this sunday, crime and punishment. president biden backs down from fighting a republican effort to block dc s more lenient approach to crime. we will make chicago the safest city in america. just after the perception of rising crime took down chicago s mayor. we fought the right fights. can biden s moves help democrats from being seen as soft on crime going into 2024? plus, divide and conquer. florida governor ron desantis isn t officially in the race yet, but he s eagerly courting trump s base. i think there is a strong anti-woke majority across the country. the primary fight is kicked into high gear as more candidates consider challenging trump. for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i will talk to chris sununu who is considering his own white house run. and confronting china. a bipartisan push to face the growing threats from beijing. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century.
city. how the immigration battle between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams is heating up. a boom caused by a meteor. details on that and more just ahead. welcome to a new week. we re grateful you re starting it with us this sunday, august 14th. good morning, amara. good morning. feels like the week went by really fast and we re already at a new one. a ton of news, right? a lot of news. you to took the words out of my mouth. the recovery of top secret classified documents by the fbi, sources telling cnn that one of trump s lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classified information being kept at mar-a-lago. but the fbi searched the former president s palm beach home and seized 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top secret. meantime, on capitol hill, both sides of the aisle are calling on investigators to release more information on exactly what led to the search. adam schiff, the democratic chair of the h
trump when you guys come back, but first we re going to talk about president biden s plan to cancel student loan debt and the uncertain future of that, and we ll show you how many b borrowers will be impacted and what s really at stake here politically. what s really at stake here politically.
met with activists and advocates like you, but you re saying what is needed is a meeting between the president and actual borrowers. you think that will make the difference? yes, so as the press secretary said, you know, the president says he understands, but we want to make sure he knows it to be true. the common themes that we re hearing from borrowers is uncertainty, anxiety and guilt. there are so many questions surrounding this payment pause ending at the end of this month, wh where, we re one period away from payments resuming and i just if he are to make the decision now or meet with b borrowers to make the right decision. mr. president, we need you to cancel student debt, to be bold, and have no cumbersome process for borrowers to jump through. i want to talk about debt cancellation. i want to hear about what some