Special counsels classified documents case is out on bail this morning. Maralago Property ManagerCarlos De Oliveira made his appearance in a miami courtroom on monday. He didnt enter a plea including conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to the fbi. More now from cnns jessica schneider. Justice department is unfortunately decided to bring these charges against mr. De oliveira. Now its time for them to put their money where their mouth is. Reporter carlos deal vary ra leaving the federal courthouse on monday escorted by his lawyer and federal agents. 20 year employee at maralago, he walked out on 100,000 bond after being charged along with former donald trump and trumps aide walt gnat ta. De oliveira telling the director at i. T. At miami, the boss, an apparent reference to donald trump, wanted to delete the server where Security Footage was stored. Cnn reporting that another maralago employee received a Target Letter from federal prosecutor. Over sees the Property Surveillance Cameras and met with investigators in recent weeks. Its unclear if he is cooperating. So far he is not facing charges. But at least some of the allegations in the latest indictment were based on information he provided. You know, theyre not indicting me. Theyre indicting you. I just happen to be standing in their way. Thats all it is. Reporter trump defiant as he continued campaigning over the weekend, even as he was charged with additional crimes in the Special Counsels classified documents case. If i werent running, i would be have nobody coming after me. Or if i was losing by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. Reporter plus, all signs point to another indictment soon out of d. C. s federal court. Tell us when you expect to have an indictment this week. Were ready to go. Reporter in georgia, indictment watch kicks into full gear. Fulton countys District Attorney likely a week or two away from presenting her case to a grand jury and announcing whether trump will be charged for trying to overturn the 2020 Election Results in that state. Ramped up Security Measures are already in place around the local courthouse and a county judge just rejected efforts by trumps legal team to toss evidence in that Criminal Investigation and to disqualify the District Attorney. Some people may not be happy with the decisions that i am making. Sometimes when people are unhappy, they act in a way that could create harm. The work is accomplished. We have been working for two and a half years. Reporter double trumps legal bills are mounting so much so that sources told our Kristen Holmes that his team is now creating a Legal Defense fund to help offset some of the costs. Up to this point, its been trumps Political Action committee save america that has been fronting those costs. Already spending more than 40 million just this year to pay for the legal fees for trump and many of his associates. Jessica schneider, cnn, washington. One of Hunter Bidens former Business Partners is adding fuel to the republican investigate of the president s son. Sources tell cnn that devin archer testified to a House Committee that hunter biden sold the, quote, Illusion Of Access to his father. But, offered no evidence actually connecting the president to any of hunters Business Dealings. Cnn Melanie Zanona has more from capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans are turning up the heat on hunter biden. The House Oversight committee on monday held a deposition with devin archer, he is a former Business Associate of hunter biden. He served on a board of Ukrainian EnergyCompany Along with hunter biden. And republicans wanted to bring himt in because they thought he could reveal Key Information about President Joe Biden. And whether he was involved in any of his sons foreign Business Deals. That is a link that the white house has furiously denied and a link that republicans have yet to establish. But one of the things that republicans were particularly interested in was whether President Joe Biden ever spoke with any of hunters Business Partners. Democratic congressman dan goldman was print for that deposition and he confirmed that hunter biden did put joe biden, who was Vice President at the time, on speakerphone around 20 times in the presence of his Business Partners, but goldman was adamant that no business was discussed and those conversations were casual. There still is no connection of any of Hunter BidensBusiness Dealings with president biden. Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people. And they never once spoke about any Business Dealings as he described it. It was all casual conversation. Reporter a source also told my colleague zach cohen that archer testified that hunter was selling the, quote, Illusion Of Access to his father but never provided any evidence linking joe biden to any of these Business Deals. The same source also said that archer testified he had no knowledge of allegations about a Bribery Scheme involving joe biden and a foreign national. Now, republicans say they feel vindicated after this testimony. And that these Speakerphone Calls along with a dinner where joe biden was present is proof that the president was more intimately involved in his sons Business Deals than was previously known. They say biden lied to the American People and they are vowing to continue to dig into the issue. In fact, a trio of chairman also launched a probe on the same day looking into the department of justice plea deal involving hunter biden. They want documents. They want a briefing. A clear sign that theyre not letting up on any of these probes any time soon. Melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill. Russian officials are accusing ukraine of launching a new wave of Drone Strikes on moscow. A short time ago, moscows mayor says several were shot down this morning but one of them did crash into the same highrise tower that was hit in an attack on sunday. Cnns Clare Sebastian is following the news live from london. So you and i spoke yesterday, of course, about some of the videos we were seeing of previous Drone Strikes. Ukraine taking the war right to the heart of Vladimir Putins russia once again here. A bit of deja vu there, omar. Certainly these kinds of attacks are intensifying. This is no longer an isolated incident. Three Drone Attacks on moscow in the space of just over a week. So i think that is significant. There is no claim of responsibility from ukraine explicitly. Russia has explicitly blamed them. We do have this morning a tweet from a prominent ukrainian official, the adviser to the head of president zelenskyys office who says moscow i rapidly getting used to fullfledged war, which will soon final move to the tear otheof the authors of the war. He goes on to say that everything that will happen in russia, objective historical process, more unidentified drones, more collapse, more civil conflict, more war seems to suggest this may be a part of a process to destabilize russia. That may well be the point here literally and figuratively shattering the facade thats been created for the russian people that everything is going well, that this is a special Military Operation on the front lines miles away. Certainly from the russian capitol that ukraine is losing in its counteroffensive. This really does, as you say, bring it home. And we did, of course, hear from president Zelenskyy On Sunday saying the war is gradually returning to russian soil. It will involve symbolic centers, he says, and Military Bases. When you talk about moscow, thats certainly a symbolic center, but there were military targets allegedly in play as well. Overnight, russia claiming it thwarted a maritime drone attack on two Patrol Vessels of its black sea fleet. It says it destroyed those maritime drones. But certainly seems these attacks are intensifying. Russia in response promising to intensify attacks of its own which we have seen play out over the last 24 hours. We are in a period in this car of escalation on both sides. Omar . Clare sebastian, something to watch for. Thank you so much. An American Woman is under arrest in the bahamas charged with conspireing to kill her husband months after the couple filed for divorce. A source telling cnn, police foiled that plot when they stumbled on messages on a phone recovered in an unrelated investigation. Cnns Nick Valencia has the story. Reporter two local bohemian men were also taken into custody and according to prosecutors, the accused agreed to carry out a murder for hire plot on the husband of American Lindsey Shiver On July 16th in the bahamas. That plot was foiled. Its not entirely clear. Theres reporting that cnn has been unable to verify. We do know the three defendants were in a courtroom in the Bahamas On Friday and were not required to enter a plea. But they were told if they were seeking bail that they could appeal to the Supreme Court on the island. Social media that appeared to belong to lindsey shiver showed her husband and she attended Auburn University and appeared to show a happy church going. He cited his wifes adulterous conduct as the reason for the divorce filing. The next day, lindsey also filed for divorce. We reached out to the attorneys in the divorce proceedings, but we have not yet heard back. Meanwhile the next court day for the bahamas for the three defendants is october 5th. Nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. U. S. Officials tell cnn the government is working to secure the release of the Kidnapped American nurse in haiti. The abduction of Alex Dorsonville and her son is part of a years long epidemic of kidnapping for profit in that country with more than 1,000 registered by police in just the First Six Months of this year. Cnns paula newton has more. Such a resilient people. Reporter alex in her own words saying how much her work in haiti means to her. Now her family and friends are asking for prayers and mercy and the safe return of this nurse from New Hampshire and her child. They were snatched thursday from the grounds of the faithbased Charity El Roy Near the haitian capital portauprince. Her husband san droe is the director. A statement from the charity reads, our team at el roy haiti is grateful for the outpouring of prayers, care and support for our colleague. We continue to work with our partners and trusted relationships to secure