insight into former president trump s strategy in this ongoing back and forth over the documents kept at mar-a-lago. and the legal advice and from whom he s getting from conservative activist tom fitton. one person close to the former president said once trump took fitton s advice, quote, it was all downhill from there. this was sources tell cnn trump and his allies have become increasingly concerned about the potential legal implications from all this. plus, president biden fresh off what democrats believe are a winning streak, kicking off the midterm campaign season with a fiery speech in maryland. the president rebuked some trump-supporting republicans calling the extreme maga philosophy as it is known semifascism. his terms. so a lot to get to this morning. our reporters, correspondents are here covering all of the top stories this morning. let s begin on what we will get from doj sometime in the next three hours with our senior justice correspondent evan perez. talk ab
department s proposed redactions. reinhart said the feds met the burden of showing why parts of the affidavit should not be disclosed to the public. house republican greg steubey says he is not expecting any real answers today or ever. listen. that s going to be the most redacted affidavit in american history. the more they redact the less the american people will understand why the f.b.i. felt they needed to raid the former president s home. we aren t going to get real answers to a lot of this until the republicans take the majority back and we have the ability of oversight and bring in the d.o.j. and ask them the tough questions. let s go to david spunt with late breaking details. we re waiting looking at the docket here and we know we are going to see the affidavit but may not be the affidavit everybody wants to see with all the juicy details. that affidavits typically have. this affidavit would have those details. we won t see that version. we ll seal the one with r
message ahead of the midterms. meanwhile hours away from the release of the affidavit that led to the fbi search of mar-a-lago and the redacted document that tells us anything that we don t already know. the latest in an escalating situation in ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant goes offline after intensive fighting sparked fires in the russian-controlled silo. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 26th. i m in again for jonathan lemire, president biden stepped back on to the campaign trail yesterday, with a fundraiser and a rally in the dc suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events. told donors, quote, what we re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump, the entire philosophy, it is like semi-fascism. the rnc came back with this statement, despicable, biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyer
struggling to answer questions about the president s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour we ll break down the plan s benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lago search affidavit within the next 18 hours. let s go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department s redactions today. he didn t. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they
federal loan payments. none of them have to pay any of these loans back until january of 2023. president claiming that this targeted approach will actually have a positive effect, he says, on lowering inflation. but tax experts and republicans think that those numbers do not add up. this is senator tom cotton. watch this. the president doesn t have the power just to unilaterally on his own eliminate entire categories of de. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this is the dumbest yet. a terrible policy that will harm many more americans that it will help. a former obama economic advisor pushing back as well pouring roughly half a trillion of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless, says jason fuhrman who was with the obama/biden administration and thinks it is a very bad move. jacqui heinrich joins us now live with more. good morning, martha. it is not just the press secretary refusing to admit that taxpayers are footing the bill for t