus, no end in sight for punishing and dangerous heat. and the horror stories are starting to add up, people getting third degree burns from walking on hot pavement, scalded by water coming out of their garden hoses. we'll get the latest from arizona where it could hit 120 degrees this weekend. and as we speak, republicans are racing to the right in iowa, their push to embrace

evangelicals could be key to winning that all important state, but could it alienate republican voters down the line. let's start with a much needed string of successes this week for president joe biden, domestically, internationally, politically, punctuated by today's big number, $72 million raised in the second quarter of 2023. compare that to the republican side, 35 million reported by former president donald trump's campaign, 20 million for governor ron desantis. and then there is that hugely consequential week on the world stage, biden facing multiple global challenges at the nato summit that threaten to erupt into division, but walked away with unity. and he gave his personal guarantee that the u.s. will stay committed to the alliance despite what he called extreme elements at home that threatened to pull back. the president was going by two

strongest economic reports, inflation at its lowest level in two years, in what he says is bidenomics in action. could this kick start a turn around that he needs at the polls? i want to bring in nbc's mike memoli at the white house. eugene robinson, a "washington post" columnist and former republican congressman david jolly. eugene and david are both msnbc political analysts. so mike, tell us more about that $72 million fund-raising haul and what it might represent for the campaign. >> reporter: well, chris, you're absolutely right. there have been a number of developments of late that have the biden campaign and biden officials in the white house feeling very good about the president's standing right now. but we know that democrats are still nervous, and near vous about a couple of numbers. the president's approval rating continues to be under water. he's only narrowly ahead or trailing republicans in hypothetical head to head matchups in the general election next year. another number is 80, the president's age has democrats nervous as they look ahead to the 2024 campaign. but this number today, the

fund-raising number, not just the fact that the president raised $72 million in his first quarter as an announced candidate, but that he has $77 million in the bank. the biden campaign is not spending a lot of money. it has a very small staff. it doesn't even have a headquarters, chris. they're able to rely on close coordination with the democratic national committee and the fact that the president can travel the country on air force one using official resources for now while republicans are spending a lot of money fights each other in places like iowa and new hampshire. there is also the asterisk that a lot of this money is able to be raise instead big chunks, because of an agreement with the national committee he can raise $925,000 from an individual owner. the biden campaign says 97% of their donations so far are in small amounts. what are some of the things driving some of these spikes in small dollar amounts? one of the more interesting ones, they've sold a lot of dark branded merchandise. that popular meme that the biden

campaign has flipped on republicans more than half the revenue they're generating from their online store is coming from this dark brand and theme merchandise. they also saw a big spike and this was the case in 2020, and why the biden team is confident they will have more than enough resources in 2024 because of what's happening on the other side. ron desantis's announcement and that glitchy twitter launch generate add big spike of small dollar donations, so did that town hall meeting on prime time on cnn that donald trump did. that's why the biden team is feeling really good about its fund-raising base. >> i guess we also don't know -- and i take mike's point about when those spikes happened -- and some of the merchandise, let's not kid ourselves is clever. it's good gift giving for people who know progressives, right? having said that, i wonder how much of it is about people who look at the polls and see that donald trump maybe poses a bigger threat than many republicans had thought, how much of it is love for joe biden. does it matter. what do you make of this

$72 million number? >> yeah, i think it's both. first and foremost, these are remarkable numbers for joe biden. this suggests more importantly than joe biden's performance, even though he's had a great week, it also suggests that democratic vote, and american voters are there with the president. this signifies energy and mobilization behind joe biden going to the next election. then to your point on republicans and donald trump, joe biden's famous line, don't compare me to the almighty. compare me to the alternative. that will be the setup for this entire race. are you comfortable with the steady hand of leadership that joe biden is providing to the economy and on world affairs, or do you want the chaos and the culture wars of the republican party, that contrast sets up beautifully for joe biden, and now we're learning that democratic voters see it as well, and they want to stick with joe biden going into '24. >> give us your view of this last week for joe biden. you know, we have talked a lot in recent month thes about

