hours from now. after wholesale inflation, a painfully high 8.7%. we thought we saw everything in the game, and a new friend wants to join our party. i know it s an intense playoff game, but i can t help but laugh at this point. ainsley: a picture of vegas. beautiful they are. it s 69 degrees now, it s going to be 92. not a cloud in the sky. gorgeous weather. brian: this trip is where they call it, where kids go to gamble. steve: kids? ainsley: kids? brian: where young men and women go to gamble and celebrate bachelor parties, bachelorette parties. and you can see raider games now. steve: and supposedly they go to that little white chapel to get hitched in the middle the night. this is prime hitchin weather out in las vegas. ainsley: perfect day to get married. brian: do people still go to vegas the same way they use to? steel and i think so. brian: you can t see any people there. steve: well, it s 4:00 in the morning out there. what s very te
will: kids with bubbles, dogs with cowboy hats. thanks for selling your photos, the nation s anthem, august 20, 2022. we begin in the dark in new york city. great to see you both. rachel: you are back. will: we didn t see each other. as you wake rachel: i can t surf anymore. i had an accident where my ankle doesn t work but my kids and my husband always surf. will: surfing with the american flag. i m talking to your husband about how much your family loves white surfing. pete: i saw it in your instagram posts. looks like a lot of fun. rachel: if you have good balance you can do it. pete: you saw me try to barefoot ski at your cabin. rachel: this is easier. pete: did you stand up? will: standing up is like it doesn t go well. thank you for sending your photos. appreciate it and spending four hours with you. we covered last week through the weekend and this week what happened at mar-a-lago, the unprecedented raid of a former president s home and a new motion being
search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and one o
as a potential subject of this criminal probe. this is one of the documents right here. and there is specific language in here about willful retention of documents. in other words, they say, he knew he had them and knew what they were. this is all part of the argument over whether it will release the affidavit justifying the search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because they say evidence may be destroyed. but the judge did set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit, a process that could get into gear next week. and ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from several former trump officials who are scoffing at the former president and his allies arguments that he had a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 officials and all of them told us they never heard any such thing. we ll have more on that in a moment. first, let s bring in katelyn polantz with more on
where he stood a year ago. if we break out independents for a closer look, 27% of them say the president is doing a good job. that is a 15-point drop in just over a year. analysts say a lot of that decline is likely fueled by voters that are fed up with record high inflation. we have brian brenberg, a hot take for us on the new numbers. first, we go to karl rove, former deputy chief of staff to george w. bush and a fox news contributor. good afternoon, karl. we re now by my count i m not very good at math four months from the mid-terms. republicans hold a three-point edge over democrats what odds do you give that holding? pretty much things get baked into the cake in june and july. that s where they are when you come around to voting in october and november of a mid-term. so it s baked in. what is amazing is how badly the president is doing on major issues. these are his disapproval numbers on major issues. biggest issue obviously inflation and the economy. 73% disappro