By former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Paula reid has more. Reporter Special Counsel jack smith is now in possession of thousands of documents that were created by Rudy Giulianis team in the days and weeks following the 2020 election. This team was tasked with trying to find some evidence of fraud. One of the people on this team is the former new York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerrik. He is a close associate of Rudy Giuliani and he has been in possession of a lot of these documents, the january 6 committee was trying to get all these materials, but he would not hand them over even though he is not a lawyer, he claimed that he was working for the legal team and therefore they were privileged. But in recent weeks, the Special Counsel investigators have reached out to kerrik to schedule an interview and also to collect evidence and after they reached out, kerrik went to the Trump Campaign, had them review the materials and Trump Campaign were told said look, they were not going to argue privilege over this, which suggests that they believe there is not anything too incriminating in the documents. But now that the Special Counsel investigators have these, this is something that no other investigator has been able to obtain, so this is the first time well be able to see the materials and it could be some key evidence in their ongoing investigation. Now, kerrik has also scheduled an interview for early august where he will sit down with investigators and face questions, some of which they have likely already written and there will be new ones based on the documents he has just handed over. Experts from the Atomic Energy agency now confirming claims by ukraine that personnel mines have been placed at the zaporizhzhia power plant. Salma abdelaziz is following the story for us from london. Ukraine has been urging the west to pressure russia to pull its military out of that Nuclear Power plant. The discovery of these mines change the situation at all . Reporter very unlikely that it does, but of course It Isit Stakes around a power plant that sits quite literally on those fron frontlines. Is this this is a sight of contention, ieae confirming that there are antipersonnel mines in the vicinity of the zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power plant. Saying that they are clearly marked, that they are in restricted zones and they are facing away from the employees who run that Nuclear Power plant. But of course the iaea describing it as contrary to its standards. It might seem like rather muted language, but you have to remember throughout the conflict the ieae chief has had a very difficult task, hes had to negotiate between russia and ukraine in an attempt to try to create a safe zone around the power plant. That has not happened. Yet there are of course iae aechlt i a officials on site who continue to maintain the situation. But power has been cut off at times due to shelling shutting down the Nuclear Reactors where very much a flash point has occurred time and time again. So were not speaking about an immediate threat right now with this Nuclear Power plant, but we are talking about the stakes just getting that much higher. When were talking again about the safety of a nuclear site. Absolutely. Salma, thank you so much. To israel now, demonstrations have eased somewhat against the governments judicial overhaul plan, but it doesnt mean the protestors have given up. Demonstrators blocked a highway and police used foul smelling socalled skunk water against the protesters. Elliott gotkine is live for us. And the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a televised address to the nation last night trying to calm the protests, but also blamed the opposition for refusing to compromise. How is that being received . Reporter i suppose as well as you would have expected given any attempts at compromise being broken by hertzog fell short and the opposition blames the government, the government blames the opposition. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Coalition Allies saying what they have done is specifically democratic because they won the elections and therefore they are carrying out the will of the people. The opposition says otherwise. But any attempt to negotiate any plans for overhaul were met with a swift rejection. And he said it was an empty show and that netanyahu was beholden to the extremist elements of his party. The next real battle probably will be at the Supreme Court itself because it has already received a number of petitions from various groups including other parties but also ngos and the like calling for the Supreme Court to in the very least delay implementation of this Reasonableness Bill with the hope of actually getting it scrapped. And you have this kind of ironic situation now where the Supreme Court has effectively been asked to block a law that it designed to prevent the Supreme Court from blocking certain decisions an appointments. So we could be heading for some kind of a constitutional showdown. But likely where the next battle will be. Elliott gotkine, thank you. And the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against texas and Governor Abbott after he refused to removes floating barrier in the rio grand river. The doj says texas is violating federal law. This is in the midst of increasing scrutiny on the states treatment of migrants as they try to cross the river into the u. S. Rosa flores has more. Reporter we are at the south end of our property. And this woman owns a Pecan Orchard in eagle pass and says her property used to be beautiful. Wed come out fishing and this area, it is really pretty. Reporter but she says the state of texas installed concertina wear blocking her accent to her own property by barricadings the gates. Now it