sharell after her meeting with biden and others that there is a sense that their fates are very much linked. the biden administration is talking to russia about bringing both of these americans home and offering to russia what they think ought to be enough to bring them both home. paul whelan has been detained longer than brittney griner, but it s this pressure that biden has faced publicly from sharell griner and the wnba, the nba and many, many others that has really brought this situation to this point. anderson, i want to add, you know, one thing i did ask her. she s been talking to her wife via letters over the last several months. and she said that just in the last few weeks, those letters have really taken a very dark turn. she said, her wife is really at a breaking point. she said, she is losing it, partly because what comes next is an appeal process. that appeal process is not really likely to go brittney griner s way. and if it does not, she could be
captions by vitac www.vitac.com anderson s been working on a new podcast called all there is. he started recording it while packing up his mother s apartment after her passing. it s about the people we lose, the things they have, and what they leave behind. you ll find it on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. the news continues, so let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. i can t wait to listen to that podcast from anderson as well. this is cnn tonight. look, we ve got some pretty big news to take apart. there s a lot of news coming out. it might feel a little incremental at different times, the drip, drip, of different information coming from doj, a subpoena here, a subpoena there. the drip, drip, is now raining down all over trump world. we re talking about more than 30 issued by the doj just in recent
reported tonight about the fbi s search of the former president s residence in florida as well as democrats busy legislative schedule ahead of midterm elections, it s been a very busy start to august on capitol hill. i m joined by vermont senator bernie sanders, an independent who caucuses with the democrats. senator sanders, it s good to see you. on the inflation reduction act, you gave a speech on the floor of the senate where you were open about the flaws you saw in this bill. yet you decided in the end to support it. why? anderson, this planet faces an unprecedented crisis in terms of climate change, and the scientists tell us that we had a few years to begin to turn around and transform our fossil fuel system. this bill and the best thing about this bill is it puts over $300 billion into sustainable energy and energy efficiency, and as a result of this, my hope and expectation is you ll see an explosion in wind, solar, and other forms of sustainable energy. and at this mome
manage the consequences of this latest political charade too, including by continuing to support new york city and washington, d.c. abbott has not shown any indication he plans to stop the buses any time soon. the news continues. i want to hand it over to sara i want to hand it over to sara sidner and cnn tonight. captions by vitac www.vitac.com anderson, good to see you. thank you. i am sara sidner and this is cnn tonight. we are going to take you through the twists and turns donald trump and the country are going through. there are so many questions yet to be answered about what led fbi agents to mar-a-lago on monday and also who may have led them there. the wall street journal is now reporting there was an informant, someone familiar with documents stored at trump s residence who told investigators
claims that are being made by some of the republicans and the former president himself, anderson. republicans who should know better frankly. there s new reporting from the wall street journal regarding interactions between department of justice investigators and those in the former president s orbit in the weeks leading up to the search on monday. reporter: yeah, absolutely. one of the things that is really strange about this is we know there are multiple there were several months of conversations that went back and forth between the justice department and the president s legal team. and according to the journal, one of the things that seemed to tip the balance for carrying out this search was the fact that they had a witness or somebody who told the federal investigators that they believed there were additional national security information documents that were being stored there in mar-a-lago against what the rules are. and so that s the reason why they took this unprecedente