the president has done what he can do with the tool in front of him. i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message. a lot of people out there making $30 grand,s $40 grand a year tt didn t go to college and need help as well. the truth is, in a sense that criticism is correct, but the answer is not to deny help to people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. that debate in a moment, but up first for us today, a national security gut chuck under way. top u.s. intelligence official making an important disclosure over the weekend. director of national intelligence saying now assessing classified documents kept at donald trump s mar-a-lago compromised how the united states spies on its adversaries. one of the hard questions is the 184 documents bearing classified markings and who had access to them potentially exposed confidential human sources. just today a new filing from the justice department lawyers telling a federal judge the
tech upgrades for your changing wifi needs. and advanced security at home and on the go to block millions of threats. only from us. xfinity. good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day, i m amara walker. good morning, amara. i m boris sanchez. we are counting down to liftoff again. hours from now, nasa is going to attempt to launch the historic artemis i rocket. we ll have the latest from kennedy space center and update on those issues that forced the first launch to be scrapped. and if you live out west, brace yourself. it is going to be a scorcher. more than 40 million people under heat alerts and ahead, we ll tell you what to expect going into the holiday weekend. plus, the cdc giving the green laight on updated covid-1 boosters. now pharmacies are getting ready to roll out the new shots, but who should get them and when? and she may have lost at the u.s. open, but all eyes are still on tennis superstar serena williams. we ll show you the highlights from la
to residents in desperate need. plus, president biden sharpening his attacks, ripping into donald trump as his midterm message takes shape. why he says maga republicans are threatening, quote, the foundations of our republic, end quote. and despite getting knocked out of the u.s. open, all eyes are on tennis star serena williams. was last night s match the last one of her career? we re going to have a look back at her lasting and incredible impact on the court. welcome to your labor day weekend. we re grateful that you re sharing it with us. it s saturday, september 3rd. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you. i m not mad that i m not on a plane off to vacation or anything. i m just really happy to be with you, boris. nowhere you would rather be than right here with us watching the skies, right? in a matter of hours nasa will try to launch its uncrewed artemis i rocket on a journey around the moon. we ll look at live pictures right now, preparations und
even in the library. let s go out front. good evening. i m erica hill, in tonight for erin burnett. out front tonight are all documents accounted for. that s the question tonight after a newly released court filing reveals the fbi s search of mar-a-lago last month recovered 48 empty folders marked as classified information. it s important to note we don t know what was in those folders. what we do know, they were empty, all four dozen of them. according to the seven-page inventory unsealed today they also found press clippings, clothes, gifts, 11,000 non-classified documents, 18 documents marked cop secret, 54 marked secret, and 31 documents marked confidential. there were also an additional 42 empty folders labeled return to staff secretary/military aide. now, keep in mind this trove is on top of the 15 boxes trump s team turned over in january. there were 184 classified documents in those boxes. the former president claims many of the documents are actually protected by e
political violence. with philadelphia s independence hall as a backdrop and flanked by two marines he frames the critical midterm elections as a choice between democracy and extremism. this morning the white house is pushing back on criticism that the president s speech was political. officials saying it was, quote, entirely about democracy. let s go straight to the white house, cnn s jeremy diamond is there. how do they feel about how it went, jeremy? reporter: john, biden s message last night was unmistakable democracy is under assault and president trump and his allies are the ones assaulting it. last night s rare prime time address wasn t just a warning about donald trump and trumpism, it was also a very clear call to action, call to action for voters to act and make their voices heard in the midterm elections. equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. reporter: president biden issuing an urgent call to americans an