upstairs. friday, friday. have a good show, alex. the very bad news for donald trump is that rudy giuliani has finally, today, learned to talk like a lawyer again. today, for the first time in years, rudy giuliani did not sound like a hallucinating mad man when he walked into the fulton county courthouse in georgia to testify to a grand jury. he did not sound like someone willing to tell any lie for donald trump. he didn t sound like someone ready to take any legal risks for donald trump. not anymore. not now that he has been formally declared a target of the grand jury s criminal investigation of exactly what rudy giuliani did for donald trump in georgia. the rudy giuliani you are about to see is truly shocking now. but it is the way rudy giuliani often handled press questions when he was a federal prosecutor in manhattan in the 19 80s. today, with rudy giuliani clinging to the wreckage of his legal career with his law license suspended, pending possible permanent disb
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january. quoting page 8 here, the boxes contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, presidential records, and quote, a lot of classified records. most significant heerkre, the concern that highly classified records were unfolded and intermixed with the other records, and otherwise inappropriately identified. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. investigators listed the kinds of classified documents they thought could still be on premise there at mar-a-lago. right. and this is the reason. this document is the reason why the fbi conducted that extraordinary search and seizure at the former president s mohom more than two weeks ago. it goes to the documents that were found in the initial 15 boxes that were retrieved by the national archives, earlier this year. they were brought back to the national archives and in it, you know, when they s
that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. so if she is going to continue this fight the question this morning, how, where and in what office does she plan to do that? this was her trump-backed rival, harriet hageman in her victory speech. wyoming has spoken on behalf of everyone who is concerned that the game is becoming more and more rigged against them. and what wyoming has shown today is that while it may not be easy, we can dislodge entrenched politicians who believe they ve risen above the people they are supposed to represent and serve. in alaska incumbent republican senator lisa murkowski who voted to convict trump during his second impeachment trial advanced to the general election along with kelly is tshibaka and patricia chesbro. advancing also nick begic h & p eltola. harry enten, as we say, this was a historic defeat by some measure. it wa
claims of election fraud. quite obviously, surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they re viles of heroin or cocaine. it s obvious to anyone who is a criminal investigator or prosecutor they re engaged in surreptitious, illegal activity. cnn correspondent nick valencia was first in line when giuliani arrived to the courthouse this morning. nick, what did he say to you? reporter: he was defiant, alisyn. he seemed to be confident as he entered court before 8:30. if you remember, he was expected to testify before the special purpose grand jury last week before his team filed a late emergency motion asking for a continuance, saying it was more reasonable for him to appear in mid september. a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. that s exactly what he did. he showed up flanked by his attorney from new york, bob costello. i asked point-blank, did he lie to georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani,