meeting where former president trump discusses holding secret documents he does not declassify. listen. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is it ooff the record. but they presented me with this. this is the defense department and him. this was him. that wasn t done by me, it was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. let s see here. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential, secret. as a president i could declassify, but now i can t. yeah, now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? so cool. we hear you probably almost didn t believe me, but now you believe me. no, i believed you. incredible, right? this conversation is a critical piece of evidence in the case of trump s alleged mishandling of classified information. and paula reid explains. reporter: this recording is from the summer 2021 at bedminster, speaking to two people working on an auto
not have authority over our territory. we are going to have a new sheriff in town on january 20th, 2025. bret: central u.s. facing heat advisories well above triple digits to 118-degrees. if there is a sign of dehydration 100 moms red to jump on it. tigers win, tigers win the national championship is headed back to baton rouge. brian: all right. we begin with this. president biden, once again, adamantly denying claims that he knew about his is son s hunter biden overseas business dealings. does anyone believe that at this point. steve: the administration receiving pushback after hunter biden s appearance at white house state dinner while facing criminal charges a bad look some say. ainsley: alexandria hoff is live from washington with more. good morning. the president is having to answer to a lot of things right now. namely whether he knew about his son s business dealings, ever talking about it with him. that was detailed in 2017 whatsapp message allege that
prosecutors to start probing those with access to his laptop and use it to pedal stories to the press. this is the same laptop that hunter left in a delaware repair shop. the same laptop that prompted twitter to block distribution of the new york post scoop on its existence. the same laptop that much of the media once dismissed as russian disinformation. i doubt hunter biden s request for information will go anywhere but he s making himself a bigger story and a bigger media target. i m howard kurtz and this is media gleet buzz. howard: we ll look at what s fueled the media uproar over the chinese spy balloon that spy jets shot down yesterday. it was instantaneous after the washington post had hard hitting faze for hunter biden. it s his laptop, which we ve been telling people for more than two this is the first time hunter biden said, okay, it was my laptop, essentially; right? hunter came out last night and said, daddy, they stole my laptop. he demanded daddy s justice
then, tech mogul mark cuban surprises me with some news about his future on shark tank. and his ongoing feud with one guest shark. have you been in the same room with him? no, i have not. i haven t talked to him since. not a word. and later, the so-called man with a golden ear, clyde davis, reveals the biggest recording artist he never signed and the one he ll always be remembered for. is whitney the artist of your career? i worked a lot on this question. deny it? don t deny it. are you always like this? are you saying parents are wrong? will you come back? of course i will. dr. rochelle walensky leads the centers for disease control and prevention. for more than 18 months, she s been the face of the biden administration s fight against the covid pandemic. in our conversation, she talks about how she deals with the criticism she faces and her future at the agency. but we start with those new covid vaccines. how does the rate at which people are getting thi
ian now stands at 109. all but four of them in western flo florida. today people who evacuated from sanibel islandone of the hardest hit in the state, will be allowed to return to survey their losses. it s going to hit home. it s going to be emotional when they see their properties up close and the amount of damage that this storm inflicted upon them. more now from cnn s carlos suarez. he is in fort myers. reporter: the need for help in florida, immediate. at one food distribution site in north fort myers, the line of cars grew by the hour. the cajun navy foundation on the ground in florida for days handing out crucial supplies for residents without basic services. we got diapers. i know there s water, food. reporter: thousands so far have been rescued from destroyed or flooded homes with harrowing stories of survival. i got pushed away and went around the building and i was able to find some bushes. i grabbed onto it. pulled myself in. halfway in. and i just stay