good morning. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather so things are fairly settled. sunny spells, just a few showers, warm it tomorrow and an increased chance of rain for friday. all the details later in the programme. it s tuesday the 30th of august. the united nations will lead a global appeal today to help pakistan cope with the devastating floods which have left a third of the country under water and killed more than 1,100 people. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in the north west have also been badly hit. the crisis is not over yet as heavy rain continues and water surges down the indus river. our reporter sean dilley has the latest details. in some parts of pakistan, it s been relentless. more than 33 million people have been affected by flooding in the country s heaviest rain for more than a decade. this year s monsoon season has claimed well over 1,100 lives since june. more than 3,500 kilo
head to pittsburgh this afternoon, part of his labor day campaign blitz with just a few months ahead of the november midterms. joining me now for more on the breaking news, ryan riley, kelly o donnell, and joining us david henderson, as well. ryan, first to you. you ve now had an hour you have given him an hour to look through this. let s talk about what you have learned as we ve all been speed reading this report of this judge s order which came out about an hour ago. ryan? that s right. one of the citations here is they mentioned rudy giuliani as a special master and the idea of having someone look over the questions of executive privilege, and that was back in april of 2021. but that was a much more sort of limited circumstance, because that was first of all, giuliani wasn t an attorney, so looking over his materials was much more complex, because he had to protect all the materials of talking with his client, so the fbi search this could be a particularly cumberso
january 6th. we know today that the clock is ticking for the former president and his legal team. they have one week to produce evidence to back up donald trump s repeated attacks on the fbi, including allegations that agents planted records at his mar-a-lago home. he said it again this week. the problem that you have is they go into rooms, they won t let them in the same building. did they drop anything into those files or did they do it later. there s no chain of custody with them. but now special master raymond deer ri ordered lawyers late thursday, he did this just last night torks account for in court those unsubstantited claims that trump of keeps making on tv. and that s not all the judge is asking for. he also wants trump s attorneys to say whether they think the fbi was mistaken about what evidence was taken or where it was found. tz and he s giving them one last chance to say whether they want to claim the fbi took anything that s not on the list. if they don t,
criminal insurrection probe intensifying. i have a very special guest on that later in the hour. coming up i have neil cochel to start us off. look at this report from cnn, trump lawyers waging a secret fight to try to halt a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle, basically blocking testimony that otherwise would be relevant, meaning the prosecutors at least want to introduce it. we know the context for this, those 40 new subpoenas. you have a former prosecutor on the letitia james side saying that the business probe is basically a dealt penalty for trump org. so you have the insurrection and the business probe both going at trump hard, and then that s not the only thing going on. these are circling trump while he has no presidential powers left. we have seen in the special master case where they thought it would help to have more court review, which could be true if he were president because in the process if the president says, hey, national security, he
this, of course, despite his promise to make saudi, quote, a pariah state. all this as the federal reserve is expected to announce its biggest hike in decades. john harwood is live in philadelphia. john, there is a lot at stake for the president. reporter: a lot at stake, erica, for the president. a lot at stake for the country. as we ve seen underscored by the january 6th committee hearings. the president s biggest political problem is negative public sentiment about high inflation. as you indicated, he is going to say that this is his top priority. mostly a job for the federal reserve, but he s also going to do what he can to try to make a difference on the margins. that s why he is going to swallow his statements about making saudi arabia a pariah and meet with the crown prince, mbs, on a visit in a few weeks. that s in hopes of expanding saudi oil production and getting gas prices down a little bit. he s also here before this friendly audience to talk about the positi