The committee has been very focused on the discussions about the 25th amendment, both had conversations about the 25th amendment, possibility of removing trump from office in the wake of january 6. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. It is friday, august 12, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where the Justice Department has its answer from donald trump. The former president says he will not challenge a motion to unseal the warrant used to search his maralago home. He says he actually wants the warrant and the list of items taken from his property released immediately. Attorney general Merrick Garland announced thursday that he wanted that information made public, he also said he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant. And the Washington Post is citing Anonymous Sources who say fbi agents were looking for documents related to Nuclear Weapons and the New York Times reports the government officials were concerned that foreigned a v adversaries could try to get access to stuff stored at his home. I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. The men and women of the fbi and the Justice Department are dedicated public servants. More now from evan perez. Reporter the Justice Department is asking a federal judge to authorize the release of Court Documents that would shed light on what the fbi took during an hours long search of Donald Trumps palm beach home. A decision could come as soon as friday and the attorney general Merrick Garland says that he personally approved the warrant and that he is taking the extraordinary step to release the document because trump himself made the fbi search public. The Department Filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president s public confirmation of the search, surrounding circumstances and the substantial Public Interest in this matter. Reporter the move comes as weve learned new details of the interactions between the Justice Department investigators and trump lawyers. At the center of this dispute over records that trump took with him to his beach home at the end of his presidency were concerns about possible exposure of some of the nations most closely guarded National Security secrets, some labeled as special access programs. Cnn has learned that investigators served a grand jury subpoena before a june meeting at maralago at the trump property in palm beach and they left with classified documents. There was another subpoena seeking surveillance tapes from the property. This tells us that despite the claims by trump that he has cooperated all along, the Justice Departments inte interactions with his legal team had become more contentious well before the monday search. Evan perez, cnn, washington. Prospect of Nuclear Weapons documents at trumps home raises serious questions about the countrys safety. We asked former director of National Intelligence about his level of concern. Potentially this is quite dangerous. If for example there are deficiencies, maintenance issues, logistics issues, training issues, both with our minuteman ground based Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force or with a submarine launched missile force. And, you know, that is very, very dangerous to National Security just to have that kind of material just kind of laying around. Now, the mind runs weidlild her. For me, what on earth was the motivation for wanting this kind of data from the white house into a completely unsecured area like maralago. And that, you know, again, the imagination can run wild here as to what the motivation might have been. An hours long standoff with a government this ohio has ended with the suspect dead. The man tried unsuccessfully to enter an fbi office in cincinnati on thursday morning. And then fled in his vehicle. He eventually stopped and exchanged gunfire with officers. Brynn gingras has the details. Reporter multiple sources told me and my colleague Josh Campbell that the arms specific is ricky shiver who they tried to negotiate with this person after a standoff in the rural area of ohio and when that didnt work, less than lethal tactics were used. When that didnt work, were told that he raised a weapon and that is when he was fired at by authorities ending that hours long standoff. Of course it all began at the Fbi Field Office when sources are telling us that shiffer walked in with a weapon and nail gun and took off after the alarm sounded leading authorities on pursuit where shots were exchanged. Looking into a social media account with a user of the same name, authorities have not confirmed that is shiffers account, however we do have one source saying it is the sale pic same picture as government i. D. Of shiffer, it has disturbing rhetoric in it, it is a fairly new account but it does talk and encourage violence against the fbi. In fact it even has a post of the incident that happened in cincinnati. And it seems to have even gotten cut off while this pursuit likely was happening there in ohio. I want to read that to you, this is on the truth social which is the social media platform started by former president donald trump. It says, well, i thought i had a way through bulletproof glass and i didnt. If you dont hear from me, it is true, i tried attacking the fbi and it will mean either i was taken off the internet, fbi got me or they sent the regular cops while and it gets cut off there. And the discussions that was happening on truth social, this user talks about being present in d. C. On january 6, talking about how they believe that the election was stolen from donald trump, and also just again encouraged violence against the fbi. And sort of bummped up the rhetoric after what happened on monday with the fbi search of maralago. Even this person posted, quote, people, this is it, i hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me. This person encouraged people to go get guns, visit pawn shops and again to basically sort of have an allout war with fbi agents. It is still unclear if shiffer what the motivation was for him going to the cincinnati field office, but again, this standoff lasted for several hours and we know there were discussions going on with agents and shiffer. So possible that there is more of an answer to the motivation there. But of course this is an Ongoing Investigation and it is alarming needless to say after we know that Fbi Field Offices all across this country and agents as well have sort of been on guard after all the rhetoric that has been spreading across this country since that search of maralago on monday. But of course as to what caused this, we dont know, but that is something were still asking authorities at this point as the investigation is still ongoing. Back to you. U. S. House Committee Investigating the attack on the u. S. Capitol has been talking with additional members of former president Donald Trumps inner circle. The panel recently interviewed his transportation secretary and they are in talks with his educati education secretary. Both quit the Trump Administration after the insurrection. Reporter were learning more about high level former Trump Officials who are