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. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. jeff: good evening. it's great to be with you. and we start tonight in ukraine where there is international concern surrounding europe's largest nuclear power plant. the plant, which is under russian control, has seen artillery shelling nearby, prompting fears of a milwaukee already catastrophe. russian president put on friday said he would allow international in thors into the plant but he would not say how soon. a drone was shot down at the headquarters of its black sea athlete in crimea this morning. no deaths have been reported. in the somali cal of mogadishu, armed islamic militants stormed automobile -- a upscale hotel in a tomorrow -- terror attack that began late las night. bullets filled into the hayat hotel. at least 20 or dead and an unknown number of gunmen are believed to be hold-up atop the hotel. the islamic extremist group, al-shabab, when that is -- has ties with coiled claimed responsibility for the attack. the public s

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbstion from viewers like you. thank you. >> it is good to be with you. as we come on the air, the reporting on the fallout from the top-secret documents recovered from former president trump's mar-a-lago property in florida. u.s. intelligence officials informed congress it will conduct a damage assessment evaluating the potential national security risks resulting from any disclosure of the documents. it is the first known acknowledgment by the intelligence community of the potential damage caused by mr. trump's possession of highly classified material, including human sourced intelligence. in a statement to bbs newshour, the office of the director of intelligence said it will closely coordinate with doj to ensure the assessment is conducted in a manner that doesn't interfere with doj's ongoing investigation. the republican nominee for governor in pennsylvania was once photographed wearing a confederate uniform for a photo. the photo was obtained through a freedom of information act reque

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. jeff: good ening. it is good to be with you. we begin with the latest on the fbi recovering top-secret and even more sensitive documents from former president trump's mar-a-lago estate in florida. "the new york times" first reported today that in june, at least onof the president's lawyers signed a letter asserting to the justice department that all materials marcus classified had been returned to the government, but monday's search of the mar-a-lago estate found classified documents. the move could explain why prosecutors cited obstruction in their search warrant. the southern bapti convention is being investigated after an outside report on the church had mishandled abuse claims and mistreated victims for decades. leaders of the largest protestant denomination in the u.s. said they would fully cooperate, and as the search continues to "grieve and limit its mistakes." the suspect who attacked salman rushdie is a 24-year-old new jersey man.

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your statiofrom viewers like you. thank you. geoff: gd evening. it's good to be with you. we start tonight in ukraine, where the war there nears its six month mark. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warns that the fighting could escalate this week, and he's calling for strength as the country prepares for ukrainian independence day. on the streets of kyiv this weekend, the burnt out remai of russian tanks and battalion vehicles. ukrainian civilians, defiant and proud, snapping pictures on their cell phones. so close to these weapons of war, they can touch them. >> it is very beautiful that we made such an exhibition. it raises morale very much. geoff: on the streets outside of moscow, a vivid act of violence unusual for the russian capital. forensic investigators combed through debris today after a car bomb detonated late last night, killing the daughter of a putin ally. russian officials blame ukraine for the attack, but ukrainian officials deny any involvement. elsewhere, in nikopo

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening. it's great to be with you. we start tonight with the latest surrounding the fbi's seizure of classified documents from rmer president trump's florida property. this thursday, a federal judge will decide whether to grant mr. trump's request for a third party, a so-called “special master,” to decide if some of the documents are legally protected. the judge has already signaled a quote, preliminary intent to do so. and, as we've reported, u.s. intelligence officials informed congress that they will evaluate the potential national security risks stemming from mr. trump's possession of the classified materials. hugo lowell, congrsional reporter for the guardian, joins us now to discuss. it is great to have you with us. the fact that this u.s. district judge, was nominated by trump in 2020, the fact she is granting his legal team's request to review the documents seized during the fbi search, what does that mean practically? hug

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. lisa: good evening and hello. the u.s. senate has passed a historic bill to combat climate change and lower health costs after a marathon night of voting to amend the legislation. the bill is a pared down version of build back better, the legislation democrats struggled with since president biden took office. but today's vote, along party lines, is a major win for the president and democrats. >> and i'm really confident the inflation reduction act will endure as one of the defining feats of 21st century. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today. and that makes me feel very, very good. lisa: the bill would be the largest climate investment in u.s. history, and makes major changes to health policy, including allowing medicare to negotiate prices. house passage is expected friday. we will have more on the bill later in the program. today, president biden left the white house for the first time since get

