we begin this hour with a slew of legal setbacks for former president trump including the new orders by the special master he requested. let s go right to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. the special master is call out the public claim that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. he is, wolf. now that special master wants trump s teams to back up those out of court claims that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago and he wants it in a sworn declaration by the end of this month. it s an accusation that trump and his allies have repeatedly made and now the special master wants proof plus the special master is saying he may end up calling witnesses at some point to explain what certain documents are if there s a dispute. all of this as the justice department notched a big win in the ongoing court fight over classified documents. the justice department is once again digging into 100 classified documents that fbi agents seized from mar-a-lago. i think they want to
and look, we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well, now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt, thankfully. but homes were damaged. shots came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden administration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to cooperate fully with the doj probe of
me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now, heightened emotions as the buffalo bills get back on the field. playing in their very first game since the terrifying collapse of safety damar hamlin. and what a way to get started. while also rallying around hamlin s recovery. taking the opening kickoff all the way in for a touchdown. the bills first opening kickoff score in 18 years. and tributes for hamlin continue to pour in. that s happening under way right now. and it happened before the game, the bills, their fans, loudly showing their support as hamlin continues to recuperate. throughout this week, the entire western new york community, nfl family, and people from around the world have been praying for damar hamlin. damar s amazing recovery has lifted our collective spirits and we are forever grateful for the love and support damar s family and friends and our organization have received. today, we celebrate damar s recovery, our love for damar, and our fwgratitude. please ris
lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now we ll see a whole new one today. we ll go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expect to see today is the ways and means committee will release a press release that will include the following documents. one of them, trump s personal federal tax returns for the years between 2015 and 2020 as well as the returns for eight of his business entities. here s where the real treasure trove of information could come from, additional work files that the irs might have as they were looking over former president donald trump s taxes. we should talk about the importance of this moment bec
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. who is counting? yeah. the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation s oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that s been put under contract since this past spring. the reserves are at a 30-year low. with my you a nounsment today we are going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility, and i ve told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. we re calling it a ready and