Im sandra smith. Hi, trace. Trace good morning, everyone. Im trace gallagher. Loeffler hammered home her opponent is a radical liberal. Warnock side stepped questions about Defunding Police and court packing. Democrat jon ossoff appeared alone on the debate stage after senator david perdue opted not to take part. Sandra President Trump rallied for loeffler and perdue over the weekend urging his supporters to turn out in droves. President trump if you dont vote, the socialists and communists win. They win. Georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. Sandra fox team coverage. Brandnew analysis from byron york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in decat you are, georgia, this morning. Last nights event drew a national audience. How did it influence the debates . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. Both candidates were keenly aware that much of their attention and much of their financial backing is coming from out of state and so this debate focused largely on
former vice president and current 2024 rival. i did check in with not only the governor, but other governors in states going through the legal process of reviewing their election results but there was no pressure. involved. also in baltimore, the search for suspects intensifying after a weekend mass shooting at a neighborhood street party killing two with dozens of more wounded. three critically. many of them teenagers. the mayor of baltimore reacting on morning joe ahead of his press conference this hour. we re not going to stop until we find those people and hold them accountable. we re not just going to stop there. we re going to find out who trafficked the gun, sold that gun and even if it s the manufacturer, everybody in the chain has to be held accountable. and millions and millions of americans are under extreme weather threats today including severe storm and hail warnings along the east coast. temperatures that could hit 120 degrees in the california desert
covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
motorcade arrived at the new york attorney general s office for a deposition. we are getting new details about the fbi search. the former president s lawyer said trump s legal team was in talks with the justice department about records stored at mar-a-lago in the spring. she added the search warrant indicated an investigation io the handling of classified material. they said that they were looking for classied documents. evidence of a crime of classified documents goes. two sources familiar say fbi agents arrived monday morning at 9:00 a.m.nd left around 30 p.m. the sect service was given a heads up. trump called the search unnecessary as well as politically motivated but didn t provide any evidence. joining us is justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. ken, whacan we expect from the former president s deposition today? that s actually a bit of an interesting mystery because there is this is a civil investigation into donald trump s business practices and
familiar face calling the investigation a witch hunt and kept up the attacks on the fbi and serve of mar-a-lago. we re gting new details and a clearer picture of the timeline around what happened there. sources tell nbc news the fbi agents arrived at mar-a-lago on monday at 9:00 in the morning. the secret service was given a heads up 45 minutes to an hour before the search and agents left around 6:30 p.m. the former president s legal team said they were in discussion with the doj as early as june about records stored there. one trump attorney said the fbi removed a dozen boxes from a basement storage area and say a search warrant indicated the fbi was investigating possible violations of laws related to the handling of classified material. politically, we re seeing the republican party coalesce around the former president. a source close to trump called it a complete circling of the wagons. we ll start with the mounting legal troubles for the former president. ken is back and