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eight other candidates trying to unseat her. john: will the democrat dance her way out of office as chicago s crime crisis puts her celebration on pause? we ll find out soon. we could as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: and it was a busy first hour, here we go. sandra smith in new york. it is not only republicans upset to see chicago s mayor partying up in the streets while the city suffers. raymond lopez, he is not a fan of lori lightfoot s latest moves. also a democrat, and he will be joining us life. but first this fox news alert. john: human smuggling and fentanyl busts, texas is bearing the brunt of the biden border crisis. governor greg abbott is taking matters into his own hands, announcing the state s first-ever border czar. sandra: retired agent michael banks. the title border czar may sound familiar, the same one president biden gave his vice president, kamala harris, nearly two years ago. ....
well, the new house judiciary chairman, jim jordan, announcing he s launching an investigation into the doj s actions related to president biden s handling of classified documents. he s demanding the department turn over a variety of information including all communications related to yesterday s appointment of special counsel. it s hard to believe this is what s happening one week ago, but at just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker, and we still didn t know way back then because last year was a whole year last week a whole year didn t know if kevin mccarthy would actually become speaker. what a difference a week makes, and of course when you think about in washington, d.c. every minute seems to be a new, well, crisis to avert or try to maintain. i want to bring in michael shnell, congressional reporter for the hill. and lia donovan. let me bring you into this conversation because, look, we re ....
grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that ....
6th insurrection. wolf blitzer is off today, i m p pamela brown and you re in the situation room. and let s begin our coverage this hour with tonight s top story. the justice department looking to file a response to donald trump s request for a third-party attorney to review materials seized from his florida home. cnn s sara murray has this report. reporter: the justice department set to weigh in today on former president donald trump s push for an independent special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago. there s still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this, checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was not only essentially morally wrong, but legally wrong. doj asking to file a brief in response to trump s request. the fbi has begun digging through documents and a filler team uncovered some material that may include attorney client privil ....
search in a statement after the story first broke, writing, in part, after working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. they even broke into my safe. a top republicans are rushing to condemn the move, which was likely approved by the leaders of the justice department, including christopher wray, the fbi director who was appointed by former president trump. now, we ve got this story covered from florida and washington. cnn s gabby orr has more on what led to the warrant and we re going to begin, though, with cnn s leyla santiago near mar-a-lago. so, give us the details, first, of the search of trump s home. reporter: right, well, it s been more than 24 hours now, victor, since that execution of that search warrant by the fbi. right behind me, right at mar-a-lago. the primary residence of the former president, donald trump. so, here s what we know, and there s a lot we don t know, but ....