militia were secretly recorded by one of the attendees they discussed bringing weapons to washington d.c. and being prepared to fight on on behalf of the former president donald trump. whitney wild is here with the latest. reporter: it was a bombshell moment that the defense and the department of justice agree is one of the most important cases in decades. a new recording released by the department of justice of an alleged november 2020 planning meeting of the far right militia group, the oath keepers. you re going to see a street fight. don t be afraid. go there in large numbers. that s why we need to be there. reporter: federal prosecutors played the audio during the second day of the trial of five associates of the oath keepers. all five defendants have pleaded not guilty. this is the first major piece of evidence presented at the trial that prosecutors used to support their allegations that the group planned to descend on washington to prevent the peaceful trans
president trump to fight as commander in chief. also, former president trump making an emergency request to the supreme court asking the high court to intervene in that dispute over materials the fbi seized from mar-a-lago over the summer. they request the 100 or so documents become part of the special master s review. and next hour, president biden and jill biden will head to florida to var the destruction in the wake of hurricane ian so far claimed 109 lives. the president will meet with florida governor ron desantis. also he ll speak with homeowners, business owners, people that have been wiped out by the storm. we ll get to that in a moment. first, let s begin with our cnn law enforcement correspondent on this on what was a secret reporting played in this second day of the oath keeper s trial. what more can you tell us? this is a huge moment very early on in the trial. the doj is passing this audio recording as proof that these five people on trial for conspiracy be
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america s national debt hit a milestone this week. this comes at high inflation, real economic uncertainty, take a look at this from the treasury department. total public debt outstanding, $31.1 trillion as of monday. climbing nearly $8 trillion since the start of 2020. our chief business correspondent joins me live. i mean what? you know, america runs on borrowed money. this is a really important reminder. no matter who is in congress, who is in the white house, this pile of debt, these are bills, these are this is money that s been spent to run this country. that just gets bigger and bigger. we first crossed the $10 trillion mark under george bush and then when barack obama came into office, $10.6 trillion. and then, look, it rose. there is a housing crisis that turned into a full blown financial crisis. stimulus spending, borrowed money. and that number rose. and then former president trump took office, $19.9 trillion.
it rises significantly faster. republicans calling for more oversight demanding a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. for now it seems the debt is snowballing. the debt is more than $5.6 trillion. it nearly doubled during george w. bush s administration, $10.6 trillion and doubled again to almost $200,020,000,000,000,000 during president obama s administration. almost $1 trillion added during the trump administration to reach more than $27 trillion. usd:00.org says each taxpayer widow 233,$000. back to you. edward: i don t think they will take a check.