this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll
is a monster move again, and they have signaled that they are not done and project nag the interest rates are going to be going significantly higher from here, and the message that the fed is trying to convey is clear. they are serious about trying to get stubbornly high inflation back down, but the moves they are making here have lifted the interest rates to the highest level since 2008, and now the fed was late to this inflation fight. they did not start raising interest rates until earlier this years, and they have been forced to play catchup, and that has forced the interest rates to go rapidly higher, and we have not seen three straight moves of a percentage point and we have not seen anything like that since the modern era, and you have to go back to 1981, and this is not a perfect comparison, because that is before the fed publicly announced the fed moves, and what does it mean? it means the borrowing costs are higher, and interest rates and car loans and mortgage rate
our hearts go out to you. i think it is such a beautiful way for it to be sent off with people around and people here for days and days. that is exactly what she wanted. and this is a humanitarian crisis created by human hands. it is an all hands on deck moment. they re coming into southern states. what is a governor supposed to do. they re trying to send a message to the rest of the country. to make sure that no one is homeless and hungry and that we always continue to treat people like human beings. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and we begin hurricane fiona is punishing puerto rico the entire island now completely without power. the category 1 storm made landfall this afternoon and is wreaking havoc with heavy winds an rainment and look at this video showing what some of the flash flooding has already done in some areas. we have layla santiago in san juan and first to you, what is the situation there on the ground? well we
fbi to search mar-a-lago. the wall street journal that an informant familiar with the documents that trump had told investigators that there were more of them , more classified documents. this informant told investigators this after the national archives had retrieved the 15 boxes earlier this summer. enter the informant, a significant development. justice department officials as cnn reported, had doubts that trump was being truthful. this comes is the head of the fbi was silent when pressed on trump s baseless accusations of fbi agents planting evidence. christopher wray dodged the question. as i m sure you can appreciate, that is not something that i can talk about so i refer you to the department. ray was trump s hand-picked director. within the justice department, a major debate on whether they should speak out to the public about the search on trump s home. cnn is learning that some justice department officials believe that they should release a public statement. i