one expert says nothing gets the jury s attention like the defendant on tape. and he will join me next. also this hour, defiant words, steps from red square, president vladimir putin s new message to military and law enforcement in the wake of the rebellion. does the west now have an opening to negotiate? and from sweltering heat to grape-sized ice shooting from the sky, tens of millions across the country are being hit with extreme weather as flights across the country are hit with massive delays and cancellations. but we begin with a key piece of evidence in the classified documents case surrounding former president trump. now available for everyone to hear. this new recording obtained first by cnn takes us inside a 2021 conversation in bedminster between trump, his staff and people working on a memoir for mark meadows. the sound putting trump s voice to the text in the federal indictment with him clear as day declaring this is secret information. take a listen. this
themselves, are over the border in belarus. one woman we spoke to earlier said people in this city are taking the air raid sirens a lot more seriously than they used to, you see fewer people on the streets than you did before. in terms of the big picture on the battlefields, ukraine is looking for a way to capitalize on this infighting on the russian side. they have not yet found it, chris. we have not yet seen any sign of a kind of major breakthrough as the ukrainian counteroffensive continues in the south and the east. we are seeing some indications that the ukrainians are taking the fight to the russians over the dnipro river down by kherson, it was so flooded after the dam exploded that ukrainian forces seem to be making forays by a key bridge there. but, chris, ukrainian officials from president zelenskyy on down will tell you progress has been slower than they hoped. they are facing a real russian advantage in the form of built in defensive positions, in terms