Donald trumps legal team responds, accusing the Special Counsel of going after trumps First Amendment rights. And now both sides are facing a new deadline. Brand new exclusive reporting. U. S. Officials just briefed on the ukrainian counteroffensive are now calling the progress being made against russia, sobering. Not in a good way. The challenges that ukraine is facing. And a violent brawl in alabama goes viral. A group of white boaters accused of jumping a black Security Guard and then a fullblown fight escalated on the river front. Warrants are now filed as demands for justice grow. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. Cnn news central starts right now. Special counsel jack smith and Donald Trumps legal team now face a 3 00 p. M. Deadline today to respond to the judge over seeing the 2020 election case. At issue now is how much and under what conditions evidence can be publicly disclosed ahead of this historic trial. Trumps legal team not surprisingly is fighting for l
bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation s air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that s left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let s begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o hare will experience delays and cancellations. if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that s a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there s also other indications that there have been technology
donald trump, really singular about donald trump, is everybody knows him. we ve had that scenario before. o.j. simpson, martha stewart. everybody is privy to everything he says. his social media posts goes out to tens of millions of people. when you re picking a jury, you have to work your way through that. you re not looking for 12 jurors who never heard of donald trump. that s not the rule. but you re looking for 12 jurors who are not unduly influenced by statements and who say and the lawyers believe can put aside whatever their political or personal believes are. jury selection in this trial will be unlike anything we have ever seen. i was going to say. that will be fascinating. it s already difficult enough in a normal case. now you throw in this element and who knows how that s going to play out. elie honig, great to see you as always. coming up still for us, new cnn reporting this morning on ukraine s counteroffensive. the sobering new assessment coming in. that is next.
bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation s air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that s left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let s begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o hare will experience delays and cancellations.
if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that s a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there s also other indications that there have been technology issues. here in chicago there are about 500 delayed flights and cancellations standing at 109. that is according to the chicago department of aviation, and this is a reflection of the big picture. if you take a look at what airports are experiencing across the country, according to flightaware, more than 7,300 delays and 1,100 cancellations. we spoke with a father and daughter earlier this morning. they told us their flight from nashville to chicago was delayed by 2 1/2 hours. he says they re traveling to brussels. he said intentionally he built a ten-hour layover in case something were to happen. this is based on things we have seen happening with air travel he says in the past. things are returning to normal here. in chicago travelers need to