they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting and i m quoting here from a leak in the washington post that kyiv won t fulfil its principal objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this year s counter offensive. i think they re wrong. those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days, that the whole country would be in russian hands in two weeks. i go there enough to know what s real and what s not. it s been extremely tough sledding because of all the mines, but when they get contact with the russians, the russians fold pretty quickly. you ve got a bunch of conscripts that would rather not die in ukraine if they didn t have to. you ve got highly motivated ukrainian civilian populat
first, the images coming in, the corner of an apartment building coming down. firefighters looking for survi survivors. one question tonight, did the rain, play any kind of role here? also tonight, that system that did slam the east and the south turning deadly. the tornado outbreak. more than 30 reported tornadoes, multiple states. and now, what s coming right behind all of this? rob marciano tracking it all. we have breaking news coming in from the supreme court. after that extraordinary move by special counsel jack smith. the urgent request, he took straight to the supreme court, trying to get ahead of donald trump s attempts to slow down the legal process. asking the court to weigh in on donald trump s claim that being president gives you, quote, absolute immunity from prosecution. what the court is now signaling about this request just in tonight. jon karl standing by. in texas, the young pregnant mother, doctors say her health at risk with the pregnancy, but canno
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
big leak that we saw of classified pentagon documents they have been more wary to share intelligence with the u.s. but the u.s. trying to do what it can to give ukraine the information it needs to be successful, phil. there s another biden administration official traveling, treasure secretary janet yellen. what s the goal of this trip? they have been trying to mentize with the chinese they recognize, of course, these are the two biggest economies in the world. this is something that janet yellen said repeatedly while of course there are trade and other practices by the chinese that the u.s. is concerned about, that there is still a need to keep those lines of communication open. of course we saw the secretary of state travel to chi china in recent months. this is the attempt to rebuild communication with the chinese. importantly, though, military communications are still closed. those military channels that are so important for deconflicting potentially catastrophic
protective order filed last week by a magistrate judge, bruce reinhart. another important thing that we learned from jack smith s order yesterday is that the evidence shared with trump s legal team contains interviews, plural, that trump did with non government entities, including the one that he had with a publisher and a writer back in july of 2021 at his golf clip in bedminster, new jersey. this is the one where he reportedly showed a classified pentagon documents detailing a plan to attack iran. this spicy nugget is getting a bunch of attention today because we had no official confirmation that more than one recording exist. cnn is reporting that trump s legal team itself turned over those reportings to the special counsel but they don t believe the, quote these additional recordings are as incriminating as the recording referenced in the indictment of the unsealed this month. and quote. there is a lot here. joining us now to report, former acting assistant attorney general for nat