outfront next, the trump pinted judge making her first ruling in the classified documents case. is it a sign she s not stepping aside? new details about the judge. why a case she s working on now could shed light on how she ll rule in trump s case. plus, a graveyard of russian missiles. ukrainians utilizing putin s deadliest weapons. what they found may surprise you. a special report. and where is melania and ivanka and the family? trump s 2024 campaign is anything but a family affair. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. no recusal. the judge who was appointed by trump and is presiding over the classified documents case issuing her first order. a sign she has no plans to heed the calls to recuse herself. ordering both parties to start the process of obtaining security clearances for their lawyers by tomorrow. it comes as there are mounting questions about her record in past cases. the judge, who was piappointed 2020, has little experience in oversee
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former
from becoming governor of pennsylvania, just a general election away from overseeing the presidential vote there in 2024. senator lindsey graham telling cnn voters don t want to think about the last election. senator john thune said his past words aren t ideal. pat tu mee, who says he did not vote for mastriano, didn t say much more than that. what do you think about mastriano winning? are you concerned at all about his candidacy? so, i don t know doug mastriano at all. i ve never met him. i don t think i ve even had a conversation with him. so, i will suspend judgment until i get a chance to get to know him a little bit. reporter: he s said the election is stolen. does that concern you? i m aware he has said things that i would disagree with. but, like i said, until i actually meet the guy, get to know him a little bit, i m going to suspend judgment. we ll talk more about the implications of his candidacy for the state for 2024 and also for whoever wins the senate
some criticism as we entered that second month of the counter offensive. criticism about how little progress it seemingly is making. we know that president zelensky asking for further munition to progress that offensive. want we know about what is happening on the ground right now? i know about what is happening on the ground right now? ground right now? i think there is an acknowledgement ground right now? i think there is an acknowledgement from - ground right now? i think there is an acknowledgement from the i an acknowledgement from the ukrainian progress. from the ukrainian progress. from the ukrainian side, that progress has been slower than they would like and that counter offensive. that is because they have met with really entrenched russian positions. the russians had time to dig in, to prepare their lines. ukraine probing and looking for gaps, weaknesses whereby it might be able to apply more force to push through. they have suggested that actually, if they d receive more
because it s still very early on in the counteroffensive but as you can see, the russian media is doing everything it can to play down any reports of ukrainian progress. it s been ramping up lately. the president of belarus this week claimed his country is ready, has received tactical nuclear weapons from moscow. has received them. saying they re three times more powerful than those dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. the head of nato says there s no signs that russia s changed its nuclear posture, which would seem to imply that s false. what is the story line as you are seeing it covered in russia? the coverage of the nuclear issue at the moment is really front and center of lots of russia russian news broadcasts and media. you ve had putin making thinly