horrible, terrible, very bad weeks for joe biden. this was not that, but are we overstating its importance? >> i don't think we are, chris. i think history will look back on this week, period, politics aside, and they'll look back on this week because of the nato summit. right now we have the biggest scale, mechanized conflict underway in europe since the second world war. we have the invasion of a sovereign country ukraine, by an expansionist russia. in response, you have the western alliance not weakening as russian president vladimir putin might have expected, but stronger than ever. stronger than it's ever been certainly since the end of the cold war, and that's because of american leadership, because nato basically -- as goes american leadership, so goes

nato. we have nato now including finland. we have sweden coming in soon. but nato essentially circling the baltic sea. we have firm commitments for ukraine's security going forward. it is -- it was an historic week and the pen who's most responsible for the statecraft is joe biden, president joe biden, and even his toughest critics would have to acknowledge that, and as a result, of course, they're not really saying anything about this week, but it was a historic week. >> and there is another part of this week, and that is a couple of sets of economic numbers that came out, david, and those are numbers that show inflation is coming down. joe biden likes to call it bidenomics in action. we can talk about a lot of things. we can talk about what he has done for nato and the world stage. we can talk about abortion.

we can talk about the fight for democracy. ultimately, there are a lot of folks who believe ultimately how people feel in their pocket books are what will be the difference if joe biden gets reelected. those numbers, put those into context. >> yeah, 100%, chris. the economy's a bit of a wild card. we can't look as far out as november of 2024 and know where it's going to sit, but it often parallels that question of voters, do you feel like we're going in the right direction or wrong direction? if the economy is strong, most voters say i like this direction we're going. the lower inflation numbers this week was a fantastic development. now, there's some hidden numbers in there. one is we're still at historic highs, but they're coming down. food is and shelter is still more expensive, people are feeling that. joe biden as president still has some work to do on this. there's only so much the president can do. the fed thinks they're going to bring this into the goldilocks

sweet spot. joe biden is suggesting the american people, i am working on an economy to lift up all people. republicans want to fight culture wars, and there's simply no parallel between economic populism and cultural populism. this is a good spot for joe biden to be in. >> yeah, when you look at that european trip, eugene, the may toe summit, first of all, if you watched him give a speech, it was energetic. it was focused. some people would say it was inspiring, right? and then you also have the contrast to five years ago when we saw donald trump and, you know, here was somebody who loved vladimir putin and who was questioning the relevancy of nato. can we expect, should we expect the biden campaign to make that explicit, and two-part question, did he also help himself with the age criticism this week? it's not going to go away, but did he help himself? >> to answer the second question first, i think he definitely helped himself with that.

look, he's 80 years old. he is. and that's a fact, but he also is vigorous and sharp and you saw him this week, you saw him not just give speeches but answer questions for long periods of time, certainly that would exhaust me, and you know, so yes, he helped himself on that front. i think that biden is in the -- you know, he is doing everything he can possibly do, i think, to negate that issue and to get people focused on the choice, and certainly the contrast between president trump's appearance in helsinki five years ago in that very spot when he sided with vladimir putin

against our intelligence agencies versus president biden welcoming finland into nato, about to welcome finland's neighbor sweden into nato. that contrast could not be more stark, and it offers voters a choice, and the timing, five years to the day after the trump debacle, i think, was meant to highlight that choice. you can have that or you can have this. and he's betting that most people would rather have this. >> so outside the white house, take us inside the campaign, mike memoli. how do they take a week like this and turn it into something, turn it into improving poll numbers. one of the things democrats will tell you, i know you have conversations as i do with folks out there, and they say i don't understand why they're not adjusting the messaging.

