night mare. almost feels like it s impossible to buy a home. o donnell: hurricane fiona continues to wreak havoc now heading towards bermuda. and there s concern tonight about another storm that could hit the gulf of mexico next week. and eye on america, cbs s general cbs s jonathan viglios on a natural resource helping an idaho mining town come back to life. duncan: good evening and thank you so much for joining us on this busy thursday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, the federal investigation into the top secret documents seized from donald trump s florida home has resumed. the eleventh circuit court of appeals ruled in favor of the justice department and criticized the former president s argument the documents had been declassified. but in his first interview since the f.b.i. search, the former president doubled down on that claim saying just by thinking about it, he could declassify documents. tonight the wife of sct justice clarence thomas ginny
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. who is counting? yeah. the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation s oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that s been put under contract since this past spring. the reserves are at a 30-year low. with my you a nounsment today we are going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility, and i ve told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. we re calling it a ready and
the verge of another revolution in iran? the images of mostly young people rising up against the regime have captivated all of us. i will talk to an iranian writer who explains what the protestors want. and at a time when economies are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? everything has a price. energy security has a price. we will explain. but first, here s my take. one of the few issues on which there is a consensus in washington these days is that american policy toward china was built on an intellectual tariff. liberals and conservatives both believe that beijing s embrace of free markets and integration with the global market would fundamentally change china. but they didn t, so the consensus goes, we should recognize this was a naive belief in the power of markets and trade. in fact, viewing china on the eve of the 20th party congress, i m struck by how
chair. we were in that much danger, and we didn t know it. what were you be willing to give me today to move past the police investigation? it was january, 2009. brenda konstantin and her husband brian rodgers, and their three teenagers, two boys, and a girl spent the new year s holiday the way they always had. a trip out of town and then back to their home. amid class suburb in the capital city, ottawa. it s a very family oriented community, lots of young families. lots of kids. but as you say? in a town which is very safe, but it didn t seem particularly safe. there s never a lot of crime. in january, when brian and brenda got into their home on friday evening. the family house in orleans seemed exactly as they left it. but bryan did notice something odd. the digital clock in the room, on the left side of the bread, was blinking. i thought it was unusual but did not think much of it. and then you went ahead and just continued? carried on our lives.