he embraced the called and said it was perfect. that is where we landed of unprecedented revelations since the fbi agents executed a lawful search warrant at mar-a-lago and came away with 11 celsets of documents the former president was not allowed to have. rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national a rrchives and west wi. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to rec
attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national archives and west wing. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to receive them. as we said, this perfect phone call excuse has come after an evolution of excuses made by the former president s supporters for having the files stashed at a country club. here s his youngest song the evening after the search. my father
at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism tha
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r
watching nasa s historic artemis i mission preparing for a second launch attempt to the moon. these are live pictures coming straight from kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida, where crews are working on a liquid hydrogen leak that delayed fueling the massive rocket. the two-hour launch window still expected to open up this afternoon at 2:17 p.m. currently weather conditions are 60% favorable. the mission will mark the united states return to the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years. and aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon without within the next few years. and it will eventually send the first astronaut to mars. and while nasa said there s no guarantee that the launch will happen today, engineers appear optimistic that this rocket is ready to fly. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. hi there, kristin. any good news to update us with? rep