unemployment rate ticked up. the question is how about the federal reserve react as it tries to tame inflation. more on that is ahead as well. while the president is addressing the academic concerns from voters ahead of the midterms, the other issue at the top of their list is threats to democracy. last night, in philadelphia, he took aim at the former president by name and his supporters who he has been branding maga republicans. listen to this. what is happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. contrast that message with donald trump just hours before that, helping january 6 writers financially, people who pushed our democracy to that edge. adding this pledge. quote. all right. let s get into some of this with my panel. shannon is covering the white house. von is in west palm beach near mar-a-lago. ash
fired back calling it racist. dana: president biden staying silent on the fentanyl. 300 people a day die. that is expected to get worse. fentanyl seizures at the border continue to double year-over-year. peter doocy brought it up in yesterday s briefing but according to the white house everything is just fine. 300 overdoses a day now. we know fentanyl is coming in the sfwoo the country across the southern border. we are securing the border. we have record levels of funding from dhs to stop drugs from entering into the country. 300 overdoses designed to target children. drug cartels in mexico want to kill american kids. what is this president doing about it? to say we re not doing enough is categorically wrong. dana: we have reaction from former d.e.a. special agent. matt finn standing by at the border but let s go to grady trimble in chicago with new arrivals. we were there last night as the first two buses arrived. several migrants waved at our cameras and g
him to say. right now in jackson, mississippi, residents are facing a fourth day without reliable running water. we re life on the ground. in ukraine, u.n. inspectors are at europe s largest nuclear plant under russian control amid fierce shelling in the area. we begin with what will be a crucial day in the legal battle over classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the judge will hear arguments on the former president s request for a special master who filter out privileged materials. it comes hours after his legal team filed a defiant response to a blistering justice department filing late tuesday. his team argued it should have been, quote, fully anticipated that trump would have sensitive material at his home. his lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left unchec
investigators saying this left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trump s attorneys on fox news last night. they don t understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesn t get a new marking all the time. he s left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of him declassifying any of these documents. in fact, the former president s team agrees in a special master should have top-secret security clearance, but here s the thing. according to dozens of pages of court documents essentially all of the new information that we learned in the last two days, about the former president and his lawyers possibly lying about these documents moving them to keep them hidden s even think pes cher of apparently classified documents found in trump s office, all of tha
what do you think are the chances you can get an acquittal? i would not comment. reporter: she was detained on february 17th. prosecutors claiming she was carrying two vaping cartridges with about .07 oil a crime in russia that can carry a sentence of up to ten years in praise colony. the u.s. considers her being rong wrongfully detained. wrongful detention is unacceptable where ever it occurs. the united states government, at the very high e est levels is working hard to bring mi miss griner as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. reporter: her trial starts as tensions between the u.s. and russia have reached a boiling point. not just over rusrussia s invas of ukraine. the u.s. is calling for immediate release of former marine paul whelan who was sentenced to sf years. they also said the trial was not political. the facts say a prominent athlete was detained in possession of prohibits substances that contained drugs. reporter: after about