tonight including me. a man tells a joke about two dogs and a squirrel, to million dollar fine and could be headed to prison? what is happening? utah mom accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about her grief, punching a sister-in-law on the face while trying to get into her husband safe. i am you erin burnett, upfront tonight, strike on a russian base, new video of a fiery blast on a russian base, you will see the explosion there, the ball of fire you see there is inside the russian occupied city of mary a pole, according to ukrainian officials. it is home to at least 150 russian soldiers, mariupol is been an important staging area for russian fork it forces, it has been safe from attack for months, but things to powerful new missiles from the uk it is now in ukraine s crosshairs, ukraine s military posted a video, a drone they said only cost about $1000, showing it taking out a russian tank, valued at more than $1 million. what could be a
at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine where the government says it s suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principal figures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy, and the department s state secretary along with the crew when the aircraft came down in bad weather in brovary, a suburb of the capital. the crash set fire to a kindergarten. at least 1a people died, including one child. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse sent this report from the scene and a warning, you may find some of his report distressing. sobbing even with the backdrop of war, it s been one of ukraine s bleakest days. in the mist of the morning, a helicopter came down next to a childre
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
probe into an ex-president s handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to balance protecting the prosecutorial process by keeping secret details of the investigation and providing enough information to defend his decision to request a search unlike any other in history. the impending release of a critical document in doj s investigation into the ex-president is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. carol leonnig is here and former national security adviser to president obama and neal katyal is back former solicitor general and now law
months as americans hit the road for the summer. plus i didn t want to be used as a pawn. republican elected officials go point by point through donald trump s efforts to throw out the 2020 election. now the january 6 lt committee calls on a key west wing insider to share his story. and is the trump brand fading. voters say yes to very late trump pick in alabama, but georgia republicans again defy the former president. this time in two house races. up first for us, new white house push to lower gas prices through the summer driving season. today president biden will ask the congress to suspend the gas tax for three months, july, august and september, and he will call on states to do the same. at an event this afternoon, the president will demand oil companies do work to lower gas prices including ramping up production. it is a big white house play on this year s dominant economic and political issue. high gas price asks the much broad problem with inflation and economic a