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening. it's great to be with you. we begin tonight with our weekend briefing. we now know the department of justice is investigating former president trump for potentially violating the espionage act, among other laws, after recovering highly classified government documents from his mar-a-lago estate. meantime, president biden and congressional democrats are celebrating another landmark legislative victory after passing a massive climate, health care, and tax bill that president biden is set to sign into law this week. here to talk about that and more is special correspondent jeff greenfield. great to have you back with us. let's start with the case at mar-a-lago because today you have trump alliepushing a claim that the documents retrieved from mar-a-lago were not classified, that donald trump verbally declassified them. except, one, that is not how the process works, and two, it does not matter. the fbi search warrant was to th

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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionstation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: there is new trouble tonight for former president trump's business empire. allen weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the trump organization pleaded guilty to 15 charges involving tax fraud. he said nothing after today's hearing in new york but his plea deal requires him to testify at the trump organization's own trial in october. he will be sentenced later. a federal magistrate in florida says he is inclined to release some of the affidavit behind the search of the trump estate at mar-a-lago. today he gave the u.s. justice department a week to decide which sections it wanted to keep secret. the search turned up classified white house material. we will return to the trump investigation after the summary. the u.n. called for demilitarized the area around europe's largest nuclear plant appeared key avenue and moscow blame each other for shelling at a nuclear plant in an area now controlled i rush out. the u.n. secretary gener

. ♪ ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour west." we'll return to the full program after the latest headlines. former president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is now a target in a criminal investigation involving the 2020 election. prosecutors in georgia notified his lawyers today. they have convened a special grand jury on attempts to overturn the state's official election results. also today, a federal judge ordered south carolina senator lindsey graham to appear before that grand jury. graham said he will appeal. the u.s. justice department says it will oppose releasing an affidavit used to justify a search of former president trump's home in florida. news outlets wanted the document released, but federal prosecutors said today it would compromise their investigation. the search focused on classified records taken from the white house. the taliban marked one year today since they seized afghanistan's capital, kabul, and took power in

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: a federal judge has unsealed and made public the search warrant for former president donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. a review of the warrant and the list of items removed from trump's property reveals the fbi collected over 20 boxes of items -- binders of photos as well as handwritten correspondence on monday. some of those were classified as top-secret, information that should never be outside of a secure government facility. the former president did not oppose the unsealing of the documents and in a statement released today he asserts that he not only declassified the information but also that the lengths the fbi went to search his property were not necessary. in his words, "all they had to do was ask." we want to bring in one of the reporters who initially broke the story today, sadie gurman of "the wall street journal," and former federal prosecutor renato mariotti. thank you for joining us. hello to both of you. just to clarify this

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: congresswoman liz cheney has lost her republican party primary contest to represent wyoming in the house of representatives. she conceded last night to harriet hageman, who won in a landslide, beating cheney by nearly 40 points. the loss was expected for cheney. since the attack on the u.s. capitol, she's been one of former president donald trump's loudest critics, and serves as vice chair of the house select committee investigating january 6. in her concession remarks, she made clear that she knew the political cost of standing up to trump, and that she'd continue to work to keep him out of power. >> two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear, but it would have required that i go along with president trump's lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system, and attack the foundations of our repu

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. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: the last leader of the soviet union has died. russian officials say mikhail gorbachev passed away in moscow today after a long illness. he took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms, but he could not prevent the collapse of the soviet state and its communist empire at the end of 1991. at his death, mikhail gorbachev was 91 years old. we'll look back on his life, at the end of the program. the united nations is calling for $160 million in emergency funding to help pakistan cope with catastrophic flooding. the un secretary general made his appeal in a video message today. he cited the scope of a disaster that's killed more than 1,160 peop, displaced millions, and destroyed roads and crops. sec. gen. gutees: pakistan is awash in suffering. the pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids. the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. livelihoods are shattered, critical infrastructure wiped out, and people's ho

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: new blasts of extreme weather are taking a toll around the globe tonight. the latest in a series of fierce heat waves has moved into the u.s. northwest. and violent storms and drought are ravaging parts of europe and asia. william brangham has our report. william: in cities across frances, sheets of rain and hail pound the streets. trees are uprooted in backyards. and people wade through storm waters overflowing oo sidewalks. these extreme events, which climate scientists say are increasingly being driven by a warming world, are spreading wider and wider. in germany, it has been the opposite. in extreme drought has shrunk some of the nation's major rivers, snarling cargo traffic. new satellite images show the before and after of a nearly dry rhine river. the storms inundating friends are expected in the coming days. and while those rains could help the rhine, they've already taken 7 lives in france and italy. 140 mile an hour winds hit the

