Presidential debate, adding new pressure, new polling showing this Race Neck and neck. And as the two political rivals prepare to faceoff, trump makes an alarming new threat, suggesting he would throw out opponents, election officials, donors, even voters behind bars. Also ahead, intensifying wildfires out west. Evacuations in Southern California as a blaze explodes in size. Plus, armed and dangerous. The urgent manhunt for a suspected shooter, accused of Spraying Bullets at random on a Kentucky Highway. Great to have you with us, thanks for being here. It is 10 00 eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. One day to go before what could be a Make Or Break meeting between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on the Debate Stage. Today the former president is focusing on what his team calls policy time at maralago and the Vice President is putting in her final day of Debate Prep in pittsburgh where she took some Time Out yesterday for a stroll with her husband and p
welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden touting a significant win for his agenda, coming as the country struggles with inflation and he faces low approval ratings. let s get straight to the white house, our chief correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us. if this bill passes as it s expected to, it will be a much needed win for this president. yeah, wolf. and one that was kind of a surprise to a lot of democrats and even some white house aides whenever it was announced that senator manchin and senator schumer did have this deal. of course, that culminated yesterday when the snenate passd what is known as the inflation reduction act. it s a far cry from the build back better bill from a year ago, but it still does have significant proposals in it, including over $300 billion for climate change and energy reform, it also allows for the first time medicare to ne
Killed at a week for a fallen soldier. We are on the scene from the scene. We begin with breaking news, reporting from nbc news, about the former president on how reckless he has been. Reckless, allegedly, behind keeping highly classified documents at his florida club for all to see. He is the Lead Paragraph of the story from abc newss website. Months after leaving the white house, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially Sensitive Information about u. S. Nuclear submarines with a member of his maralago club, and australian billionaire who allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including foreign officials, several of his own employees and a handful of journalists, according to sources familiar with the matter. The abc story identifies the billionaire as anthony pratt, and federal prosecutors have indicted him at least twice this year. And those interviews, pratt told prosecutors he struck up a conversation with the former president during a meeting
it s a good question. i would imagine that general kelly is one of the few people that might be able to stand up to the president or resist the president. the number of people willing to speak truth to power in the administration has continually diminished over time. donald trump doesn t want a team of rivals. he wants a team of yes men and yes women and increasingly that s what he seems to be getting. retired general kelly, the white house chief of staff, do you see all of the latest developments involving as a sign that the president could be preparing to pardon paul manafort, the former campaign chairman who was convicted on eight kouncounts last week?
he s facing the same pressure to jump back in, even more. you know, in some ways doing this here in the middle of august while congress is out of session where you don t have members of congress who are doves or those who don t believe we should be interventionists going to the senate and house floor, making speeches, being covered, in many ways he s very lucky because of that. we ll get a little bit of breathing time. you will see people who come out in congress, republicans as well as democrats, who don t agree with this decision, but he has surrounded himself with some very smart people including jim mattis and h.r. mcmasters. as we leave this, i think it s worth noting that the chief of staff, john kelly, he lost a son in iraq back in 2010. he knows, you know, the horrors of war personally. i think that s pretty compelling certainly when he s giving advice and counsel to the president. that s a great point, mark preston. he is a gold star father in the white house, the chief of