months and there s been an increase in tempo of long-range attacks and deep behind the lines and these aircraft downed over russian territory and some gains for ukrainians around bakhmut. when you add that up and speak to ukrainians there are we seeing the beginning and the early stages perhaps of this counter offensive? well, jim, they insist not as indeed does president zelenskyy. he says they need a little bit more time, but of course, a little bit of disinformation goes a long way when you re trying to put the enemy off working out where you will strike and you strike hard and it s clear and you reported this in the past that the shaping operations for an offensive are ongoing and they re taking the form as you point out of those longer-range attacks and we ve seen, i think, unconnected and nonetheless, tactically important advances made by the ukrainians in bakhmut. we just heard from the ukrainian head of intelligence that he
much expect from the d.a. s office why the evidence should not be thrown out and why she should not be disqualified and this case is not even in the indictment stage and before we even see indictments, jim. sara murray, thanks so much. breaking news. that s right, jim. we have breaking news just in to cnn the long-awaited durham investigation has just concluded. remember, this is the trump-era probe that explored the origins of the fbi s investigation into the trump campaign s ties to russia. we are joined now by cnn senior just i justin correspondent evan perez. they vowed to investigate the investigators, what did they accomplish? what more are you learning about the end of this probe? yeah, boris. this is now an investigation, this four years in the making and we finally have the conclusions. more than 300 pages released by
jim? developing now, a deadline, district attorney fani willis must respond to attorneys for donald trump. the ex-president s legal team is trying to throw out a special grand jury that investigated his attempts to interfere in that state s 2020 election, interfere and overturn the results there. cnn s sarah murray has been following. the deadline was actually earlier this month for the d.a. to respond, extended it to today. the question is we can guess how willis is going to respond to it, but do we know the judge s positioning on this? i don t think she will say disqualify it and throw out all my evidence if he s the one that would make the call on this it would be hard for me to imagine let s throw out all of the evidence the grand jury has collected and it s possible that he ll say let s have another judge look at this and we pretty
wrongdoing and he s plenty done wrong here and he s not suggesting that the fbi and the justice department do anything maeblgorror different except admire hoor to the rules already in mace. you don t have to bring us any further con kugzs, that it does so sending it over to congress does so without additions, retracks or other modifications and this is the actual source material handed directly over to congress. quite a bit different from what we saw attorney general william barr do with the mueller report a few years ago. evan perez, thank you so much. brianna and jim, we ll hand it over to you with this breaking news. let s bring in elliot williams to talk about the legal aspects of this. i think this is pretty key, right? where he says in this, we conclude that the justice department and the fbi failed to uphold their importaw in connection with certain events and activities described in this
for example, kcon kone says tomorrow they will be on a bus to houston and it s what i keep hearing over and over again, brianna is that these asylum seekers are killing time until it s their opportunity to head to new york city, of course, but we ve heard a lot of denver. a lot of denver. brianna? polo sandoval in el paso. thank you. jim? possible momentum for ukrainian forces and setbacks for russia. a commander says his are we are learning that in the single war the kremlin saw four of its aircraft downed over russian airspace. all of this happened with ukraine s president zelenskyy in western europe shoring up further military aid from nato allies ahead of his country s highly anticipated offensive. sam kylie is in ukraine and sam, you ve been watching this closely. you ve been there for months and