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
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
and catastrophic wildfires, a climate state of emergency in the united states. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin in ukraine, where there is more fallout from thursday s brutal attack on a detention facility in russian held territory in the east. on sunday, the u.s. ambassador to you range said russia must be held accountable for the attack, and dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians were killed in the strike, kyiv says, moscow claims russia ukraine is responsible, and they are waiting for access to the site, ukraine says russian forces unleashed a barrage of schelling on the southern city of nikolaev, 2 does seven reported, killed while sheltering in their basement. the ukrainian president condemning the strikes in his nightly address. take a listen. ukrainians, in the region, the most brutal schelling during the entire period of the full-scale war, dozens of missiles and rockets, the occupiers and residential build
catastrophic wildfires, a climate state of emergency in the united dates. united states. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thank you for being with us, in ukraine there is more follow-up thursdays brutal attack on a detention facility in russian held territory in the east. on sunday the u.s. ambassador to ukraine said russia must be held accountable for the attack, kyiv says dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the strike, russia says ukraine is responsible, the international red cross says it is still waiting for access to the site. to the north missile strikes were reported in you train second largest city, and russian forces have been stepping up the attacks, likely trying to pull resources from the front lines to protect civilians. meanwhile these been in the odesa region after a russian missile strike set off a grass fire, according to local officials russian forces fired at least two missiles from occupied crimea, but t
we ve never seen. we are spending way too much money to use to hide behind a veterans bill on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree is wrong. the first grain to depart from ukraine s black sea ports under this new agreement. resuming exports could be a critical first step in easing the global food crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s monday, august 1st, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we begin with extreme weather fueled by a climate crisis unraveling in real time in the united states. in california, the mckinney fire has burned more than 52,000 acres. the governor has ordered thousands of people to evacuate leaving their homes to burn as high temperatures and drought make the blazes more intense. a heartbreaking realization for some that the fire has taken everything. i watched it from my bedroom. i watched everything come. it was headed right straight towards our property. that s when al