hello, welcome to inside politics i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. death and drones. at least four killed in kyiv that after russia deploys drones to terrorize the city. and an opening in georgia, raphael warnock s getting more personal. and the police and the badge more confusing. and it should have a clear cut answer, will you accept the results of the republican election. the arizona governor asked three times on cnn will not, will not give a direct answer. but first, a new wave of russian attacks taking place in kyiv. the key today, the buzz of drones from above. on the ground, rubble and black body bags. at least five iranian supplied kamikaze drones rocked the city. right now, four people known to be killed others still said to be trapped underdebris. and energy facilities in the capital taken offline and called desperation. and reiterated a demand for, quote, more weapons. let s go to dnipro, ukraine. our fred pleitgen is t
master to oversee the review of the mar-a-lago search. to go through the documents to see if any of them were privileged. the judge says she has a preliminary intent to appoint one. today is the deadline for the government to respond to trump s request in writing. there was supposed to be a 20-page limit for this filing. but the department of justice has asked for up to 40 pages. one might infer they have a lot to say. and this file be will be public. so just in terms of page count this could be more than we ve heard from them yet. all this, as the secret service official at the center of the january 6th hearing steps down. more on tony ornato s departure in just a moment. joining me now, maggie haberman helping to lead the coverage of the mar-a-lago search. i m very interested in the filing today. the subject with the special master, i used to write term papers, i never asked them to double the length of the assignment. you certainly don t do that unless there s stuff they w
however, what they also need to keep in mind is that the russians are going to run out of certain types of fuel. they re going to run out of weapons systems. and they re possibly even going to run out of personnel even with the call-up of 300,000 russian reservist. i want to show this for a moment, first of all show the pictures over kyiv. you see the sky. you heard fred pleitgen reporting. imagine it s early in kyiv and you wake up and hear this. what is the sophistication level here. you heard reports from the scene when some of them came in and hovered and hit targets. can you use them to terrorize and redirect them to a target? how sophisticated? yes, they can actually be used to hover over targets and be redirected to a different set of targets. that is the potential but that level of sophistication is not the same, for example, with the switch blade drones that the u.s. has. that a very significant drone system. the ukrainians have that. and that can actually be retargeted on
they have no credibility. listen, what we have to watch is what actual progress there is on the ground. because ukrainian forces and leaders have put the most positive spin on this as possible. you know, this is a difficult moment for the country. and they want to encourage their people to have hope, right? that we cannot just defend the lines, but gain back territory so we ll have to see how much they can gain back. and can they hold it. we re also learning from u.s. sources that russiale now has iranian drone capabilities. these are armed drones that they have gotten access to and training in iran and russia this summer. not dissimilar from the drones that we ve seen the ukrainian forces using, the kamikaze drones, the switch blade drones and turkish drones they ve used for targeting. the u.s. views this it shows rush russia desperation, right? they have to reach out to ire ran for weapons in the war.
really committed to giving them the kind of advanced weapons and the training wrb they ve trained them on the howitzers and on the switch blade drones. train them for the best weapons, not just old soviet weapons that we re getting other countries to deliver. i think what this is the key question. clearly we re committed to providing them with the preponderance of the weapons they re using to oo some success. javelins have been critical and the training has been on the ground in poland. i think what they ve agitated for is not just the ex-soviet stock piles that are prepositioned in europe and more advanced u.s. systems and could