information, which suggests officials believe trump knew he had classified documents and released allegedly intentionally did not return them. justice department prosecutors made the case for secrecy warning, quote, evidence might be destroyed. even saying the affidavit would provide a road map as well to the investigation. that does not appear to be resonating with the judge, who set in motion the possibility at least of releasing a redacted version of that affidavit, something that could happen as early as next week. and in a cnn exclusive report, some former trump allies are calling the president s claims that he had a standing order to declassify documents, quote, i ll paraphrase, bs. cnn watched out to 18 former top administration officials from the trump years and all of them told us they never heard of any such order, issued during their time, in the trump administration. but, first, a critical deadline for fulton county, georgia, prosecutors, just expired. they had un
february of 2021, signs pointing to a recession soon if they are not already there. and with that cheery news, we kick off the day. john roberts in washington. harris said have a great weekend, i m with it. let s pull up stakes and go home. sandra: go with it. great to be with you, john. sandra smith in new york. this is america reports . latest response from the white house seems to be about semantics with the president and his team trying to change the definition of a recession. the administration is also claiming the economy is in strong shape due to a hot labor market and falling gas prices. john: millions of americans struggling to afford groceries and to fill up their tanks as inflation runs rampant. sandra: mike emmanuel is live on the north lawn, white house says don t look here, not recession, but the white house seems to counter what millions of americans are actually feeling. sandra, you are right. white house officials are already downplaying this week s
you? well, i would like to say i use not middle of the road but common sense. i get a lot of good adjectives there. but one of the things that gives me real hope, i m a vice chair of the bipartisan group problem solvers caucus, equally divided between the republicans and democrats. we were the ones that were able to get the infrastructure bill to the house. it is different in the senate. the senate has different rules that requires 60 votes. and in the house, what we did as problem solvers, we took the bipartisan vote in senate and made it somewhat bipartisan in the house. we did it with the chip legislation that just passed. we did it with some of the gun stuff that senator cornyn left the led the fight on over in the senate. we did that with the infrastructure bill from last year. so that is, i think, we have a
standpoint of our energy security, economic security is great threat, now partially related to the energy crisis precipitated here. we have the economy not strong, speaking of weakness when it comes to what happened in afghanistan. we need to get back on our game, pushing a strong america agenda. john: some people have said now is the time for a strategic decoupling of the united states from china, we are far too dependent on china that american consumers buy, and manufacturing and sourcing goods, we are funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into their pocket every year, which they use to build their military and greater threat to the united states. is it time to cut the cord, as it were? john, you are exactly right. the amount of funds we have sent from the you state to china are more than adequate to fund a great expansion in their military. dependence and concerns, chip legislation in the senate, we need to reshore the supply
head-on? quite frankly, that s what the american people are talking about. i don t disagree with that article. i would argue that we have been doing some things. but i m pushing my leadership again today. i have a plant closed in my district again today for another week because of the chip shortage. we need to pass the chip legislation. the president wants it. the senate wants it. we have to get it done in the house. any democrat that doesn t talk about inflation is making a mistake. it is real. there s things that we have done and have to keep doing to bring that down. if we don t talk about these issues you talked about, we will lose the election. but i think we will and you re going to see some things. martha: you know, when you look at a white house and how its functioning, you look at the chief of staff, ron klain. they talk about redoing the