good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, what is the doj waiting for? they re silent on whether it will in the trump mar-a-lago investigation. and this comes as we re learning that the documents seized from trump included, by the way, hundreds of documents, but it included a foreign government s nuclear capabilities according to a report in the washington post. that kind of information, a country s nuclear capabilities, is closely guarded, many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about it. and yet, here s where some of the documents were last month. look at your screen there, which you can see in red is just down the hall from where the members go, the outdoor dining area, the members part of the club, and all the guests go through, all the wedding pictures that trump takes every weekend. all that is going on next to documents of a country s nuclear program. it took more than a year for the government to get these documents back. that includ
just around the corner, republicans and democrats are raising the stakes as senate democrats celebrate the passage of their major spending legislation, republicans also gain an edge of sorts by forcing democrats to vote and show their cards on several key midterm issues. moderates appear to be left with a bad hand. republicans are preparing to up the ante with plans to target moderates in november and beyond in 2024. congressional correspondent asha has any is on capitol hill with our report. good evening, asha. good evening to you, mike. that s right, senators are headed back home for the august recess. handing the baton to the house which is expected to vote on this massive tax and spending plan on friday. republicans in the meantime promising democrats will pay the price in the midterms. [cheers] it was a feat some didn t think was possible. i put in one word persistence. even republican senator josh hawley tweeting tonight i will give the dems this with a 50/50 se
risen, officials here have been saying companies have enough oil and gas leases on private land if they want to drill they can. but that apparently has not happened the way the administration thought it would so tonight something new. bret? bret: months from an election. peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thanks. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says his people should be proud surviving 50 days under russian attack when the russians gave them a maximum of 5. he says the worse may be yet to come. ukrainian officials are celebrating the sinking of a russian flagship in the black see. moscow as we mentioned is still not acknowledging that ukrainian attack. tonight national security correspondent jennifer griffin in kyiv speaks exclusively with ukraine s foreign minister on a host of topics. she joins us now live. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. well, moscow has warned the united states that if it keeps supplying weapons to ukraine,
kayak. search one and done. reviving the 2019 nuclear accord have to wait for the formation of a new iranian government. rauf yell grassy says a deal will be needed from all political parties. iran s presidential election takes place friday. in afghanistan, the taliban is not waiting for the complete u.s. withdrawal from that country to expand it reach. tonight national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us the terror group is already seedings new territory. no one knows better than vladimir putin about afghanistan s history as graveyard of empires. still was with a degree of irony that president biden described the russian president s well wishes on the u.s. military withdrawal. he said that he hopes that
reimbursement payments to america s heroes. tonight national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us the culprit is not a person, but a machine. a 50-year-old computer system at the department of veterans affairs is shortchanging post-9/11 veterans. that s registered in undergraduate and graduate school programs under the g.i. bill are facing mounting unpaid housing subsidy bills. some are even taking on debt as a result of the technological glitch which many on capitol hill predicted in july. the trump administration promise to clean up the culture of bureaucratic incompetence inside the v.a., and based on this testimony today, and other hearings we have had, i don t think they have made a lick of difference. that from republican mike coffman during a hearing how theft house veterans affairs subcommittee last week as lawmakers try to understand why the veterans were not receiving the housing subsidies along with their tuitions. that system is complex. that engine is o