and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the washington post , texts from donald trump s acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
obesity epidemic. he thinks it s not this issue but it s a national security issue. first, showed up in the senate on capitol hill right now. the state is about to begin on the inflation reduction act. democrat moving forward with a huge spending bill despite the findings the bill will have a major impact on inflation. the white house saying something completely different. the economist have said this inflation reduction act will reduce inflation. is it appropriate to brand as inflation reduction act when it will have this effect in the next two years? if you think about the reduction act, inflation reduction act, it will have an effect lowering prices for pharmaceutical costs which will make a difference in a big way. it should be called inflation reduction act because that s what is going to do. you heard the white house saying the bill was lower, drug costs. cbo said it could do the opposite and make prescriptions more expensive. a tax credit for an electric vehi
for democrats it s full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. we ll see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an unlimited period of amendments and then they could ultimately pass it. we re only here talking about that because of senator kyrsten sinema, who was able to get the changes she wanted on the bill. they, contrary to what schumer and manchin may have wanted. i believe strongly in the carried loophole and i pushed for it to be in this bill. senator sinema said she would not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they re going to do lots of amendments. we don t know wh
all across the country california we have a school district now in san diego reportedly reporting extremely i m extremely graphic sexual content and gender theory from first-12th grade. this is by far the first i ve ever heard about it. we have a shocking new report, but will give you a view a warning right now if you re knocking what your kids to watch that segment. first i present you with the leader of the free world pictured right there wearing a mask at his desk by himself trying really hard not to transmit covert over the telephone. joe biden went on to participate virtually in a meeting and i went about as well as you probably would ve imagined would joe biden take a look. president biden: there is so much more to say but it s nice to hear from all of you. thank you, thank you, thank you. i m assigned this executive order right now okay? i wish i was with you in person quite frankly but i m getting there. you are on mute i can t hear you. vice president harris: we