good afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover for you this afternoon. out today, a big announcement about former president, barack obama, plans for midterm campaigning. and the places that will get a visit from the democrat s most powerful asset. plus, the georgia senate debate. while an abortion scandal hangs over his candidacy, it was a strange attempt at theater that got herschel walker a scolding. mister walker, you are very well aware of the rules tonight. yes. and you have a prop. that is not allowed, sir. we are going to have the highlights of reaction from voters in this key senate race. plus, new developments in the mar-a-lago documents case as the doj asks for an end to the special master. and the president is set to speak in just an hour or so about the top of the 3 pm hour, about the economy and the some tough inflation news this week. all of that, plus you have to hear it to believe it. at least one of our schools in our town has, in on
hundreds of thousands are on the move, looking for food. most of the adults here and around these most of the adults here and around these camps are women. and that is because these camps are women. and that is because of these camps are women. and that is because of somalia s conflict, which is ground because of somalia s conflict, which is ground on because of somalia s conflict, which is ground on for three decades or so in one is ground on for three decades or so in one form is ground on for three decades or so in one form or another. and after a string of gains by ukrainian forces, russia vows to take back all areas of annexed territory recaptured in recent days. liz truss has given her first major speech as prime minister to her party exactly four weeks since taking over as conservative leader. but already her leadership is being tested. she s facing a revolt from within her party over her economic plans and has been forced to reverse one of her key polici
before the supreme court. plus, the gop rallies around henching walker, a day after a bombshell report that claims he paid for a girl s abortion. and there s a new home run team in at least the american league. yes, we ll show you the moment that aaron judge broke roger maris record. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, october 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with a new twist in the battle over the classified documents that former president donald trump kept as his mar-a-lago home and club, after he left office. the former president has filed an emergency request, asking the supreme court to now intervene by allowing the special master to review the roughly 100 classified records that federal agents seized from the florida state back in august. specifically, the trump team asked the highest court in the land to vacate part of the ruling issued by the 11th circuit court of appeals. that ruling all
focused on violent military tactics. i want to bring in national security analyst, julia, a former department of homeland security assistant secretary and she is also the author of the devil never sleeps, learning to live in an age of disaster. thank you for coming on. as terrifying as the attack on the capital was, with this new information, do you get the sense that it could ve been much, much worse? absolutely. the amount of weaponry that the proud boys alone had, as well as the oath keepers, just suggests that they were ready for some sort of activity that would ve been much more violent than what we saw. then, the question is, why did that happen? and in some of the filings we have seen so far in particular, in the cases against the oath keepers, because remember, a number of the oath keepers have now pled, they have turned against leadership, so we are learning a lot about what the planning was, they were waiting for some moments, some triggers, some activation from t
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it. and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things that have