the last time i observed a russian exercise in moscow or outside of moscow, they have a tendency to always and their training events with a nuclear index. it is an end of exercise. it is something they practice and something that are very comfortable with. they have never used them for real other than interest. this is something and i think it is rightfully so in my view why the biden administration has have the concern since the beginning of the conflict. susan glasser, the president also said that he is trying to figure out what his offramp. where does he find himselfposit lose faith but no significant power within russia? that is the president s quote. he has backed himself into a corner so how does he get out of it? i think that is one of the words when i hear offramp and american officials talk about prudent. has shown over the last two decades that he is heedless largely of american efforts to guide him in any direction and off ramps are not appreciated. here we are
critical midterm contests for senator and government. plus, donald trump wants to stretch the midterm shape too. that makes many people nervous. the latest trump rally features a woman who praised the january 6th rioters including an alleged nazi sympathizer. and labor day climate extremes. today, 50 million americans are under heat advisories, 80 million under a flood watch. another brutal reminder of climate consequences. first, breaking news just in about the federal case against donald trump, the federal judge granting the former president s request for a third party to review the material the fbi took under search warrant from his mar-a-lago home. let s get straight to evan paris. what do we know? donald trump got a big, big break from this judge eileen can who says the department of justice has to stop using these documents that were retreezed from mar-a-lago last month. what she s saying is there s an intelligence community review that can continue but for the ju
string of legislative success for the biden white house. so will it push midterm voters to the polls? and are celebrity candidates including mehmet oz threatening mitch mcconnell s hopes to retake the senate. the january 6th committee confirming it is requesting a trove of alex jones text messages sent at trial. and what actress anne heche said on her podcast before crashing her car into a home, causing it to burst into flames. all right. i m just going to keep going here. democrats in array, a string of legislative success, much of it bipartisan has the white house hoping it is gaining momentum heading into the midterms. the inflation reduction act, it passed the senate and now heads to the house for a vote as early as friday. this represents the largest investment to combat the climate crisis in u.s. history, $369 billion. major health care provisions include allowing medicare to negotiate the prices of some drugs, something that will take a few years to kick in,
the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. this timeline we just keep getting more data points. it s like every day you learn that the conversations on getting these documents back goes back further than we thought. it was a problem it seems from the beginning. an email from the national archives indicates that records were not returned by trump despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were about a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in office an
so, take a look at his net favorability rating. that s his favorable minus unfavorable and look at it since essentially march. we see march 25th, which was essentially four months ago, it was minus six points. then it s minus seven points april 25th. may 25th, minus nine points. june 25th, minus 10 points. july 25th, minus 13 points. you don t have to be a mathematician to know that s a bad trend line. and it follows everything that we know that we ve seen in the past. when the president stays out of the news the former president stays out of the news, his numbers go up. when he gets in the news, the numbers go down. to me it s a clear trend line. what are you seeing among republicans in particular. if you look among republicans in particular, obviously the thing i think most republicans are concerned about at this point, specifically donald trump is most concerned about is whether or not he can win in 2024, right? can he win that republican nomination? and of course hi