their safe return. The u. S. State Department Says theyre aware of the abductions and doing all it can to assist. Were in regular contact with the haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our u. S. Government. Haitian police and government authorities have not responded to cnn inquiries about the kidnappings. But on the same day the u. S. Ordered all nonemergency staff to leave haiti again warned that all americans should leave. Citing the increase in violence and the risk of kidnapping. But it was the dire need in haiti and the hope that Gang Recruitment could be stopped that she said so compelled her to live and work in haiti over the last several years. Lots of people who would just have turned to gangs or turned to the streets, theyre able to get vocational training. People are learning how to read. The community is being transformed where it was once ashes now beauty is coming up from it. Reporter Brutal Street Battles and ever more violent incidents still plague the streets of portauprince and beyond. Now with an equally violent Vigilante Uprising in recent weeks that has seen suspected gang members stoned and burned to death. In fact, the u. N. Reported earlier this month that an alarming cycle of violence persists. The u. N. Continues to plead for Multinational Force to move in and quell the violence. The u. S. Secretary of state saying saturday there has been some progress. Weve been very focussed on trying to put in place whats necessary for a Multinational Force, including finding a lead nation to take this on. Reporter kenya now says with the u. N. Mandate it is willing to send up to 1,000 officers to train and assist haitian police. But an International Intervention may not come soon enough for the nurse and her child at this hour are at the mercy of their captors with their demands unknown. Paula newton, cnn, ottawa. 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I want to start here, de oliveira is accused of being part of an effort to try to delete Security Footage at trumps resort. Not being part of trumps inner circle, though. Could that make him more likely, you think, to make a deal . Well, where we are today is that the pawns in Donald Trumps orbit are now being forced to move by prosecutor smith. And each of those pawns is moving in a very predictable way. In chess, pawns get to make one step and one step only. In this case, the steps are finding a Donald Trumpappointed attorney from washington, d. C. To bring them closer into the orbit. Second, showing up on court on day one and saying they dont have a local Florida Attorney to represent them. So, that is a process by which donald trump is able to control these pawns so that the king or in this case, the kingpin is not toppled. And robert, to that point, you know, bringing the trump orbit i should say is paying for at least the legal fees now for de oliveira and walt ngata, as far as we know. You touched on it a little bit, is that sort of influence on these folks to try to bring them into that orbit . Is that a common practice . How do you interpret what were seeing there . Its not a common practice in the outer world, but in the trump world, you can see and reach all the way back to last summer when we saw Cassie Hutchinson in the same process, in the same procedure and then realize at some point this is not in my best interest and went out and got her own counsel. So one of the ways that donald trump controls the pawns, the rooks, the castles in his orbit is to assign them counsel of his seeking and his orbit. Yeah. Now, and were also learning the Surveillance Footage thats linked to the new Obstruction Charges against trump in the classified documents case was only obtained in recent weeks. Is that a sign that the Special Counsel is still digging despite essentially charges being brought . It clearly is. And as a good special prosecutor, mr. Smith has shown himself to be, you never stop looking for things that will help your case move forward or to bring the people you want to charge to the table to plead. Yeah. Now, i want to switch to theres a lot of jurisdictions here, but i want to switch to a State Investigation in georgia tied. Fulton county judge rejected challenge from trumps legal team to stop the investigation. Writing in part, i want to read this here, while being the subject or target of highly publicized Criminal Investigation is likely unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation. What do you make of the judges reaction there . Really didnt seem to leave any daylight for interpretation. Yeah. I think the judge was trying to let the world know that we live in a world, at least in the United States for the time being, where the rule of law trumps the individual personality of an individual who happened to have been the former president of the United States when he was alleged to have committed crimes. And were going to move forward like he is a citizen of the United States, like you and i, who can defend himself, is innocent until proven otherwise, but is also open to being investigated by Different Levels within the United States systems. And for our audience trying to keep track of all of these cases and all of these jurisdictions, in that case, Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis is expected to present her 2020 election interference case to a grand jury by september 1st. Professor robert sanders, thank you for joining us this morning. Your insight is greatly appreciated. Quick hits across america now. 