hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
and he s asking why republicans won t ban assault weapons. and another justice department deadline, the government s response to a federal judge is due today. prosecutors hope to make the case that they were careful and that there s no need for a special process now to sort through the documents seized from donald trump s home. and a noteworthy maga makeover. house a denier scrubbed his website that a the 2020 election was stolen. the president of the united states enters the campaign fray in a few moments. he will leave for pennsylvania for a planned speech on gun violence. the president will suggest republicans have little standing to talk tough on crime if they keep bowing to the gun lobby ant your votes. and the president is in one of those places that will tell us a ton come election night. in pennsylvania s eighth congressional district. you see the red from 2020. donald trump carried the county. this congressional district, if you look in here, the eighth congression
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren t exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country s south. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 30th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort potentially contain attorney-client privileged information. according to a court filing yesterday, the team used by the justice department has finished its examination of the possibly privileged documents, sorting through them and reviewing any material that could be part of congressional investigators and it would undermine trump s efforts to have a special master over the files. over the weekend a federal judge i
welsh this is brand new contemporary music. we re going to get into that as well as the politics. also tonight, carole king, the icon is here with us live. we re going to get into her activism, and why she says she has something to talk about on the beat, and we said come on over. it s a lot cooking here on this late august summer vibes. a lot of news, guests and a lot to get to. it ain t summer as far as the president is concerned. president biden going at what we calls the semifascism of certain maga republicans in that party. these are, according to some, the strongest comments yet, as he rebukes maga today just days after making waves in what was a parentally a very clear deliberate effort to address authoritarianism in america. so let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. for god s sake, whose side are you on? you can t be pro law enforcement and pro insurrect