come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.
the former president s attorneys do not like one of the requests. the judge wants to see specifics on what trump claims to have declassified. kaitlan, first, what are we expecting today from his hearing? what we are expecting today is to see how this judge that s now the special master, raymond dearie, how he interacts with the justice department and the trump team. we re listening for tone and also timing. how fast this review process is going to be where dearie works with these parties to go through all of the documents that were seized out of mar-a-lago, and especially those 100 documents marked as classified and could still be classified. judge dearie right now has proposed a plan to both sides and the trump team has indicated they have some concern with that. that s a possibility that could come in court today. they re a little concerned about the timing he s proposing. he wants everyone to move really fast to get through the documents in two weeks or so. he also wan
governors flying asylum seekers to the northeast. a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump s lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 docum
still don t have drinking water or power, and more than 1,000 people have been rescued so far. in the dominican republic, mudslides and sinkholes are a big concern. this is just what we can see. rescuers are still trying to reach remote areas that are cut off. and also the immigration fight, a texas sheriff now look into the florida s unprecedented move to fly immigrants to martha s vineyard. donald trump s legal team has one more hour to respond to a justice department request for a partial stay of the march largo special master order, and in three hours, that same special master will hold a hearing with the trump team and doj, and it comes as trump s team is pushing back one of the requests made by one of the lawyers they retained. and what will you be watching for once this conference gets started at 2:00 p.m. eastern? right, i think there s going to be a lot of lead up to that 2:00 p.m. hearing at the brooklyn courthouse, and you will see trump s attorneys meeting alo
ukraine a major focus. good day to you. i m peter alexander here in washington in for andrea mitchell as she travels back from london. she s en route to new york for the u.n. general assembly. nbc news heard reports a charters flight is in the air from texas and florida heading to the northeast, this as legal action is being considered against governors ron desantis and greg abbott s response to their sending migrants to areas like new york, d.c. and martha s vineyard. we are following the story for us. what do we know about the reports that there may be a plane in the air right now? good to be here with you. this plane we are following on flight aware is operated by the same airline, ultimate air, that carried 48 immigrants to martha s vineyard last week. it s moving from san antonio texas, according to flight aware, to clearwater, florida, and making its way to the northeast, including delaware and then new jersey. we cannot say for certain who is on board. as you menti