is a pr problem, but it is a legal problem. it is more political persecution of donald j. trump. they can t stand that americans love him. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, august 9. 4:00 a.m. in palm beach florida where the fbi has executed a search warrant at donald trump s residence inside his mar-a-lago resort. multiple sources say it is part of an investigation into trump s handling of presidential documents including classified material. a person close to the matter tells cnn agents took boxes of items from the property. the former president was in this morning at the time, again sources tell cnn investigators have visited mar-a-lago in recent months to talk with tru trump s attorney about material taken from the white house. with trump in new york the secret service presence in mar-a-lago was small but a source says the fbi did provide a head s up before the search. cnn is learning the fbi interviewed aides to the former pre
Thats a smart thing, not a stupid thing. Good morning and welcome to am joy. Over the years donald trump has claimed himself to be the king of debt. In his business dealings, a title that played to his image as the ultimate dealmaker who knew how to leverage debt to expand his family empire. When he wasnt the king of debt, he was instead the king of cash, a selfcrowned term he used in 1990 when telling the wall street journal, quote, theres nobody that has the cash flow i have. I want to be the king of cash. Which one is it . King of debtor the king of cash . According to a new piece in the Washington Post, the latter. The piece revealing, quote, in the nine years before he ran for president , Donald Trumps company spent more than 400 million in cash on new properties including 14 transactions paid in full without bow rowing from banks. The piece notes the biggest cash bi binge before trump announced running for president when he paid almost 80 million for large golf courses in scotlan
of july, but there was no nournsno announcement of it, so they were sent over quietly to the ukrainian air force. a few things interesting. first, this would be one of the longer range systems the u.s. has sent to ukraine. according to the air force it has a range of more than 30 miles so up there with the himars missile. and it is specifically a radar that targets and hones in on a radar signal, so it could be used to target for example russian anti-aircraft radars and that is important because it is those types of radars the russian s 400s that have effectively shut down large swathes of ukrainian air space to the ukrainian air force. so if ukraine can target those, it might go a long way to opening up the skies for ukraine s air force to operate. what is also interesting here is that collin cowell said these were used on ukrainian aircraft. of course the mice stills being that they are u.s. missiles were designed for american aircraft so there must have been some process behind the
documents after reading them. the u.s. is sending more military assistance to ukraine. monday the pentagon announced a new $1 billion aid package, it comes as the u.s. is acknowledging for the first time that it provided ukraine with anti-radar missiles. oren liebermann has the details. reporter: for the first time the pentagon acknowledged sending a previously undisclosed missile to ukraine for use by the ukraine air force. under secretary of defense said that they used mice stills used to target russian radar and other targets fired from ukrainian aircraft. although he didn t specify the type of missile, a defense official told cnn it was an agm high speed anti-radiation missile. collin cowell said it was in previous presidential drawdown packages back to the beginning
make sure that these could work on these soviet era fighters that ukraine is now using in its war against russia s invasion. collin cowell made these statements at a press briefing after announcing a $1 billion drawdown package from the u.s. for ukraine, that is weapons and systems pulled directly from u.s. inventories. it is the largest draw down package announced to date and that brings to a total of about $9.1 billion in security assistance the u.s. has sent to ukraine since the beginning of russia s invasion. or en liebermann, cnn, in the pentagon. ukrainian officials are raising the specter of a chernobyl style nuclear disaster after shelling and rocket fire came dangerously close to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant over the weekend. on monday ukraine warned that disaster at the plant could obliterate everything within 15 50 k 50ky 4r kilometers. ukraine and russia blame each