producing countries to increase their oil output. ali she hobby, a study analyst, told the new york times that it is certainly not a hostile, anti biden act. it has nothing to do with biden, it is to keep the price in unacceptable band. and quote. okay. so how should we analyze this set of facts? the summer, saudi arabia paid former president donald trump to host a tournament at his golf courses, which is a move much criticized as so called sports washing, attempting to launder its reputation on human rights abuses with people who don t care about that sort of thing. people like the former president, who bragged to reporter bob woodward that he, quote, saved mohammed bin salman, after a saudi death squad had washington post reporter killed and dismembered with a bunch of. his words, as quoted in woodward s book called rage, i saved his ass, i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop. and quote. those were trump s actual words about helping a
though is the championing progress being made not only on the economic front but numbers that he says are proving that the inflation reduction act is beginning to bear some fruit. there s a great deal of division over whether that is happening. this three-state trip, by the way, three strong blue states that he s going to is an interesting thing to do less than a month before the mi mid- mid-terms. want to keep you up on that and how this is playingout and the strategy of the white house with a little less than four weeks until the general elections. jacqui heinrich at the white house on what this strategy is. what do you think, jacqui? it s hard to say, neil, what exactly the strategy is. the press secretary was asked why the president isn t going to a more contentious state like arizona if he s going on a western swing. why not hit some of those areas where democrats vying for re-electioning are having a tougher job. but this event in colorado is going to be really a favo
that historically thinking would mean democrats is should lose the house in november. there have been only three exception since the 1930s. 1934 after fdr passed the new deal, 1998 after republicans overdid the lewinsky scandal and 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11, which makes this moment so, so, so interesting because we could be in for another exception to that rule, at least partially. while holding the house is still going to be tough for the democrats, the senate suddenly looks a lot better and it is not just democratic spin. here was republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday. i think there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. quote, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. he did not mention names but our friend at punch bowl news say it is an implied dig at former president donald trump who played a key role i
hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year, it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now, this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from acting homeland security chief are mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now we ve got missing homeland security records along with deleted secret service text messages. just add it to the list. along with missing white house call logs and the presidential daily diary, all silent on a
say, but you really do. thank you, anderson cooper. this is don lemon tonight. i m laura coates in for don. deleted documents and the hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from donald trump s acting homeland security chief chad wolf and his top deputy ken cuccinelli apparently are also mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now