coast, we ve talked about how there is a new realization, it seems, over the past 24 hours, that far from being the perfect launch for donald trump s 2024 campaign, that this warrant, this search actually may turn out to be far worse than any of trump s allies suspected in the early part of the week. you brought up an example, i would lover for you to bring it up again for our friends on the west coast just getting up. but if you look at new york times and the washington post, and in both of those places, you have people close to donald trump telling republicans, you might want to step back a little bit, this is about to get really bad. well, i think a couple of things happened yesterday, joe. number one, the fever pitch of the anti-law enforcement rhetoric that we saw both from i will say importantly both from elected republicans, and from the right-wing fever swamp in the media over the course of these few days since the search of mar-a-lago, reached a pitch that was,
than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
to criminally investigate donald trump for 2020 election including the events of january six. the crescendoed bill through this summer as they were televised saying explosive revelations about what was happening in the white house in and around january six. but that committee had no ability to charge anyone with anything. only the department of justice did. and from what everyone could tell, at least from the outside, not a whole lot seem to be happening over at the doj. by july, attorney general garland felt the need to speak out and defend his department. there is a lot of speculation about what the justice department is doing, what it s not doing, what the theories are, what the theories aren t, and there will continue to be that speculation. this is the most wide ranging investigation and the most important investigation for the justice department has ever done. and we have done so because this [inaudible] effort to upend and general election transfer of power from on
move now. if we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to to leave. so forget to leave, we need to do it now. we ve gained access to the second floor and i ve got people about five feet for me here below. they are on the second floor, moving it now. we may want to consider getting out, leaving now. copy? we will make our way. rippey,. we need to make our way to the . six officers between us and the people that are 5 to 10 feet people away. i m going down to evaluate, we have a clear shot if we move quickly. we ve got smoke downstairs, unknown smoke downstairs. by the protesters. is that compromised? we have secure. however, we have some protesters that are being compete contained. they re in smoke, unknown what kind of smoke it is. copy. clear, we re coming out now, all right. make the way. we saw that video, remember, the vice president of men taking them out of the video that s been shown since the beginning. that though, is several former tru
that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant