mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing
after a 20-page limit was not enough. let s begin with what we learned. they clearly think they need double the pages. what will they tell us? this will be the justice department s first response of the legal merits whether a special master or a third-party individual should be appointed in this case. they previously said, given the judge s status report, that they will provide in court more detail today under seal, their forthcoming filing. but the privilege review team identified a limited set of materials that contained attorney/client privilege information. today, they are addressing the legal and the factual information that was raised in trump s request for the special master. they are asking for double the amount of space which is unusual. it must indicate they feel there is a lot in the record they want to address. and get to the issues of executive privilege, which trump is claiming he wants a special master to review this. trump s legal team will have until tomorr
they would be surrounded and captured, though they re leaving behind a trail of destruction. cnn s sam kiley is live in kharkiv, ukraine, with an exclusive look at what remains there now. he s the first international correspondent inside izyum since the liberation of that city. sam, tell us what you re seeing. well, brianna, it has been an extraordinary campaign by the ukrainians, opening with a counteroffensive in the south, possibly drawing off russian troops there, and now president zelenskyy saying they ve captured 6,000 square kilometers. military forces saying they ve liberated the whole of kharkiv. this is what it looked like in the strategically vital city of izyum. it s opiniobeen a stunning a. ukraine s route of russian invaders has recaptured 6,000 kilometers. this land was held by russia just a few days ago. now it s providing a rich harvest to ukraine s army of abandoned russian equipment. the russian z symbol painted over, the guns ready to kill russians.
his midterm choice, not letting donald trump and his allies smuggle the american spirit. a just released list of the documents the fbi found in its search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the seven page inventory was unsealed this morning. a short time ago by a federal judge. along with a second court filing that made clear the depth of the former president s legal troubles. the volume of paper is stunning. 18 documents marked top secret. 54 documents marked secret. 31 documents marked confidential. four dozen empty folders. yes, empty folders marked classified. 11,000 nonclassified government documents as well. intermixed with stuff, clothing, gifts, mementos, magazines, other press clippings. we now have a much clearer picture about the shear number of things the fbi hauled away but little more specific kept abou content and the range of subject matters in those documents. but we did get this, the justice department telling that judge its review of the materials removed fr
taken from that search. and it reveals the shear scale of government documents found in that former president s personal home more than a year and a half after he left office. and among what was seized, we know more than 100 documents had classified markings along with more than 11,000 government documents and photographs without the markings. intermingled with gifts and clothing among other things. and keep in mind this is after trump s attorney signed a statement saying everything had been turned over. kara scannell, walk us through what we ve learned. i think it was how many of these documents were, 33 boxes and containers, some from the former president s own personal al office at mar-a-lago and some from the storage room. and there is a distinction there because the storage room is where the fbi was initially told these records were and when they executed the search warrant, they found out that there was more evidence in the former president s office. so if you just ev