the white house putting itself on the back toward legislative victory, the cdc confessed it dropped the ball when handling the covid pandemic. the agency s director admits the entire department when into overall as it faces criticism over the response to the monkeypox virus. the wilmington delaware, peter. william, inflation reduction act has been the law of the land for several days now but no inflation reduction get in the something? of the president are starting to call him out for. he spends trillions and trillions of dollars we don t have and he was warned not just by people like me who he s not going to listen to but economists who work for people like obama and bill clinton. if you do this, you re going to spark massive inflation and now here we are. maybe it shouldn t be a surprise because senator joe manchin who negotiated said inflation reduction is going to take a while. it s not because we never said anything happened, turn the switch on and off. bottom li
dixon, all signs point to primary wins. that could be a good sign for democrats who believe far right candidates actually help them in the general election. plus we ll be watching trump s strength being tested in michigan and washington where he s trying to sink three of the house republicans who voted to impeach him after the capitol riot. for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, voters will be heard on that issue and we ll get our first real clue as to whether abortion rights will be the rallying cry democrats hope it is. the focus is kansas, where voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would clear the way for the state legislature to ban abortion outright. so far early in-person voting is up more than 200% from four years ago, but polling shows the vote itself. michael steele is with me. he s former chair of the republican national committee. at the big board, national split political correspondent steve kornacki. good to see everyb
the former president is being questioned under oath this morning in new york s long-running civil investigation of his family s business finances. the state attorney general s office is trying to determine whether the trump organization improperly inflated the value of its assets in order to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits, but also there are new details about why fbi agents searched trump s florida home. the search happened because authorities believe the former president or his team didn t return all of the government records that were taken when they left the white house. documents with national security implications, let s begin with trump under oath today. cnn s kara scannell is live outside the ag s office right now. donald trump put out a statement saying he s not actually answering questions. what is this all about? yeah, kate. so this deposition began about an hour and a half ago. trump arrived at the office building just behind me around 9:00, and he just
florida. where judge bruce says that he is inclined to unseal some of the affidavit used by the fbi to secure a search warrant of the former president s home in mar-a-lago. the affidavit contains important information like the fbi s probable cause, and specific details that witnesses. a lawyer representing the justice department is able to, quote, a potential interference in the investigation. should be released to the public? an important point. but after an hour-long hearing on thursday, the judge said that he didn t feel the government left the burden of proving the whole affidavit should remain sealed. he instead decided to side with media companies, including nbc. nose to say it should be held the judge ordered the justice department to submit his proposed redactions to the affidavit, and illegal memmel justifying that by next thursday. it was a little perplexing. about all of this frankly. is that for the last several days, donald trump and his allies have been arguin
mar-a-lago. former president trump now hinting at fourth amendment violations will also threatening to release surveillance video of the search, which would have a white ranging impact. the life reporting, in just a moment. and does trump s argument hold any water legally? we are going to ask a former federal prosecutor about that and much more. plus, the balance of power in the senate. could democrats be poised to maintain control, or even gain seats, holding off the gop? search minority leader mitch mcconnell race a few eyebrows with his comments this week about candidate quality. we ll dive into a new report that has the senate as a toss-up. 80 days from election day. we are also keeping a close eye on the georgia election and investigation of rudy giuliani, and what we ve learned from his testimony this week, and where the probe goes from here. he is now considered a target of the investigation. and the next hour, we will dive deeper into right wing extremism and the thre