the former president s finances. according to notes that evan corcoran took of his conversations with his client, donald trump, the former president, wanted to fight the subpoena that demanded that he return classified documents that he had no right to have after his time in office. now, these notes taken by corcoran are providing more insight into trump s thinking and his actions around the time the criminal investigation was launched. and now they sit in the hands of a special counsel, jack smith. joining us now is john dean. he was the white house counsel for richard nixon. and just like evan corcoran, john, you testified about your conversations with president nixon. so, as you listen to what has been reported here, in your mind, why would there even be dozens of pages of documents, notes, about what to do with a lawful subpoena? shouldn t that conversation between attorney and client be pretty short? well, you i know mr. trump in the past said he was surprised his whit
cross-border operation this time, insisting only that the groups acted of their own volition. but this is notable. it s a notable change in tune, as ukrainians try to counter russia s claim of victory in bakhmut, the site of this war s deadliest battle. and as entry grows over the death of yet another russian official who died suddenly after reportedly criticizing the kremlin. cnn s chief international anchor christiane amanpour is joining me now. christiane we re going to get to the death of that russian official in a minute, but i want to start with the attacks in bole rod. the fact that these groups were able to get over the border and carry out these attacks tells you what about russia s ability to police its own boundaries? it s classic sabotage. it s classic counteroffensive by insurgents. the ukrainians are not claiming they re part of the ukrainian army. and we ve seen several attacks