act, sweden and finland s asession to nato, gun control and reconciliation were all passed over the last two months, many with big bipartisan majorities. if it gets to his desks, the president will have pushed through a $3.7 trillion agenda. how is this all going to play in the mid terms? that is the big question. there are a lot of variables, including record inflation and abortion and that stubborn political precedent that the party in the white house almost always loses in the mid terms. joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news, susan page, washington bureau chief and peter baker, author of the divider. jake, i want to start with you because you re on capitol hill. there was a vote-a-rama over the weekend. it s in the house now. what are the big headlines? the big headlines is that they got it through after 18 months of tortured negotiations over this package and the will he or won t he of joe manchin a
millions of american women, no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion that has been their right for decades now and nearly half of all states women will soon find themselves without any access to an abortion, a 6-3 decision handed down in dobbs versus jackson women s health upholds mississippi s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in a 5-4 majority went further completely striking down roe versus wade, written by justice samuel alito, it is similar to the draft opinion that leaked back in may. it reads in part, roe was egregiously wrong from the start and the decision was exceptionally weak. and the decision has had damaging consequences. with this decision, 13 states have already effectively ended abortion access. missouri s governor issued an order ending all elective abortions one hour after the supreme court decision was released. another 13 states will impose draconian restrictions on abortion. a decision that s consequential is of course, nothing
this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow s fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. we re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. so mike expense a possibility still? you know, certainly a possibility. we re not excluding anyone at this point. central to the investigation certainly. new cnn reporting. homeland security and national security officials fear that russia could significantly exploit u.s. political divisions during the upcoming midterm elections. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, let s br
politicians, some carrying zip ties and carrying gear. to come, a panel with who, what and why the insurrection. we ll present the evidence, the timeline, the money and the people behind the attempt to subvert democracy and keep the elections loser, donald trump in office. we ll have interviews with trump white house aides, campaign officials and members of the trump family. we ll hear from two people who interacted directly with the proud boys on and around the attack, one of them is british filmmaker nick queston, considered a firsthand fact witness because of amount of time he spent with the extremist group right before the capitol was breached. i am not allowed to say what s going to happen today because everyone is just going to have to watch for themselves. but it s going to happen. something s going to happen. one way or the other. the question at hand now is not just what these hearings will deliver but what will the hearings do to stop it from happening again? as