of pakistan s devastating floods. de facto authorities in four russian occupied or partially occupied regions of ukraine have announced plans to hold referendums on joining russia this week as ukraine continues to recapture territory in the north east. proxy administrations in luhansk, donetsk, kherson and zaporizhzhia all say that voting will start this friday. this is what the russian appointed head of the region had to say. translation: i will personally a - eal to translation: i will personally appeal to the translation: i will personally appeal to the president. - translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with l translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with ai appeal to the president. with a request for legal approval of the referendum result as soon as possible and i am sure this procedure will not take much time. it has come from very different areas. french president president macron says the referendum will have no legal consequence,
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the course of,
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
peter: good evening, bret. masks, vaccines, school closures, social distancing, the medical professionals who came up with rules that led some folks to go out you of business and others to stay home, the medical professionals that president told us to listen to now admits they were wrong. peter: as president biden golfs away from cameras there is a reason to revisit a comment he has made over and over. tell the truth. follow the scientists the science. poor the peter problem scientists admit they blew it rochelle walensky says in a statement cdc and public health have been preparing for covid-19. in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations. video of a maskless president biden coughing and shaking hands with lawmakers quickly went viral last night because cdc guidance is for close contact to covid patients like him to mask for 10 days but he is not to blame. an internal cdc review concluded covid guidance was both confusing and overwhelming. u
of my book coming out about women in politics, but you look at the field of women candidates, it is a system that tends to reward candidates that could build consensus. those are traits that are associated with female candidates. so it is interesting to see how and if that shakes out in alaska with the heavily female primary fields. thank you. an your new book out is next weaken titled electable why america hasn t put a woman in the white house yet. and i just got my copy. congratulations and we look forward to talking you to more about your book. thank you. it is now 1 minute past the top of the fourth hour, 9:00 a.m. in the east and 6:00 a.m. out west. and jonathan lemire is here with us. and boy do we have a lot to get to this hour. following up on ali s report and talked about this rank voting that alaska avoting for, it makes people connect a little bit better, try to be a little bit less harsh and add a little bit of civility. you heard sarah palin saying we hav