includes after he escaped from a prison outside philadelphia. >> using k-9s, drones and helicopters in the search. the prison is under pressure because of staffing levels, funding levels. >> this is someone who has nothing to lose. i don't know what he's capable of doing. supreme court justice clarence thomas is officially disclosing private jet trips in a vacation that was funded by a republican mega donor. >> these were trips he had to disclose. >> it's better to have the transparency we didn't have in the past. there is the core issue of the gifts themselves. >> josephine says her family's home has been on this land. >> my ancestors are buried here. >> community members say development threatens those families who still call it home. >> why should we give up such a precious gift god has given us? good friday morning. audie cornish is with us. several fronts across the country, we're going to start this morning on the questions that are swirling and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. he has been medically cleared to continue his schedule after freezing for the second time in weeks. watch. >> what are my thoughts about what? >> running for re-election in 2026. >> mcconnell froze for more than 30 seconds in front of reporters in his home state of kentucky wednesday following a similar incident at the capitol in july. president biden said he's been in contact with the minority leader, while visiting fema headquarters after hurricane idalia. >> i spoke to mitch, he's a friend and i spoke to him today. he was his old self on the telephone. it's not at all unusual to have the response that sometimes happens to mitch when you've had a severe concussion. it's part of the recovery. and so i'm confident he's going to be back to his old self. >> we've learned while mcconnell will face republican senators in a regular meeting next week, there's the possibility senators could call a special conference meeting to discuss his ability to lead. there's been some chatter among rank and file republicans whether to force an internal debate about the leadership future, according to a person familiar with the matter. so far no meeting has been cleared. it's unclear if there even will be one. it takes just five gop senators to call for such a meeting. >> it's worth stepping back. mcconnell is one of the most powerful and consequential republican senators in modern history, perhaps of all time depending on how you look at things. he may have gotten the all clear from the capitol physician but questions about his ability to lead the party linger. editors for the national review are calling for him to step aside writing, quote, this obviously is not normal and affects his ability to function as a leading recommend tetch of his caucus and added, proven some realism have been hall marks of his leadership and called for in considering his own future. joining us is the editor of "the national review," rich lowry. it's important to point out, mcconnell is often a lightning rod, a convenient punching bag for the far right conservatives of the party. you are not that traditional with mcconnell. you had a call in 2020 that mcconnell world was pleased with, the title i think was mcconnell, master of the senate, walking through the way he operates and why he's been successful from your perspective. what led you to this moment? what led the editors to this moment in "the national review"? >> yeah, this gives us no pleasure to say this. i think he's the most effective in memory but these incidents are not normal and even if it's light headedness he's visibly aged since his fall in march, and we think it behooves him for his sake and the sake of his colleagues to go out on his own terms. it doesn't need to happen today, tomorrow or next week, but he needs to make the decision that it's time to step aside and set the wheels in motion. he thinks carefully about everything, probably has shrewd thoughts how to carry it out. it's time to get the wheels in motion. >> you set that in motion, you start a transition process and the theory is you undercut yourself and your power. he has 3 1/2 years left on his term, he has until the end of this term as leader. why would he do that to himself? >> well, you don't want to suffer any more humiliating incident. what joe biden said is correct, he is completely lucid but that's the time to go out on your own terms. this will be a private thing. he will not be pushed, no special meeting that will push him out. it has to be a personal decision. his colleagues, most of them, love him and respect him and will give him a lot of space he deserves. it's our view he should, as we say, be prudent and realistic over the course of his career. >> you make a good point about the meeting to consider his leadership as being talked about right now. if they put this up for a vote mcconnell would easily defeat anybody he goes against based on where he stands. >> oh, yes. >> one of the things maybe people don't appreciate as much on the republican side, he defends his conference. he takes the heat for his conference. he doesn't move forward on things he doesn't think his conference is ready to manufacture forward on. the decision to leave, are there any concerns about what that would do to the conference, who would step up, who would fill that void? >> well, he seems to have a pretty good cadre of lieutenants there, john cornyn or john thune who would be suited to take up the mantle. look, this is a hard choice. these are really plum jobs. he's worked hard, worked his entire adult life to get there, has done a good job since he's been there. he's not the only old political leader in the united states. we have joe biden, who i think at the moment, is not in the kind of shape you would want for senate leader, but is in the most demanding job on the planet. and we're urging mcconnell and republicans to be realistic but the entire democratic