cheney will give up her seat in january. she says her work is far from finished. we ll have much more from yesterday s primary elections just ahead. plus, we re learning more about who the fbi interviewed and what agents saw before they seized classified documents from the former president s home. meanwhile, in washington, president joe biden celebrates a major legislative win ahead of the midterms. something that seemed very unlikely just a couple of months ago. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big win for former president trump and a huge loss for republicans against his lies about election fraud. gop congresswoman liz cheney, the vice chair of the january 6th select committee and a one-time leader of the house gop, was just ousted by a landslide in wyoming s primary. trump s name wasn t on the ballot, but he loomed large after he ma
michigan about it, all in a few minutes. but i want to start here in alabama, and the most restrictive and punitive abortion bans in the united country. anyone, whether or not they are a medical professional might be sentenced to prison for up to 99 years if they are found to have caused an abortion in this state. people here are also prohibited from helping someone access abortion care, or even giving out information about it. well, doing those things could be considered conspiracy under the states law, which is been in effect since june 24th. that is the day the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. later on in our show, we will explore this further in another installment of the last across america, featuring my conversation with former abortion care providers, clinics have, advocates and a lawmaker who are navigating through the new realities of living in post row alabama. but here is the thing. alabama is not an outlier. it is punitive measures, they are a feature, not a
this sunday, the sun is in our 11th of vote-a-rama as democrats push to pass legislation that will just climate and taxes. if, pass the inflation reduction act would be the largest common act in u.s. history. it also lower the cost of prescription drugs for millions of americans. this potential win for democrats, and addition to the politics of abortion, could result in a boost for them at the polls in the november midterm elections. meanwhile, trump backed candidate swept the arizona primaries, which means election deniers are now at the top of the ballot in at least four of the six battleground states that determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election. all eyes are now turned to tuesdays wisconsin primaries, as you can government ella barnes is set to be the first black major party nominee from the badger state. and you will be taking on republican senator ron johnson joining me now, charlie sites, msnbc contributor and editor at law at the bulwark, plus proud
decision making created an hour of chaos before the shooter was confronted and killed. the 77-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement s action or inaction. it laid out in painful detail the amount of failures that day, including that no one assumed special command despite the crowd of officers you see at the scene. a uvalde officer heard about the 911 calls but said it was his understanding officers on one side of the building knew there were people still trapped inside. no one tried to breach the classroom. it also further revealed the actions of uvalde school district police chief on that day. according to the report when he got to the scene, he tried to find a master key for the classroom, but no one checked to see whether the doors were even locked. the report concluded that his, quote, search for a key consumed his attention and wasted precious time delaying the breach of the classrooms. it also said he attempted to negotiate with th
congressman and former republican governor charlie crist. and in the race to oppose senator marco rubio in the fall, cnn projects the democratic nominee is congresswoman val demings. first, the documents. we know a lot more tonight about the classified material the former president was keeping at mar-a-lago, including how much of it there was, more than 700 pages, how the former president tried to hang on to it for months, and how very sensitive some of the information in it was, more sensitive than previously reported, bearing a designation limiting access to only a select few officials. the reason we know this information is because of a move by one of the former president s allies and a liaison to the national archive. a move that the ally billed as bolstering the former president s case against the fbi search. but he may have done the precise opposite and then some. we have new evidence. justice news has obtained correspondence between various properties during the le