it is making preparations to close its 800-mile-long border with russia. i will talk with the finnish foreign minister about what he thinks putin s next move will be. but first here s my take. ron desantis was on media the other day. our country is currently facing a great threat, he began. i assume with inflation soaring, gas prices so sky-high, and the economy in danger of slowing down he would hit hard on those themes, but these bread-and-butter issues were not mentioned anywhere in the email. a new enemy has emerged from the shadows, he continued, that seeks to destroy and intichl date their way to transform state and country that you and i would hardly recognize. as you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical vigilante woke mob. some of this is a clever affront by desantis to tap into the base of the republican party and outflank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the recent new hampshire poll
for millions of americans who live here. we heard last hour with these folks and their patients and their fellow citizens are up against. threats, harassments, a potential jail time. not to mention the lives and livelihoods at stake, and the risk of dying in force childbirth. later this hour, we will hear why, and how they are pushing ahead. continuing the fight in a place that looks as hopeless as anywhere in america, for abortion rights. they do not use the same tactics and strategies, and you will probably be surprised by some of what they are planning. you will definitely learn some things because i did. so i hope you will stick around for that conversation, but we begin this hour 800 miles away from where i stand. a big week in washington d.c.. mostly good. but some bad. three people are dead from a lightning strike directly across the street from the white house in lafayette park. another person remains in critical condition. that national disaster occurred just hours a
donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that s
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nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are now just waiting for the sign-off from the senate parliamentarian. majority leader chuck schumer says the final version of the bill will be introduced on saturday. the senate will take today off before a long day tomorrow a rare saturday. even rarer one in august. there will be up to 20 hours of debate after the first procedural vote. and then comes what is known as a voter-a-ra mr. a where senat