clearly what democrats believe is a good story to tell isn't resonating the way they thought it would or should. >> chris, the biden campaign st they have a very good feel of what matters to voters when people go to the polls. so what they like to do is when you see them amplifying a message as you saw, for instance, this week attacking senator tommy tuberville of alabama over this military promotions hold, the republicans in congress over some of the votes around the national defense authorization bill, it speaks to what they think is an important issue next november, which is this contrast between a president who has put his head down and gets things done versus republicans who are chasing a lot of culture issues and in the process potentially putting our national security at risk. you're going to see that continue on the part of the white house over time, and by the biden campaign ultimately down the road, especially when you start to see increasingly that split screen of what's happening on the campaign trail

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temperatures have hospitalized at least 13 people in texas. emergency teams in another state are scrambling to rescue people after a deluge hit with force bringing 3 inches of rain to mississippi every hour. arkansas and louisiana now also under flood alerts. and vermont officials confirm the first drowning death from this week's unprecedented floods. a 63-year-old man who died in his own home. nbc's marissa parra is live for us once again in phoenix. first, i'm glad to see you indoors, but what's it like on the ground today, and are they ready for this weekend? >> reporter: i mean, they're certainly bracing for it, and i can tell you that the phoenix fire department has said that, you know, they come prepared. we're standing inside of the warehouse right now. you can see there's no trucks behind me. they've been out is and about on the streets responding to calls, and many of them heat-related we know, and in fact, when i asked them for numbers, they said

since july 6th, they've had at least 261 heat-related calls. they actually think that number might be higher. the symptoms can be deceiving. sometimes they get to a call and realize someone is also going through heat exhaustion. this is something that is so dangerous. you mentioned some of the dangers that people are facing, and actually, we spoke to somebody, a captain with the phoenix fire department who told us that just yesterday they found a man with third degree burns all over his body from where he was lying down on the sidewalk. they believe he might have been homeless, and that his internal body temperature was 107 degrees, chris. i want to take you to what that fire captain was telling us. take a listen. >> this person was actually on the sidewalk unconscious. he was breathing, but i can tell you that we got this person quickly into the back of an ambulance. we got him hydration therapy. we cooled him down, and we transported him to a local hospital. he was laying down and there

were up to third degree burns. this is the kind of temperatures that we're dealing with right now. your skin burns within five minutes. >> reporter: and hospitals were telling us as well over the phone that they are seeing more heat-related injuries in patients than they have in recent years. we've been speaking to cooling shelters, volunteer who is work at various centers around here, they're working really hard to make sure people have their needs met. chris, we know that even if you do have access to an air-conditioning unit, when we've had a chance to speak with people inside of their homes, sometimes that one unit may not be enough to heat up the home -- or actually cool down the homes in this heat. i mean, this is -- we're talking about 118 degrees expected this weekend. these cooling shelters are opening up their doors. they're extending their hours. remember, this is 13 days straight now of 110 degree temperatures. i think the feeling here in phoenix is, yes, they're used to the heat, but it's just lasting a lot longer than they're used to, at least in recent memories. it's starting a little bit earlier than they're used to.

a lot of people here, especially those in charge of making sure that the residents are safe, preparing for a very busy weekend, chris. >> marissa parra, thank you for that. across the globe in india, record monsoons have killed more than 100 people in just two weeks. right now in a region north of new delhi, schools are shuttered after the relentless downpour caved in roads, swept away vehicles and demolished houses. officials have rescued hundreds of people with helicopters. the sheets of water forcing families to evacuate low lying areas. 30,000 people are now living in camps and schools have been converted to shelters. osteo have taken their families and their livestock under bridges in the capital city for cover. the warning signs were there for this type of climate future. is it too late to make a difference? i'll talk to the best selling author of a new book on climate science and denial about what we can do about it at this point. that's in our next hour. and we may have hit a grim milestone in this country

because the deadliest six months of mass killings in history were the first six months of this year. 28 mass killings, 140th victims in just last 181 days, according to a database run by the "associated press," usa today and northeastern university. that averages out to more than four mass killings a month, more than one a week, and in all but one, guns were involved. these numbers, these lives lost lay out a constant cycle of violence and grief that has become the new norm in this country. and still ahead, the republican candidates for president descend on iowa for a key event, but with one big exception. why one leader says trump's absence could cost him with the state's evangelical voters. and trump's son-in-law jared kushner questioned in the special counsel probe, what he was reportedly asked when it came to his father's beliefs. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc.