looks like a warzone. Reporter historically a popular crossing because the water levels of the rio grand are low and most recently texas deployed a floating Border Barrier without obtaining permits from the federal government says the state department. The buoys are 4 feet in diameter and anchored to the bottom of the rio grand. It surprised knee they just did it if front of me property. Reporter and this is the busiest sector on the southern border. After a top diplomat complained about the buoys violating two treaties and more than 80 u. S. Democratic lawmakers urged President Biden to take legal action against texas it is barbaric treatment. Reporter the Justice Department did just that. Did they deny you water . This as two pregnant migrants who did not wish to show their faces say they were initially denied water as they tried to turn themselves into u. S. Immigration authorities. She said that the National Guard at first denied her water and then afterwards they did give them water but it was one bottle for two to three people. Law enforcement in air boats circled them knocking them over after showing them handcuffs for requesting water the other migrant said. The texas National Guard did not respond to cnns request for comment. These accounts come after a Texas Dps Trooper blew the whistle last week saying texas had been treating migrants inhumanely when troopers were ordered back to push them back in to the river. 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Together we provide nutrients to support immune, muscle, bone, and heart health. Yaaay woo hoo ensure with 25 vitamins and minerals and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. Special counsel jack smiths team is interviewing witnesses about a particular Oval Office Meeting and what then President Trump said at this 2020 meeting may shed light on his beliefs at the time about the true likelihood of election fraud. Reporter Special Counsel jack smiths office has asked multiple u. S. Officials about a February 2020 Election Security briefing in which u. S. Officials told President Trump about the ways in which they are preparing to secure the 2020 election. The spks Office Appears to be interested in the mindset that President Trump had at the time of the briefing when he fac factual information that for the Election Security. This is a stark contrast to trumps public rhetoric just weeks later when he questioned validity of the elections and inte integrity of allegations. And lets bring in criminal defense attorney lexie rigden. That particular meeting in February Of 2020 when the president was presented with factual information about all the ways that they would have a secure election, he even bt with aed to sort of tout that to the media about how his administration was doing such a great job on Election Security. What do you make of the Special Counsel zeroing in on that meeting . Well, it just shows how sweeping this investigation is, that they are essentially leaving no stone unturned, that they are looking in to a meeting that had occurred nearly a year prior to the january 6, 2021 incident. And so this has been a very thorough investigation and what is interesting is that as this continues to come out, the conventional wisdom is because trump Fwots Got The Target Lett pretty recently, there could be an indictment soon forthcoming. But this shows that they are continuing the investigation and even if they do end up indicting him this week, which seems to be the expectation, their investigation seems to be far from over because they are still gathering additional information. If you are trumps defense team here, couldnt you argue that trumps views on Election Security changed over time . February 2020 is a lot different, you know, than november 2020. And people change their minds all the time. That is right. And if you were defending him, id say not only did his opinion change, and obviously his opinion has long changed prior to november 2020. He started saying in i think April Of 2020 only a couple months after this meeting that he was questioning the security of the elections and the mailin ballots. So that is exactly what i would say if i was on his team, that i was allowed to change my mind and i did so far in advance of the election. And weve also learned that the Special Counsel team has received thousands of documents from Rudy Giulianis ally former nypd Police Commissioner better any kerrik. In their unfounded allegations of fraud, tell me the timing of this how it indicatesbetterany. In their unfounded allegations of fraud, tell me the timing of this how it indicates the status of the investigation. Conventional wisdom is that he will be indicted soon because he received that Target Letter and had a four day window to appear. And that was last week. And so people have been saying that the expectation was that he was going to be indicted either last week or this week. But potentially it could mean, and we obviously dont know the intricacies of the investigation, but it could mean that they are not as close to indicting him as we believe. So remains to be seen. Expect the unexpected in anything that has to do with the trump indictments. And there are multiple investigations going on. Could the evidence being gathered by the Special Counsels office be used in possible state level cases like the Georgia Election interference investigation . Hat is definitely a possibility and that see like to be the next thing that is going to be coming up wherhe is potentially indicted for alleged election intfence in georgia. And so these entities may also be working together and i believe that the Bernie Kerrik documents which were originally claimed to be privileged and not provided to the january 6 committee actually came out in the context of a georgia lawsuit with some election