80087 to 4901 happening now, donald trump is back at a florida courtroom as his attorneys fight to have the charges in this classified documents case dismissed were live in florida. Meantime, in georgia, the Fulton County judge who just dropped three charges against trump could decide whether to remove District Attorney fani hey, willis from the election subversion case. And just moments ago on the us senate floor, the Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, called for new elections and israel sharply criticizing the Prime Minister, benjamin ateneo. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington, and youre in the cnn newsroom just two days after he clinched his partys president ial nomination, donald trump is back at another familiar role today as a court defendant. The former president of the United States is attending a critical hearing in his classified documents case trump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges related to his alleged mishandling of highly classified documents and for obstructin
live in concrete cells with no bathrooms. this as cnn gets access to evidence that putin doesn t want anyone to see. plus, it s debate night in america, one of the most highly anticipated face-offs of the year. fetterman versus oz. how much will fetterman s health be front and center this evening? we have new reporting from both camps. and where is former chinese president hu jintao. video that appears to be russian soldiers banished to a dark con concrete cellar for refusing to go to the front line in ukraine. you can see soldiers dressed in russian military fatigues, packed into a small windowless room. that s why there is not much light there. one of them explains how they re being treated. listen to it. translator: well, here we are. they arrested us. this is october 2nd, 22. we are part of the third battalion of the 488th motorized rifle regiment. we were arrested for refusing to follow orders. yes, refusing to follow orders. they sent us to a basement of a militar
so why should anyone think he s telling the truth now? well, they shouldn t. to your point, he s the lead conspirator on the big lie and was cleared that he did everything in his power, simply, to just throw anything against the wall that they hoped would stick. and what s remarkable is how much they threw against the wall and how little stuck, literally nothing stuck after countless court cases, countless audits, we now know after two years, there is zero evidence supporting the notion there was any wide spread votertrarycontr more votes for joe biden. to your point, this is a guy who is in the middle, the tip of the spear, leading the charge on the january 6th. it s a very important development and i m glad you have ellie on to parse the legal implications for it because he is the guy with the real legal crystal ball. yeah, you said not much stock. the only place that it did stick was in the court of maga conspiracy or court of maga delusion. very effectively, actuall
at this hour the u.s. president is holding talks with his newly inaugurated south korean counterpart on his first trip to asia as commander in chief. last hour joe biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the south korean national cemetery. before arriving at the korean ministry of national defense for his meeting with yoon seok-youl. we re expecting them to give their remarks soon. on friday mr. biden says the future of the world will be written in asia, and the region will prove to be critical in the years and decades to come. we re standing on a reflection point in history where the decisions we make today will have far-reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. now, the threat posed by pyongyang is expected to be a main focus of mr. biden s bilateral meeting with south korea s leader. we ve also learned that beijing is holding military drills in the south china sea during this visit. the u.s. says pyongyang could conduct a missile test w
million times to turn migrants away from the u.s. border, they say they ll appeal it but was the resuming a big political gift to biden? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, absolute evil, absolute stupidity, those are the exact words of ukraine s president volodomyr zelenskyy after a cultural center outside kharkiv destroyed by a missile, you can see the strike there, debris raining down. ukrainians driving by at the time of the strike later seen running for their lives as the cloud of black smoke rises behind them. and today s attack coming as ukraine s forces have been successful overall in pushing russian forces back, specifically from kharkiv, and tonight we have dramatic new body cam footage that shows the fierce fight taking place outside what is the second biggest city in ukraine. [ speaking in foreign language ] those battles that russia continues to lose is part of why putin s top commanders have been fired, because they ve be