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today a pointed warning for trump from a prominent evangelical leader that it isn't 2016 anymore, and trump might not even have won then if not for his opponent. >> where the evangelicals coalesced around the former president is because of hillary clinton. while they didn't know what they were going to get with donald trump, they would rather risk or bet their odds with trump versus

with hillary, because they knew what they'd get with hillary. evangelicals are also what i'd say wise as a serpent but innocent as a dove meaning 2024 is not 2016, and so just because you won in 2016 and you delivered in 2016 with your administration, that doesn't mean you can win again in 2024. >> that's bob vander plaats who's hosting six republican presidential candidates for an important gathering of evangelicals in iowa with the former president a no-show. he's sending kari lake instead. in a new sign that this may be more than a two-man race a poll out this week shows vivek ramaswamy leapfrogging better known and more experienced candidates to place third putting him closer to ron desantis than desantis is to trump. even the candidate himself was surprise z. >> we had no donor lists. we started from 0.0. i think it says something about

how this campaign is going from third in the polls to 65,000 unique donors. to be really honest with you, i did not expect to be doing this well by july. we expected to be there by this fall, but i think it says much more about what the people are hungry for. >> i want to bring in nbc's dasha burns who is live at the family leadership summit in des moines, iowa, and bring back former republican congressman david jolly. so dasha, that was a really interesting interview. he told you trump can't assume evangelicals will back him. so what do christian conservatives want to see in a candidate, and does he see anyone -- a lot of people suggest maybe ron desantis -- who embodies those qualities? >> reporter: well, look, chris, first of all, vander plaats has a history of supporting the eventual caucus winner, that isn't necessarily the person who goes on to be the nominee, but it is important. look, he backed mike huckabee, rick santorum, ted cruz, so he has a good pulse of the people

here, especially when it comes to the evangelical community, and what he told me is while trump did cement the support from that community back in '16 and again in 2020, there are some cracks forming, especially because of some of trump's sentiments after the 2022 election where he laid some blame on the anti-abortion movement for the losses in the 2022 midterms. he also called the florida abortion bill, the six-week heartbeat ban in florida too harsh, which is very similar to the abortion bill that governor kim reynolds is going to sign in just a couple of hours here right now, so for the community here, that's a very important movement and a very, very important issue to folks. so vander plaats says the voters here are looking to folks on the life issue. they are looking to folks on character. that's another big concern with former president trump. he says people really want to be able to tell their kids, hey, the person in the white house is a role model for you, and so they are looking to those

potential alternatives like a ron desantis. he did also mention vivek ram swami is having some traction here with voters in iowa. ram swa has been running with his hindu faith front and center. voters have been open that because he shares the values. people are kicking the tires of everyone that is coming to town right now. iowa voters are not to be taken for granted, they are very discerning. they very much value their place as the first caucus, as the sort of place where you come to narrow the field. they're taking their votes very seriously. >> it's one thing to kick the tires. it's another thing to go to a caucus and decide to support someone who isn't donald trump. so i guess the question is maybe how pragmatic can evangelicals be? i mean, there must have been a little bit of pragmatism in 2016 because he made a comment about

grabbing women in certain places, and he, you know, still did okay. i guess my question is do you see any difference in the evangelicals and that voting block in 2024 than we saw in 2016? is there a difference? >> i don't know that there is, coming from a history of an evangelical myself. this is a deeply introspective moment for evangelicals, a deeply introspective decade, and they have shown us that political power sometimes trumps their own biblical convictions. i think what we're seeing in iowa with this conference and with vander plaats' statements a very intense microcosm of a very important primary. vander plaats has been able to pick the winner in iowa in the three past primaries that haven't included an incumbent president. they didn't pick the eventual nominee. that does suggest that the evangelical vote, particularly

