capitol. brittney was always a great teammate and that is why i m here. we miss her so much. translator: the shield which was my only protection, i was lying on the ground all covered in glass. i didn t know if i would survive that moment and you can take a look, the atm machine is completely destroyed. it is just past 11:00 a.m. on a very warm morning here in jeddah. u.s. president biden will be here later today, but right now, he is preparing to meet with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas in bethlehem. no major breakthroughs are expected, although the u.s. is also announcing tens of millions of dollars for panhandle hospitals, refugees and internet upgrades. mr. biden reiterating his support for a two state solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict, yet no apparent plans for reviving the middle east peace process. meanwhile the white house confirms that president biden will meet one-on-one with saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman when he is here
is joining me from jerusalem. what in terms of the focus, what have we seen here for the president s visit? reporter: well, we just saw president biden arriving in bethlehem at the presidential compound where he was greeted by mahmoud abbas. this is the first visit by a u.s. president to meet with the palestinian authority president since president trump visited in 2017. and this comes as the u.s. is really trying to shift its policy towards the palestinians. we have watched the biden administration turn back on the spigot of humanitarian aid to the palestinian people that was cut off by the trump administration. we ve seen since president biden came into office about half a billion dollars of aid. and today we re expecting president biden to announce a total of $316 million of additional aid for palestinians including $100 million for the east jerusalem hospital network that serves palestinians. here is the president earlier this morning at one of those hospitals in east j
and polio virus has been detected in new york city s wastewater. what that means about how the virus is spreading and why some may not know they have it. and congresswoman liz cheney in a fight for her political career in wyoming s election next week. new day starts right now . it is saturday, august 13th. welcome to your weekend. we re grateful you made us a part of it. a lot of news to get to this morning. new this morning, we now know the potential crimes that the justice department cited in its warrant to search former president trump s florida residence. federal agents were investigating federal crimes associated with violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. so, in total, the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material marked as top secret/sci, that means sensitive compartmented information. that is one of the highest levels of government classification. go docum
they re willing to carry a protest sign for a day. with us now to talk about this, mark, senior national political reporter for nbc news digital. nbc news washington correspondent and moderator of washington week on pbs who is a professor at the cardell school of law. we ll have more on the polling in a moment. mark, what else did the judge say in his order a short time ago? for me, what really stood out is this was mentioned in court on friday when i was there, but the judge specifically mentioned, i m going to try to read it from the ruling that he said given the public notoriety and controversy about the search, it s unlikely that witnesses who aren t expressly named in the affidavit would be quickly and identified broadly over social media and other communications channels and that could lead to them being harassed and intimidated. the judges are putting a fine point, clear exclamation point on an argument the governor raised which is look, people can really be harass
and it ended up being a decisive factor in the victory for abortion rights advocates in this state. a lot of credit has to be given to cannons for constitutional freedom. they are the manu bortion rights coalition that was pushing out the vote, and they had to overcome a lot for this decisive win here. not only are registered republicans outnumbering registered democrats in the state by a nearly 2-1 margin, this is deeply conservative state. they have a democratic mayor, yes, but the last two elections they voted for president trump. but as we mentioned, this voter turnout ended up being a huge factor. the numbers we saw last night were more indicative of a general election. and credit has to be given to that kansasans for constitutional freedom. also educating voters here that they could vote. this amendment was ambiguously worded in a way that voting yes on this amendment would have stripped abortion rights. a vote no would have kept the status quo here. the state constitut