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california history. >> agh. lucky for us the fires hadn't made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasn't safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, my elderly parent, and our kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. now back then, it seemed like a oneself-in-a-lifetime thing. >> fire rescue, what is your emergency? >> but ever since, the fires in california have a gotten worse. >> dixie fire. >> woolsey fire. >> are more towns burned to the ground, more for...

americans and their governmentm. a decade ago. the new york times admitted this. the times markedis the anniversary of 9/11 by publishinhed a piecg a piece on the rise of domestic surveillance abuses which explode after the 9/11 attacks. the patriot act, according to st the new york times, quote, govem quickly became a sort of shorthand for government abusenh and overreaching, which, quote, inflicted collateral damage on political dissent, religiousl liberty and the freedom of association, end quote. that is still true, in fact, truer than it's ever been,trage. and it is still a trag...

23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. president biden's first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down that's not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and promised iran will never get a nuclear weapon. how to go about that? that's where they public disagr...

>> also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? >> welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department's historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump's mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department's investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified ma...

wants a long sentence for his son. he claims he did not see a lot of signs of his son's troubles, but police reports prove otherwise. but first, moments from now, president biden will present the medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor, to 17 recipients. the prestigious list includes olympians, actors, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, and the first american to receive the covid vaccine. cnn's phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. what do we expect from today's ceremony? >> reporter: it's a buoyant moment to some degree. this is a particularly difficult momen...