it was finally hereconnected yesterday. here is sam kiley. he has the latest. this is very troubling news, sam. reporter: pam, the international community remain extremely concerned about the future of the nuclear power station with increased allegations again of shelling both from the ukrainians and the russians both accusing each other of threatening that nuclear power plant by shelling in the environment. so just about 20 minutes drive from here on the ukrainian government side, casualties, civilian casualties but that has been used and is being used as a fire base. a lot of pressure to try to let international observers into that power station. that is where on this very extended front line fighting continues with confirmation a third american has been killed fighting on the ukrainian side with russian backed rebels on the east offered to hand over his body, his remains, we don t know when or if that would be followed through on. this in a weird way is an almost step fo
political commentators alice stewart and political analyst alex burns. he is the co-author of the book, this will not pass. trump, biden and the battle for america s future. good evening, one and all. thank you so much for joining. alex, we re gonna start with you. we need a reality check on the midterms, everybody s been anticipating a red wave, but that seems to have shifted significantly in the past month. what are you expecting now? don, i think there s no question that the circumstances of this campaign have changed substantially since the start of the summer. and it really does help to take a step back and look at the big picture here. the president s party almost always does terribly in the midterm elections, and democrats are probably going to have a pretty rough november. but when you think back to where we were at the beginning of june, with sky high gas prices, the biden agenda dead in the water, or so it seemed, and the republican party facing different kinds of
we re live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even the white house counsel agreed cnn has confirmed reporting by the washington post on the story. it comes as the department of justice is finalizing its reductions to the highly sensitive affidavit that was used to justify this month starts. those reductions are due today. our reporter has more. present joe biden forcefully declaring he had no knowledge of the search before it happened. i do not have any advance notice. the allies have been insisting that he was somehow behind the unprec
executive action and take a look at how it could impact the economy. plus, with the primary election calendar winding down, we look ahead to november, and the key races that could decide control of congress. also ahead, new reporting on the communication between the government and donald trump s team before the fbi search of mar-a-lago. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, august 25th, i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. 43 million people are in line to have a chunk of their student loan debt erased. as many as 20 million could cancel all student debt and that is executive action yesterday by president biden, the president pushed back at criticism that debt cancellation will make inflation worse. 20 million people who can start getting on with their lives. all this many people can start finally crawling off from under that mountain of debt. again, to get on top of their rent or utilities. to finally think about buying a home or starting a
community college, which is a gateway for so many people and students that can t afford higher education. there has certainly been a lot of talk about that in the wake of it and we ll do an analysis of that on the show tomorrow. there are those who say that this is a band-aid and not fixing the problem. the new york times is reporting first lady jill biden is uncomfortable about the student loan debt announcement. you work for the first lady in the white house. first of all, does that seem right to you and how much does the president rely on her opinion when making these decisions. look, like i said, she talked about i was with her for a year and a half on the campaign, the primary and general. we talked about this i want to say every day. this was the president s plan. it was always $10,000 limit. so i think he relies on her. i don t think she considers herself a policy advisor, educator, grandmother and supportive spouse but she doesn t advice on policy.