Battle. he areas. we are protecting europe from a regime that has proven that it only has one desire to destroy the freedom of europe, to be an authoritarian master on the continent. all, right for more, scott mclain joins us from london. so, scott, what s the latest on these attacks and the ukrainian warnings of more to come? hey, good morning kim, yes, so ukrainian officials say that the air raid alert is in effect for the entire country right now. they are warning about a potentially widespread russian missile attack in the country. there have already been explosions reported in the city of kharkiv. and also in separate. remember, these places are on the frontlines. but they are cities that ukraine s top national security official warned earlier this week could be part of a renewed russian offensive. it means the cities where russians have never held before. of course, during these types of missile attacks, the russians are typically going
Maybe that s possible. but there.e is an awful lot ofes explaining to do. beside they, it s in some ways beside the point. . president biden had an opportunity to protect america in a simple way. toand chose not to do that. and director radclyffe, you are you have already goneim on the record also saying at no time did you or anybody thate tp you knew when you were working in the trump white house had ever heard that such an, sir? incident never occurred. is that true, sir? every former trump national security yeah.e sa i mean, every former trump national security official has d ousaid the same thing. and as mike pointed out,. the biden story keeps changingee ,the alibis keep changing. and now they ve gone frome intimating that we weren te telling the truth to admitting that we were with the explanation that you gavnation sean, which is that no one knew. and somehow the bestterprise intelligence community, the best intelligence enterprise in the worlhe worlddw missed this for years.eek
About the paul pelosi attack, raising serious questions about the security for u.s. lawmakers. moments from now, i ll get reaction from the san francisco district attorney trying the case against the suspect. plus, joe biden preparing for a major speech on threats to american democracy. this as an exclusive new cnn poll shows voters are overwhelmingly focused in on the u.s. economy. is the president in touch with their concerns? and new u.s. intelligence leads to very disturbing discussions inside the russian military about scenarios for using nuclear weapons in ukraine. a key white house national security official, john kirby, joins me live this hour. we ll discuss. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top
Them, that is a warning to every law enforcement agent, every national security official, who has any contact with that record, this has to be in a locked safe right away. that is the picture. and one wonders, not only why he had those documents down there, but who else saw them. i mean, these are documents that we know, from reporting, were stashed in closets, in the desk. we know other lawyers relating to other investigations were looking for material in and around mar-a-lago. lowhat was so interesting was that in the fbi s filing, they said that the people tasked with reviewing these documents, some of them were not even cleared to look at this level of security document. that is how tight the secrets were kept. that s such an important point. you know, these particular programs forgive me, documents had cover sheets that had a coding, in addition to top secret, in addition to secure compartmented information. the holiest of holy of national
Worried. but if i see an orange cover on any of these documents, which is top secret security compartmented information if any of those have orange on them, that is a warning to every law enforcement agent, every national security official, who has any contact with that record, this has to be in a locked safe right away. that is the picture. and one wonders, not only why he had those documents down there, but who else saw them. i mean, these are documents that we know, from reporting, were stashed in closets, in the desk. we know other lawyers relating to other investigations were looking for material in and around mar-a-lago. what was so interesting was that in the fbi s filing, they said that the people tasked with reviewing these documents, some of them were not even cleared to look at this level of security document. that is how tight the secrets were kept. that s such an important point. you know, these particular programs forgive me, documents had cover sheets that had