to celebrate july 4th in several key battleground states. we ll show you how the presidential contenders marked the holiday. plus a federal judge orders the biden administration to stop talking with social media companies. what it means for the effort to tamp down misinformation about covid and so much more. and later which of these things is not like the other? looks like the gop needs to brush up on its social studies. how its twitter page mixed up the american flag. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we certainly hope you had a happy and safe july 4th. the white house celebrated america s independence yesterday with a barbecue, a concert, and of course plenty of fireworks. we re turning from a weekend at camp david, president joe biden addressed military members in the crowd who he called the protectors of democracy. you are the backbone, the reality of why we are
the terrifying shooting spree, but the gun violence this weekend was not limited to philadelphia. three people were killed in fort worth, texas, another lost their lives in shreveport, louisiana, and nine were injured in a drive-by shooting in our nation s capital. we re live from philadelphia. this country needs to re-examine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous peoples hands. also this hour, a scorching day for most of the country after the world marked the unofficial hottest day on record yesterday. and later, suspected cocaine in the white house, the new steps in the investigation on how exactly the illegal drug ended up inside the west wing. we re going to begin this morning with the devastating outbreak of gun violence and the frantic search for answers in multiple communities including philadelphia, where the suspected philadelphia mass shooter appeared in court for the first time since five people were gunned down. no cameras or phones wer
homework, why they should be able to enter the residence and conduct search warrants, and receive items of evidence they re searching for. 65% of the paragraphs in the affidavit were redacted in full or in part. it s a significant amount of the document. should we have gotten unredacted pieces three months ago, six months ago, nine months ago, now that the former president has been charged, indicted, a lot of the things that have been blacked out previously are either in this indictment or are still being redacted because as we know this is an ongoing investigation. that component of it surely we won t be able to see. so much of the investigation is classified, and that s certainly something that jack smith s team is going to have to deal with when they present this case to a jury and present the evidence to a jury. are we going to get any hints about what more could be in this trial in terms of evidence? we got some hints obviously from the indictment about what sort of do
master would do. a separate filter team has gone through the documents. pierre thomas standing by on the investigation tonight. dan abrams also here on what may be coming next. also tonight, the major news on covid. the new booster for millions this fall here in the u.s. the fda now authorizing updated covid boosters from both pfizer and moderna, targeting omicron and the ba.4 and ba.5 subvariants. this could be ready in days. so, who should get one? your questions answered right here tonight. also this evening, the state of emergency in jackson, mississippi. 160,000 people still without d drinkable water. thousands lining up for hours waiting for cases of bottled water. but there has been a major development tonight, and we ll have the latest. the war in ukraine tonight. and this evening, the images now coming in. an armored convoy carrying u.n. inspectors trying to get to europe s largest nuclear power plant right there in ukraine. how will they be received by the rus
already done what the special master would do. a separate filter team has gone through the documents. pierre thomas standing by on the investigation tonight. dan abrams also here on what may be coming next. also tonight, the major news on covid. the new booster for millions this fall here in the u.s. the fda now authorizing updated covid boosters from both pfizer and moderna, targeting omicron and the ba.4 and ba.5 subvariants. this could be ready in days. so, who should get one? your questions answered right here tonight. also this evening, the state of emergency in jackson, mississippi. 160,000 people still without drinkable water. thousands today lining up for hours waiting for cases of bottled water. but there has been a major development tonight, and we ll have the latest. trevor ault is on the scene. the war in ukraine tonight. and this evening, the images now coming in. an armored convoy carrying u.n. inspectors trying to get to europe s largest nuclear power pla