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At least 11 people have died in beijing and 27 are still missing this morning after a typhoon brought torrential rains and flooding to the region. More than 127,000 people have been displaced as dangerous waters swept away cars, even water logging beijing international airport. Some parts of the city are covered in mud now, and its not over yet. Cnns mark stewart joins us from tokyo. Mark, incredible images that were seeing. But is the worst over here . Reporter hi there, omar. Look, this is tough because it has been raining throughout the day in beijing at a time when the focus is really supposed to be on evacuations, rescues and recovery. Lets talk about rescues for a moment, because we have been getting video all day, but one in particular really caught our attention. Theres a driver who, as you will soon see, was caught on top of their car. Eventually rescue crews were able to take a crane and hoist a Rescue Worker down to help that person. They were able to lift him up using the crane, using a rope. But it is emblematic of what we have been seeing across beijing. Fortunately most of these rescues havent been so dramatic, but we have seen a lot of people having to be taken out of flooded areas because their cars are stuck and neeven in ci streets, people are taken away from buildings, going through water that is well above their waist. Beijing is a city of more than 20 million people. It has impacted, as you mentioned, the airports. One airport in particular has dealt with some flooding. Train service has been impacted. Even some wellknown landmarks in beijing have dealt with this flooding. There is a venue from the Winter Olympics in 2022 that is dealing with damage. Theres a brand new Shopping Mall that has a big hole in front of it where the earth basically sank in because of all of this water. In addition, a new hotel is also dealing with damage. Chinese leader xi jinping has been speaking out about this, really talking about the need to get forces together, to deal with these infrastructure issues, to get transportation back on track and to make repairs as soon as possible. I should point out, where i am right now in tokyo, if you go to the south to okinawa here in japan, there is the threat of yet another typhoon, another Severe Weather threat depending on how things transpire, omar, it could be a problem not only here in japan but really across asia. Based off those images, hopefully its not nearly as bad as were seeing there. We have to wait and see. Marc stewart, thank you so much. About 1,000 u. S. Troops stationed in niger are being restricted to their Military Base this morning nearly a week after the president was ousted. Coup leaders now arrested six senior members of his party and accused france of planning to free the president. France is getting ready to evacuate french and eu citizens from Nigh Jeer Niger including its embassy staff. Whats the latest here, stephanie . Reporter so, omar, as you say, were hearing thats the french French Embassy is planning to evacuate its citizens and staff from the country. They say this is because of the attacks on their embassy. A few days ago, the antifrench protests we saw in the aftermath of this coup that happened last week. And people just gathering outside saying down with france. And the antifrench theyre responding swiftly to get their citizens out. And the regional body has said that it is going to its threatening force if the coup leaders dont restate the president and his administration. This is the first time that the body has threatened this kind of force. There have been coups in this part of africa, of course. Burkina faso and mali neighboring countries had coups recently, so you know, people are wondering why this has happened now. Why are they taking such a hard line. But, you know, niger is a very strategic country in this region. Its allies to the u. S. And uk both have Military Bases there. And theyre helping to fight the islamic extremism that were seeing in this region. So, niger is a very, very strategic country an needs to be aligned with the western allies in this region. So, that is perhaps why the body has responded so swiftly. But mali and burkina faso say if this happens its a declaration of war. Nobody wants to see a war in this region, omar. Yeah, stephanie busari, not just implications there but eu, france and beyond. Quick hits around the globe. This weekend, saudi arabia is set to Host Ukraine Peace Talks with the u. S. Several european countries, china and india. Russia has not been invited but says it willquote, keep an eye on the meeting. 