orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon s south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what s the significance of this mission if we ve been to the moon before? reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. and part of the reason they want to do this is because china also has plans to build a base on the south pole of the moon, so there s a political competition element to it. and the other reason is they want to go to mars. nasa officials stress the moon is a proving ground and stepping point to some day get to mars, christine? how are the weather conditions there? is it likely to lift off in the t
americans to leave the ukraine immediately as they prepare for possibility of ugly and vicious attacks from russia. a new in-depth study among covid and how it impacts the brain. we start with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january six investigation. we ve learned that the justice department has issued a subpoena to get more documents related to the capital h. according to sources this is in addition to the national archives request earlier this year. suggesting they are ramping up their investigation into the potential role that the former president and his staff have played in the events leading up to the insurrection. the national archive has until the end of this month to hand over the documents. new york times reports more than 150 since the documents were recovered at his estate by the national archives last january. when fbi agents returned earlier this month with the search warrant they found another stack of highly classified materials as well all told the
historic flooding in texas. not seen in decades. the u.s. markets finishing sharply lower for the second day in a row on more concerns about the health of the u.s. economy. can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession, and my answer to that question is i don t know. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. this tuesday, august 23, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january 6 investigation. we ve learned the u.s. justice department has issued a new subpoena to the national archives for more documents related to its probe of the capitol riots. it is a possible sign the department is ramping up its investigation into the role former u.s. president donald trump and his staff may have played in the events leading up to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t prod
foreign surveillance documents, signal documents, which is the satellite collection and now we have to say, not only do we have these markings, but what is the content of those documents? so you can have different sort of grades of top secret. they can also be top secret but you can have gradations within it. so they have to look at that and determine what the impact is on our national security and what remedial steps need to be taken. that s what they re going to do and then notify counter parties to this to make sure that all the necessary steps to ensure our national security are put in place. look we re getting a little more color, but there s so much we don t know. there s so much that is gray and we don t know where this is going. but senator lindsey graham signaling a warning over the weekend. in the event that donald trump would be indicted over these classified documents, listen to what he said.
documents may have been held at that time, blocking a storage room to secure them and also complying with a subpoena for surveillance documents. on top of that, trump s team does make public an unusual message that his attorney sent to merrick garland just a few weeks ago after that search in the days after trump said in his message to garland, whatever i can do to take the heat down to bring the pressure down, just let us know. that is an unusual thing for someone even a former president to be sending during an ongoing investigation. now, on top of this all as we re looking at it, the justice department has not yet responded in court. they say through a spokesman monday night that they would like to. the judge also has not responded to this request in the southern district of florida federal court, but a few caveats here, it has been two weeks since that search of mar-a-lago and there has been a filter team already at work at the justice department making sure that evidence that shoul