thanks very much for joining us this morning. very busy morning. i m jim acosta, our next our newsroom with wolf blitzer starts right now, have a great weekend i m wolf blitzer in washington, were following breaking news here are the cnn newsroom, the us supreme court is up holding a federal law that bans domestic abusers from owning a firearm. the major second amendment ruling was nearly unanimous 8-to-1 decision only justice clarence thomas dissented in the majority opinion. the chief justice, john roberts said, the court had no trouble upholding the law. arguing and once again, according our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others. close glug our chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid is here with me in the z then newsroom. paula walk us through. this is a major decision by the supreme court. it is. it s one of the key decisions that we re watching in for this term
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time, very publicly he s also laying the groundwork in case he doesn t do so well in the debate stage by making completely wild claims that a good biden performance will be drug enhanced he s going to be so pumped up. he s going to be pumped up you know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the white house what happened? who who left is somebody? but he left it. they i wonder let s see, somebody left the laptop in an office of a gentleman was supposed to fix the laptop from hell. he never picked it up and somebody didn t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. i wonder who that could have been so just as a point of fact, the bag found in the white house viscera stores can be last summer contain less than a gram of cocaine according to a staunchly conservative republican congressmen who was briefed by the secret service on it, a hundreds of thousands of dollars for cocaine would weigh dozens of panel also, taking up the idea that prison b
tonight on 316 new reporting on how the former president has been preparing for next week cnn debate. now just eight days away. and word of a new name, it could be considering as a running mate also tight, let vladimir putin and kim jong un have agreed to a new military partnership. how concerned should the west b and ukraine plus louisiana becomes the only state in america? mandate displaying the ten commandments and every public classroom what happens now? good evening. thanks for joining us with just eight days to go until the former president faces off against the current one in cnn s first the campaign presidential debate. there are new details about how donald trump is preparing. they suggest is new york times maggie haberman will explain in a moment the hi and closed doors. the former president is taking it seriously at the same time, very publicly. he s also laying the groundwork in case he doesn t do so well in the debate stage by making completely wild claims that a
about 600 billion all the way on the left side of that chart that is nothing to sneeze at. but that looks downright tiny compared to right now, we d killed for a number like that, you d have the deficit hawks dancing in the streets. so what happened? well, covid right. the deficits spike to run $3 trillion a year during covid, we had bailouts and stimulus checks and small business loans. all of that was deemed necessary, but it was offensive. what s concerning here though, is of course covid is over deficits are still very high. they re actually going even higher and it s unusual because normally that s something you see when the economy is in trouble, when unemployment is high, right now, we have low unemployment and high deficits. it s very hard or to make sense of this, listen, this is a bipartisan problem, right? both parties are to blame here. i think the good news is everyone agrees this is not sustainable. the bad news is it s going to take some bipartisan co