engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b
i want wyoming to be protected and i don t feel that liz is doing that job. she stood up for what she believes in. this primary election is over, but now the real work begins. welcome, it is wednesday, august 17th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 a.m. in wyoming where voters have spoken handing former u.s. president donald trump and his supporters perhaps their biggest primary victory yet. just a few months ahead of the midterm elections. trump s most forceful congressional critic liz cheney has lost her house seat. well i won t back down, no, i won t back down cheney conceded to her trump-backed rifle harriet hageman, but issued a rallying call to all americans who care about protecting democracy. cheney is vowing to do everything she can to keep the former u.s. president out of the white house. and steer the republican party away from his lies and influence. jeff zelleeny was there and has that report. reporter: congresswoman liz chen
cheney will give up her seat in january. she says her work is far from finished. we ll have much more from yesterday s primary elections just ahead. plus, we re learning more about who the fbi interviewed and what agents saw before they seized classified documents from the former president s home. meanwhile, in washington, president joe biden celebrates a major legislative win ahead of the midterms. something that seemed very unlikely just a couple of months ago. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big win for former president trump and a huge loss for republicans against his lies about election fraud. gop congresswoman liz cheney, the vice chair of the january 6th select committee and a one-time leader of the house gop, was just ousted by a landslide in wyoming s primary. trump s name wasn t on the ballot, but he loomed large after he ma
land is more important than the principles that we re all sworn to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. and tonight, harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now, the real work begins. she put country over party. and, joe, she paid for it politically. yeah. she did. but, my gosh,ful anybody s watched this show more than a couple days heard me say that in politics, sometimes, when you win, you lose. and sometimes when you lose you win. i think here is the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. talking about in the spring of 1864, the union, after the union suffered more than 17,000 casualties in the battle of the
was like for him. plus, a huge jobs report raises the question, are recession fears overblown? it depends on who you ask. you re in the cnn news room. u.s. senators are expected to vote is tonight on the democrats sweeping health care, climate, and tax bill, and in turn, score president biden a massive legislative victory. the bill represents the largest climate investment in u.s. history. $369 billion in all four measures that are estimated to reduce carbon emissions by as much as 40% in less than ten years. and it gives medicare the power to negotiate drug prices and ensures medicare recipients will spend no more than $2,000 of their own money each year. to help pay for all of this, the legislation will establish a 15% minimum corporate tax on any u.s. company reporting more than $1 billion in earnings to its investors. now, this would impact companies like amazon, which paid zero federal income taxes in 2018. we are monitoring all of the action on capitol hill for you ton