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The suspect in the Gilgo Beach Serial Murder Set to be in court today. It will be rex heuermanns First Court Appearance since his indictment earlier this month. He pleaded not guilty. Jury deliberations will begin today in the Death Penalty trial of the pittsburgh synagogue shooter. If the jury is not unanimous, Robert Bowers will be sentenced to life without parol. Now, historic first in israel after all 15 Supreme Court judges are assigned to take part in a september Hearing Listening to petitions against a controversial law that strips the court of its power to declare Government Decisions unreasonable. Now, the Israeli Parliament passed Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahus bill last week, spawning massive protests across the country. Journalist elliott joins us live from tel aviv. This sets the stage from my Vantage Point here for a constitutional crisis or constitutional showdown, i should say, and based on protests one that will be closely watched. How is this going to play out . Reporter the short answer is we dont know how its going to play out. I suppose the constitutional showdown would only come into effect if the Supreme Court strikes down this Reasonableness Bill because this bill was one of israels or is now one of israels socalled basic laws, which is the closest this country has to a constitution. What we do know for now is that the Supreme Court judges, all 15 of them as you say, for the first time this many judges have gathered all of them in one go, all 15 of them to hear these petitions. We know that will begin on september 12th. What we dont know is how long the deliberations will take and we dont know what the result of those deliberations will be. Now, we heard in the interview with wolf blitzer between wolf blitzer on cnn and Prime Minister netanyahu that netanyahu refused to commit to abide by Supreme Court decision were it to strike down this bill. He was asked again on nbc yesterday again he refused to commit to a abiding by a Supreme Court decision that would strike down this bill because if the Supreme Court were to do so, it would be the first time that it has struck down a socalled basic law, one of these quasi constitutional laws. Its a very big deal. And all eyes will very much be on september 12th. We dont know how long those deliberations will take, but the result will have profound implications for the protests, the governments judicial Overhaul Plans and the Balance Of Power between the government in israel and the Supreme Court. Omar . Elliott, thank you so much. A lot to keep an eye on there. Appreciate it. This just in, the u. S. Has punched their ticket to the Knockout Stage at the womens world cup, but it wasnt pretty. Andy scholes has this mornings bleacher report. Andy, they didnt make advancing easy here. They certainly did not, omar. Once again, this was just not a great performance from the team. Not what were used to seeing. The game was a nail biter. Because the netherlands were beating vietnam handily, a portugal goal this morning and the u. S. Would have been out of the womens world cup. And they were inches away from that happening in the 91st minute. Portugal anna gets loose here and a strike right off the post, though. The u. S. Had six shots on goal, but they were unable to score in this one. This was just the fifth time in 52 world cup matches that the u. S. Fails to score. But 00 draw good enough to get second in the group and advance to that knockout round. Its tough to be second. We wanted to go through first. I mean, this team gave everything. We just didnt put the ball in the back of the net. And in the last few minutes we just had to hold it down. We had to get the result and move on. Yeah. So this was the u. S. Womens worst ever performance in the group stage winning just one game. Second time in nine world cups the u. S. Has failed to win their group, making their path to historic three peat even more difficult. Next up for them likely a matchup against sweden who beat the u. S. 30 at the 2021 olympics. In the nfl, emotional moment for bills safety damar hamlin putting on the pads and hitting for the first time almost eight months to the day after collapsing on the field and suffering cardiac arrest. 25yearold says even though hes back, hell always be thinking about that game. Its just another milestone as far as the journey. It will be a long, long, long, long, long journey. You know what im saying, some of these emotions will never leave. When nobody is not paying attention to me nomore, ill still be processing these emotions myselves. Denver broncos, they got bad news. Hamler is stepping away from the game because of a heart condition. 24yearold posting on instagram he was diagnosed with per pericarditis. Patrick missed all of last season with a torn acl. How about baseball . Orioles up 42 against the blue jays. They had two runners on, bottom of the ninth. Left fielder austin hayes, a potentially gamesaving catch. What a grab there. Orioles hold on to beat blue jays, 42. Baltimore, 6541. They got the best record in the American League on august 1st for the First Time Since 1997. Omar, you know those fans there in baltimore have been waiting a long time for this kind of moment and this kind of season from their team. Hey, dont sleep on the os as they say. Al east looking incredible, too. Andy scholes, great to see you, as always. Coming up on cnn this morning, ukraine takes the war to the heart of moscow, hitting a highrise again. A live report from ukraine. Next right here, Florida Governor ron desantis laying out his economic agenda, details on how his plans target china and wokeness. That bind you to a 3year device contract. 