plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov
yesterday and according to a source, he told the panel the secret service has not fully cooperated with his probe. the secret service denies deleting any texts maliciously. the subpoena is the first time the panel has publicly targeted an executive branch agency. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now. what more do we know about 0 how this subpoena came about, the response, and what are the other things the secret service is saying? reporter: right, fred, so this is a very fast-moving story. we only learned there may be a problem or confusion around these secret service text messages from january 5th and 6th just three days ago, july 13th. that is when the department of homeland security inspector general which is an independent watchdog conducting its own look into the secret service handling of january 6th, they flagged for capitol hill that there were erased or missing text messages from the secret service and they were this inspector general was quite concerned that they
as mbs sparking intense criticism due to the conclusion that bin salman personally ordered the 2018 murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. biden said he confronted the ruler about the killing and the crown prince denied any personal responsibility. the president told he sold bin salman, he, quote, thought he was involved. phil mattingly joins us live now from saudi arabia. president biden facing backlash from jamal khashoggi s fiancee and some democrats over his face-to-face with mbs. what s the white house saying? reporter: white house officials were very aware there would be fierce blow back to hold this meeting, make this trip. there was a calculation made that the short term blowback was a necessity for the long term effort in this region. there s been a lot of discussion about oil production. it was a topic of conversation here, no immediate numbers given by saudi officials, but some acknowledgement that oil production may be coming in the weeks or months ahead. today t
during the 2020 presidential campaign jackson was up sell at home watching joe biden deliver a speech. what he saw joe biden say about that him deeply as a physician. he just announced he was candidate for u.s. senate. watch. i m here to ask you for help. where i m come from you don t get far unless you ask. my name is joe biden, i m a democratic candidate from the united states senate. tucker: ronnie jackson s all that and then went on twitter and made the obvious point, joe biden before this goes any further should undergo a cognitive examination, the country deserves that. within 20 minutes, jackson recalls in his new memoir, barack obama sent him an email. i have to express my disappointment that the cheap shot you took a joe biden via twitter, obama said. it was unprofessional. i expect better. that wasn t just obama speaking, that was the uniform command of people who run the democratic party throughout the 2020 campaign. do not notice what joe biden is actually lik
shipping costs and trucking costs. as well as gas costs. i m not making anything, i get paid tomorrow and already my entire paycheck is spoken for. i don t know how we are going to continue to get groceries. you either you buy gas, that s the way goes right now. and it shouldn t be like that in america. no, it shouldn t, but this is the united states of america, joe biden s america. this is the united states of america. you can t do that? well, i guess not. many people out of work, long lines at food banks. but it was getting better. the unemployment rate was going down, the economy was rebounding. president joe biden handed a a country that was getting back on its feet, but then it changed. so knowing all of this, americans are truly in trouble. how is the white house responding to all of this? we have a long way to go due to inflation and i call it the tax increase. higher costs springs from inflation in shorter supply, short supply is there because of covid-1