You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia hitting back after new Ukrainian Drone strikes tarting moscow. Ill get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. Donald trumps new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. This as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. The top prosecutor in the Georgia Election Interference Probe says shes ready to go. In haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. Well have the latest on their fate as the u. S. Orders all u. S. Citizens to leave haiti immediately. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the wo world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin with the escalating attacks and counterattacks in russias war against ukraine. Kremlin forces attempting to hit president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Close To Home as ukraine ramps up strikes inside russian territory. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in ukraine. Crews have been digging
relentless heat from the southwest to the southeast. temperatures in the 100s. what all this could mean for your holiday weekend plans. rob marciano is standing by. record-breaking july 4th travel in full swing, but lingering frustrations for some. the staggering number of people screened by the tsa. thousands of delays and cancellations from the week. what you can expect for the journey home. and the ceo of united under scrutiny, taking a private plane when he couldn t even get a seat on his own airline. the new 2020 election interference allegations against former president donald trump. tonight sources say the former governor of arizona asked to find fraudulent votes. what we re learning about that phone call. a mother s kidnapping hoax fallout. the influencer convicted and sentenced after claiming a couple tried to take her children. her allegations going viral. that couple now speaking out as the mother learns her fate. new ukraine nuclear plant fears. the worr
on dozens of federal charges, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violating the espionage act and because of documents or mary lago and his new jersey golf club. which brings me to my overarching point. how about fairness? do i think that president trump is always right? do i think he s always unfairly accused? absolutely not, and doesn t mean a payment for an alleged affair and arguments over classified documents, causing global shockwaves and possibly jail time is actually indicative of the seriousness of all this. no especially because we re watching a president skate on his family s international entanglements, which could compromise him in office and classified document hall. which one is all said and done could outstrip anything. donald trump has hey. doj fbi democratic attack squad if you want to destroy trump, pick up your head. look around. you fired up his crowd and if you wanted to help the rest of the gop field , beat him. watch the news. almost all h
the race to flee war-torn sudan, this morning countries around the world rushing to get citizens to safety. u.s. diplomats and their families airlifted from the u.s. embassy with an estimated 16,000 americans still there. what the white house is now saying. president biden is ready to launch his reelection bid, new details on those plans. the thinking of those around him and a new poll that suggests most democrats are still on the fence about another biden run. a scary site in the friendly skies, fire erupting on two planes within days, one midair after a possible bird strike, the other during takeoff. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. happening now, a global race to evacuate diplomats and citizens from sudan as the intense fighting rages on. over the last 24 hours at least 1,000 people have fled the violence by air, scene after scene of u.s. allies packing cargo planes just hours after u.s. officials confirmed that all u.s