good evening, tonight on ac 360, it s not just washington now, it s also miami. a second grand jury into mar-a-lago documents probe. what it says about the investigation and trials to come? also the new word on mark meadows, the white house chief of staff of the president on january six has gone before a grand jury. a dam in ukraine is breached at a key point in the war and accusations about who did it. and a retired fbi spy catcher. remember, the spy he caught, the notorious robert hanson, who sold secrets to moscow and more for more than two decades and died in prison. we begin tonight with a previously unknown second grand jury in the documents case. the former trump chief of staff mark meadows has testified before a grand jury, unclear which one. also unclear, when he testified or which line of inquiry the special counsel is pursuing. documents for january 6th or perhaps both. here is kaitlan collins. what have you learned? a lot of questions about this, especially wh
new day starts right now. four ukrainian regions illegally annexed by russia under martial law this morning. the russian military does not even have complete control of the areas, in kherson, the russians are trying to accelerate the relocation or evacuation of some 60,000 residents in the face of ukrainian advances. vladimir putin perhaps struggling to maintain his grip even inside russia. introducing several levels of increased security measures. overnight a russian rocket struck a children s school in a village in zaporizhzhia. and destruction towards the south after another night of strikes targeted the energy infrastructure. here in the u.s. president biden weighing in on the declaration of martial law saying it reveals putin s dwindling options in the war. i think that vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is, it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. the state
no announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news, a federal judge a few moments ago ordering the release of emails from john eastman. cnn senior justice correspondent is working this. walk us through what happened. this is a ruling from judge david carter in california, wolf. he is ordering the release of emails to the january 6th committee. john eastman, who worked as a lawyer for the former president in those weeks as he was trying to stay in office has argued they should be shielded under attorney client privilege. the judge is rejecting that saying that they may be evidence of a crime so therefore they fall under what s known as the crime fraud exception. i ll read you part of what the judge wrote in his order. he says the emails show that president trump knew the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tote those numbers both in court and to the public. the court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to
about gas prices as inflation weighs on the democrats and the battle for control of congress and putin s new martial law order just took effect in parts of ukraine illegally annexed by russia. we ll have live reports from kyiv and moscow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with a major development in the probe of former president trump s claims of election fraud. a federal judge says trump signed legal documents continuing evidence he knew to be false. our justice correspondent is working the story for us. jessica, walk us through what happened. well significantly, wolf, this is the second time that a federal judge out of california, david carter, has said that the former president likely committed a crime. now this is all related to e-mails from johnny spoon, an attorney who was the architect pushing these baseless claims of election fraud. what the judge has done here is he has sa
prosecutors have a lot of discretion why would they do that? so the role of a prosecutor is that you get to choose what federal district you could to bring your case in. but asked to be a federal district for some portion of the crime occurred. here, you can see how the crime occurred in florida. the document retention and mishandling crime and the obstruction crime. the other argument is d. c.. well, he took the documents from d. c.. that would be the scene at the crime. but the counter argument to that is if the facts are, and kaitlan will probably know this, if he took the documents out of there and sent them to mar-a-lago before noon on january 20th, while still president, that is not going to be a crime. it does not become a crime until he uses the power of the presidency, and then he illegally has those documents. if that is the case, then the whole crime happened in florida, not in d. c., and he can t charge in d. c.. also, if the question that case is not just the takin