trace: over the years the cold war thought and the shelters gathered dust. vladimir putin was quietly coming up with a plan, according to a former intel official who literally wrote the book on putin s destructive plots. sandra: she has been sounding the warning long before president biden said putin s nuclear threats were no joke, and she says there is something the president still does not understand about the russian strong man s mindset. brand-new at 2:00, she is here to tell us about it live. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. great to see you, trace gallagher in for john roberts. we ll get to president biden s nuclear warning ahead, but top the hour with the issue at the top of voter s minds, their money, and it is a fox news alert. sandra: we are watching the dow at this hour, entering its final hours of trading for the day and the week, and the dow is off about 600 points, falling to it
democracy. the obamas making this rare return to the white house today. you see here, and meditating on the state of american democracy. i ve always described the presidency as a relay race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations. what we share is so much bigger than what we don t. our democracy is so much stronger than our differences. standard language that some are saying hits different right now with so many election deniers running for office. also tonight, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, dick durbin is here. so we have a lot going on in this hour. we begin though with the nukes. yes. specifically the risk danger and the scandal of a former president hoarding these stolen and top secret documents that are, we re learning now, more and more involving nuclear weapons. there s reporting that the fed seized documents about the nuclear capabilities of foreign nations which they say trump was holding i
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
head to pittsburgh this afternoon, part of his labor day campaign blitz with just a few months ahead of the november midterms. joining me now for more on the breaking news, ryan riley, kelly o donnell, and joining us david henderson, as well. ryan, first to you. you ve now had an hour you have given him an hour to look through this. let s talk about what you have learned as we ve all been speed reading this report of this judge s order which came out about an hour ago. ryan? that s right. one of the citations here is they mentioned rudy giuliani as a special master and the idea of having someone look over the questions of executive privilege, and that was back in april of 2021. but that was a much more sort of limited circumstance, because that was first of all, giuliani wasn t an attorney, so looking over his materials was much more complex, because he had to protect all the materials of talking with his client, so the fbi search this could be a particularly cumberso
[ technical difficulties ] that helped mastermind the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil. and many other attacks against americans. ayman al zawahiri has killed by a cia drone strike this last weekend while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul. he was osama bin laden s deputy during the september 11th attacks and rose to al qaeda s leader when the u.s. killed bin laden back in 2011. a senior administration official told nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside of the home were killed. and in a prime time address, president biden called the killing justice for his victims. and the mission, quote, a total success. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. the united states continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the american people against those who seek to do us harm. you know, we make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide. if you are a