investigation. by doing that they ve limited the up side. they re not going to get the special master kicked out altogether, but they ve limited their down side because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit that s really bad for doj. that sets an even worse precedent for doj. so i think they re being tactical and strategic. this whole process is being dragged out. is trump getting what he wants especially if this works its way all the way up to the supreme court? to be sure, don. we have seen donald trump use delay as a tactic plenty of times before often successfully. here we are six weeks after that search was done at mar-a-lago and the special master hasn t gotten started yet and now he has until november 30th to get this done, and we ve got a pending at least a request for stay going up to the court of appeals. yes, it s moving slowly, and yes, delay is to donald trump s benefit. phil mudd, does it make any sense to you this judge can
buendias. the defiant response from gop governors and how this could factor into the november midterms. plus, sticker shock. mortgage rates jumping to the highest level in a decade. what that means for buyers and what it says about the market. tropical storm fiona closes in. when conditions will start to deteriorate and the potential impacts to the island. plus, procrastinators take note. was this headline written for me? travel experts say this is the time to book holiday flights . good morning and welcome to your new day . it s saturday, september 17th. whitney, do you feel that? it s the weekend. it is the weekend. it s almost the end of summer. it is. we re grateful to have you here with us this morning. we re grateful you re making us part of your saturday. up first, a lot to get to. but we start with the political battle over immigration heating up. florida s governor doubling down on his plan to relocate migrants from the southern border. he arranged f
it is nothing short of a horrific tragedy. a massacre at a day care center in thailand. an attacker killed 36 people, most of them are children. officials say at tack started when a man armed with a gun and a knife entering the childcare facility and police say most of the victims were stabbed. most officials are saying the that attacker who killed himself is a former police officer. selina wang is tracking all of this live in tokyo. what is the very latest that you re learning? reporter: kate, we re just getting new details from the police about this horrific tragedy. the death toll has revisen to 3 people dead including 24 children and one pregnant woman. ten more are injured. earlier the government has described this massacre as a mass shooting but now they say many of the people died from knife stabbing wounds. police say that this 34-year-old gunman went to this nursery in northeastern thailand looking for his 2-year-old stepson. he went there and couldn t find him. he
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, and we begin this hour with a developing situation in russia near the ukrainian border. the russian defense ministry says 11 people are dead and another 15 are injured after two men or two gunmen, i should say, opened fire on russian military recruits during a training session. russia says the two men were from former soviet states that russian state news agency is reporting the incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation when the unit was attacked with small arms fire. details are still coming in to cnn at this hour. we ll update you as we get more of that information as it s coming in, but we ll bring that to you just as soon as that story develops. in the meantime, the shooting happened as the violence inside ukraine is once against escalating violently. in just the past week, russia launched hundreds of missile strikes, including yesterday and today in zaporizhzhia. they
his old boss is emotional always rational and may well use a nuclear weapon. russia is showing a lot of interest lately in norway. why? they state that should have been a slamdunk for democrats. but why is the new york governor s race suddenly so close? no word of after he was abruptly escorted out of the communist party s meeting. as anti-protesters are writing their messages on the walls of public bathrooms. it is the story you will see here first. let s go outfront. good evening i m erin burnett. exhausted emotional and not always rational. putin s former speech what is that the leader knows he cannot survive losing his ward in ukraine. because he is almost assuredly lose power if that happens. losing power means jail at best. this morning coming as criticism of putin s war tonight loud and clear on russia s state tv. russia initiated the special operation having overestimated its military strength. it is the eighth month already. and they still have not claime