hello and welcome. russia says its forces have completed the capture of soledar a small town in eastern ukraine that s been the focus of intense fighting. moscow called it an important step in its offensive which would allow russian troops to cut off ukrainian forces in nearby bakhmut. if russia s claims are true, it would be the first ukrainan town it has captured sincejuly after six months of russian forces in nearby bakhmut. but ukraine s president zelensky says the battle in soledar is still underway. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse reports. a salt mining town under russian assault, soledar has become a story of carnage and contradiction. after months of bloody fighting, an attempt by russia to give a clear message. for the first time, a claim, to be in complete control, and that this town is the start of something bigger. the capture of soledar became possible due to the constant destruction of the enemy, says russia s defence ministry. by ground at
something white house officials were not aware of in advance, he detailed a timeline and underscored the fact when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he omitted a second set of documents we discovered last night. and they knew about them. take a listen. the review was underway when you guys gave the detailed statement about the first set of documents. the review was underway when the president spoke about the first set of documents. you re now saying you didn t talk about the second set of documents discovered almost a month prior because a review was underway. it doesn t make any sense. the only difference was that reporters had information on the first set of documents and therefore you chose to exclude the second set of documents until reporters got information on the second set of documents. let me unconfuse you, phil. we are trying to do this by the book. i said yesterday this was under review by the department of justice. an
at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want transpar
for white house officials and biden s attorneys and it will also show that in the end, this was in their words, a mistake, an inadvertent one at that. however the attorney general made a supplement today so that white house officials were not aware of any events and he detailed timelines that none of us were aware of and underscore the fact that when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he committed a second set of documents we discovered last night. they knew about them, take a listen. the review was underway when you guys made a statement about the documents. there are views underway when the president book about these documents. i don t understand. it does not make sense. the reviews underway the entire time, dealing differences that the headquarters had information on the documents, and he chose to exclude it. until reporters get information on the second set. let me confuse you, for a second, phil. we are trying to do this by t
good evening, everyone, i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. we begin with our set, breaking news. lisa marie pressley, elvis s daughter, dead at the age of 54. she was hospitalized after suffering and apparent cardiac arrest just today, after appearing at the golden globes on tuesday night, with the bass luhrmann film about her own father, won best actor for austin butler. lisa marie s mother, priscilla, putting out a statement tonight saying that it is with a heavy heart that i must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter, lisa marie, has left us. she was the most passionate, strong and loving woman i have ever known. we asked for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. thank you for the love and prayers. at this time, there will be no further comment. lisa marie was a celebrity from the moment she was born in 1968. she was the adored daughter of elvis and priscilla pressley, living her entire life in the spotlight. much more now with cnn