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, nancy pelosi, is in taiwan tonight, and china is already responding. pelosi's late-night landing was quickly followed by news of chinese military drills all around the island. john yang has this report. john: the stars and stripes aglow on the tail of her plane, house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in taipei just before 11:00 pm local time. taiwan welcomed her with a message displayed on its highest skyscraper. outside her hotel, dozens of people awaited her arrival, some to salute the visit - like 29-year-old finance worker, simon lin: thank you, u.s. speaker of the house pelosi, for ignoring china's threats. john: others to protest it. the trip has drawn the ire of beijing, which considers taiwan a breakaway province, and sees pelosi's stop as a threat to chinese sovereignty. today, a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson repeated threats of military action. >> if the us is bent on going it

. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsbs station from viewersike you. thank you. amna: this is primary night in some powerhouse state with some highly anticipated races. in florida, democrats are vying for the chance to challenge governor ron desantis. in new york, a face-off in a redrawn district. we will get much more on those races after the news summary. a jury in grand rapids, michigan convicted 2 men today of conspiring to kidnap democratic governor gretchen whitmer in 2020. it was the second trial for barry croft junior and adam fox after an earlier jury had deadlocked. the fbi said the men are far-right extremists who were trying to foment civil war. defense attorneys said they were entrapped. >> my client is disappointed in the verdict. it's been a good fight. we made it twice in a row. and we were hoping for a different outcome today. amna: evidence showed the plot grew out of anger over governor whitmer's covid restrictions. in a statement today, whitmer said the verdict proves violence has no place in american

this program was made possible the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: inflation in the u.s. has eased, at least modestly for the first time in months. the labor department reports consumer prices were up 8.5% in july from a year ago. still, that was slower than the 9.1% jump in june from the previous year. on a monthly basis, there was no net increase from june to july. as president biden noted at the white house. pres. biden: today, we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. here's what that means. the price of some things go up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. the result, zero inflation last month, but stick -- but people were still hurting. judy: we'll take a closer look at inflation's effects, later in the program. former president trump says he refused today to answer questions in a civil investigation of his real estate dealings. heraveled to the office of new york's attorney geral in manhattan and left six hours later. he said henvoked h

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. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: this is primary elecon night in wyoming and alaska, and a top republican critic of rmer president trump has her job on the line. wyoming representative liz cheney is vice-chair of the congressional january 6th committee. polls have shown her trailing a trump-backed challenger. in alaska, another trump critic -- u.s. senator lisa murkowski -- is hoping to hold on. and, former governor sarah palin is running for alaska's lone u.s. house seat, with mr. trump's backing. we'll get a closer look after the news summary. president biden signed landmark legislation today, the bill dubbed the inflation reduction act. it includes record spending on climate change, provisions to cap medicare drug costs and new taxes on corporations. the president celebrated the legislation as a victory delivered by democrats over solid republican opposition. pres. biden: we've not wavered. we've not flinched. and we've not given in. instead we're delivering result

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. ♪ ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour west." we'll return to the full program after the latest headlines. pfizer asked the fda today to authorize its latest covid vaccine which targets omicron sub-variants. moderna is expected to follow with its own application soon. the fda has ordered the re-formulated vaccines for a fall booster campaign. the nation's top infectious disease expert and the white house's chief medical advisor, dr. anthony fauci, announced today he will retire in december. fauci became the face of the government response to the pandemic, and came under political attacks. today, fauci called his tenure the honor of a lifetime. russia today blamed ukraine's secret services for a weekend car bombing that killed 29-year-old tv commentator darya dugina outside moscow. on sunday, investigators searched the scene. she'd been driving a car owned by her father, an ultra-nationalist and outspoken supporter of president putin. u

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: the chairman of the federal reserve delivered a stark message today on the long fight ahead against inflation. jay powell warned that more interest rate hikes are coming and said they'reoing to take a toll. stocks dropped sharply after his comments. william brangham has the details. william: that's right, amna. with inflation still at a 40-year high, chairman powell today pledged that the central bank is not backing down on its campaign to curb inflation. powell spoke at the fed's annual economic symposium in jackson hole, wyoming, and for a fed chairman, he was pretty direct. >> while higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. these are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. but a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain. william: those comments clearly rattled the markets, triggering a shar

. ♪ >> >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. the verdict is in. u.s. women's basketball star brittney griner now faces nine years in a russian prison. she was convicted and sentenced today on drug charges for having cannabis oil in her luggage as she arrived in moscow last february. the biden administration had sharply criticized her arrest, and a u.s. diplomat condemned the verdict. >> this is a miscarriage of justice. the u.s. department of state has determined that ms. griner was wrongfully detained. nothing in today's decision changes that determination. president biden's national security team and the entire american government remain committed to bringing ms. griner home safely to her family, friends, and loved ones. stephanie: in washington, the white house urged moscow to accept what it called a "substantial offer" to release griner and another american, paul whelan. we'll take a closer look after the news summary. there's a m