impacting. that is the really really the act of nuclear terrorism, what they are doing. reporter: chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of the main routes to attack ukraine s capital. the minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today the border between total tearism and democracy passes behind our backs. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon as russian president vladimir putin replenishing his forces, continuing to put this nation at risk. fred pleitgen, cnn, in ukraine. coming up, we have new details about how former president trump s son, don jr., was involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election. later, why washington, d.c., is coping with a cluster of
we re learning new details about how former president donald trump s son, don jr., may have been involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election. a cnn exclusive report reveals trump jr. texted mark meadows detailing steps that he thought would ensure donald trump a second term in office. zach cohen joining us right now. what more did you find out? hour team breaking this story last night about a text exchange between donald trump jr. and mark meadows. meadows junior texted meadows on november 5th and proposing several ideas about how to
say, the president of the united states, because the white house communications director says it is possible that president biden will eventually test positive, of course, we just saw an event, even though it was outdoors, a big event involving his nominee for the u.s. supreme court, but remember, a very similar setting was a huge superspreader event during the trump administration, granted, you know, covid was at a different place but should the expectation be that no matter what, whether you re the president of the united states or any one of us, that you re likely to be hit in some way by covid? test positive? well, first right, fred, i want to first distinguish between the rose garden ceremony with president trump back in 2020, that was september 6th of 2020, before vaccines were widely available. it s a different situation now that we have. i think it s very reasonable for the president or anyone to be holding events outdoors and indoors because we have vaccines that are avail
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return the 2020 election. he makes clear it s simple, we have multiple paths we control them on. the first thing i want to point out is the date of this text exchange, november 5th, 2020, that is two days after the presidential election. before the election was certified for president joe biden. meaning votes were still being tallied as donald trump jr. was pushing these ideas about how to overturn the election and keep his father in power. the second thing i want to point out is the ideas themselves. this text exchange really foreshadowed what would become the trump team s strategy over the next several weeks and months. we saw the mention of fake electors, the mention of filing lawsuits and audits to delay certification in certain states and we even see a mention of january 6th being sort of the ultimate deadline for the last chance to overturn the election. it really mirrors what the trump team put into action in the weeks that followed. the last thing is obviously, i want to point