party has their heads in the sand about joe biden who is declining in front of our eyes and they want us to believe he can carry out the most demanding job in the up states for another five and a half years or whatever the it is until age 86 and that's a risk for the democrats and for the country. >> rich, i want to play something former governor nikki haley said. i want to ask you to follow up on that point. is part of this concern given what we've seen undercut the political argument against president biden that has been made by republicans about his age? >> i think some republicans will think about it in those terms. we think he's visibly aged, has to go eventually, right? age comes for us all. it's time to set the wheels in motion. >> i want to play the sound from nikki haley, asked about mcconnell. this is what she said. >> what i will say is right now the senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country. mitch mcconnell has done some great things and he deserves credit, but you have to know when to leave. >> again, it's not a rarity for republicans to go after mcconnell because it plays well particularly with the base audience. haley is more of a mcconnell republican, i think, than anyone else. will this be a theme? we'll see republican candidate across the board saying this. >> probably. she's banged on how old joe biden is, donald trump is, how there's time for a new generation. it would be awkward to turn around and say mitch is fine. it's going to be much easier for presidential candidates to say this than any senator except for the mcconnell critics to say this. they'll dance and it and give him leeway to make the decision on his own. >> i think cognizant of the dynamics now. rich lowry, thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. go yankees, even though there's not much hope of that. >> thank you. thank you, audie. thanks, rich. the fulton county judge overseeing the donald trump subversion case has given the green light for the trial to be televised. the mayor of uvalde, texas, believes there's a cover-up into the rob elementary mass shooting. we'll speak to the mayor. 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(farmers mnemonic) any day now a judge could issue a decision in mark meadows' bid to have his georgia subversion case moved to federal court. did his actions like arranging trump's call with georgia state election officials go beyond his duties as chief of staff at the white house. joining us is senior legal analyst elie honig, temidayo aganga-williams, political commentator and political anchor, errol lewis and shelby talcott. welcome back. this was a question about whether meadows had any federal authority that would mean this case needs to be moved. is this a significant movement? >> it's a very big deal. watch others try to follow the same path. >> meaning from the trump white house? >> well, it's going to be a lot of people piling on because jeffrey clark, who was a doj federal official, has made the motion. trump may be waiting to see how he fares. they may say we are acting under the authority of the federal government. >> what are they saying? >> we have been talking about it. >> we want to know everything. >> you are exactly right. >> lawyer linkedin is lit. >> it's a coin toss. this one feels really close to me and the judge asked for more briefing. what if some were inside the role of chief of staff. the judge is sort of on the fence, too. >> i think that's right. anytime a judge is asking for a briefing it's not a clear call. i want you to go back, dig deeper into the law and see whether you can guide me here. i think it will be close. i think it slightly goes against removing. if the court were to look at the totality of circumstances -- >> you are saying that as a january 6 committee investigator. >> i am. >> right? this is the context you are looking at this. >> i guess what i'm looking at is looking at the facts here as to what mark meadows was doing, avoiding the zooming in and talking about what was this phone call or that phone call but zooming out and saying you have a former president who is not acting in the role as president. he's acting in the role as candidate, and the chief of staff is not there acting in a white house capacity. you could look at who was on the call with raffensperger. it's not white house counsel on that call. you're talking rudy giuliani. he's not a government employee. >> these are all the things the judge will be looking at? >> the judge could be looking at the full circumstance and saying is this really white house activity or political activity about getting candidate trump another term as opposed to president trump enforcing federal law. >> the lack of precedent, i would never callfy for a lawyer whatsapp chain. we don't often have moments like this. we have heard from the former president and his team, all of this is just election interference, the timing, when it's happening, super tuesday, the case last week or earlier this week. it's been a long week. something bill barr said, listen. >> basic principle in the criminal justice system is if a prominent person commits a crime in a seeking office, that doesn't give them immunity. if there's enough time to have it resolved before the election, it should be resolved. you can argue about whether he should have been charged and so forth but the idea this is interfering with the election is wrong. >> barr has made a sharp turnaway from trump world since he left i think in december at the end of trump's term, i think it's an interesting point. one, he's a lawyer, two, a respected lawyer -- >> and, three, was asked to look into election interference. >> he was there for all of this but, once again, he takes point by point the trump team puts out and takes it apart shortly thereafter. >> you raise a really good point. my question, and i look at it from the perspective how is this affecting