returns to the white house, predicting that trump might not leave voluntarily this time. also tonight president biden says he s decided on a response to the deadly u.s. attack the deadly attack that killed u.s. troops. the world is waiting to see what he decided with the president saying he holds iran responsible. also we are seeing dramatic new images of an undercover raid in a hospital in the west bank with israeli commandos disguised as nurses killing suspected terrorists in hiding. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight with donald trump well-positioned to close in with the lead on a third republican presidential nomination, one of his former top aides is stepping up his warnings on what a second trump term could look like. and when i say former top aide, of course, there are many who have issued similar warnings about what could happen including trump s own vice president mike pence. but this is one who had an office just steps away from the oval.
our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
achieve a, quote, major break through. they re building up an extensive system of trenches in the south. tell us what you re seeing. yeah, there has been an extraordinary network dug possibly according to this british intelligence report the largest we ve seen since world war ii across the southern area of vap wreegsa and we ve driven along the ucrayian side of it for quite a past number of weeks here. often these are deep trenches followed by a significant sand back backed up by razor wire and these dragons teeth peer med shaped pieces of concrete form a complex set of defenses but certainly a challenge. there ll be very much in the mind of ukrainian forces as they probably in the days ahead if not already in the days behind begin the counter offensive in these areas. we simply don t know the full details of their plan to be honest, and weather is potentially playing into it. there s been an extraordinary lack of videos from ukrainian military over the past weeks they norm
jubilant. you re not jubilant, jake. i like that. nor jocular nor jaded. you see jocular when jimmy kimmel was cracking you up. that was great. he s funny. anyway, great to see you guys. have a great show. i ll get my luminous self over here. all right, keep it up, laura. good evening, everybody. i m allison cam rata in new york. and i m laura coates in washington, d.c. and this is cnn tonight on a night when the president of the united states lays out his closing arguments with the mid-terms just merely days away. he s warning that election deniers could lead the country down to what he calls a path to chaos, and he insists that democracy is indeed on the ballot. we re back to having an election where things that he s warning about may actually turn out to be true. so i wonder what happens if it does, alison? nothing good, laura. nothing good as we ve seen already in the past. plus in these final days of the campaign herschel walker is going after barack ob
that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant