water supply. more than 150,000 residents of jackson unable to drink their tap water or take a shower. the mayor is standing by to join me live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage this evening with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the justice department is facing a midnight deadline as prosecutors prepare a lengthy response to trump s request for a third party attorney to review seized materials. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking the story for us. evan, we re awaiting the public filing on a so-called special master. we know often doj likes to wait until the last second before it files but what are you expected? we love waiting until the last final hour. we know, pamela, that the justice department said they needed up to 40 pages which is double the number they re usually allowed in southern district of
classified documents at mar-a-lago were likely concealed or hidden. arguing the former president was simply holding on to his own presidential records. in just a few hours, a judge is set to hear arguments on a request for a special master to review the seized documents. also ahead, president biden is set to deliver a major prime time address tonight on the the battle for the soul of america. we ll get a live preview from the white house coming up. and, the latest on the ongoing water emergency in mississippi. we will speak with the mayor of jackson on the crisis that has now triggered a political blame game. but the bottom line, willie, is people there don t have clean water. that is right. and they haven t for sometime. we ll talk to the mayor in just a moment. but let s begin this hour with former president donald trump s legal team and its response to the department of justice latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in the 1
In for alicia menendez. American voices will be back tomorrow. Welcome back to a Special Edition of velshi. We begin this hour with dysfunction in the house of representatives. The federal government will shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding o
Shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding out, no one that crunch time is coming. Even if they say, why didnt all this happen sooner . They are the ones that held it up. Maybe theyll see the pressure and do something differently. Hes relying on Hum
In for alicia menendez. American voices will be back tomorrow. Welcome back to a Special Edition of velshi. We begin this hour with dysfunction in the house of representatives. The federal government will shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding o