he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
win the battle and lose the war. you know? there is a if you discredit or politicize the justice department in the eyes of 60 million americans, you haven t gained that much even if you ve got these classified documents. so that is the balance that i think and i m sure they re thinking about, which is very difficult. because with anybody else you would just say, look. you broke the law or you seem to have broken the law. we have to get these documents back. what strikes me when you say that is the idea of obviously it is a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don t philosophy in having to think about these things but the idea of the battle versus the war one could say something quite similar, fareed, the idea of, you know, vilifying law enforcement and vilifying the agencies whose job it is to help support the enforcement of the law in the long run by doing that if you are a supporter of trump, if you are trump himself, those who are members of congress who believe tha
(burke) that s not wrong. when you bundle your home and auto policies with farmers, you save yourself up to twenty percent. (customer) that s something. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers. kinda creepy. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum our top story tonight, the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. investigators removing 11 sets of classified documents at trump s home, including one marked top secret slrks sci , one of the nation s highest levels of classification. the warrant identifies three federal crimes the doj is looking into as part of the investigation including possible violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. i want to bring in fareed zakaria host of cnn s fareed zakaria gps. fareed, it s nice to see you right now. i would love it if you can try to help us put this into perspective here. you ve got an fbi warrant with all these different sets of secret documents incl
the employee who hasn t taken off his name tag since that awful day. tonight, children and covid in this country, and the cdc panel now recommending tonight pfizer booster shots for children 5 to 11. pfizer now says it increases antibodies against the original omicron variant 22-fold. just as new child covid infections hit their highest point since february. the abortion battle in this country, and tonight, the oklahoma legislature passing the most restrictive abortion ban in america. banning abortion beginning at conception, with few exceptions ad sending it to the governor tonight. president biden meeting with leaders of finland and sweden at the white house today, supporting their bid to join nato, defying threats from vladimir putin. the abc news exclusive tonight. martha raddatz on board the uss maine. one obvious 14 ballistic missile submarines protecting the u.s. from potential nuclear threats. and what they kept secret there martha even while she was onboard
gene louis and daniel louis. thanks for talking with us. gene, i m going to start with you if i can. what do you know is the latest about your dad, his condition and how he s being held? good morning, soledad. i thank you for having us on this morning. and soledad, we re going to tell you what we ve been telling all of the news media outlet s that has been interviewing us and we thank them also. the information that we re getting is trickling down and is information that people are getting from the internet. we do have people that are working on our behalves via the u.s. state department and office of senator scott brown, but again, information is we re getting as quick as you guys are getting it as other people are getting it. so actually the family has four people in it. we re just got some news so that s the reason why there s two of us that are not here. and the problem with hearing things from everywhere else, you re getting news that is not really true and you hav