workers. And then there was ultimately no objection to them being turned over at this point. So they are likely sharing any information that they can get their hands on. Lexie, so nice to see you. Thank you very much. Newly released the 911 Audio Recordings show the Unarmed Black Man attacked by a police k9 in ohio, the truck driver was trying to pull over but was scared to do so. According to recordings the truck driver told the dispatcher he didnt know why he was being pulled over. Isabel rosales reports. I was about to comply with them, but they had their guns out for whatever reason. Reporter newly released 911 call reveals why he wouldnt exit the vehicle. I dont know why they trying to kill me. They are not trying to kill you. Yes, they are. They are throwing their stuff on the ground trying to explode the tires. Reporter officers attempted to stop 23yearold Jadarrius Rose in a commercial semi truck on july 4 because of a missing mud flap. According to a case report by the ohio state highway patrol. It is like 20 police cars behind me and i dont feel safe. Reporter the video shows that rose initially did pull over but didnt get out and instead continued back on to the highway with multiple Law Enforcement cars seen joining the chase. Eventually rose pulls over and exits the truck surrounded by multiple officers. And a Circleville Police k9 unit that stopped to assist. You can hear contradictory verbal commands from the officers. Come to me. Get on the ground. Reporter a trooper can also be heard instructing the k9 officer. Do not release the dog with his hands up. Do not release the dog with his hands up. Reporter despite repeated warnings from the state trooper, the dog is released and runs toward the officers before turning to rose and attacking him. It is not clear if the k9 officer could hear the warning. Get the dog reporter rose cries out as officers are yelling for a First Aid Kit and he is later seen being treated by the officers. Rose was taken to the hospital and then released back to police. The Circleville Police department and mayor confirmed in a statement that a use of force review board was convened immediately and is reviewing the incident. Roses attorney declined to comment to cnn. But president of the naacp Columbus Branch called the behavior barbaric. Those young people that perhaps dont understand the meaning of a dog being unleashed on a black person, it is history. This country watched as dogs and hoses were unleash leahed on bl people because they were marching for their rights. Reporter Ross County Prosecutor Office says rose was released from custody on july 7, three days after his arrest. And that office right now still working to gather evidence and to determine whether to move forward on a charge against rose. That charge would be failure to comply with an order or signal by a police officer. That is a felony. Rosales, cnn, circleville. And crews in scott county, missouri are cleaning up after a suspected tornado destroyed a home, several silos and a shed. No injuries were reported. An alabama woman, carlee russell, who went missing for 49 hours after making a 911 call about a toddler on the interstate says shes sorry she lied about it all. Police say she could face charges. A baby in south texas is rescued from a sweltering car after the parents accidentally locked their keys inside the vehicle. Police say the infant is doing fine. No charges were filed. Just ahead, cnn speaks to russian prisoners recruited for the war on ukraine. And irans Culture Minister bans an annual film him festival. Well tell you why. Try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. Boost® high protein. Now w available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. Learn more at boost. Com tv each day is a unique blend of going, doing, and living. Glucerna protein smart with 30 grams of protein to help keep you moving. Uniquely designed with carbsteady to help manage blood sugar response. Glucerna, bring on the day. You can save money by spending less of it. Makes sense oh, i see what you did there what . What . I dont get it. Hehe. Our ears connect us to the moments that matter. Give them the nutrients they need with lipo. 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Our commander yells i dont care, go ahead. Dont come back until you take this position. Two of us found a small hole and dived in there, a drone threw a grenade at us and it landed in the gap between us. My friend was covered with shrapnel all over yet i was untouched but i lost my sight for five hours. Reporter he stayed in hospital at that time and got home as doctors made him an order early. He has nightmares he is told to be first out of the trench again. But frostbite, hunger and thirst. Sometimes we didnt eat for several day, we didnt drink for several days. It was a four kilometer walk to water and thank god it was water. We were drinking the snow. Sometimes the commander reset people. He zeroed them out, killed them. I annual saw it once, a fight with a man who killed his own people. I didnt see who of the four people around him shot, but when he tried to escape, a bullet hit him in the back of the head. I saw the head wound. They carried him away. Reporter for some it never got that far. Andre was 20 when he was jailed on drug offenses. And 23 when he was sent from prison to the front. This training was fleeting. His mother said that he had yet to grow into a man. Like with many prison recruits, he just disappeared. But it was may 9, victory day in russia, when president ial pomp marked the nazi defeat. Andre called her the night before to say his unit would attack at dawn. [ speaking in a nonenglish language ] reporter we think these ruins are near where he died, up to 60 others she heard died in the same assault that day she got nothing, no body, just