country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i m going to take action that i have been looking forward to doing for 18 months. going to sign this inflation reduction act. okay. here we go. it s now law. [ applause ] all right, we have been watching president biden at the white house signing what democrats are calling the inflation reduction act into law. that is sweeping investment in green energies, tax reform, and other measures related to health care. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the $750 billion health care, tax, and c
something went wrong in the intervening period which led to the search that happened at the former president s home in palm beach last week. evan, big picture this for us. why are these interviews with trump s former top two lawyers at the white house, why are they significant? first of all, these were two of several representatives of the former president named as people to be in touch with the national archives should anything like this happen. so they would be in the position to be the first to get contacted. the other part of this, jake, that i think is important for people to know is these two men would know the answer to the big question that i think a lot of us are asking, which is is it true that the former president had some kind of standing order to declassify documents? was it true that by simply sending documents from the west wing to the residence, did that deem them declassified? those are questions that these two men, as top counsels to the former president
what do we know about the fbi interviewing these top former trump white house lawyers? well, jake, we know that earlier this year, as this investigation was getting under way, the fbi cipollone, who was the white house counsel, and patrick philbin, who was his deputy. now, again, there was a group of former white house aides who came in and talked to the fbi as the fbi was trying to get its head around get their hands around what exactly happened with these boxes of federal records that made their way from the white house to the former president s home in palm beach. the question obviously for all of these aides is exactly what happened, how did these documents end up in mar-a-lago? we know in the intervening several months, the former president s legal team has been talking to the fbi, to the justice department, trying to figure out, again, these people trying to get back these documents, and clearly,