golo s a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off. (soft music) it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. a just released letter from the national archives reveals more than 700 pages of classified documents were retrieved from former president trump s home in january. and that collection set off the chain of events that led to the fbi s search of mar-a-lago this month. this letter, first disclosed on a web site of a trump ally lays out the deferential treatment given to former president after the discovery. it describes how the fbi waited more than a month to look into those boxes to assess the damage. that delay was to allow the trump team to review whether to claim executive privilege. the letter was made public just hours after trump s lawyers filed its first court response to the fbi finding all of those classified documents in his home. they re seeking a third party, also known as a special master now to
reporter: we ve learned from multiple sources that the person is ricky shiffer. we are trying to find out what kind of connection he has with right-wing extremist groups. what happened was at the cincinnati field office of the fbi. he walked in there, according to our sources, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and nail gun and tried to breach that office. an alarm was sounded. he was pursued by law enforcement not just on the federal side but local and state as well. there was a standoff for several hours in a rural area of ohio which ended when law enforcement tried to have nonlethal ways of bringing him in, tried to negotiate with him, but then he was killed in the standoff when none of that was working. like you said, we have come across a user account on donald trump s media site, truth social, bearing the same name and authorities have not confirmed it is his account but we have one source telling josh campbell there is a government i.d. matching the same picture. in at
combatting china. president biden will spend the next days in south korea before heading to japan to meet with leaders there. before returning home to d.c. on tuesday, he ll attend a meeting of the quad leaders. which includes japan, india, and australia. and in ukraine, russian forces are stepping up attacks on the eastern donbas region. at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured after russia unleashed new rounds of shelling in a key city in luhansk. one of the few ukrainian strong holds standing in the way of russia seizing full control of the don bass. the attacks could be a precursor to a larger drawn out battle. president volodymyr zelenskyy called the strikes, quote, brutal and completely pointless. willie. meanwhile, the u.k. ministry of defense has released new information reporting the battle for mariupol has left the russian military weakened. the fierce fighting against ukrainian troops who held out inside of that steel plant has depleted russia s ranks and re
for two editions we ask questions about what sort of qualities and attributes to make them more or less supportive for a candidate for congress. it is clear what issues they like to lead the way. for republicans the most favor l terrain is the economy and inflation. increasing oil production. that s popular and republicans know this. because it s all over the campaign advertising. joe biden and steve are spending like drunken sailors. i won t raise taxes. biden s bad decisions are costing families $5,000 a year. i won t take it. no amount of buy one get one free deals can overcome. thanks a lot, biden. i ll lower your costs. for democrats it s on positions held by republicans. looking at the nbc polls voters are not crazy about beginning donald trump s by lie about 2020 and candidates who would like to overturn roe v. wade. republican state governments give examples on rights under jeopardy. oklahoma lawmakers passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the count
infections. and likely unconstitutional. a florida judge appointed by ron desantis says the governor s proposed congressional map is not fair because the judge says it boxes out black voters. but we begin this hour in europe with a dramatic example of how vladimir putin s war in ukraine is backfiring. today finland s leaders say they support ending decades of neutrality and joining nato. the nato chief promises a quick welcome if finland follows through and applies to join the alliance. the kremlin says finland joining nato would definitely pose a threat to russia s security. the president of finland says putin has one man to blame for this decision. well, if that would be the case that we join, my response would be that you caused this. look at the mirror. sweden could soon follow finland. new nato members would redraw the security map and expand along russia s border the alliance putin hoped to weaken with his assault on ukraine. we begin our coverage with h helsinki an