according to the washington post, but when it s time for the general election is the trump stamp of approval a maga scarlet letter. apparently some republicans think so. and now even the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is warning republicans may not retake the senate. let s discuss this with former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and former adviser for president, david gergen. congressman, what do you think about this? i know you used to serve in a sort of a swing district there in the northern virginia suburbs, kind of near where i grew up there in fairfax county. what do you think? it seems like a lot of these candidates are treating donald trump like beetlejuice try not to say his name too many times. what do you think? how should they handle this? well, certainly in the districts that make the majority, the swing and the purple districts, donald trump is an albatross, so you already have the situation in these purple states where, you know, as mitch m
around the nuclear power station was extra. it would appear from these satellite images that it is almost certainly untrue. that there has been no significant change in the level of attacks, evidence of attacks since the las images were taken a month ago. so that really gives the lie to longstanding propaganda line, taken by the russians, that the ukrainians are trying to shell their own nuclear power plant to make the russians look bad. that s on the one hand. i ve seen the evidence on the ground myself that missiles are being fired by results troops from very close to that nuclear power station. almost inviting a counter attack. they ve killed people across the dnipro river. so in that context, one can understand the demands being made increasingly stridently by the international community to demilitarize that area. that is why the french president called vladimir putin earlier on today. because of the deep concerns of some kind of military spy catastrophe there. and a fr
but pages, new pages we haven t seen this before. specific information about the potential offenses that the justice department is investigating. in here is language that does sharpen the focus on the former president himself. for example, if you just look at this part, it says under the search is related to a violation of, it continues to say willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation. so we got a little bit here. this, again, is new information as part of the whole search of mar-a-lago. the federal judge today also ordering the justice department to possibly release the crucial affidavit used to get the search warrant. so prepare redactions in casey the ruling is to release it. the affidavit itself will tell us what specifically the justice department knew when it searched trump s home. what specifically investigators were looking for and why. what was their cause. and who helped
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate
providers that are willing to take this bad traffic, then the robocallers will find themselves with nowhere to place their calls. reporter: that s the case with the auto warranty scam. in july the fcc ordered all telecom companies to block all robocalls from cox, jones, and eight voice service providers they say are linked to the scheme. since then, those calls have nearly vanished, according to a robocall analysis company. do you think you can really stop these scammers? i think we can significantly decrease it. how long will that take? years, not months. it s an arms race between the enforcers and the criminals, but we re getting smarter and we re on to their ways. gabe cohen, cnn, washington. a 12-year-old little league player is now in fair condition after he fell from a dormitory bunk bed and fractured his skull at the little league world series. the family of easton oliverson