let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really,
we ll get it fixed and get it fixed properly in two years. but we re going to get it fixed and fixed properly. we ll get it fixed in two years. all right. he s going to get it fixed in two years. two years. wait, but he had a chance to fix it in 2017. what did he do? well, he called the debt ceiling sacred. and 18, 19. then he urged a default. now, donald trump is back in the mushy middle, promising a big fix down the road. you know, like infrastructure, health care, and a border wall. yeah. meanwhile, ron desantis continues de-santis. i think you should. really. if i say it, you should do it, okay? willie, mika wants me to change the pronunciation of my name to joe subaru. or brzezinski. joe subaru. it s been scarborough, like, my whole life. yeah. subaru, joe subaru. iramping up for a campaign, maybe it s time for a rebrand. people love a good subaru, reliable automobile. great family car. it is odd, i have to say, that the desant
we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre
count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. ther
i am richard louis in for simone sanders townsend. we are in for a rapidly changing news for the hostages in the four-day truce in the israel-hamas war. after their group released yesterday and day one. we reunited with family members there was a delay on day two in today s return of a second group of hostages. hamas officials say israel violated the temporary truce announcement. rather agreement including the amount of humanitarian aid going to northern gaza in the order of palestinian president. released later today, hamas leaders announced the hostage release deal is back on track. the qatari leader saying now the additional israeli hostages will be released soon in exchange for more palestinian prisoners. qatari and hamas officials say the release of that second wave of hostages kidnapped in the october 7th attack will move forward as soon as this evening. qatar also saying 13 israeli prisoners and seven others outside of the agreements framework will be released in excha