bad news. lindsey graham in his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county grand jury in an effort to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on the ruling. we re also getting new information about concerns inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. joining me now to discuss legal analyst and federal prosecutor elliot waylens and also joining us palm beach county state attorney dave aaronberg. we have a whole law firm spread happening right now. i love it. who are we billing right now? we don t know. i ll begin with you, elliot, here. it is just a week ago we learned from the court that trump was keeping top secret, highly classified documents at mar-a-lago. then we find out the doj interviewed two top white house lawyers about it. early next week we may learn what is in the affidavit that made it so urgent for them to seize this material. when yo
closed captioning brought to you by feel away optimum, enhanced calming for cats. bad news for lindsey graham and his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. the one investigating republican efforts to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on her ruling at the senator has got to appear. we are getting new information about concerns from inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams, visiting professor of american law university, the author of how to think like a lawyer. and joining us, palm beach county state attorney dave ehrenberg. nice to see you here, we ve got a law firm spread happening right now. who are we billing for this hour? we don t know, but look, it s just a week ago today that we learned from the court that trump was keeping top-secret, highly clas
that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r
muntean. reporter: the headlines are relentless and indiscriminate. in indiana, four dead including a member of congress. los angeles, five dead. in illinois, eight dead, including all six members of the family. the losses tell the story of what safety advocates call a crisis on our roads. the overall numbers are still moving in the wrong direction. reporter: new data from the national highway safety traffic administration shows 9560 people were killed on u.s. roads in the first three months of this year. that s a 7% jump over the same period last year, and the highest for a first quarter in 20 years. we had hoped these trends were limited to 2020, but sadly they aren t. risky behaviors skyrocketed, and traffic fatalities spiked. reporter: virginia saw one of the biggest increases nationwide with traffic deaths spiking more than 70% in the first quarter. last week near richland, jonah holland was cycling along a