than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club. so all of these new developments signal that there may have been additional material there, even after the former president turned over 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. we also have new reporting from cnn this morning that some justice and fbi officials internally have argued that staying silent on this search is harmful to the department, and the public s interest, in part because trump and his allies filled the void with their rhetoric, largely not fact-based on this. let s go to evan perez, he s been following the story. let s begin with the first thread from the wall street journal, which mentions this inside tip that led the feds to do this search. what more can you tell us? reporter: well, that s right, poppy. i m told similarly that the fbi had a witness who told them that there may have been additional classified docume
city. how the immigration battle between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams is heating up. a boom caused by a meteor. details on that and more just ahead. welcome to a new week. we re grateful you re starting it with us this sunday, august 14th. good morning, amara. good morning. feels like the week went by really fast and we re already at a new one. a ton of news, right? a lot of news. you to took the words out of my mouth. the recovery of top secret classified documents by the fbi, sources telling cnn that one of trump s lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classified information being kept at mar-a-lago. but the fbi searched the former president s palm beach home and seized 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top secret. meantime, on capitol hill, both sides of the aisle are calling on investigators to release more information on exactly what led to the search. adam schiff, the democratic chair of the h
Michael levi is the david m. Rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the council on Foreign Relations. He was previously nonresident science and Technology Fellow at the foreignpolicy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. He is the author of the power surge, Energy Opportunity in the battle for americas future. On Nuclear Terrorism and the future of arms control. He received a bachelor of science with honors from Queens University in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph. D. Is from the university of london. Treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. Im going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. Michael, elizabeth its nice to have both of this evening. I would like to start by setting the stage for us. Why did you r
Its after words, about the limits of partnerships and the u. S. Russian relationships. Then at 10 00 p. M. , nsa spying and edward snowden. We wrap up the programming at 11 20 p. M. With will swift on the marriage of pat and richard nixon, that all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Talking about chinas efforts to secure Natural Resources and Investment Opportunities around the world. And the impact it will have on everybody else. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good evening. Welcome to the World Affairs council, washington, dcs program with the authors, of a fascinating new book by all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. On behalf of the board of directors and the council its my pleasure welcome you here this evening. With us are elizabeth c economy and michael levi. She is currently the vice chair of the economic and sits on the board of the u. S. Center for sustainable development. She wrote, the river runs black, the environmental challenge to chi