your mind, he also said wherever you re sending it. doj believes he still has documents you shouldn t somewhere. back up against the wall, losing and facing dissent from high ranking insider. and biden with a threat to the world assessment. those rallying to herschel walker s defense must have known it could get worse and it did. jason johnson in for joy reid. reporting says even after 18 months, multiple requests from national archives, federal subpoena and fbi search of florida estate, government believes the president still hasn t returned all the documents he took from the white house. top intelligence official jay bratt communicated the complaints to the lawyers. unsure if there s evidence or just a suspicion because of the 58 empty envelopes with classified markings they found at mar-a-lago. one bunch he did return before leaving washington, related to 2016 probe into russia s links to the trump campaign. it was in such disarray, when trump gave it back, doj couldn
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
mitchell reports, house republican leader kevin mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. also this hour, i will speak to dr. zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid-19 in the u.s. and we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to pope emeritus benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursday s funeral mass. good day, i m andrea in mitchell. happy new year, everyone. well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, kevin mccarthy has to win over the hard line house conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. tomorrow the new congress returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. but at this hour no one knows how long it s going to take for republicans to secure the majority vote
plan to hire police to deal with crime against republican calls to de-fund the fbi. on labor day, the president will march in pittsburgh s labor day parade. afterwards, a stop in wisconsin. russia received a delivery of drones from issue ran to help fight ukraine. putin s forces launching a new round of shelling today in kharkiv. ukraine continues its counteroffensive in kherson. u.n. inspected will get access to the nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia, the source of fears of a catastrophic potential radiation accident because of artillery fire in the area. serena triumphs in straight sets during a spectacular first round match at the u.s. open, sparking hopes of a magical run before her planned exit from the professional tour after this final grand slam. we begin this hour with president biden. joining me now are peter alexander, mark murray, former congressman david jolly, donna edwards. peter, take us through what we can expect from president biden in his remarks tod
oh, nancy, nancy, nancy. bring her out here. we re coming in if you don t bring her out. [ bleep ] you. you back up. hundreds of trump supporters radicalized by trump s lies in some of those cases specifically about what mike pence as vice president could and could not do. now, we also know that his grievances and lies sit at the fulcrum of a grave and growing current domestic violent extremism threat in the united states that law enforcement contends with every single hour of every day. and lo and behold, donald trump, once again, over the weekend, lit a match to the tinderbox that is american politics with the midterm elections just weeks away now. the response, notably, from republican leaders, was particularly limp and pathetic. a statement by donald trump posted on his ailing platform went after senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, and his wife, elaine chao, in particularly personal times. chao resigned in the wake of the january 6th insurrection. we ll read th