thank you so much for joining us. us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he has the right to remain silent. he s also donald trump. tonight on 360 the former president s eruption over the documents case, and is special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle, how people are coping in the wake of a sedevastating and deadly tornado. plus to ukraine. first up tonight, the trump documents case in a new sign of how serious jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant reined in. also a reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reined in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought. except bill barr, a disgruntled former employee and very weak person. he knows the indictment is total bull [ bleep ]. a very stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who s got nothing going, a
special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping the defense from made the king potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle how people are coping in the wake of a devastating tornado. plus, it s not just ukraine, you re reporting on russia s notorious wagner mercenaries spreading brutality to horrific warfare elsewhere. first up tonight the trump documents case in the new sign of how serious special counsel jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant rained in. also reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reigned in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought, except bill barr a disgruntled former employee, and very weak person, he knows the indictment is total [bleep], a stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who has nothing going for him, absolutely nothing. two things to note about what you saw, first, all three people he is talki
turn our attention to other news. president biden has led international condemnation of new laws in uganda which mean that anyone having gay sex can be jailed for life. in some circumstances, people could face the death penalty. mr biden called the laws shameful, and said the us was considering sanctions. the united states has led the growing chorus of condemnation over these new laws. president biden, in a five paragraph statement, called uganda s new laws shameful and a tragic violation of universal human rights . he s called for those laws to be immediately repealed and is threatening sanctions if that doesn t happen, saying that the united states will, in his words, evaluate the implications of the law on all aspects of us engagement with uganda . now, one aspect of engagement with uganda is a programme known as pepfar that stands for the president s emergency plan for aids relief, which was established back in 2003 under the administration of george w bush to limit a
cruise missiles and drones were intercepted by their defences in what was the 15th air attack on the capital this month. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale is in kyiv. today s strikes were unusual for two reasons one, because they came in the daylight, and secondly, because they appeared to be targeted here at the centre of the city. until now, most of the air strikes came at night and they were targeted at the outskirts, at national infrastructure and some of the air defences itself. so the authorities said they managed to shoot down 11 ballistic and cruise missiles. of course, that meant that there was a lot of debris that came from the skies, landing on the ground, damaging some buildings. but miraculously, there were reports ofjust a few injuries. so what we re seeing is an uptick in tempo of this conflict. russia is putting more pressure on the capital here in kyiv, but it s also striking military targets elsewhere. ukraine admitted rarely that one of thei
we are standing by for a big moment in space. a privately crewed spacecraft will dock with the international space station this hour, it s only the second time that has happened. and for the first time a woman is leading the mission. this is cnn news central. just a few hours from now high stakes talks on the debt crisis between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. they are set to resume in-person one-on-one. this morning it s not clear how close or how far they are from a deal. what is clear, they re almost out of time. in ten days the u.s. could default on its $31 trillion debt. if that takes place it s not exactly clear what happens, but it s definitely very bad. government bills could go unpaid, millions of americans would feel it. social security checks, medicare, veterans benefits and the salaries of thousands of federal and military employees, they are at all risk. republicans are demanding steep budget cuts with no increase in revenue. the president h