voters and how are voters viewing all of this, i don't know if it matters. i don't know if that argument, however legitimate it is will make inroads with the majority of republican voters who believe this entire process is politicized, right? to be clear, i don't know if anything would. i think the majority of voters -- >> people thought the same thing about the january 6 committee. is that how it played out? >> the trump team is saying this is election interference and then will say we sure are selling this merch. and that's why we're so far ahead in the polls. is it hurting you or not? is it helping you or not helping you? the simple answer is that they are running a strategy of trying to gin up their base and are uses these cases as a way of doing that. there might be election intervention, shall we call it, but it's not clear if it hurts donald trump for the strategy he has laid out. >> i agree with errol and bill barr, a weird sentence to say, but there's no evidence, to me this is intentionally designed to interference with the election. i have to say the fact doj took so darned long really did nothing for a year and a half until the january 6 committee sort of forced the issue is what has landed us in this scenario now. there's no reason this couldn't have been charged in late 2021, already tried. because of doj, now we're in this logjam. >> i want to get to your reporting on ron desantis and his super pac. what's going on there? >> originally they had ground operations in 18 states, they launched a huge operation of $100 million and they've now shut operations in four states and the reason this is important is because, "a," it shows how important the early primary states are to ron desantis' presidential campaign, double down in iowa, new hampshire and double down in south carolina. but, "b," it also shows that the original belief that ron desantis would come in and really take it to trump has not materialized and they've had to shift shir strategy. >> it's been a model of what to do or not to do. how is it working out? >> i don't know how well it's working out, right, because we talked about this when the super pac decided to unveil this plan on how ron desantis should take it to vivek ramaswamy, and he did none of that and ended up doing quite well. we talked to the super pac and they said i guess he did well. probably a good thing he didn't listen to the advice. >> they're not on the same page. >> they're not supposed to be. >> but they're trying to be. in a way they have to because it is the one with the money. >> legally not supposed to be coordinating. you have to have some alignment. >> running a campaign is a signal whether you can run a country. so far how is desantis doing? >> it's not like the super pac swooped in and gave him a bunch of bad talking points that he ignored. he funded that super pac. he took $36 million or something like that and got them off to a running start. >> he gets object their buses. the campaign is imploding and i think we're almost at the finger pointing stage. >> we're bringing you back. strong prediction. we're bringing you back for that. >> shelby covers the campaigns, but i want to dig in more on this, thank you very much. there's an intense search under way this morning for a convicted murderer who escaped a pennsylvania prison. where that stands, where he was last seen. >> a woman is in a bitter legal dispute. the fight to keep her land is next. my cpa told me >> let me put it to you this way. i've never backed down on anything that t was right. pendet tax attorneys will work with your cpcpa to determine if your company is eligibible. 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>> reporter: josephine wright has lived in this house for 30 years but she says her family's home has been on this land since the civil war. purchased by friedman and passed down by generations, her husband wanted to be sure to keep the land in the family after his passing. >> i feel so much pride and comfort in knowing that this is where i will be for the rest of my life. >> reporter: but the 93-year-old great-great-grandmother has felt little comfort over the past few months. >> this is when we start hearing the trees, boom, boom. >> reporter: wright is being sued by a company with plans to build 147 three-story town homes along this jonesville road community. a historic neighborhood. >> our blood, sweat and tears are in this land. my ancestors are buried here down at the end of the road. >> reporter: today construction is closing in around wright's modest home. has the developer at any point come to you to speak face-to-face about this? >> no. i've never spoken to any one of them. they have never knocked on my door. >> reporter: she says five years ago a woman did ask her to selling the land to an interested anonymous buyer for $39,000. >> and i said, you're insulting my intelligence. and would you give them that message. >> reporter: she says her first communication with the company, bailey point investment llc, was served legal notice which alleges a satellite dish, a shed and a portion of wright's screened-in back porch are sitting outside of her property line encroaching on theirs, according to their land survey. the lawsuit seeks removal plus just an adequate compensation for its loss of the use and enjoyment of their property and expenses related to delays in development. >> bailey point says the corner -- >> that corner is on their property. >> reporter: so the issue is that corner? >> yes. >> reporter: wright has filed a counter suit alleging bailey point and affiliates are using harassment and pressure tactics to pressure her off the land. bailey point has filed a response denying any harassment as well as any previous offers to purchase her land. she has received an outpouring of support in donations even from celebrities like tyler perry, snoop dogg and kyrie irving. the town of hilton