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obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. well play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to ind...

water and essential services because of that water break and many others around town. mass shooting. 25 people shot, 1 dead in akron, ohio. >> we were outside enjoying ourselves. next thing we know, we were running for our lives, that fast. plus, president trump jumps in on the ultimate fighting championship in new jersey. >> boy, the round of applause hes getting right now is pretty staggering. >> new cbs polling on what voters think of his felony conviction and its impact on camp...

To poor visibility due to all the smoke. >> definitely this is scary because this is the first time ive been so much closer. >> reporter: more than 400 groups from across the state are battling the fire. but the extreme heat, 40-mile-per-hour winds, and dry grass are fueling the flames. >> the big concern is the grass crop. its, you know, four feet tall, and its pretty thick and matted. >> reporter: residents and their animals are rushing to safety. at least one structure has been destroyed. fla...

On the grand jury. i asked what would happen if somebody lied in front of a federal grand jury. i came to the conclusion that theyd be indicted. theyd be charged. thats the question we have to ask, also, of donald trump. the standards have to be the same. at the same time, john heilemann, it is a bit horrifying to think about the consequences of this. and i say that, of all the terrible legacies that donald trump has left this nation, this may be one of the more long lasting. if he is indicted, ...

Political elections coming up in two months. >> and it is as clear-cut as that for a lot of people in this country. is one man above the law? even based on what weve seen publicly, it would appear, as william barr himself said, that there is enough there to indict. we will see. republicans continue to spin, to defend donald trump, make excuses for his mishandling of classified documents, more than mishandling, bringing them from the white house to mar-a-lago. on twitter yesterday, senator lindse...

House was stored poorly or incorrectly, perhaps. going back to lindsey graham, john, the idea they just kicked down the door of the fbi, all of a sudden, flies in the face of everything we know and that lindsey graham knows. the national archives spent about a year and a half trying to politely get these documents back before they got some back. trumps lawyers lied about giving them all back. the fbi needed a legal search warrant it executed a couple weeks ago. >> heres the republican strategy o...

Obviously, is that this is not a democracy. this is actually a land where the president of the united states is above the law and gets to do whatever he or she wants to. you know, its funny, because i sent my 5-year-old goddaughter off to school, to kindergarten for the first time last weekend, and she literally asked me, she said, "tia mara, why does donald trump need so many lawyers?" then she said, "what is the difference between a king and a president?" i said, "you cannot send a king to jai...

Country? what precedent will that set? will the people really understand that this is not, you know, failing to return a library book, that this was serious? you have to worry about those things. i hope those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him. because i dont want to see him indicted as a former president. but i also think theyll be under a lot of pressure to indict him. one question, look, if anyone else would have gotten indicted, why not indict him? >> goes bac...

Process. it doesnt get a lot worse than that. it really doesnt. the question to indict or not to indict, if thats what the justice department is grappling with, it will be painful, but i just wonder of the consequences of not holding the law to every man and woman in this country. >> well, of course, were talking about terrible precedents. at the end of the day, willie, though, the worst precedent is the justice department, is the united states government saying, no man is above the law unless h...

Documents. >> yeah. >> as all of us raised over the last three weeks, we still dont know why. again, it looks increasingly like -- we have not seen the document, dont have proof, but "the washington post" reported repeatedly that at least one of the documents pertains to a nuclear weapon in a. [speaking non-english] -- in a foreign country. is lindsey graham pretending there is an effort? theres always leaking in washington. the point is did the president break a serious law here or not? if he b...