a letter saying that an kra had died the very day he left jail. [ speaking in a nonenglish language ] the horror Russia Inflicts on ukraine it seems matched nearly by this home. Nick paton walsh, cnn, london. What a powerful piece. Quick hits around the globe. Ecuadors president set to hold an emergency Cabinet Meeting after a mayor is killed and 930 Prison Guards are held hostage. A State Of Emergency has been declared. And philippines and taiwan bracing for a super typhoon that has formed in the pacific. Winds are around 150 miles per hour. Iran has banned an annual Film Festival after a promotional poster showed an actress not wearing a head scarf. Minister of cultural guidance deemed it inappropriate. And an official with u. N. Command says a conversation has commenced with north korea over the fate of a u. S. Army private travis king. King of course sprinted across the border between North And South Korea last week while on a civilian tour. That happened the day after he was supposed to be returned to the u. S. While facing military discipline. Mark stewart is following this story from tokyo. Mark, so nice to see you. What more do we know about these allegations and these negotiations now with pyongyang . Reporter hi christine. Good morning. Look, this is complicated because right now, the United States and north korea have no formal diplomatic relationship. And even though the United States did make an overture to north korea, it has heard nothing back. So the United Nations command is having a big role in this discussion. We heard from a top leader there that communication lines are open and that discussion has begun. But we still do not know t location of the soldier, his health and any possible next steps. This still remains very murky. And we understand china has sent a delegdelegation . Reporter china has sent a delegation, not necessarily related to this particular case, but is the first time that we have seen high level leadership from china in north korea since the pandemic. China of course seen as an ally for north korea. So were keeping watch on that. By the way, i should tell you that late last night early this morning, we tracked two more missile launches. Short range ballistic missiles. 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But still face an uphill battle with the temperatures. Lets sgo live to the acropolis. Where are the first fires burning . Reporter at the moment they are in rhodes, a big fire that has been raging for over seven days prompting massive evacuations. But there are also fires on an island and so they are being evacuated. It seems like the fire is moving. It has not been contained yet. And another large fire on the island. And so three big fires are burning in greece right now. The greek Prime Minister has described the situation as being at war, a war with the fires in the country and has pledged do his best to compensate all those who are losing their property, they are losing, you know, greece right now in the middle of its peak tourism season. This has caused huge problems in the industry in greece as people are leaving the eislands most affected. And the heatwave is at its peak, the longest heatwave that the country has experienced in a very long time. We expect sweltering temperatures of over 110 farenheit today and tomorrow before temperatures go down again. And this is of course impacting tourism. The acropolis has been closing during the warmest part of the day. Today we expect it to some ultimate down soon for a number of hours. And more and more people are trying to get in early in the day. There is a climate crisis, so will we see more of this and how will it impact the country and its citizens as well as the visitors. A beautiful picture, but it is certainly very, very sweltering where you are. Thank you so much. Former northwestern quarterback lloyd yates is opening up about the hazing and sexual abuse he says he endured. Andy scholes has the bleacher report. Yeah, ben crump filed a lawsuit on behalf of lloyd yates against the school yesterday. The fourth claiming members of the Football Program engaged in a culture of hazing for years. Yates played for the wide cats from 2015 to 2017, First Plaintiff to identify himself in a lawsuit against the school. He says that he was sexually assaulted by his teammates as a part of a ritual hazing. The lawsuit alleges that the hazing was an effort to break them, punish them, control them or get them in line. This latest lawsuit comes about a week after long time head Football Coach was fired as a result of the scandal. An investigation found no credible evidence that fitzgerald was aware of the alleged hazing but the University President says he is still ultimately responsible for the teams culture as head coach. Fitzgerald has denied any knowledge of the hazing. Yates spoke to cnn last night about what he calls the schools toxic culture. I really hope by me speaking forward and coming out that this prevents any future athletes from going through what i had to endure and what even made of my former teammates and colleagues had to endure. At the time i think that we were really embedded in a culture that normalized this kind of stuff, it made it seem like this is what you do when you play college sports. This was the culture at northwestern, this is how you become accepted and earn respect from your teammates. Elsewhere an american is making history at the world cup, but not for team usa. A 16yearold from new jersey is becoming the youngest player to ever play in the tournament when she entered as a sub for south korea. Her father is american and mother is south korean. She is the first dual national and mixed race player to play for the south korean Senior National team. They would lose to colombia in that one 20. And u. S. Will take the pitch tomorrow night at 9 00 against n netherlands. And a Lis Elyssa Thompson remem watching the previous game but never imagined had shed be a key member of the team at this world cup. In that moment, i wasnt really thinking about the next one that ill be at because i felt so young and it felt like so far away. But being here now, it is crazy to me because i didnt think about it in the moment. Finally, a soccer superstar offered a jawdropping amount of money to go play in saudi arabia. So the soccer club bid 332 million and thanking him for the opportunity to sign him. And according to reports the offer is 776 million for just one season. And that is 14. 