it was finally hereconnected yesterday. here is sam kiley. he has the latest. this is very troubling news, sam. reporter: pam, the international community remain extremely concerned about the future of the nuclear power station with increased allegations again of shelling both from the ukrainians and the russians both accusing each other of threatening that nuclear power plant by shelling in the environment. so just about 20 minutes drive from here on the ukrainian government side, casualties, civilian casualties but that has been used and is being used as a fire base. a lot of pressure to try to let international observers into that power station. that is where on this very extended front line fighting continues with confirmation a third american has been killed fighting on the ukrainian side with russian backed rebels on the east offered to hand over his body, his remains, we don t know when or if that would be followed through on. this in a weird way is an almost step fo
commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britain s elusive prime minister turned up. in ukraine, as the country marks the six months since the war there began. we now know in the uk how much energy bills will rise in the uk, in october, but not what the new prime minister will do when they take over from boris johnson. where is power going in the uk? where is it going in the united states and, in australia, how come much of it ended up in just the hands of one man and even his friends aren t happy about it? to discuss all of that in the studio, we have latika bourke, correspondent for the australian newspapers, and the sydney morning herald, polly toynbee, a writer who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 1987, aand michael goldfarb a renowned foreign correspondent for public radio in the united states. his podcast is called the first draft. the first draft of history.
hurt its investigation. all of this as the former president s fight with the fbi could be on the verge of a new escalation. cnn learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of that fbi search. i want to get to cnn s jessica snyder. the justice department has warned that make thing affidavit public would cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. this is high stakes for the doj, alex. this hearing just started. we re seeing that the federal judge has just taken the bench. what we expect is the justice department prosecutors will be arguing to continue to keep this affidavit out of public view, keep it sealed. media organizations on the other hand, including cnn, are asking for the unsealing of this affidavit, saying in their filing it s in the public interest to get more details surrounding the mar-a-lago search. notably, they said it hasn t been since the nixon administration that government use
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug companie
insight into former president trump s strategy in this ongoing back and forth over the documents kept at mar-a-lago. and the legal advice and from whom he s getting from conservative activist tom fitton. one person close to the former president said once trump took fitton s advice, quote, it was all downhill from there. this was sources tell cnn trump and his allies have become increasingly concerned about the potential legal implications from all this. plus, president biden fresh off what democrats believe are a winning streak, kicking off the midterm campaign season with a fiery speech in maryland. the president rebuked some trump-supporting republicans calling the extreme maga philosophy as it is known semifascism. his terms. so a lot to get to this morning. our reporters, correspondents are here covering all of the top stories this morning. let s begin on what we will get from doj sometime in the next three hours with our senior justice correspondent evan perez. talk ab