redactions. president trump argues there shouldn t be any. judge reinhart rejected the doj s attempt to hide it from americans. the whole affidavit should be released. given the democrats penchant for using it to hide government corruption. that s the crux of the matter. they re demanding whether to know political buy as played a role in the buher eos decision making. we re interested in how that information was presented of the was it presented faithfully and truthfully given the past record of the f.b.i. and department of justice in trump investigations? mark meredith joins us from west palm beach, florida. good morning, park. good morning. the justice department says there is a lot of information about why federal agents came to mar-a-lago last week that they don t want to release at this point. a judge yesterday said in the interest of transparency there is also the information the public needs to know and likely we ll see some information in that criminal affida
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
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it. and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things that have
trying to redefine recession? we are not redefining recession. greg: president biden s prediction there being no recession lasting about as long as kamala s doomed presidential campaign. democrats are pushing more massive spending for some reason, to get us out of it. biden is brushing off the bad economic news while claiming dishing out $700 billion for things like fighting climate change and that will actually lower inflation. chairman powell and many of the significant banking personnel and economists say we are not in a recession. we created 9 million new jobs so far as i ve become president. businesses are investing in america and record rates. the inflation reduction act will add another $370 billion in clean energy tax credits and reconciliation. that doesn t sound like a recession to me. greg: now that biden s prediction has flopped, democrats and the media are getting on the same page to try to convince americans things aren t that bad. we have to remember
wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic congr