against alex jones war on truth. shock jock forced to pay the price for lies about the sandy hook massacre. but, will it stop him? this is american voices. potentially historic week in washington we begin this week with a potentially historic week in washington, democrats push for it to push for a donkey pieces on the biden agenda. a live look at the senate floor right now. senators debate the inflation reduction act, also called the ira. this is no small task. opposition from republicans, senate democrats have to stick together to pass the bold piece of legislation in an evenly split 50/50 senate. legislation, as it stands right now would lower prescription drug costs, collect taxes from corporations and reduce the deficit. then this the historic 369 billion dollar investment in the fight against climate change. this investment in america s future comes fresh off a red hot job report, defying signs our nation s economy, and economic recovery is losing steam. u.s. cre
documents. now after last week s fbi seizure of 11 more sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, the democratic chairs of the house intel and oversight committees are asking u.s. intelligence leaders for a briefing and damage assessment. let s bring in michael zeldin up bright and early with us this morning. good to see you. good to see you, too. one of trump s lawyers signed this letter saying there were no more classified materials at mar-a-lago. how does that effect the investigation going forward? it might explain why somebody served as an informant that there were additional documents. if that lawyer, as part of a team of lawyers or others certified something that wasn t true and now all of a sudden are looking at what liability they have, it might explain why we get additional information. but the certification that they have no additional documents, and then the revelation that they have additional documents could prove either one, they believe in good faith
a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trump s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. we re also monitoring the former president s evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what the latest is in this investigation. jim and bianna, one of the most important things we ve learned since we saw the search warrant, in june we have more of what happened that led up to this. in june a lawyer for former president donald trump did attest in writing to the justice department that there would be no more classified documents that could be found at mar-a-lago. at that time, the justice department was subpoenaing everything they had trying to get it back. still, the justice depart
want an intelligence damage assessment. and some republicans are digging into a new tactic to question whether the documents are actually that sensitive. we re on top of all of the latest. plus, a federal judge ruled that republican senator lindsey graham must testify in georgia s investigation of trump s efforts to overturn the election. graham s attorney has asked the judge to quash his subpoena. we will have more on that. and barricades lining the headquarters here in washington, d.c. as as the agency faces an unprecedented number of threats. let s begin with the mar-a-lago search, cnn s caitlin poll la polantz about all over this. that s right, alex, there may have been different motivations but bipartisan calls for transparency for people on the hill to really learn more about why the search was needed and what was found in those boxes removed from mar-a-lago. so, over the weekend, we had two house chairs, committee chairs, both democrats asking the director of nati
cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an