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Desantis stands in second place in gop polling, but hes still way behind his main rival former President Trump. Cnns Steve Contorno has more. Reporter Florida Governor ron desantis returned to the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire on monday where he is looking to reset his president ial campaign after slow start installing poll numbers. Desantis on monday unveiled his economic agenda, which is focussed on cutting ties with china, rolling back President Joe Bidens policies and slashing the federal bure bureaucracy. We are today declaring our economic independence from the failed elites and policies that harmed this nations middle class. Bidens jobcrippling and ideological regulations and Executive Orders will be reversed by me on day one. Reporter however, new poll shows Governor Desantis has an uphill climb in trying to convince Republican Voters hes better suited to be the nominee than former president donald trump. That poll from New York TimesCollege Shows 54 of republican primary voters would choose donald trump today. Some of the underlying poll numbers show, desantis argued for weeks he is more electable in a general election than former president donald trump. Republican voters disagree. 58 said that donald trump would be a better nominee against joe biden than ron desantis. Desantis said he would be more effective executive than donald trump. Again, Republican Voters disagree saying that donald trump would be better at getting things done 67 to 22 . Steve contorno, cnn, concord, New Hampshire. So to talk about it all, lets bring in cnn political analyst and Washington Bureau chief of the boston globe, jackie kucinich. Great to see you as always. Good morning. Lets start right there with Desantis Rolling Out his economic agenda including items Like Fighting spending, china, taxes, to use his words, woke corporations. Is that a type of message you think that will resonate with gop voters . I just i think it was governor sununu who said dont focus on the policy stuff because just at this stage of the campaign, this is not whats going to be beat former President Trump who is his main rival. Yes, voters in the early states who are kicking the tires. Its very true. However, this is not something that will leap you 37 points or something behind like he is. Because its buoyed by his inability to do retail politics. His inability to connect with people. We have seen time and time again where desantis also wont take comments from the press. Obviously not why gop voters dont like him, but it shows that hes not being forthcoming when these voters do want to kick the tires about these various policy proposals. So just really and his lack of willingness to come at trump at all really shows that hes not he hasnt quite figured out yet how to make an impact. And you touched on it a little bit. Theres a lot of ground to make up here. Polls arent an exact science, still has to be eye opening for desantis and the rest of the candidates to see e latest New York Times poll showing 54of likely gop primary voters supporting trump and desantis just 17 . And this is coming even as trump has had all of these legal troubles and various jurisdictions. If all of those things arent slowing down trumps campaign, is there anything that can at this point . I mean, your guess is as good as mine. I think well know a little more after the Republican Debate on the 23rd. Well see which of these challengers are really standing out. But, to your point, the two times so far president has deny indicted hes just galvanized his support. Hes fund raised off of it. Hes managed to turn what would normally be a negative into something that his most ardent supporters have really rallied around him. So, its a very hard nut to crack for these folks because this isnt a rounding error. This is 10, 20, 30, 40 points in some polls that most of these candidates are trailing behind. And we recently learned that trump leadership pac spent more than 40 million on some of those related legal fees. Do you think that revelation would affect future donations at this point . I know theres been enthusiasm. You would think. But no. It hasnt. Legal bills when he was ying his president. So, former President Trump finding someone else to pay his legal bills is like death and taxes in American Politics and certainly hasnt slowed down his donations even from his small donors. Thats where we have seen that enthusiasm is from those small dollar donations. Yeah. Jackie kucinich, well have plenty to look for in the coming months here and of course as we count down to the august gop debate. Well see if that moves the needle. Thank you so much. Thank you, omar. A nail biter puts the u. S. Womens National Soccer team into the knockout round. 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