what is the white house trying to hide? nothing. someone gave the president a statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. who? so i ve read out the president s statement. i ve read it out yesterday, what he said. he said that he respects or he takes classified information and documents very seriously. that s what he said. he said that he did not know that the records were there. he does not know what s in them. he said that. you heard from him directly on this. and his team has been cooperating fully, fully, and not only that, again, i ll say this, the attorney general said this himself, that he heard from the team shortly after. so we have laid out, laid out, what has occurred here. you ve heard from the white house counsel. i just read the statement from his lawyer. the and, again, you know, we take this very seriously. the president does as well. when will the white house release a log of visitors to the wilmington house? you
reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga
head to pittsburgh this afternoon, part of his labor day campaign blitz with just a few months ahead of the november midterms. joining me now for more on the breaking news, ryan riley, kelly o donnell, and joining us david henderson, as well. ryan, first to you. you ve now had an hour you have given him an hour to look through this. let s talk about what you have learned as we ve all been speed reading this report of this judge s order which came out about an hour ago. ryan? that s right. one of the citations here is they mentioned rudy giuliani as a special master and the idea of having someone look over the questions of executive privilege, and that was back in april of 2021. but that was a much more sort of limited circumstance, because that was first of all, giuliani wasn t an attorney, so looking over his materials was much more complex, because he had to protect all the materials of talking with his client, so the fbi search this could be a particularly cumberso
year i reduced the deficit by $350 billion! and you know how much i m going to reduce the deficit this year? $1,500,000 reduction in the deficit. and, by the way, just by dealing with allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, it means medicare doesn t have to pay out that many tax dollars to buy them. that alone is going to reach over time $300 billion reduced in the deficit. you would think the republicans really cared about reducing inflation, they would vote for the inflation reduction act, but every single republican in the house and senate voted against it. now, i admit someone voted against it they thought it made sense but they couldn t let biden, quote, have a victory. it s not my victory. it s the american people s victory. here in america every single republican voted against lowering prescription drug prices, against lowering health care costs, against protecting your pensions, against lower energy costs, against creating good paying jobs, against a fairer tax sy
plus inflation surged to a new four-decade high last month as rising prices continue to squeeze household budgets for every day americans. we re going to get a live report from the white house on the administration s reaction and what they plan to do. and outrage in uvalde, as families condemn the release of surveillance video from robb elementary school where their children were massacred. we ll get the latest from texas. willie. a busy hour ahead. but we begin with the latest on the january 6 investigation. and the revelation from the committee that former president trump tried to make contact with a witness. a source telling nbc news that the person is a member of the white house support staff. liz cheney said trump called the witness sometime after the bombshell june 28th testimony of former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. cheney said the person declined the call and then reported it to his or her attorney. the lawyer then alerted committee which in turn alerted th