a to do list including sop of the most precedent setting decisions as they prepare to present closing arguments. add to that list what to do with the mountain of evidence they have accumulated specifically about donald trump s role, hands-on role as the driving force behind the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. one that would ultimately endanger his own vice president and members of congress. here s what committee chairman bennie thompson said about this when speaking to reporters on tuesday. i think now that the department of justice is being proactive, i think it s time for the committee to determine whether or not the information can be beneficial to that investigation. so thompson added in that press avail that the committee will issue an interim report in october followed by a final report by the committee at the end of the year. all the vital work by the the select committee happens as the existential threat to democracy posed by trump and his big lie, a threa
out among s a crowd of political science at an intersection. that s exactly what i wanted was just to see my sign and have a laugh with people. that s right, lucky us. there is a little something to laugh about. so what s one guy really up to you and what s he doing with the money people are giving him? so the big number of the day is not 1.3 billion, the lottery is over folks. the big number is 100. which is 100 days away from the 2022 midterm elections. just a holidays away from getting answers to some of our most precious and political questions. how will voters react to the fall of roe v. wade and will democrats be able to maintain control of the house and senate? well president biden still approval ratings be a liability to his party? a lot of questions. and we re turning to monica alba for answers. let s start with you. so you ve been following the senate race in missouri where disgraced former governor eric greitens is hoping to win the gop nomination. he previ
raided and occupied by a large group of fbiiearge agents trump wrote , nothing like this has ever happened tota a president of the united states before. trump said the raid, whichte wa unannounced, amounts to, quote, prosecutorial misconduct, weaponization of the justice system and an attack by the l radical left democrats who desperately do not want me to run for president d in 2020 four, especially based on recent polls. trump said agents also broke into his safe. former president donald trump concluded his statement, noting that hillary clinton, quote, was allowed to delete an acid wash three thousand emails after they were subpoenaed by congress. but the doj did nothing about that. the new yorkin times is reportig tonight that the search is ,se quote, focused on material thatn mr. trump had brought with himr- to magalog. it waste private clubnc and residence after he leftes the white house. those boxes allegedly contained many pages of classified documents, according tome
cnn s natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we re learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren t sure whether the intelligence community would be able to see the documents that had been retrieved from mar-a-lago because they are part of an active criminal investigation, and the fbi typically holds very closely any evidence in those probes. but obviously the risk here, the potential risk to national security contained in these documents is just too great for the intel community to not be made aware of what s p
cnn through the crime scene. plus, she s the one that we wanted and treasured. singer, actress, and icon olivia newton-john passes away. hello, and welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. president biden began his week on the cusp of a huge win for his party. the senate this weekend in a marathon voting session passed the democratic branded inflation reduction act strictly along party lines. every single republican voted against it. the bill now heads to the house. it is expected to pass along party lines there as well. and president biden could sign it into law as soon as friday. the massive $750 billion bill contains sweeping health care provisions, tax increases on wealthy corporations, and the largest climate investments in u.s. history. and this comes as the president and first lady tour eastern kentucky, where hellish flooding killed more than three dozen people and caused catastrophic damage to communities. presi