Donald trumps legal team responds, accusing the Special Counsel of going after trumps First Amendment rights. And now both sides are facing a new deadline. Brand new exclusive reporting. U. S. Officials just briefed on the ukrainian counteroffensive are now calling the progress being made against russia, sobering. Not in a good way. The challenges that ukraine is facing. And a violent brawl in alabama goes viral. A group of white boaters accused of jumping a black Security Guard and then a fullblown fight escalated on the river front. Warrants are now filed as demands for justice grow. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. Cnn news central starts right now. Special counsel jack smith and Donald Trumps legal team now face a 3 00 p. M. Deadline today to respond to the judge over seeing the 2020 election case. At issue now is how much and under what conditions evidence can be publicly disclosed ahead of this historic trial. Trumps legal team not surprisingly is fighting for l
spending. i strongly urge you both to pass that agreement. ukraine s military says just 70 aerial targets launched by russia in the latest onslaught. ukrainians are calling this the largest attacks using iranian drones. almost all of them were shot down. russia will only face defeat. turkey extends his power for a third decade. there is jubilation of triumph for erdogan. these are his most ardent supporters. this was potentially the closest electoral race and they still couldn t defeat him. ken paxton is calling his impeachment vote. the first attorney general in texas to be impeached. this is a case of republicans policing republicans in the state of texas. corruption has now been voted out. significant step for the integrity of the state. up side down! he s been eliminated! i started out as a fan in the crowd. everyone kept asking me why i won this race. they look at you like you re a failure. i m so glad to be here. good morning, everyone. 7:00
the full faith of the credit of united states is in the balance. there is no bipartisan deal to be made solely on the partisan terms. it seems as though he wants default more than he wants a deal. i will never give up. he claims the troops are pulling out of ukraine on may 25th. they claim to have captured bakmut. that is a incredible step to take. the country which is bigger than we are cannot occupy us k. not win in this war. south carolina s tim scott now has his sights set on the white house. i m looking forward to optimistic positive leadership as anchored in conservative principles. you re not going to get a nomination by going around donald trump. you have to confront him head on. three, two, one and liftoff. the mission is on its way to the international space station. as i look into space, i can t help but think this is just the beginning of a great journey for all of us. dream big. fairytale story. he gets better. get there. yes! magi
hadn t seen. you re a student of the law. you know that lawyers are not supposed to disclose their conversation with their clients. even after they re dead. that s what stephen jones the attorney did. i think it was a questionable decision on his part. it was a tremendous boom to me as a journalist to get behind the scenes in many the investigation. plus, i got all the material that federal government turned over to the defense as part of their investigation. so i have the federal government as well. how nice to see you both. how nice to see you, jeffrey toobin. congratulations. thank you. book after book. not sure how you do it. well it s a phenomenal write. thank you. be sure to pick up his book. we ll speak to one of the authors of the clarence thomas report. that will be later this hour. right now, our coverage continues as cnn this morning continues right now. russia is accusing the united states of being behind that drone attack on the kremlin.
remember seeing before. different types of aircraft were used by strategic, long range, mig 31. there were 81 missile launches. wow. we wake up and we re shocked to hear about it. folks there in ukraine are right in the middle of it. and there are people that have died. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. russian missiles raining down across ukraine. knocking out power, killing civilians and striking cities like kyiv which are far away from the actual fighting. we re going to go there live. also this morning, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell hospitalized after tripping and following at a washington, d.c., hotel. and no relief for california after deadly blizzards trapped people for more than a week and the snow as you can see here, the state is bracing for heavy snow and flooding. we have the latest. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin this morning, this hour with russia unleashing a massive barrage of missiles across ukraine. the strikes