smith. we will get to the escalating foreign threat. first to the tense battle playing out here at home with control of congress at stake. john: president biden on his way to upstate new york at this hour to push manufacturing jobs. with 12 days to go before the midterms, it s all about the economy. here is the president before takeoff. great economic report today, the gdp report. things are looking good. sandra: clearly not all americans agree with that statement, with inflation leading voters top concerns, now democrats are sending out their top guns in hopes for a midterm miracle. president biden s former boss, barack obama, kicking off his campaign travels, stumping for democrats in key battleground states. he starts his midterm swing in georgia tomorrow before heading to pennsylvania to campaign for candidate john fetterman. john: and that s not all. the vice president making an appearance in pennsylvania on friday. kellyanne conway is standing by to react to th
torn off buildings. the treacherous situation has led to rescues all across florida. the fire chief of fort myers says his department conducted 200 rescues overnight over the course of just a few hours. this video shows a group of good samaritans who call themselves the call your county cowboys, they pulled a man stranded in his car to safety. in orlando, a reporter who happened to be on the scene rescued a woman trapped in flood waters. the situation has led biden administration to pledge a fulsome response. president biden has officially declared ian to be a major disaster, a move that makes federal funding available immediately to several hard hit counties. president biden warned of tough times ahead for floridians. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. the numbers are still unclear, but we re hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life. we re going to learn a lot more in the coming hours, but we know many families are hurting, man
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
two. i m john roberts in washington. hi again, sandra. sandra: great to be with you. despite the troubling poll numbers for his party, president biden just moments ago insisting democrats will come out on top. running against the tide and beating the tide. we created with your help 10 million new jobs so far. unemployment was 6.4%. we got it down to 3.5%, 50-year low. sandra: talking to mike. the polls tell a different story. more americans trust republicans when it comes to the handling of the economy. 38-24 over democrats. john: the left seems to be running away from the issues so important to american families. i hear people talk about inflation as i heard in there. we have to change the subject. inflation is a global phenomenon. republican criticism for high inflation does not add up. it has been transformed into something that republicans in particular running for congress are blaming joe biden and democrats for specifically when there is no economic evidence
wait a minute. someone in the white house was calling one of the rioters? absolutely. and you know both ends of that call? one end. i don t know the white house end, which i believe is more important. so that call that denver writes about reportedly lasted just nine seconds. made at 4:24 p.m. after trump made a video message telling supporters to go home, you re very special. on meet the press yesterday, congressman raskin confirms that the committee knows about this call. watch. i can t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. and we are aware of lots of context between people in the white house and different people involved obviously in the coup attempt and the insurrection. in a statement, the committee adds that quote, in his roll on the select committee, mr. riggleman had limited knowledge. the committee has run down all the leads and digested and analyzed all the information that arose from his work. we will be presenting