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
meeting in june, and this subpoena essentially prompted this meeting where we know that the trump lawyers gave a little tour to some of the prosecutors and investigators doing this investigation, showed them where these documents were being held, and at the end of that meeting they left with classified documents, documents that were national security information. that s the reason why that meeting occurred. what it tells us is that these conversations, these discussions that were on going between trump lawyers and the justice department turned contentious much earlier, much, much earlier than the search that occurred on monday. we re also learning that part of all of this involves a witness, at least one witness. do we know, was that witness saying there s still documents you missed on june 8th? this witness told them there were definitely documents being held at mar-a-lago that the fbi needed to get, obviously wanted to get. this was information that included classified
the economy that will be a welcome relief to americans everywhere. but will it last? hello and welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with major new developments in our politics lead. just a short time ago, attorney general merrick garland said the justice department filed a request to unseal the search warrant for the former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home. the doj s first public comments since that unprecedented search on monday. he also said he personally approved the decision to seek the search warrant, and that the department does not take this kind of move lightly. he also defended his colleagues against what he called unfounded attacks. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and the justice department are dedicated, patriotic, public servants. his appearance today comes amid a flood of other new details. sources tell cnn that federal investigators previously served a g
the squad demonstrating bravery. we haven t seen since john lewis was beaten and gassed in selma. this was also reminiscent of joe biden who was arrested on his way to meeting with nelson mandela. this day, 30 years ago, nelson mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. i had the great honor of meeting him. i had the great honor of being arrested with our u.n. ambassador on the streets trying to get to see him on robin s island. jesse: actually, joe biden made that up. but, that s besides the point. history will remember this day as america s own tiananmen square moment when a single protester stared down the barrel of a militaristic regime. but in some ways, aoc s fight for justice was even more unique because the officers arresting her also wanted to date her. we know this because there were no handcuffs. nobody got roughed up. in fact, the cops were total gentlemen. they will handed out bottled water and overripe bananas. apartment oc br