lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system
senator joe manchin s team confirming that he will, quote, unequivocally not support any climate provisions in the democrats economic package or consider raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations. moments ago president biden took off for saudi arabia in a highly anticipated and controversial meeting with the crown prince mohammed bin salman. the president is seeking to boost oil flow and reset the relationship with the kingdom, less than two years after vowing to make saudi arabia a pariah for its human rights abuses. cnn s kaitlan collins and wolf blitzer are in jeddah, saudi arabia, where the president will be visiting. wolf, to you first. the president, before he left the west bank, met with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas this morning. he continues to advocate for a two-state solution, announced an aide, but right now there are no substantive talks between the israelis and palestinians. where do those negotiations stand and where does a two-state
campaign, biden called them a pariah state. today he said a meeting is in the u.s. interest to help normalize gas prices. chief white house correspondent katilan collins is in saudi arabia following president biden. do we know if the president has raised the murder of khashoggi to the prince? we don t know and don t have a guarantee if we are going to find out because when white house officials were pressed on this earlier given they had not given a clear direct answer on whether he was going to definitely bring it up. they said it s up to whether or not president biden wants to tell reporters that afterward because they want to keep some of this conversation private. they just took reporters in briefly at the top of that meeting. so it will really be up to president biden whether or not we find out if he actually brought that up with the saudi crown prince. of course, we know a reporter did bring it up when they were taken into the room just briefly. this is how mbs respon
this is the most significant second amendment ruling in more than a decade. in a 6-3 decision, the court struck down new york s law that places restrictions on concealed handguns . that law was enacted more than a century ago. the majority of the court ruling, the constitution protects a person s right to carry a gun outside the home. jessica schneider is live in washington with these breaking details. jessica, what more was in this decision? erica, the supreme court here significantly expanding gun rights and expanding the scope of the second amendment for the first time since 2008. so this is a 6-3 decision written by the senior most justice, clarence thomas. what it has done is it has struck down a new york gun law that you restricted who could carry concealed handguns outside the home. it s a law that stood for more than a century. but the court has now said that that law cannot stand and that crucially here the constitution guarantees the right to carry a gun outside t
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re