head just announced it is pausing all construction in line with their town code refusing to issue bailey point building permits until the lawsuits are resolved. but josephine wright isn't alone if her fight. >> she speaks to the gullah culture and desire to fight back . >> reporter: sellers runs a nonprofit called the low country gullah foundation fighting land loss. it estimates since hilton head island became a vacation destination after mainland bridge was built in the 1950s, they have lost nearly two-thirds of their acreage mostly due to rising property taxes and problems with something called heirs property. how pervasive is that on this island now? >> it's pervasive here but it's pervasive throughout the south and, unfortunately, heirs property is the primary way black people in america are losing their land. >> reporter: it is the type of landownership where a single property may be inherited by multiple members of a family for generations after the original owner passes away, but there's often a lack of clear legal documentation making families vulnerable to land loss when there are disagreements with the family over selling. in cases it is being purchased by developers. >> look at this. this is one of the most peaceful areas. >> reporter: and lost by the gullahs. wright is standing firm on her ground. >> let me put it to you this way. i've never backed down on anything that was right. >> reporter: now on the past couple months leading up to this week, cnn has repeatedly reached out to bailey point investment, anyone that we could find associated with the project. they tell us they're not the developer -- excuse me, they told me they're not the developer but an investment company that financed the deal, but we reached out to lawyers for bailey point, we've reached out to the architect, even the engineer for the proposed subdivision. none have responded. josephine wright says she plans to continue this fight. she wants her 40 grandchildren, 50 great-grandchildren and 16, soon to be 17, be great-great-grandchildren to enjoy that property until they're 93 years old. >> dianne gallagher, thank you. >> in a court filing this week, steve marshall said he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women who travel out of state for abortions. marshall is trying to get the case dismissed. >> sunday the whole story with anderson cooper brings you to this journey with the women forced to travel hundreds of miles for care with the network of providers and people working together to make that travel a reality. this is a year without roe. >> we got a client from oklahoma. going to carbon dale and i said don't forget to pick up your money from the clinic. no credit or debit card needed and i'm here if she needs me. >> we have it lined up. >> is this passenger still able to make the trip? >> my second client, my mom and grandmother are coming with me. >> we have our pilot and passenger in touch with each other. the flight is 15 minutes out. >> i found an amtrak ride so she could sleep in a little while longer. >> north carolina to illinois. >> iowa to minnesota. >> try to find an airport that might work. >> i have one person on a bus. >> is there any way the passengers can get over to chandler? >> georgia to ohio. >> texas to st. louis. >> wisconsin to chicago. >> louisiana. >> alabama. >> little rock, arkansas. >> little rock, arkansas, to carbon dale, illinois. >> tune in with anderson cooper. it airs sunday at 8:00 p.m. only on cnn. a push in some states to use the 14th amendment to remove former president trump's name from the ballot. the secretaries of state in three key battleground states are responding to those calls. we'll talk about that next . he found great products, uploaded new art, and had boxes sent to all the shops. custom ink makes it so easy. get started todaday at customink.com. former president donald trump has been indicted twice for attempting to subvert the 2020 election results. state officials are looking at whether that disqualifies him from holding office again. they're looking at section three. no person shall be a senator or representative of congress or hold any office having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the united states shall have engaged in inis surrection against the same. now asking the state attorney general whether it could affect his eligibility for the ballot. the ag's office said it was carefully reviewing the legal issues. in michigan they are consulting with other states about the matter and said if they do act on it the final decision would be decided in the courts. and here is arizona saying his hands are tied. >> because there's no statutory process in federal law to enforce section 3, you can't enforce it. that's what the arizona supreme court said. now do i agree with that? no, that's stupid. >> are you saying your hands are tied? >> what i'm saying is i'm going to follow the law and the law in arizona is what the law in arizona is. whether i like it or not is irrelevant. >> let's bring in elie honig, temidayo aganga-williams, and columnist for new york magazine errol louis. elie, i will be honest with you, having covered 2016 and there are a number of different legal thresholds/avenues to keep trump off the ballot, chased a lot of things that never came to fruition. tell me why this is different. >> i don't buy this theory at all. >> why are democratic ags and secretaries of state looking into it, a republican in new hampshire? >> this has gained traction but here is the problem. there's no mechanism. there's no way -- we don't know how this works. the big question would be who gets to decide if a candidate has engaged in insurrection, rebellion and hence exclude that person from the ballot? >> doesn't this question change if the former president is convicted? >> yes, it absolutely does, i think. there's at least one county level executive official in new mexico