official told the panel that they raised text messages from the day of the capitol attack and the day before. we have new reaction from a congressman this morning. the odds of these texts being deleted that they are not the same odds that someone was audited by the irs randomly. the committee is gearing up for the final hearing on thursday. we have more on that in just a moment. also new today, growing frustration among democrats after senator joe manchin once again pulled up log on a climate, energy, and tax package. that is the latest here for the party. a tried for months to pass a slimmed down reconciliation bill that would require support from all 60 senate democrats. we now head overseas. joe biden this is his first trip to the middle east as commander-in-chief. they met with leaders in the region. they met with the saudi crowned prince, mohammed bin salman al saud. the president soul shared vail veiled criticism of the saudi ruler. you always protect the rights
give us a picture of what we might have come november. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. there is a lot to talk about. bill: every tuesday this summer we ve been doing this. dana: you have an update for everyone. the races in florida and new york are drawing intrigue. drama is new york 12th district to force nadler and maloney into a fight for their political lives and trying to unseat them is patel. there is a special election for an open seat in congress in upstate new york. it could be a bellwether for november. the democrat campaigning hard on abortion rights. dana: in florida we re waiting to see who will emerge as the democratic challenger to governor ron desantis. charlie crist and nicki freed are vying for that nomination. the republican governor sounding confident this morning. we have people that want to visit, have moved here. lower unemployment rate now than prior to covid. you continue to see us adding jobs in sp
going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we ll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. welcome to your weekend. it s saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i ve been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. pleasure to be with you, as always. thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home, according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, comp
investments. plus, the latest in presidential politics as donald trump all but confirms that he is going to run for president again. what he says about the timing of his official announcement. and the u.s. secret service accused of deleting messages related to the january 6th attack on the capitol. we ll have the agency s explanation. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, july 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. former president donald trump s bid for the white house gain seems all but certain. in an interview, in my own mind, i have already made that decision. he says the only thing left to decide is whether to announce before or after this november s midterms. trump told the magazine that a benefit to announcing before november would be to potentially clear the republican field, saying quote, i think a lot of people would not even run if i did, because if you look at the polls, they don t even register. that of course, is actually not
to make giant investments in the climate fight. and so long social distancing. the cdc and some of its covid recommendations including the 6-feet rule. the white house says these new guidelines should make our third covid school year almost normal. we ve had two incredibly hard years in terms of kids in schools. we should look forward to a very different school year. we should look forward to a school year where every child is in school, in person full-time for the full year. i think we have all the ability to do that. and that should be the only acceptable standard. we begin the hour with the countdown to knowing more about the documents donald trump took when he left the white house and the warrant the fbi served this week to take them back. one new report today says the classified records include documents related to nuclear weapons. another, quote, sources saying the fbi asked for this unprecedented warrant because it had reason to believe some of the documents invo