reportedly planned to capture top russian military leaders. back at home, developments in the special counsel probe into former president trump s effort to overturn his 2020 loss. a star witness in georgia s investigation is due to meet with federal prosecutors today. in new york city, the former marine accused in the chokehold death of a homeless subway rider faces a judge today. and are president biden s economic policies working? he s set to deliver what is being called a major speech to try to convince voters of just that. this morning, potentially deadly, catastrophic heat across the country, threatening some 69 million people who are having to deal with those conditions. they re under heat alerts. the national weather service says temperatures today are expected to reach up to 110 degrees in texas. over 112 in louisiana. and a reminder about how dangerous heat like this is. and a medical examiner in webb county, texas, reported nine heat-related deaths in just e
biden was not president s son, would he invite someone who reached a plea agreement federal prosecutor? that is the son, family member. into the question? appreciate the question, i believe my colleague at the white house counsel. he has answered this question already. just answer the question. yes or no? i answered. stephen ? stephen, i answered the question. it is not up to you how i answer the question. i just answer the question. you just asked me, does my statement change? i told you nothing has changed. white house briefing turns testing 1 green jean-pierre scandals around biden family. they will get another chance a short time from now to question the administration on bombshell, whistleblower claims. briefing underway, expected to happen at any moment. we will be monitoring that briefing for reaction to the first family s business dealings along with any news who happened to come from it. hello, i am sandra smith in new york. trace, good to have yo
preaching, discrimanatory. jonathan hunt has been tracking the developments. we have seen these debates at schools across the country. the question always similar. when is it too early to begin teaching children about sexual identity? is it the job of parents of teachers? should stories featuring gay characters be banned? prince and knight is no more about gay sex than cinderella and know white are about heterosexual sex. parents should have the right for those topics. reporter: on one side of the debate, parents who argued scho schools have gone too far encouraging young children to question their own sexuality. how can they accept a very young child can diagnose themselves without professional help as one trapped in their own body and start thinking with aggressive treatment and hormones that can change their lives forever when we don t allow them to do much less drinking. reporter: the debate over sexual education in schools has sparked violence outside those s
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
vlad and so many of the people that we have met here on this visit and of course that we ve talked to over the past 16 months, they all have that incredible, powerful reservoir of strength. thanks so much for joining us. it s time now for ac 360. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. we have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government s case against donald trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he s showing a highly classified document on u.s. war plans against iran, with people not clear to know it exists, let alone what s in it. you will hear what jurors will hear one day. the recording was made two summers ago in bedminster new jersey. you will clearly hear the former president, as he is speaking to several people. they include a writer working on mark meadows memoir, the publisher, and two of trump s staff members. the president was aware he was being recorded. it is the first time it is being played