removed from his position. he had a criminal conviction, was one of the people on camera and blatantly involved in the january 6th insurrection, so that wasn't really even a close case. they removed him from office. if you got a conviction and it involved not anything he's been charged with so far, but somehow involved in insurrection -- >> there's 91 counts against donald trump, none for insurrection or rebellion but various conspiracies and fraud. even if there's a conviction, it's not going to match what the constitution calls for. >> i take a different look than that. i think historically this provision has been used without a congressional statutory provision. i don't think that's a barrier, and i think we should be looking more broadly at the conduct -- >> you're saying because there isn't a rule saying this is how you enforce it doesn't mean it can't be enforced? >> it has been enforced in american history already. what is this about? about preventing those who have taken up insurrection after taking an oath of office, which is what president trump did, he did give comfort to those who engaged in insurrection. these folks have been already convicted of seditious conspiracy, the proud boys, they took up arms against the country. president trump very publicly tweeted support for those very individuals while attacking the capitol, he was supporting them. we have the benefit of having our january 6th committee -- >> but you're saying it like it's very obvious and we're just hearing this ag being, look, our hands are tied because we don't really know how this works. >> what the ag was saying there, what law binds him in arizona. so i think that's a separate question whether he's bound -- he said he thinks that's wrong. so you're going to have multiple states here. you've had a bipartisan finding of president trump's conduct here with the january 6th committee, a bi-cameral finding that says he engaged in this conduct here. multiple examples of institutions in our country finding he is culpable here and what should happen is this needs to be tested. the words in the constitution should matter to people and those provisions are there for a reason and courts should weigh in before the president is about to be on the ballot. >> the provision in the constitution is very important. the problem is we're just sort of left to make it up as we go along. we cannot leave it to individual secretaries of state, state, local, county officials in charge of ballots to say i find there has been insurrection. i find there has not been insurrection. >> doesn't that launch the process? >> and that's the argument. we were talking about this on owes whatsapp. look, this provision has been on the books for 150 years. we have some semblance of a known procedure. i think the argument in favor of trying it is, well this is how we will eventually get to a procedure, but the other problem is also you can't set the rules now in late 2023 and say, okay, now we're figuring this out as we go, and we're going to apply it three years backwards. >> this is what i want to ask errol about. i understand what temidayo is saying. i hear a lot of people saying this same thing and have said it throughout many of the actions post-january 6 or in the months leading up to january 6 and after, but then you have a lot of people saying -- a lot of people, literally saying -- you do this and it is a dream message for the former president and his team. he points to this and says they're too scared, trying to keep me off, and it just fits into the threat. no precedent here. >> whether the facts support it or not -- >> fair point. >> look, there are a number of cases i've covered stories where people were banned from running from office again, and it always bothered me a little bit. it felt a little unconstitutional. part of a plea deal, you can throw anything in the box you want and people will agree never to run for office again. they could have come up with in the impeachment trial. it's not completely off the table, and the fact that it did happen in the 19th century is like what they used to say about pornography, you nknow it when you see it, right? you were a confederate trader, you're not going to run for office. and the person would just walk away without a law, without a statute, a trial necessarily. it probably shouldn't be done at the level of secretary of state in 50 states but we do need to get to this question and it's valid to raise it. >> is that a citation -- >> a little unconstitutional. >> what the color code is. >> i know we have to go to break. >> i didn't say anything. we have a more serious story coming up. thank you, guys, errol, elie, temidayo, we really appreciate it. now the mayor of uvalde, texas, is accusing the district attorney of a cover-up into the shooting at robb elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead. we'll have the mayor on live with us next. muscle, bone, and heart health. yaaay! woo hoo! ensusure with 25 vitamins and minerals and ensure complete with 30 0 grams of protein. ♪ (screams) bleeding gums are serious, jamie. dr. garcia? woah. they're a sign of bacterial infection. crest gum detoxify's antibacterial fluoride works below the gumline to help heal gums and stop bleeding. crest saves the day. crest. how can you sleep on such a firm setting? 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>> well, right now the mayor of uvalde says that the investigation has been hamstrung by the local district attorney and he wants her to resign, basically. mayor don mclaughlin re-filed a lawsuit against the district attorney, christina mitchell, tuesday, and the city dropped the original lawsuit earlier this year because the d.a. agreed to cooperate with the investigators' request for evidence. now the city is suing again. mclaughlin says mitchell has not kept her promise and the families of these 21 victims deserve answers. joining us is uvalde mayor don mclaughlin. welcome to the program. >> good morning. >> i want to jump in. we laid this out here because we reached out to d.a. mitchell to get her point of view on this. she did not respond yet. but i want to read what she told the san antonio express on wednesday after you filed the suit. she said, it's a distraction, an attempt to keep me as a district attorney from completing my mandate to see that justice is done to the best of my ability under the law with the facts and evidence that i have. so what's your response to the idea that this is just a way to distract her from what she needs to be doing? >> no, it's not a distraction. what d.a. mitchell forgets, i said in the first meeting with our investigator who told miss mitchell that anything that he found criminal, whether it be local, state, or federal authorities, he would turn over to her to prosecute. that's why we hired outside investigators to look at every avenue of what happened that day, especially our police department and our policies. >> what is the state of your own investigation? >> what? >> what is the state of the investigation that the city is doing. you sid you had your own investigator. >> well, we hired jesse prado as an outside independent to do an investigation of our actions that tay, our police officers and our policies. since day one, well, day one, we have been blocked from access to get the material that we need so that he can see all the body cams -- >> if i could jump in for a second, the d.a. has said that other investigators have completed their work. she implied that there is no reason why the city couldn't have finished its, it's an independent team. >> my comment, yeah, the only person that finished their investigation is the department of public safety, who is the lead investigator with the rangers on this, and they have had access to everything from day one. the border patrol hasn't finished their internal investigation. >> you specifically reference the d.a.'s chief investigator as being on the scene at the time of the shooting. cnn has not independently confirmed that he was there. seems like you are implying this might be the reason why the d.a. is not moving to your speed or cooperating the way that you think that she should. why do you think that's true? give us a sense of what your thinking is here. >> sure. we didn't want to file this lawsuit a second time. but in the coming weeks and the d.a., by her own admission in the news on thursday, she not only had one vest investigator , she had two. this has never been disclosed. if you look at the legislature, when they did their investigation, they disclosed all the law enforcement alleges there, all the peel there. there is nobody from the d.a.'s office on that list. then we find out there were two investigators there. one in and out of the hall, is what we were told, and, you know, this story on this robb shooting -- >> so why do you think she would want to cover that up? why is that an actual cover-up? >> why wouldn't you disclose you had people on the site? i as critical as this is, why wouldn't you disclose that from day one? why would you not tell people, you know, yes, i had two investigators there. why do we have to come out with it 15 months later. >> you are leaving to run for a house seat. why leave now when this investigation isn't done, there are so many unanswered questions for the families of uvalde, that's a mistake i made. if i used the term i intend to run instead of i am running, i wouldn't have had to trigger an automatic resignation. so words matter. i made a mistake there. the previous mayor before me run for a state office and didn't have to run. so i made the mistake of thinking i wouldn't have to, either. but i will be -- i will stay on this whether i win that seat, whether i don't win that seat. i will be very vocal whether it's the other side of the podium standing with the families, whatever. this investigation needs to be done. these family members, they deserve the answers. it's been 15 months. 455 days. you said it at the beginning of the deal. this is a festering wound that keeps getting salt poured in it at the families' expense. our community needs answers, too. we shouldn't be 15 months later where we are today. this should have been done. >> mayor don mclaughlin of uvalde, thank you for your time. >> thank you. former president trump pleading not guilty in the georgia election subversion case while some co-defendants are asking why trump is not helping with legal bills. how some are raising money f fo their defense next. being middle class right now, it's tough mamaking ends meet for sure. republicans in congress say if we just cut taxes even more for the biggest corporations the moy will eventually someday trickle trickle down to you. right. corporations e biden would rather just stop those corporations from charging so damn much. capping the co of drugs like insulin. cracking down on surprise medical bills and all those crazy junk fees. there's more work to do. tell the president to keep lowering costs for middle class families. right now get a free footlong at subway. like the subway series menu. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. for freeee. that's what i'm talking about. order in the subway app today. but with stearns & foster® that's only part of the story. we handcraft every stearns & foster® using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming intellicoils®, for a beautiful mattress, and indescribable comfort... every single night. stearns & foster® ... what comfort should be during our labor day sale, bring home incredible comfort with savings up to $800 on select adjustable mattress sets. learn more at stearnsandfoster.com good morning. happy friday. poppy is off this week. audie cornish is with us. we are going to go dive in. if former pres

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