have work to do if they want to make it usable. when i read the story, i didn t know what it meant, necessarily. what i was struck by most is what you talked about, the fact they had gotten phones, they talked to people. the scale and scope of this investigation, which we don t probably know one-tenth of at this point, it seems extraordinarily thorough. i ve had the exact same reaction. even based on what we know, they have run every lead to the ground. as you would ideally, but you won t have the resources. this is different. this is the former president, the stakes are high here. they have spoken to everybody based reporting, including the maintenance workers. we can see why this might be important. phones are the best possible source of evidence in the modern day world because everything you do comes through your phone. you can often we would call it dump the phones. you get all the text, all the emails and prosecutors are definitely doing that here. how significant is it th
catastrophe in the south. a reminder that that is daily life for all of the people living there. sam kyly, appreciate the reporting. to a cnn exclusive. sources say a flood at mar-a-lago is raising suspicions in the special counsel s probe of the former president and his handling of top secret documents. we re told a maintenance worker flooded a room where surveillance video was stored while he was draining the club s pool back in october. it happened roughly two months after the fbi executed a search warrant at mar-a-lago and found hundreds of classified records. cnn sources say it s unclear if the flooding was intentional or by mistake, but it was the same maintenance worker who was spotted on security footage moving boxes before that fbi search. surveillance video, obviously, has been a key part of evidence for investigators when it comes to possible obstruction. one of the big questions in this case is whether trump and his staff tried to hide documents from federal agents tr
happening. our lead story out of ukraine, a major disaster is unfolding in ukraine after a large dam has been destroyed. the kremlin is denying acquisitions that russian forces blew it up. thousands of civilians are in danger and evacuations are going on. exclusive cnn reporting. a mar-a-lago worker flooded a woman that stores surveillance video. it s raising eyebrows in the special investigation. the race for presidency about to get more crowded. chris christie set to announce he is running today and we are expecting mike pence to jump in tomorrow. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. so this is where we begin this morning because what is happening in ukraine is very, very significant. this is cnn exclusive reporting. we will get to ukraine in a
our viewers here in the united states and around the world. audio of donald trump that undermines what he said about classified documents he kept after leaving office. we ll bring you a cnn exclusive. plus the bill is passed. narrowly averting a default. the house passes the plan. who was a winner in this deal? right now, we are at 95,000 people in our care. thousands of asylum seekers arriving in new york. but the numbers at the border are in fact down. can the biden administration take this as a win weeks after title 42 ends. so, we begin this hour with exclusive cnn reporting.
caucus. he wants to be able to fwgovern. he is an institutionalist. he could be able to work with moderate republicans, moderate democrats and get some stuff done, but he could be held hostage to the freedom caucus. good to see you both, thank you so much. thank you. don t forget to tune in tomorrow when former vice president mike pence joins jake tame tapper for a live cnn town hall. did russia hold off announcing a major loss on the battlefield just to avoid giving president biden a, quote, win before the midterms? we have new exclusive cnn reporting. and after the crackdown, airlines are paying up. if you had a flight canceled or delayed since the start of the pandemic, you may be getting a refund. plus, critics called it a political stunt. now new text messages we veal the high level coordination between the florida governor s office and a woman named perla who is recruiting migrants for