wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic congr
challenge of taking on desantis in the fall. and the florida senate race now has its final match-up. val demings is facing off against marco rubio. a race the gop believe has it can win easily. but also where democrats have been widely outspending republicans and think that they have a chance to flip the state blue. also big night in new york, two powerful democrats capping off a highly competitive race. cnn projects jerry nadler will unseat carolyn maloney. redistricts forced them into the same districts with the nastier primary races of the year. and pat ryan beating the republican in a swing district. and so let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for t the daily beast. so much to talk about. so jackie, in florida democrat charlie crist won his primary and will face off with governor desantis in november. crist is a former governor of course and former republican. is his past experience and name recognition enough to knock off the
intense debates inside the white house, tons of pressure from groups. there s three key elements here. the details are very important. there are income caps to actually qualify for this loan cancellation. if you are an individual who makes under $125,000 a year or a family that makes under $250,000 a year and you have federal loans, the president is going to basically sign the ability to cancel $10,000 of those loans. there s another element that s important. $20,000 could be canceled for any pell grant recipients with federal loans. that s incredibly important as the administration has worked continuously over the course of the last several months to target this relief and target this cancellation towards lower and middle income individuals. the administration officials believe roughly almost all of pell grant recipients make $60,000 or less. they would all qualify. when you look at the loan cancellation, it would affect about 43 million borrowers if they took advantage of w
he may have tipped his hand here. 60% of the european union is under a drought warning. we are in the heart of it but you can see it s far from extinguished. it s monday, august 15th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, and 12:30 p.m. in kabul where one year ago today the taliban seized control of the afghan capital. human rights have warned that millions are living under dire conditions. now cnn has obtained a copy of the scathing report on the withdrawal from the republicans. it said that president biden did not portray the events on the ground and failed to put a plan in place. republicans have relied on information from whistle-blowers, people living in kabul since the recall, and fact finding reports since the biden administration did not take part. it described inadequate numbers of u.s. personnel to handle the crowds and part of the planning got started in june and only a quarter of those evacuated were women and girls. over the past year, the
documents. now after last week s fbi seizure of 11 more sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, the democratic chairs of the house intel and oversight committees are asking u.s. intelligence leaders for a briefing and damage assessment. let s bring in michael zeldin up bright and early with us this morning. good to see you. good to see you, too. one of trump s lawyers signed this letter saying there were no more classified materials at mar-a-lago. how does that effect the investigation going forward? it might explain why somebody served as an informant that there were additional documents. if that lawyer, as part of a team of lawyers or others certified something that wasn t true and now all of a sudden are looking at what liability they have, it might explain why we get additional information. but the certification that they have no additional documents, and then the revelation that they have additional documents could prove either one, they believe in good faith