argued that is pretext to get their hands on the former president s financial documents but lower courts have said that the committee could obtain these documents until the supreme court intervened here and put a temporary pause on this. now, erica, if the supreme court affirms this lower court ruling, if this is allowed to stand, it is significant because if the house ways and means committee is allowed to obtain these tax returns from the former president, that really would represent a significant chipping away at some of the protections that are afforded to sitting presidents and signal a real boost to congress s over site powers. so we ll see what the supreme court does here. this is just temporary. paula, appreciate it. also with us elie honig and when we look at this, i think it might be helpful to just remind us all the reason that they said as paula layed out, they want to look into how the irs is going through the tax returns. if and when they actually do get the
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Well get to that story in just a little bit. But meteorologist drew tuma is in for lisa argen today. Drew thanks for waking up bright and early on saturday to join us. Mean look how beautiful it is out there already and were in store for a really nice start to the weekend. Well have a lot of sunshine early on. Heres a live look from our sutro tower camera showing you the Golden Gate Bridge just splashed in that sunshine. Were fog free there. Bit of dense fog in novato this morning 4040s and our coolest spots right now but a lot of 50s around the bay shoreline. Lets go hour by hour on future weather. Today is just a blend of sun and clouds throughout the day were dry into the afternoon. Temperatures is a little bit below average. We had that cooler air rush in here yesterday to break our warm spell and now that cooler air has really settled in so high of 67. In the city today, 68 in oakland, 74 in san jose. But that cloud cover tomorrow will give way to some showers. Well track our stor
Its free, but you have to pay shipping. Emily no doubt its a knockout book. Thanks to everyone for watching. Here is america reports. Shame on you shame on you from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. Sandra war rages on in The Middle East, and waiting two major briefings as we begin a brandnew hour here from the Biden Administration on how it is responding to the war between israel and hamas. John, great to see you and your continued coverage on the ground there in israel. John good to see you there as well, sandra. Im john roberts in jerusalem. This is america reports. The State Department Set to give an update on their he have reports to rescue the hundreds of americans trapped in gaza as well as the unknown amount being held hostage by Hamas Terrorists. That briefing will be followed by the pentagon which continues to deploy more Military Assets to the region to aid israel and deter the iranbacked Terror Group Hezbollah from opening a second front in the war. Sandra all o
He is not only focused on one thing. I dont know anybody thats done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster that is underway right now as we speak. I had the privilege of serving here when jeh johnson was secretary of homeland security. I have a very high opinion of jeh johnson. I think he is one of the finest Public Servants i ever met. He was asked on one occasion to define what was a crisis on the southern border. He said any time you have more than 1,000 illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. We have 10 or 11 times that every single day. In that tide of humanity thats coming across, there is a boatload of fentanyl coming to kill Tens Of Thousands of all of our constituents. There are Human Traffickers who are taking advantage of young men and young women and, frankly, predators in our own country, and they are bringing them across, not by the tens or 20s or dozens, but by the hundreds and the thousands. There are amongst that flow of people, people that wish us ill,