it s the top of the hour on cnn news room. it s good to have you. i m victor blackwell. president biden just upkdated congress on what his administration sees as the biggest national security threat facing the country. in his new national security strategy, vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine is not the top political challenge according to biden. that distinction goes to china. russia was however at the heart of a key global meeting. there was a meeting with 50 other defense ministers on how to boost ukraine s air defense systems. ukraine is facing a third day of intensified air assault from russia which was condemned by the defense ministers for continuing to target civilian facilities. cnn s kaitlan collins is at the white house. kaitlan, you re up first. let s begin with the president and his just released national security strategy. why is china above russia here? reporter: yeah, it might surprise some people given of course, russia s ongoing invasion of ukraine, but b
let s get straight to our top story. we re just learning right now that a federal court in florida has instructed the u.s. justice department to confer with former president trump about its request to unseal the search warrant and to tell the court by 3:00 p.m. tomorrow if he opposes it. our reporter is working the story for us. kaitlan, what s the latest? reporter: wondelf, we re talg about a court document under seal right now, and the judge has set a deadline of 3:00 p.m. tomorrow to get an answer whether donald trump and his lawyers want this document out there in the public s see. so the justice department requested in court to unseal this document. they want to give the courtesy to trump s team, as you normally would do in court, to get a response. the arguments the justice department is making is that it s in the public interest to put this document out there. and that a lot of it is already been spoken about by trump and his team that a search occurred at mar-a-lago
gunman. cnn s senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin, has details. the sheriff s office reveals two incident involving the suspect. the first in april of 2019. a suicide attempt handled by mental health professionals. the secondo cured in september of 2019. a family member reported he was going to kill efveryone and he had a collection of knives. the police responded to his residence. they removed 16 knives, a dagger and sword from his home. at that time, there was no probably cause to arrest. there were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims. police say the suspected shooter preplanned his attack and get away for several weeks leaving his high powered rifle behind, dressing as a woman, and slipping away with the retreating crowds. it was that rifle purchased legally and traced back to him that helped police identify the suspect, track down his mother s car and make this arrest. at this point, we have not developed a motive from him. while po
outfront tonight, new evidence, january 6th committee abruptly scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. last week, said no additional hearings until next month and then suddenly a hearing scheduled for tomorrow as the committee released only a brief statement, including quote, recently obtained evidence and witness testimony. this is a very sudden reversal for the committee and it comes at an important context. we just learned federal agents seized the phone of trump s election attorney, john eastman, man who presented trump a road map for overturning the election. someone who was right there, front and center, in trump s ear in the days and weeks ahead of the deadly insurrection. and someone who was working the phones for trump. so his phone is now seized. here s just some of the testimony we ve heard so far about the importance of john eastman. and what it, dr. eastman want you to do? that we would in fact vote, take a vote, to overthrow, or i shouldn t say overthrow that w
isolated to the chicago area. we have fox team coverage tonight. molly line is in boston covering the surge and independence day shootings in major cities around the u.s. but we begin with senior correspondent mike tobin in highland park with the latest on the tragic fourth of july massacre. good evening, mike. police say he dressed like a woman to avoid identification. he wrapped rifle in red blanket. from that roof top, he fired 70 rounds in rapid fire succession. the weapon is now described as similar to an ar-15. a high powered rifle. it was discarded on the roof. he then blended in to the crowd and fled to his mother s house before escaping all the way to madison, wisconsin and then returning to where he was picked unjust six miles from this location. authorities did have run-ins with him back in 2019. first a suicide threat. then a threat to hurt others. the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time. there was no law enforcement action to be