detained in a kremlin crackdown on these antiwar protests. there are also reports of some demonstrators rounded up and immediately drafted into the rush sharon armed forces. it s setting off a flood of flights out of russia. nick peyton walsh is with us. it s called a partial mobilization of citizens. how is that playing out? reporter: it seemed pretty clear and forgive the siren noise around here. so much of ukraine constantly under threat, attack. it seems to be playing out initially pretty badly for the kremlin. the first issue they have to overcome is what to do with these thousands of potential recruits they re going to send to the front line that might already be being sent to the front line. they lack equipment to supply the regular army. this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just
detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia
documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g
and the two major league sluggers chasing home run history. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening former president donald trump s legal troubles deepening tonight, putting his business empire in jeopardy new york s democratic attorney general naming mr. trump and his three oldest children in a sweeping civil lawsuit, accusing them of 200 instances of fraud for allegedly manipulating the value of assets like the president s mar-a-lago and trump tower residences, aimed at securing favorable bank loans and reducing taxes, and inflating mr. trump s net worth by billions. new york attorney general letitia james seeking to prevent the trump family from serving as officers in any new york business. while it is not a criminal case, new york officials are turning some of their findings over to federal prosecutors regarding possible criminal acts they uncovered. tonight, mr. trump denying the accusations, calling it another witch hunt by a racist attorney genera