around the nuclear plant. no signs of what putin called systemic shelling at the plant. video from inside shows russian vehicles in a turbine just a few hundred feet from the reactors. cnn did confirm the authenticity of the video but not the date it was taken. let s start with david mckenzie in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. david, obviously a very worrying situation. he s just visited kyiv and warned this could be another chernobyl, and now we have the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for these attacks. there s very little visibility into what s going on there. please lay out what we do know. reporter: well, what we do know is it s a very worrying situation. this is europe s largest nuclear power plant. if you look at where it is of that industrial zone and that nuclear power plant, it s right on the front line between russia and ukraine. on one side of the river, it s russians okay pig that nuclear power plant, on the other side of the river, it s ukraine. and
that facility. new images first on cnn show little to no change in damage at the site compared to last month, but worries are continuing over the safety of europe s largest nuclear complex. both russia and ukraine are accusing the other of plotting attacks on or around the plant. now, the lack of independent access to the plant makes it impossible to verify what is actually happening there. yes, it s very hard for even u.s. officials to have visibility into exactly what the security situation is, but this is new video showing russian military trucks inside a turbine hall near the nouclear reactor. it s not clear when this video was taken. cnn s senior international correspondent is there for us. david, do we know if it s secure or the exact situation? reporter: the exact situation is very difficult to ascertain. what we do know is russian troops have been there for months now and they have placed military assets in and around that site. now, who is doing the shelling, whe
the affidavit, which would be unusual, insisting it could compromise its ongoing investigation. now this all comes as cnn has learned some allies of the former president are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago. his son eric trump says that will absolutely happen at the right time. plus, we re learning more about a separate probe of trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. overnight, the new york times reporting that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed white house documents from the national archives, asking for all materials in whatever form that were handed to the january 6th committee. what is clear is the investigations are ongoing. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz in west palm beach. ruling expected today or just the consideration? reporter: it is possible there could be a consideration. the judge could rule live in court or could decide to do it at a later time. but i j
the mar-a-lago affidavit by noon eastern today. that document could tell us why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed in connection with the classified material being kept at trump s home. that document could also be heavily redacted. we will have to wait and see and we are standing by for that. yet even a redacted version could offer new revelations about the investigation and unprecedented search of the former president s home. let s get straight to cnn s jessica schneider she s live in washington standing by with us. jessica, what are you learning about what we may see any moment now? well, the big question here, kate, is how much of this document will the public actually see. you know, this is a document the prosecutors have previously talked about in court as being very lengthy, as talking about the sources and methods of this criminal investigation, ongoing criminal investigation, i might add, as well as discussing the details
struggling to answer questions about the president s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour we ll break down the plan s benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lago search affidavit within the next 18 hours. let s go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department s redactions today. he didn t. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they