house republicans are doubling down on their criticism of the department of justice, on the heels of donald trump s second indictment, and hunter biden s plea deal with federal investigators, politico reports house committees controlled by the gop will make finding finding the doj and the fbi, the cornerstone of the party s agenda, in the coming months. a multi pronged assault could tuned include attempts to impeach attorney general merrick garland, who fbi director christopher wray remember, is a trump appointee from his position slashed the budget for various law enforcement agencies and cut the fbi surveillance of 40 authority. the first phase of that fight is expected in the coming days. wednesday the fbi director will testify before the house judiciary committee. donald trump s efforts are similar. in a barrage of new posts on his social media platform, including from a few hours ago, trump went after both special counsel jack smith and what he calls the, quo
Of a life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 it describes his childhood years on Eastern Shore of maryland, his time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north. Our guest is a historian and author. Watch books that shaped america weeknights at nine eastern on cspan or go to cspan. Org books that shaped america to view the series and learn more about each book featured. Abraham avi loeb is a franklin baird junior professor of science at Harvard University, the longestserving chair of Harvard Department of astronomy, the founding director of Harvard Black hole initiative, director of the institute for theory and computation, itc, within the Harvard Smithsonian center for astrophysics. He also heads the galileoeo project, chairs the Advisory Committee for the breakthrough star shot initiative, and is former chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the national academy. Author of eight books booe than 1000 scientific papers, he is elected fellow of the American Academy of arts a
i m amara walker. in the dark, intensified attacks by russia leave more than a half a million people without power in ukraine and this morning there are no signs that the attacks are letting pup we ll have the latest. plus, full speed ahead on student debt relief. the white house doubling down against the legal challenges facing a signature program for the biden administration. what it means for millions across the country. a shooting at a hospital in dallas leaves two people dead. we re going to have the latest on the investigation and tell you what we know about the suspect. nasa getting ready to launch a new study on ufos. what could their research reveal? we ll talk about that ahead. it is the start of a new week. happy sunday, everyone. it is october 23rd. thank you so much for waking up with us. we are awake, right, boris? how are you doing? we re awake. we re getting there. warming up. we are warming up. that s right. great to be with you. we re followi
employers slowing hiring, 315,000 jobs hired in august. the unemployment rate rising just a touch to 3.7%. in minutes president biden set to address this jobs report. we ll bring you those remarks live when they begin. we are also following breaking news. a federal judge has just unsealed a detailed inventory of what the fbi removed from donald trump s florida home last month. and it reveals a number of classified documents were in there, stored in lots of boxes, 30-some-odd boxes. and in those boxes were also mixed in other random documents, press clippings, even clothing and gifts. let s begin with john harwood, who s live at the white house. we re moments away from hearing from the president on the economy. as we wait for that john, this jobs report we got earlier this morning, what does that tell us about where things stand? reporter: well, it s good news, erica, and i think president biden will welcome it. why do i say good news? well, first of all, 315,000 jobs is
unemployment rate ticked up. the question is how about the federal reserve react as it tries to tame inflation. more on that is ahead as well. while the president is addressing the academic concerns from voters ahead of the midterms, the other issue at the top of their list is threats to democracy. last night, in philadelphia, he took aim at the former president by name and his supporters who he has been branding maga republicans. listen to this. what is happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. contrast that message with donald trump just hours before that, helping january 6 writers financially, people who pushed our democracy to that edge. adding this pledge. quote. all right. let s get into some of this with my panel. shannon is covering the white house. von is in west palm beach near mar-a-lago. ash