in iowa, a strong one, is available to people other than donald trump. does it dramatically impact donald trump's 20 to 30-point lead right now? not necessarily because as strong of an influence as evangelicals have in today's republican party, donald trump has a stronger one, and that's why he still leads. >> dasha, that leads me to ron desantis who i'm sure just as surprised as vivek ramaswamy where he is right now. so i know you've got some exclusive reporter about what his team is telling donors about their strategy as we've been reading these reports about donors getting nervous. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, chris, we were able to get our hands on a confidential memo from the desantis campaign to donors giving them an update on where they stand and what they see as the path forward, and that includes really a focus and a doubling down on early states. iowa, south carolina, and especially new hampshire. they place a special focus on

that state because that is where a lot of folks have seen new hampshire as challenging terrain for desantis, not necessarily his crowd that people would expect, but they said very clearly in that memo, we will not cede new hampshire. they also hinted at a popular threat from tim scott and hinted that we might see some scrutiny coming from desantis allies against senator tim scott in the coming weeks. also laying out some policy rollouts that we might see on the economy, on foreign policy in china, and the messaging that they seem to believe is working when it comes to desantis being a dad, being a veteran, and a culture warrior. so these are the things that we're going to be seeing from the campaign going forward, chris. >> dasha burns and former congressman david jolly, thank you both. we have breaking news on student loan relief. the education department announcing it will automatically forgive student loans for more

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in a fascinating new development, federal prosecutors are asking witnesses, including son-in-law jared kushner, whether former president donald trump privately admitted that he lost in the days following the 2020 election. "the new york times" also reports this is part of the investigation into trump's alleged attempts to overturn the election. trump wants to delay the classified documents trial until after the 2024 election. joining me now, nbc's ken dilanian and msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin, good to have both of you here. i want to start with that kind of provocative question, lisa. did donald trump admit he lost to anybody in the days after the election is.

what does it mean that prosecutors are asking this question? >> well, i think, chris, it goes to his knowledge and intent, to the extent that he's admitting that he lost but is still telling the general public via tweets, via fund-raising solicitations, and even telling people like mike pence, for example, that he wants to continue contesting the election, that's a core element of intent that goes to a number of the statutes that could be used to prosecute him and others involved in continued efforts to overturn the election. now, as to your question, who did he say it to? you know, "the new york times" reporting is that jared kushner thought very much that his father-in-law genuinely believed that the election was stolen from him, but there are a number of others who have told either the special counsel, the january 6th committee, or both that they heard trump say that he knew he lost. those people not only include alyssa fara griffin and cassidy

hutchinson who had had that conversation secondhand with mark meadows, but general milley who was present in the oval office at a meeting involving some national security issue where the president turned to either meadows or pompeo and said, yeah, we lost. let's leave that decision for the next guy. that was a conversation milley remembers taking place well before the effort to the certify the fake electors that we know transpired thereafter. >> so ken, let's go to the classified documents case now. >> it pointed out that, first of all, the concept of a -- is not just a privilege for the defendant. it's not a favor by the prosecution. it's a bedrock of the american constitution, and it's for the benefit of the american people, so it's saying that the idea that donald trump wants an indefinite postponement is not consistent with the constitution. it also made a number of arguments about why this

shouldn't be taking as long as the trump lawyers said it should. for example, there are 800,000 documents they turned over on discovery, but only 4,500 of them are actually the key important documents, and that sounds like a lot, but for a complex federal criminal trial it really isn't, the trump team should be able to make sense of all of that. lastly, the special counsel's office really mounted a frontal attack on what is donald trump's principle legal defense articulated by his lawyers that somehow the presidential records act absolves him of these criminal charges. they said that that was a borderline frivolous and baseless argument, that they're ready to attack when it's made on the merits, but it shouldn't be used as a reason for calling this case complex and justifying an indefinite delay, chris. >> so lisa, what will the judge consider in making this ruling, and how much of it given that the defendant is running for president is simply uncharted territory? >> well, you're right, chris, to say that it's uncharted territory and certainly aileen

cannon has been in uncharted territory before with donald trump last august for a special master to oversee the process after the fbi conducted its search warrant. i think one of the things that the judge will be looking for is how much delay is reasonable given that a lot of this case involves classified documents, and how much of it is sort of blow veeuating by the former president. as ken pointed out, there are 10,000 pages of documents, but the doj basically made a key documents list for the former president, and i want to point out as a former litigator and someone who participated in criminal defense, just how rare that is. the department of justice does not do that in the ordinary case. they are bending over backwards to give the former president every -- every privilege imaginable in defending himself here. >> and there's one more thing that just came up today i want to ask you about, lisa. former president trump's legal team asked georgia's highest court we learned from the

atlanta journal constitution to disqualify fulton county d.a. fani willis, who we of course know is investigating him and others for election interference. they also want the court to squash the final report from the grand jury that would recommend charges. what do you think the chances are that they could be successful here? >> i don't think the chances are particularly high. on one hand, chris, you got a georgia supreme court that consists of nine justices, eight of whom were originally appointed by a republican governor. as we know from reporting on brian kemp and brad raffensperger, the georgia republican party isn't particularly trump inclined. it's also a little bit of a too little too late. they initially moved to disqualify fani willis in march. that motion hasn't been decided, nor has the trump camp made any efforts to escalate it to higher courts since then. my guess is that the georgia supreme court will allow this process to continue without interruption, and if there's a reason for appeal, take it up at a later point in time, chris.

>> ken dilanian, lisa rubin, thank you both so much. actors are now joining writers on the picket lines for the first time since 1960, essentially shutting down tv and movie production around the country and in many cases afternoon the world. this is a live protest right now in new york. sag-aftra, the union representing 160,000 film and tv actors and other media professionals officially went on strike at midnight after failing to agree to a new contract with the union representing major studios and streamers. here's the sag-aftra president, fran drescher outside netflix headquarters in los angeles last hour. >> the eyes of this nation, workers everywhere are waiting to see what happens in this moment because we bring attention like you to this critical story. if we don't nip this in the bud right now, we're all going to be at risk of losing our jobs, and that is not okay with us.

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house republicans are looking to roll back an obama area rule that requires airlines to average total ticket prices, including taxes and fees. the proposed changes are facing pushback. noah pransky reports. >> reporter: you're booking the next vacation, shopping for air fare, you pick the next flight and the price jumps on you because the airlines buried the full price that includes taxes and fees. they're not allowed to do that today, but they could be if the airline industry gets their way this congress. >> we don't want to have to do algorithm and advanced trigonometry. >> john brio is sounding the alarm about a proposal tucked inside a house aviation bill.

its purpose, allow airlines to stop showing you the all-in price of a ticket. they could advertise the base fare and hide the mandatories and fees behind a separate link. >> here's how the experience could change for you, instead of the way you know it now, the price you see is the price you pay. airlines would be able to strip out the taxes, artificially lower what you see up front. there are a lot of taxes we pay when we see the airlines fee, a september 11th fee, a passenger facility charge. it could change the way we buy tickets and might start resembling the way we buy a ticket to a concert or an event. a $216 price advertised turns into 283 at the end. >> it's a simple reason, an explanation for why they're doing it, it finds them money. >> reporter: withholding the amount of the ticket leads to consumer to spend more.

>> there's a cost to be stopping this and going back and starting over again. none of the half dozen lawmakers wanted to talk about it. an online poll conducted by yougov found 88% of democrats and 90% of republicans favor a law that would require airlines to show you that all-in price right up front. >> how is this all still moving forward. the provision is tucked inside a massive faa bill, with pilot training requirements and air traffic control improvements. the top democrat to sign off on the legislation so far told the associated press the bill represents a compromise and nothing is final until democrats in the senate get their say, but thus far, the efforts to change pricing transparency have flown under the radar. an airlines advocacy group wrote us they want travelers to see how much of the ticket price is going to the government.

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