Earned more than a billion dollars. Thank you for hanging out. Im omar jimenez. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning, phil. Good morning. There was a big game this morning. So i thought it was going to be awesome to wake up at 3 00 a. M. And have an amazing game on. And then it turned out to be the most stressful two hours of my life. And i dont like it anymore. Arent you supposed to be reading for the show. Im totally prepped with womens soccer. Well see how that goes. A lot happened overnight. From politics to gio politics to the womens world cup, of course. Lets get started with five things to know for this tuesday, august 1st. Today could be charging decision day for former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That grand jury will meet just hours from now. And new this morning, Donald Trumps Political Action committee is almost out of cash. It began last year with m
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia hitting back after new Ukrainian Drone strikes tarting moscow. Ill get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. Donald trumps new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. This as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. The top prosecutor in the Georgia Election Interference Probe says shes ready to go. In haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. Well have the latest on their fate as the u. S. Orders all u. S. Citizens to leave haiti immediately. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the wo world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin with the escalating attacks and counterattacks in russias war against ukraine. Kremlin forces attempting to hit president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Close To Home as ukraine ramps up strikes inside russian territory. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in ukraine. Crews have been digging
Go as a federal jury meets tomorrow as Special Counsel jack smith gets new evidence in the maralago case. Plus, remarkable new video into outfront of Ukrainian Forces taking out one of putins prized Rocket Launchers as a Putin Arch Nemesis loses his appeal. His wife is outfront. A longtime republican operative quits ron desantis. Why he says the problem isnt the campaign, its desantis himself. Ed rollins is my guest. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, new Surveillance Video in the maralago case just surfacing. A development tonight, a breaking development. Well share more details in a moment because it comes as two major indictments are looming for trump. In washington The Grand Jury investigating trumps efforts to overturn the election are expected to meet hours from now. In georgia a grand jury that could vote on whether to indict trump met today. That vote could come as early as tomorrow. In atlanta where barricades now surround the Fulton County supe
with gunshots going off. and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. for the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that
force. he takes us to where the russians made their final stand, the school hall and its corridors. there is no love, says the wall. they seem to relish the nothing they brought and left no clues as to why they fought. one of the hard things for the ukrainians to understand is quite why the russians are fighting so hard for here and more recent victory of stod major ski down the road. is it that these are their last lines of defense? well no. they think there s far more fighting to be done. [speaking in a non-english language] i hope we get through the last line of defense, he says, then they start to run. for now, they still feel there is something behind them. yeah, we feel support. but we are very, very tired. there is so much more ahead to come. ukraine may have put in this