i mries rosemary church. just ahead here on cnn newsroom, two presidents, two special counsels, and classified documents that neither should have had. we ll discuss the politics and possible punishment. just hours after celebrating back-to-back national championships tragedy strikes the georgia bull dogs football team. what we are learning about a deadly car accident in athens, georgia. plus epic flooding in california, deadly winter storms have forced evacuations, shifted landscapes and caused millions of dollars in damages. we re live in monterey county with the latest. good to have you with us. well, u.s. president joe biden is under growing scrutiny over his handling of classified documents. and republican lawmakers who now control the house of representatives are now ramping up the pressure. the chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs for joe biden s residence where several classified items have been found. also seekin
world you re watching cnn newsroom and i ll i m rosemary church, just ahead, president biden preach as message of justice, while republicans demand answer over his handling of classified documents. a desperate act by an american detained in iran, his employee to the u.s. president ahead in a live report. and tragedy marks what should have been a celebration at the university of georgia. what we know about the accident that claimed the lives of a football player and a staff member. . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us, republican lawmakers are ramping up the pressure on u.s. president joe biden over his handling of classified documents, chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs from the president s delaware home several classified items have been found, james connor said he wants mr. biden s case to be treated just like the probe involving donald trump and his own handling of
sandra, great to have you back. sandra: great to be back. far left protestors dismayed as what they view as an ineffective response to the ruling, saying they are out of step with the mainstream of the party. the president is urging the same protestors to fight after access to abortion bills. claims his hands are tied on further action unless the democrats can pick up more seat in the midterms. all of this as the far left offers bounties on the location of supreme court justices in an effort to harass them like we saw last week with justice brett kavanaugh, forced to leave a steakhouse in washington through a back door. john: the white house refusing to condemn them, saying it is part of democracy as long as it remains peaceful. sandra: rich, a lot of the pushback is coming from the left. it is, sandra, good afternoon. look at what progressives are saying, they say more needs to come from the white house when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gun violence in
and the latest economic numbers participate a conflicting picture. we ll help you figure out what it all means. the sri lankan president say they ll resign after tens of thousands of people stormed their residences to protest the country s economic cries. this comes after months of protell uses across the south asian nation. it reached unprecedented levels on saturday. at one point more than 100,000 people converged outside the president s residence calling for his resignation. the prime minister says he s willing to make way for an all party government to take over. sri lanka s parliamentary speaker is calling for calm as the country waits for a transition of power to occur. translator: there is no need to destabilize the country any longer. i respectfully request for the cooperation of everyone on behalf of the country and for the country s future in order to maintain peace. cnn s will rippley joins us now from taipei. the protesters got what they wanted in a sense. t
but first another alert kicks off america reports on this august afternoon. lawmakers on both sides demanding answers into the raid at mar-a-lago carried out one week ago today. welcome as we kick off two hours of america reports. i m bill hemmer, a big welcome to my colleague. nice to see you, always a new yorker. i m aishah in for sandra smith. fbi documents revealing the agency seized 11 sets of classified records, including some marked as top secret. mike: now the former president demanding the fbi return some documents allegedly covered by attorney/client privilege. the trump team also asked for an independent review of the records but the doj knocked down that request. all of this as republicans call for the release of the affidavit that would justify the search in the first place. team fox coverage this hour. chris swecker. but but mark meredith live i washington, there is also some growing fears now about violence towards government officials, includ