engaging with the january 6 select committee. Sources have told me that elaine chao, of course the wife to senator mitch mcconnell, has already been interviewed by the january 6 select committee. Were also learning that betsy devos who was the former education secretary is in you can takes wi talks with the committee. And Robert Obrien is set to appear for a virtual interview on friday. This is important because the committee has been honing in especially when it comes to the cabinet officials about the efforts to use the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. We know elaine chao and betsy devos both explored removing him from office. It became clear made mike pence would not go along with it, and so both tendered their resignations on january 7. But this is an indication that the committee is still working quietly behind the scenes to get information from new witnesses. Sara murray, cnn, washington. Those new witnesses do not include members of the secret service and some say that they still may be protecting donald trump. Were learned that the watchdog buried a memo about missing Text Messages from the day of the capitol attack, texts we later learned had been erased. Officials from the Inspector Generals Office say they prepared a memo on how the secret service deliberately stole it into the agencys, as on january 6. But after the report was sent to the chief of staff, details about that had been removed from the report. President bidens ambitious plan to curb inflation meanwhile and tackle Climate Change will be taken up by the u. S. House of representatives in the coming hours. The 750 billion piece of legislation passed the senates last sunday on a party line vote, 5150. If the house approves the bill without changes, it can go directly to the president for his signature. That vote is tentatively expected later today. Almost half of that money, 369 billion, is earmarked for combatting Climate Change, Health Provisions in the bill call for giving medicare the authority to negotiate lower drug prices, caps medicare out of pocket costs at 2,000, and extends subsidies under the Affordable Care act for three years. It also proposes a 15 minimum tax on many of americas largest corporations. Two new reports on inflation help put a damper on wall streets short lived rally. Those reports found the price increases have eased over the past two months but still remain historically high. The dow ended thursdays trading session almost flat gaining just 27 points. The nasdaq and s p 500 both closed slightly down. Lets take a look at where the Global Markets stand right now. These are the futures for the u. S. Wall street looking a bit more positive today, up about half a percent on those main indices. In europe, shares are also up about the same amount across france, uk and germany. Asian markets had a positive day if you look at japans shares up more than 2. 5 , half a percent for hong kong. For the First Time Since march, average cost of gasoline in the u. S. Fell below 4 a gallon. It can still be frightfully to fill up your tank, but not quite as painful as in june when it was 1 more per gallon. And while gas prices have been coming down for several weeks, National Average is still about 80 cents more than it was a year ago. While drivers may be getting a bit of relief, uncertainty is the theme for house buyers. Average 30 year Mortgage Rate has climbed above 5 again. Rates rose sharply in 2022 and hit a yearly high in mid june. Economists say there are signs the Housing Market is starting to stabilize, but experts also warn home prices will likely continue to climb because supply is so tight and inflation is taking a larger chunk out of incomes. Some signs of easing inflation, lower fuel costs, legislative wins, we asked the Communications Director is it time for the Biden Administration to celebrate. Were continuing to see things move in the right direction. I dont think that anybody is declaring victory, certainly not President Biden. He is relentlessly focused on doing everything he can to bring down costs for families. It is why he is pushing for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act that will allow medicare to negotiate for the lowest Prescription Drug prices, it will bring down utility bill costs for americans across the country. I mean, these are things that at the end of the day are a big piece of family budgets. So, yes, rents are too high and President Biden is focused on working on pushing for a bigger supply of affordable housing. He has taken steps to ensure for example that builders can have easier access to government financing to create greater supply of housing in the market. So of course there is more we can do. But weve seen tremendous progress, inflation data that we saw this month, gas rice data coming down more than a dollar a gallon, that has a real impact for families and President Biden will continue pushing. Coming up on cnn, the western u. S. Will see some of needed moisture in the coming days. Well have your forecast just ahead. And the devastation that extreme weather is bringing as europe battles scorching heat and drought. Paper . This is the end. The end of paper. The epson rapid receipt smart organizer easily scans all your documents. Paper goes in and stress goes away. 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A sign of the times in california where soaring temperatures and strong winds combine to form a firenado, a swirling flame erupting from a wildfire burning near los angeles. Horn 200 firefighters were called to tackle the wildfire as it spread to some 150 acres. The l. A. County Fire Department says the fire is now 100 contained with no injuries or homes damaged. Parts of the doubt weary west will see some moisture. Parts of wyoming, new mexico could have monsoonal rain. Recent rain in new mexico brought some relief, drought levels from dropped from 80 to 30 over the last three months. For more, were joined by karen hk m m maginniss. Weve been talking about who needs the wet weather more than others, who needs the heat. A lot of people got a lot of heat. What weve seen is fairly widespread monsoonal moisture. It this will never be a day long rain event and it will never be a drought breaker. But what it does provide is some summertime moisture and that is very valuable to the farmers and growers across the west. It is still very dry in a number of areas, but some of those exceptional drought areas, those have shrunk just a little bit. But we still have five states with flash flood watches out from wyoming down across las vegas or Southern Nevada into a portion of southern california, also arizona and utah. Utah had some dry thunderstorms that produced quite a bit of lightning and caught some trees on fire. No one was injured. And the forecast for late in the day on friday and then into saturday, we might see some thunderstorms bumbling around sections of the lower great lakes. Maybe chicago will pick up a thunderstorm or two. Hot across the west, that doesnt change. What has changed are the cooler temperatures into the northeast. 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