and lots of questions to answer. so, let s get started. a big week in politics as we raced towards the midterm elections with early voting already underway, and many high stakes races across the country. the national don t say gay bill, a federal abortion ban and cats was for the future for the super wealthy. with the gop agenda could look like if the gop takes back control of congress. plus, debbie waterman schultz joins us to talk about the january six subpoena of former president donald. trump how they plan to hold on accountable as he continues to hint at a another white house run. likely been seeing a lot of political ads talking about rising crime across the country. is it really as big of an eight issuers candidates claim? the notion of an unsafe america s dominating campaigns in the home stretch. all that and more is coming right up. right up and a good sunday morning to you all. i am sam stein, men in for katie faye. just 16 days away from election day. a stretch of
and as you could imagine, a mix of emotions here in this community today. with robb elementary being torn down, the students who went there are now splitting up against several area schools. that will look far different than they did just a few months ago. everyone here tells me that they re on their own timeline when it comes to grief. but they are hopeful that this first day back to class will bring about some real healing. for many in uvalde, summer break was a blur. now this tight knit town is asking how to go back to school. priority number one, helping their 10-year-old daughter who was at the school that day. i want to shelter her but i don t want her to live in fear. so they enrolled her in a private school in uvalde, which they say made immediate safety upgrades for everyone s peace of mind. when you walk into your new school, do you feel safer? yeah. reporter: uvalde public schools promising extra law enforcement will be on hand. along with counselors and
insight into former president trump s strategy in this ongoing back and forth over the documents kept at mar-a-lago. and the legal advice and from whom he s getting from conservative activist tom fitton. one person close to the former president said once trump took fitton s advice, quote, it was all downhill from there. this was sources tell cnn trump and his allies have become increasingly concerned about the potential legal implications from all this. plus, president biden fresh off what democrats believe are a winning streak, kicking off the midterm campaign season with a fiery speech in maryland. the president rebuked some trump-supporting republicans calling the extreme maga philosophy as it is known semifascism. his terms. so a lot to get to this morning. our reporters, correspondents are here covering all of the top stories this morning. let s begin on what we will get from doj sometime in the next three hours with our senior justice correspondent evan perez. talk ab
message ahead of the midterms. meanwhile hours away from the release of the affidavit that led to the fbi search of mar-a-lago and the redacted document that tells us anything that we don t already know. the latest in an escalating situation in ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant goes offline after intensive fighting sparked fires in the russian-controlled silo. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 26th. i m in again for jonathan lemire, president biden stepped back on to the campaign trail yesterday, with a fundraiser and a rally in the dc suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events. told donors, quote, what we re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump, the entire philosophy, it is like semi-fascism. the rnc came back with this statement, despicable, biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyer
mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career salvaged. now despite desperate to chase his lost relevance, pence is parachuting into races hoping someone is paying attention. it is a remarkable public split and spat between a president, former president and former vice president, who served together for four years. we should note that. our correspondents and analysts standing by to break down all the headlines. let s begin with kristen holmes in atlanta. kristen, it is a lot of races in georgia that are key, the outcome is key and you might call them bellwethers to some degree. break it all down for us. reporter: good morning, jim and erica. that s right. the big one we re watching is the one you just mentioned, this is the gubernatorial republican primary, which has become a proxy war. on one side, the maga trump election denying faction of the republican party and on the other you have that republican establishm