while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president s home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi s fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here s cnn s justice correspondent, jessica schneider. startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top-secret stuff and compartment can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes that the archives revealed in january of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed
classified records were found at the president s house. plus, one year since the fall of kabul. the biden white house said the american withdrawal was for the best. a house republican, though, calls it a disaster. we ll go live. and list cheney faces the voters and giant questions about her future. and the primary taking on trump in a state that the former president won by more than 40 points. the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious. it preys on those who love their country. it s a door donald trump opened to manipulate americans to abandon their principles. this is donald j. trump laegacy. liz cheney has been made congress and election all about her. but it s not about her, it s about you. wyoming deserves a voice in congress to fight for our values our way of life. we begin the hour with new details about the fbi s search for donald trump s mar-a-lago. and with disturbing new fallouts because of violent threats now being made by the pre
and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you. joseph r. biden jr. has received 306 votes. donald trump has received 232 votes. the riot ters came close to capturing the vice president and i think that there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him perhaps even killed him. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is thursday, june 16th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours the third january 6 hearing will resume in the capital. today s hearing is expected to focus on the white house s pressure campaign on then vice president mike pence to block certification of the 2020 election. lawmakers will argue trump s comments about pence directly contributed to the deadly insurrection and put pence s life in danger. mike pence i ll tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president, comes through for