weaponizing that infamous laptop. plus a chilling new revelation about the torture suspect taken down by oregon police. his bloody trail may now include two murders. and america s big move to try to counter china, the new u.s. military foot hold just announced right near taiwan. welcome to our viewers in also united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with an aggressive new legal strategy from hunter biden, he is calling for criminal investigations of rudy giuliani, a computer repair shop owner and several right wing political figures. hunter biden alleges laws were broken when they attempted to weaponize his personal information against his father. more now from evan perez. r reporter: hunter biden is accusing critics of distributing his personal data reported to come from a laptop left at a repair shop. attorneys for the president s son sent letters to the delaware attorney general, justice department and irs seeking investigations of a numbe
alleges tried to hire an assassin to kill former u.s. national security adviser john bo bolton. the deal with the growing threat that iran poses and not try to appease them. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 11, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in palm beach, florida where we re learning about what prompted the fbi to search donald trump s mar-a-lago residence. the wall street journal reporting investigators were given an insider typical lettering them to more classified documents inside former president trump s florida home. evan perez reports now from washington. reporter: someone came forward in recent weeks to tell the fbi that there were likely more classified documents being stored at former president trump s palm beach club according to the wall street journal. the journal says that is what prompted the search this week at mar-a-lago. cnn has not confirmed the journal s report, but we ve previously reporte
representatives all the time that they thought was appropriate to comply with their legal obligations to return official documents, including potentially classified records. i think it is really important to highlight the fact that one of trump s own lawyers conceded to the washington post yesterday that the warrant, which the lawyer saw, indicated the warrant was seeking information relating to classified information. the president is in significant legal jeopardy if he retained classified information at mar-a-lago and especially if he failed to turn it over to the department and the fbi all these months later. david, since we have you, let s get this out there right now, because people have been asking questions comparing this to the situation, the investigation surrounding hillary clinton s emails. how is this different? we don t have enough factual information yet to compare all the many ways this may be different, john. the clinton investigation stands on its own.
economy into a recession which is what we don t want. the gang is here. good morning. dana: good to be here i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. all that economic news coming this week with the administration, they re swirling as well as the news. they re swirling and spinning. the central back is expected to announce a rate hike again today. it would be the fourth one in five months that will pour cold water on an economy already slowing down. bill: the feds trying to pull us back from the brink of record inflation as the white house tries to redefine the r word. president s economic advisors are saying there won t be a recession. are you sure? let me just say this. we look at a range of data. we assess that data and we lay it out for ourselves and for the president. dana: team fox coverage. connell mcshane is with analysis but let s begin with jacqui heinrich from the north lawn. good morning. as you mentioned the fed is expected to raise rates toda
and the pope offers an apology. the pontiff in canada with a message of contrition to indigenous people who suffered abuse. his historic words just ahead. we start with some breaking news, though. one of the biggest investigations into former president trump s 2020 election fraud scheme. district attorney fani willis in fulton county, georgia, is leading an investigation into trump s efforts to reverse that state s 2020 result. a judge has just ruled that willis cannot question one of the so-called fake electors who took part in the scheme. the reason? willis recently hosted a fundraiser for that republican s political opponent. let s get to kara. walk us through the ruling here. that s right. the judge disqualifying fani willis from investigating this one fake elector, georgia state senator burt jones. he was one of the fake electors. he is also running for lieutenant governor. the judge saying that fanni created an untenable conflict by hosting a fundraiser for the riva