a government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says those text messages were erased after, after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january 6th being conducted by that government watchdog. the letter notes that the secret service is claiming that the messages were erased as part of a device replacement program. it is important to note that the messages were erased only after they had been requested by the inspector general. and the inspector general also points out in this letter that her office has been repeatedly rebuffed while trying to obtain these records. a spokesman for the secret service responded to the release of this letter tonight, saying we take strong issue with these categorically false claims and he will be responding in detail shortly. well, it s been two and a half hours since that tweet and we have not seen a more full statement now from the secret service. you will recall that the secret servic
investments. plus, the latest in presidential politics as donald trump all but confirms that he is going to run for president again. what he says about the timing of his official announcement. and the u.s. secret service accused of deleting messages related to the january 6th attack on the capitol. we ll have the agency s explanation. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, july 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. former president donald trump s bid for the white house gain seems all but certain. in an interview, in my own mind, i have already made that decision. he says the only thing left to decide is whether to announce before or after this november s midterms. trump told the magazine that a benefit to announcing before november would be to potentially clear the republican field, saying quote, i think a lot of people would not even run if i did, because if you look at the polls, they don t even register. that of course, is actually not
if there is anyone that could balance all of the tough and competing issues in a high stakes meeting in a region, it is president joe biden. and with that question and about that balance, especially given the murder of khashoggi and president biden has said i made it clear how i feel about that. but yet this visit is validating that there is a balance between strategic economic realities and moral issues. and at same time, it comes back to our dependence on foreign oil, does it not. there are other ways that we should be solving this problem, would you not agree? mika, i want to see us make a transition to a lower carbon cleaner economy to breaking our dependence on fossil energy more than anybody i know. as much as many of my colleagues in my caucus in the senate. and to your point, this highlights that right now at a time when prices at the pump are high for the american people, they ve come down. here in delaware 50 cents over the last month. but they are still too hig
general. in ukraine, 23 civilians including three children were killed and 91 wounded after a russian strike. we will be going to ukraine live. the buffalo supermarket weirton black people were killed in a racist attack is officially reopening as the accused gunman faces new charges. what buffalo residents are saying about the reopening. . we begin in the middle east where president biden is about to begin the second part of his trip to the region. the president is scheduled to arrive in saudi arabia this hour to meet with leaders of saudi arabia and the gulf region. the flight comes hours after a historic decision from saudi arabia to open its airspace to all civilian flights including those to and from israel. before he took off, he met with the palestinian president and reiterated his commitment to a two state solution to end the israel palestinian conflict and paid tribute to an american journalist who the state department says was killed by an accident likely from
there has been so much angst in the white house about how he should behave, whether he should smile. you know, jose, it is more than updates. to put it mildly, he is walking into a minefield. there are so many ways in which this region simply doesn t agree with the perspective in the u.s. we saw a little bit in israel with the prime minister openly disagreeing with the president over the question of iran and the nuclear deal. they don t agree on russia. they don t agree on china. they see china as a crucial economic partner. they don t seem to agree on oil production. there won t be a big announcement of more oil production from here because of the president s visit, although that might come later. not clear. do they agree on human rights? clearly there are many saudis who would like to see human rights and more democracy even and would like to see some of those people who have spoken out released from prison or allowed to travel freely, but there are others here who say actu