because it is for the people. we have to make sure that we protect it at home. laura: in the swamp defense. didn t congress just pass a stock sales ban? no. we have a statement criticizing the democratic leadership for not calling up the stock bill. i m strictly focused on winning the next election. i don t know what her statement is. [question inaudible] you have to have the votes to bring it up. we ll see. we don t go from one day to the next. laura: i have to call paul. the bill is still stuck on pelosi s desk. why? could it have anything to do with the fact that they ve got ten very, very rich during her time in office? of course not. no wonder people are so cynical about government today. no wonder the democrats are in freak-out mode over the possibility of a trump second term. remember, he s already pledged a top-down reform of the civil service. he wants it all cleaned up and cleaned out of political bias and favoritism. now imagine that. a government th
news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of julyy, zero percent. okay, we ll have more on that a little bit later in the show, i promise. but first, there never been a more important day for the permanent washington time than inauguration day for joe biden. january 20th last year it was moment democrats and their voters in the federal bureaucracy have been waiting for for four years. none of it had to do with joe biden or possibilities his presidency could bring to them.t the best part about joe biden taking office was donald trump was leaving office, although it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemicus had accomplished what, four years off witch hunts, pausing to investigate the full force of surveillance state could not removing donald trump from the white house despite getting seventy four million votes. but it quickly becameus clear removing donald trump was not the end goal. believe it or not, almost immediately joe biden and his
years amid fears that the country is heading into a recession. it s a challenge for president biden as he attends a dnc event and tries to sharpen his midterm message. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where bogus referendums are under way as moscow tries to solidify its hold on occupied territory. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, is this so-called voting essentially happening at gunpoint? reporter: basically it is, wolf. we re seeing video and hearing reports of election workers going house to house, door to door, with ballot boxes, accompanied by armed men, in some cases armed men wearing balance cla vas. we re wear the election workers are going door to door. people are locking their doors and simply not answering to avoid voting. in fact, the ukrainian authorities have urged residents of the occupied t
top of the hour on cnn newsroom, victor blackwell, 3:00 p.m. deadline has now hit and we are waiting to see whether donald trump s attorneys have contested the release of the search warrant on his mar-a-lago estate, executed on monday. the former president said he encourages the request by the justice department to unseal the warrant, as well as a property receipt of what was taken. it s still not clear what his attorneys will do. we re learning more much from the wall street journal. it reviewed inventory documents from the search and reported agents removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked top secret and meant only to be viewed in special government facilities. the journal also said agents sought only to go through trump s office and storage areas and not any rooms at mar-a-lago for guests. the washington post also reported the fbi was searching for classified documents relating to nuclear weapons. cnn s reporting shows that the search of trump s h
Good day, i am Chris Jansing along with my colleague katy tour. This is a historic day for america. A fair and functioning judicial system. Today in two courtrooms, two very Different Cases but with one central character, donald trump and one central question. Will there be consequences for his alleged attempts to break the law either now or in the future if hes reelected. Here in New York City, also even more testimony from david pecker and the Hush Money Trial about the lengths to which he, donald trump and Michael Cohen, went to protect his image during the 2016 campaign. Were going to tell you exactly what he testified to along with a phone call that david pecker says he received from donald trump three days before the 2016 election. Also, how donald trump is reacting and he was reacting. At the same time, in washington, the Supreme Court spent hours hashing out Donald Trumps claims of president ial immunity. The questions of whether a future president is Above The Law threatening