austin covering a lot of ground in his first press conference since his secret hospital admission, addressing the elephant in the room saying he did not handle his diagnosis and hospitalization correctly, and reiterated the u.s. plans to respond to a deadly attack on u.s. service members in jordan. i m john roberts in new york city, and look who is here today. just like magic. gillian: we managed to shake free of it. great to be with you, john. i m in for sandra smith, she s out on assignment. america reports . general austin s briefing comes as u.s. officials confirm iran manufactured the drone used to kill the three american service members and injure dozens more during sunday s strike. calling the attack on sleeping soldiers egregious and looking for a multi-tiered strike in retaliation. john: tensions ratcheting up near the red sea, united states taking out an anti-aircraft missile in yemen, raising concerns the group could be expanding its target zone. gillian:
that is all in. a magical land of with pod you re like a wizard. that s what i am. thanks for joining us. it was june of 2022 and the venue for the conservative political action conference, cpac, venue was packed. hundreds of far right politicians and activists gathered to claim election fraud, the launch attacks against the president. donald trump was slated to give a talk on chinese election interference. jason miller was there, now ceo of the conservative twitter clone getter. also this attendance was republican mark green who voted against the certification of joe biden as president. and in a lot of ways this was just another cpac conference. the main difference was that this one was happening in brazil. months before that country s presidential election. and all the false claims about election fraud, they were dubbed in portuguese. this is the extent to which the maga movement embedded itself in brazilian politics, a relationship now worth revisiting after they had
than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
still more classified documents at the private club, closed quote. that signals there was potentially additional material there of interest to the u.s. government, even after trump turned over those 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. and last night, the director of the fbi chris rwray refused o answer questions about this search. he expressed real concern surrounding violent threats against fbi agents. take a listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. and this morning, cnn has learned that some within the justice department believed that the department should have provided a public statement on the search. so let s start right there with our cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we have been talking a lot this week about the real escalation from a meeting that investigators had back in june, with trump lawyers at mar-a-lago, leadin
make clear what laws the fbi thinks he may have violated and he could produce that receipt for what they took from his home. so why hasn t he? that remains a major question. and in the meantime, inside the justice department, there is some frustration that so far the department said nothing about the search, while trump and his allies portrayed it as a siege, even suggesting without any proof that fbi agents may have planted evidence. joining us now is former trump white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. mick, it is great to have you on this momentous morning. i want to first start with your reaction to this search, because you did mention that there are two ways to see this unprecedented move. tell us about those. sure. i can think either it is a legitimate investigation into classified documents, or it is a political hit job. i think it is important that people understand why they re seeing the reaction they re seeing from the right. keep in mind, if you re repub