war further and costing what the biden administration called the red line. todd: breaking news, alexandria hoff. good morning in a few short hours president biden will meet with andre, and deliver remarks ahead of the one-year anniversary of the fresh war on ukraine. the president zelenskyy with a surprise visit to war-torn country the most important in the whole history of ukraine u.s. relations. this was a historic visit by the president to an active war zone where the u.s. military presence for the president to go to kyiv and meet with him to see the first lady and firsthand briefing from zelenskyy s team. they had an opportunity to discuss the lenski military planning, secure what the u.s. has provided and other types of economic and energy assistance that we have given. during the president president biden announced $500 million in additional security assistance to the country and said, russian president vladimir putin was plain wrong to think he could outlast uk
decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trump s lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. in their response, trump s lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trump s lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say there was no need to be alarmed. that trump s home should never have been searched for this. while we still don t know what was in the 320-plus highly classified documents that were recovered, we do know, trump attempted to obstruct the fbi s investigation into the handling of classified material. there s a lot to digest. let s go to west palm beach, florida, outside of the courthouse. the hear willing start at 1:00 eastern time today. walk us through what plays out now. about three hours from
doj could not be sptrusted to v the documents. trump s attorney said the filter team at the fbi is using the review the seized papers has virtually unchecked discretion in addressing potential privilege disputes. the judge was appointed by former president trump and has already indicated that she is leaning toward a special master. now, that was before the explosive brief from the justice department. it laid out the months-long effort by federal investigators to get back the government s classified records. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking all the developments. he is joining us from washington, so what s happening so far? reporter: well, so far, we don t really know much about what s going on in court. we can t get any updates until the hearing is over, victor and alisyn, but what we know is that the trump team is going to is trying to present to the judge this idea that it is no surprise that there were what they said, sensitive documents that we
they need to take such an historic move to bring transparency to this. eric holcomb is the latest u.s. official to pay a visit to taiwan. we ll seek to continue to build strategic partnerships with you. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 22, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 9:00 a.m. in london and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where new details are emerging after the death of dugin, daughter of a prominent supporter of vladimir putin. a murder investigation was launched after she was killed in a car bomb on saturday. the russian investigative committee believe someone ordered and planned the blast. a foreign ministry official has implied ukraine may be responsible, but ukraine is strongly denying that claim. cnn s fred pleitgen is following all the developments from the russian capital. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fireball on a highway outside moscow. police say the vehicle exploded and crashed, the driver dead on the scene. that
September 4. 70,000 people are stranded in the Nevada Desert for the Third Straight day, but roads could reopen today. People at the burning Manifest Value are stuck in mud too thick to drive on forcing organizers to impose shelterinplace o orders. And a manhunt in pennsylvania, this convicted killer less than two miles from where he escaped. And hes still on the run this morning. And donald trump dominates the 2024 republican field and pulls even further ahead in a new Wall Street Journal poll. He is the top choice for almost 60 of Republican Voters. In fact 78 of them say trumps actions after the 2020 election were legitimate. And the Ukraine Defense minister fired by the nations president who says ukraine needs, quote, new approaches as the war with russia enters its 19th month. And workers at the Big Three Automakers prepare to walk off the job in less than two weeks if the unions and companies cant reach a deal on a new labor contract. A strike against all three at once has never