mccarthy is scrambling to gain the votes he needs to be speaker even after making major concessions this weekend, it still might not be enough. the suspect in the machete attack on three police officers in times square,vestigators dis handwritten diary. what it says. plus this. eight and a half years for the organizer to kidnap and kill me, that s a significant sense. we have gretchen whitmer s reaction to the sentences handed to the man who plotted to kidnap her. hear what she told our own kaitlan collins. let s begin in washington. house republican leader kevin mccarthy will be taking the race for speaker to the floor officially tomorrow in what could be the most dramatic house speaker election. he s made a number of concessions so try to get the number of votes to succeed nancy pelosi. will we see the first floor fight as it s called in 100 years. let s turn to harry inton. what do you think? let s talk math. right now the gop s 2023 majority is 222, seats majori
i will make sure we re not taking money in tax. inflation is the number one priority. it will be my number one priority. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our public. the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. dangerous heat continues to build in the east and spread eastward. like the previous fires, they have progressively gotten worse over the years. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, september the 5th and we are expecting some big announcements here in the u.k. boris johnson set to hand over his role to the conservative party s next leader, and that leader will automatically become the prime minister. but, first, we are following another big story coming to us out of saskatchewan in canada where a manhunt is underway for two suspects in a deadly mass stabbing. we re just getting details about it now. police say the attacks kil
ukrainian forces in broken russian lines in a major offensive in the territory. that is only possible south of the country. because of the sophisticated weapons being supplied by the west. the two 16 year old boys have died after getting into difficulty ukrainian military said operations in a loch in county londonderry. had been launched in multiple locations in the south today. today, the ukrainian military said that russian positions, and munitions depots, equipment had been attacked. welcome to bbc news, very good to it is really hard to independently have your company stop. verify those claims, because it is difficult to get access to residents the united nations has launched an emergency appeal for almost £140 million living in kherson in occupied to help pakistan deal with the devastating floods. territory, but last night president the un secretary general, zelensky did not talk about what was antonio guterres, says the country happening in kherson, he said ukraine was
hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a