it s now over a week after fbi agents descended on former president trump s florida home. new details are now emerging about the criminal investigation that prompted the search. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following all of these developments, including the high level witnesses who have now been questioned. reporter: tonight, new revelations that former president trump s two top white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house council pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. they could have insight about what was taken to mar-a-lago and why 11 sets of classified documents remained there until last monday, when fbi agents searched trump s palm beach home. the new details come as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing he ll hold a hearing thursday on whether to publicl
get out the dictionary. we ll define recession for you. here is the bottom line. the biden economy is shrinking as the fed unleashes rapid fire rate hikes to stave off the highest inflation in 40 years. let s get right to it. maria bartiromo joins us now. go ahead and give us the news because they projected .5% on the positive side. the number was a negative .9. we are now in recession and we can confirm that because it is two quarters straight of contraction. the economy shrank in the second quarter by 9/10 percent on top of shrinking in the first quarter by 1.6%. now so far all of the commentary that i m hearing is talking about a shrinking of the economy but the good news for the economy is that job growth has stayed strong. that was why some people were questioning well maybe it is different this time. it is hard to believe that job growth can be up to 300,000 in one month when you are in a recession. what s different this time is that we have an inventory build-up. a l
desantis, picked charlie crist, a former republican himself, as their nominee this fall. also, new details surrounding former president trump s handling of classified material. cnn learned overnight that the national archives told trump s legal team months ago that it wanted intelligence agencies to conduct a damage assessment on more than 700 pages of documents found at mar-a-lago. we ll get into that. also, a big announcement expected today from the white house, sources say president biden could cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for some borrowers and extend that moratorium, the pause on loan payments through the midterms. much more on that ahead. we have got our correspondents in florida and new york covering all the angles of tuesday s primary. let s begin this morning in new york with cnn national correspondent jason carroll. jason, you were out there yesterday as voters were going to the polls. you ve got new york s 19th congressional district offeri
it s a game changer. we re also fixing what s called, and this has been the bane of driving me crazy when i was out of office. the public service loan forgiveness program. now, this program forgives student loans to encourage those students who have those loans if they go in to public service. think of the millions who are. public school teachers, local police officers, workers at local charities, members of the military and national guard, and so many more, think of the folks who work for federal, state, local, travel governments, keeping essentially services going, respond to go natural disaster, all of those firefighters and cops. the program is designed so if you serve in one of these jobs and be able to list those and be able to accurately assess whether you do, and make your loan payments for ten years, even if it s not consecutive years, your remaining balance will be completely forgiven. it s a great idea but the program is a mess. it s so inefficient, and complicated
official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov