languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
i love that. i was starting to join you. but you want me to cut it off now? my viewers are like, no. thank you good to see you, have a good one! a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin to another new legal filing of the fbi search to mar-a-lago, this is in addition to the head spinning legal documents in the last few hours. the newest one is from donald trump himself. it s a supplemental failing to support trump s request for a special master to review items seized by the fbi. in its, trump s lawyers are also asking for more detailed receipts from items seized in the fbi search, arguing that the redacted affidavit provides almost no information that would allow trump to understand why the search took place. or what was taken from his home. they also argued that the presidential records act is not a criminally enforceable statute. and new reaction from both sides of the aisle to the relea
city. how the immigration battle between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams is heating up. a boom caused by a meteor. details on that and more just ahead. welcome to a new week. we re grateful you re starting it with us this sunday, august 14th. good morning, amara. good morning. feels like the week went by really fast and we re already at a new one. a ton of news, right? a lot of news. you to took the words out of my mouth. the recovery of top secret classified documents by the fbi, sources telling cnn that one of trump s lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classified information being kept at mar-a-lago. but the fbi searched the former president s palm beach home and seized 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top secret. meantime, on capitol hill, both sides of the aisle are calling on investigators to release more information on exactly what led to the search. adam schiff, the democratic chair of the h
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. this just in to cnn, sources confirm a lawyer for former president trump signed a letter in june asserting there was no more classified information stored at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. but when the fbi executed a search warrant on monday, agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents with at least one marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classifications. the newly unsealed court documents outline three potential crimes that are being investigated. so far, the doj has not filed any charges. plus new today, the department of homeland security and the fbi say they are investigating violent threats made against federal law enforcement, courts, government personnel, and facilities in the wake of the fbi search warrant. the fbi says the number of threats against the bureau are, i m quoting now, unprecedented. cnn s katelyn polantz is here with more details on the s
Abortion issue, for example, in the state of florida, democrats feel like they can really capitalize on this issue. Republican since are trying to find an issue that they feel like they can capitalize on once again, immigration and Border Security is something that they feel like is a winning issue for them. Of course, thats made more complicated by the fact that republicans and killed the bipartisan Border Security agreement that was reached between a group of senators and the white house earlier this year. So i think this is really an attempt by republicans to shift the narrative back to an issue immigration and Border Security that they think is beneficial to them. At the same time that democrats are set to benefit from the Abortion Issue good luck. And as this takes on, you control, you control and shift the narrative. You control the message. Better chance you have of winning up, up and down the ticket jackie scratches you, andrew. Thank you so much for coming on. New our scene, a