7 million a week, 2. 1 million a day. 24 per second. Even nba stars couldnt believe that contract. Take me, i look like him. And there was laughing emojis. But a lot of niof nba players including lebron saying give me that money, ill be there in a second. But there are report thats is not interested in the offer. But i mean, 776 million it is mind boggling. But he is an amazing player, he is so fun to watch and so talented. Well see what happens. I think hes worth it. Nice to see you. 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Economic growth forecast for the year citing bidenomics unleashing energy in the u. S. Economy. On inflation watch gas rose 4 cents overnight. And alphabet and microsoft will report earnings later today. And the Federal Reserve will also kick off its two day Policy Meeting this morning. Today the fed will meet for its two day Policy Meeting where it is expected that they will raise Interest Rates by another quarter point, that would be the 11th Increase since march of 2022. I want to bring in esteemed professor of economics and Public Policy at harvard university. So great to see you. Thank you, good to see you. And so ken, what is going on . All of these Interest Rate hikes, a because by the pause by the fed but expected to raise Interest Rates again this week. Is it possible that this dreaded recession will be avoided . It is. I think were a long ways from being able to declare victory particularly if the Federal Reserve really, really, really wants to get inflation down to 2 say in the next year or so. It still looks very hard. But it didnt seem possible before. We havent seen a series of Interest Rate hikes this fast, this dramatic in decades and every time weve seen one, we have a recession. Look, the Mortgage Rates horn dou more than doubled. Look at consume krcredit, look what businesses have to pay. It usually brings on at least some recession. It hasnt yet. And particularly see that in the labor market. I think if were talking about growth overall, the data is murky, somewhat mixed signals of what is going on. But the economy has fooled everyone. Yeah, this has been the longest recession watch i can ever remember. And all along the way, janet yellen and the fed chief have said no, a soft landing is still possible. Im wondering if the fed though you say if jay powell and the fed decide they really want to get down to 2 on cpi, that would be more rate hikes and that could tip the economy into recession . It depends on how long they are willing to wait. There is a lot of Inflation Inertia still in the system. What were seeing is that goods prices, things like used cars, came down went up a lot, then they came down really fast. And that has flattered the headline Consumer Price index. But if you look behind that to services, restaurants, hotels, dry cleaners, things like that, there is still a lot of pent up inflation. Demand is really strong. The labor market is really strong in many places. Usually when the labor market is this strong and there is that much pent up demand, you get inflation for a while. And i think that the fed expects that. They do not think that they have won this battle. They certainly will be patient. I think what markets are thinking is, well, you know, if inflation keeps going down, they will start lowering Interest Rates and stop raising them. I think that that is an open question. If the fed really wants ss 2 sooner, they may have to do that. Why do they care so much . The thing is, so far we havent seen Inflation Expectations built into Interest Rates. People have gotten used to low inflation. And so they are not building it into their price increases, wage increases, Interest Rates. But if that happens, then it gets harder to get it out of the system. Youve got to convince people, no, no, we really did mean 2 . So that is the tight rope the fed is still walking. And there was awry search note from Morgan Stanley where they forecast 1. 9 growth. Searce from Morgan Stanley where they forecast 1. 9 growth. Any point to bidenomics. How much do white house policies have to do with the resilience were seeing in the economy right now . I think that it is hard to say. I mean, a lot of the policies are really geared towards coming years and not so much now. I really give the white house an aplus for not leaning on the fed to stop raising Interest Rates. If you want to know why inflation is coming down, and that is really the thing calming people, that they stood back and let the Federal Reserve take over. If things go south, of course they may feel differently. I mean, i think a lot of Bi Bidenomics is addressed at things of trying to prevent climate change, trying to redistribute income more effectively, but im not sure so much their stimulus. But i will grant that lot of money is coming from europe that they were spending on investment in europe and they are now spending in the u. S. Particularly because of the socalled inflation reduction act. Europeans are mad about that and they may counter and then that lift to our economy may go away. Fascinating. All right, ken, really nice to see you. Thank you. 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