to review documents taken from his home in florida by federal agents last month. a judge came down in favor of the trump team s request today rejecting arguments from prosecutors that the special master was both unnecessary and unwise. correspondent david spunt has tonight s top story. good evening, david. this judge s order out hours ago is a temporary legal victory for the former president and gives him more political opportunities to attack an ongoing grand jury investigation into his handling of sensitive documents. days after asking what is the harm with naming an outside neutral party to review the thousands of documents seized by the fbi, judge aileen cannon cited unprecedented circumstances in ordering the special master, quote: to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege. the judge s order still allows the intelligence community to continue its r
activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? reporter: what we re hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we re seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need to be patient. we ve been hearing from a senior aid to president zelenskyy saying this morning this is going to be a slow grind. urging patience on the part of ukrainians. we heard also from the ukrainian president himself in his nightly address speaking of his determination saying that russians needed now to go home since they would he said be chased back to their border. clearly this is a turnin
and what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th. president biden is talking about the normalization of political violence, the spread of big lies, and one ever-growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, even promising pardons to those convicted of violent insurrection and crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenaged son, and again ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden, and against law enforcement. because we should not forget the good news, the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant, and the economy guesting a boost with another solid month of job creation, and there may be some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi, who are now in their seventh door without clean water. in a moment, i will ask the head of fema about the progress made to end that cris
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
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,