that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nation s capitol, some students now have a january deadline to get vaccinated or else they will not be allowed back to school. in philadelphia, there kids will start the year, there s some images of them, masked up once again with hope of relief from that in the near future. joining me now with the breaking news as everybody gets back to school, betsy devos. great to have you with us. obviously schools have suffered so much. students have suffered so much over the past several years. now we re doing to give it ano
another report on the danger of extremist violence in america. plus, women across the country motivated by the role reversal, are out there registering to vote, as a judge in michigan blocks a 90-year abortion ban law, written almost entirely by a man. all that and more, when the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. here we go, after yet another week of growing pressure, the former president is taking his attacks on the fbi to an even more alarming, and potentially, dangerous level. donald trump and his allies have been escalating their rhetoric against law enforcement, ever since the search of his florida home, which was almost two weeks ago. america s law enforcement officials are now on high alert, and if you ve been asking to tempt down the heat of rhetoric. but tonight, here we are again. on trump social media site, i want to hear how he referred to the fbi and doj. quote, atrocities being perpetuated by the
all that and more, when the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. here we go, after yet another week of growing pressure, the former president is taking his attacks on the fbi to an even more alarming, and potentially, dangerous level. donald trump and his allies have been escalating their rhetoric against law enforcement, ever since the search of his florida home, which was almost two weeks ago. america s law enforcement officials are now on high alert, and they ve been asking to tamp down the heat of rhetoric. but tonight, here we are again. on trump s social media site, i want you to hear how he referred to the fbi and doj. quote, atrocities being perpetuated by the fbi and doj having to do with the raid and breaking of my home, mar-a-lago. he goes on to write, they have no shame. they are destroying our country! of course, there was no break in. the fbi s search, not raid, was carried out legally, with a signe
of politically motivated violence. and it all comes as president biden is set to give a prime time speech tonight, focusing on the soul of the nation. we ll have more on his message to a divided country just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, the 1st of september. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. breaking news overnight, former president donald trump s legal team has responded to the department of justice s latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in their 18-page filing trump s lawyer suggested that by launching what they described as an unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported raid on mar-a-lago, the d.o.j. was quote criminalizing a former president s possession of personal and presidential records in a secure setting. trump s legal team also aggressively renewed its request for a special master, or a third party, to review the documents that the fbi agent