the u.s. navy moving an aircraft carrier strike are group into the waters off the korean peninsula following a series of missile launches over the past two weeks. paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. paula, we just learned in the last few minutes there appears to have been another missile launch from north korea. what more do we know? well, erica, this particular thing we ve heard about in the last few minutes from the joint chiefs of staff wasn t a missile launch. we re told it was some kind of an aircraft firing exercise they believe. 12 north korean aircraft were detected carrying out some sort of exercise outside of the special surveillance line. this line is in north korea, but it is a virtual line that if any north korean aircraft come below that point, south korea responds. they did that. they mobilized 30 aircraft according to the joint chiefs of staff. you can see this htit for tat i starting to escalate. we know the u.s.s. ronald reagan is back in the waters
they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. guards are gentle, walking out, high fives, smiling, laughing. i d like to punch him in the face. i ll tell ya. we re in a serious moment in our country, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. as i said last week, we remain in the battle for the soul of america. by the way all right. god love ya. let em go. let em go. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, let him go. look, everybody is entitled to be an idiot. no, no, everybody is entitled. president biden s response to a protester while campaigning in wisconsin yesterday, as compared to how donald trump handled hecklers during the 2016 campaign. remember that? yeah, willie, it kind of feels like he was speaking to me there. everybody is entitled to be an idiot. i had the same thought. a different approach than donald trump, obviously. that was for us. exactly. also looking back on 2016, too, the idea that donald trump has ever been in a fistfight in his life, the
documents. so what the district court judge said here is let s get a special master in, have the special master review these documents and decide whether donald trump does have some legal claim to these documents or not. it s worth noting doj has acknowledged that they seized 500 pages or so of documents that may be covered by a privilege. this gifs us much more detail into that. that s the one part. also a federal appeals court granted the justice department s request to expedite a case about the legality of the appointment of a special master. what does this mean? how can that impact, if at all, the ongoing criminal investigation? so this is all about timing, erica. let s keep in mind the special master s review is on going as we speak. the special master has to get through about 11,000 total documents. doj is appealing the entire appointment of the special master. if you look at this from a practical perspective, this
he is one of the cover stories for the issue, ukrainians are defending the values americans claim to hold. here s part of what george writes. quote, a whole society mobilized: this was my first and most lasting impression. the mayor of lviv described ukraine in crisis as a beehive. nearly everyone i met had looked for something to do as soon as russia attacked, some way to be useful without waiting for instructions from a higher authority. on the day the invasion started, a sculptor and lighting designer went to volunteer at a local territorial defense post in kyiv and were given instant training in the use of ak-47s. neither had ever fired a gun in their lives. but within 24 hours, they were standing on a rooftop in the north of the capital, scouting the streets below for the first russian tanks. yet, almost every ukrainian i met shared it.
civilians. it s heartbreaking to see the loss of life at that scale, where every ukrainian knows someone who has been killed. i think the more that goes on, and it is a strange thing, the more determined they become. partly because they know they face an existential fight. they will be destroyed as a country, as a people, if they lose. partly, i think, because they d already made a commitment, many ukrainians at least, to a set of values that they are now fighting for. so when it came under direct and massive attack in february, they were already prepared to defend it. george, elise jordan here. you spent a long time reporting on the ground in iraq and wrote a well-regarded book about the debacles of that war. how has your reporting in iraq influenced the way you approach reporting in ukraine, and what can policymakers learn about intervention, given our experience in iraq? it s a great question.