it has been a busy night here. 20 russian missiles fired at this city. most were shot down, but there was death and destruction, but you are right, it was even busier across the border. experts are saying this is the biggest internal challenge to russian president vladimir putin since he started this war. russian officials claiming the fogner group mercenary chief yevgeny is launching a coup, an armed uprising against the government, specifically its military leadership and is demanding his arrest. all started friday morning when yevgeny blasted the whole bases and conduct of this basis and conduct of this war. later, he launched one more threat against the government saying his 25,000 men would leave ukraine and take on the regime. all night, we ve been watching incredible scenes of russian military rolling out to protect moscow and a key city to the south and then columns of the trucks, tanks, armor and troops rolled into the city marching around and with barely any fight
it is thursday. i m off tomorrow for my daughter s first play. this is very exciting. you re looking particularly beautiful this morning. oh, gosh. you are so sweet. it s true. we have a lot going on this morning. let s get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom s birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn t share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the bill w
he missed an opportunity to show america s face. this was maybe the big epps moment of his career and there s no video of it. there was nothing for networks to broadcast. no clips to distribute and run on loop for days. nothing to post online. newspapers and web sites couldn t even slap the announcement image on the front page. plus, run the risk of glitches and that could have been executed better. but, on the flip side. his team says the risk paid off because the guy has raised a ton of money since then. he raised over 8 million bucks in 24 hours and that s a record. and now that the twitter launch is out of the way, desantis is sticking to a more traditional campaign approach. is he doing the media blitz, fox, talk radio, podcast. and next week he is holding events in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. so his foot is on the gas and his sights are set on trump, he is looking to neutralize ron s strength on covid. listen. when the ron desanctimonious facts come out.
headlines. heat. florida governor ron desantis is now set to officially announce that he is running for president. cnn learned that the florida governor is going to make the announcement tonight during an interview with elon musk on twitter. his wife, casey desantis released this video of him getting ready to walk on a stage as a dramatic voiceover speaks in the background. do i have the courage? it is worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it. every single time. desantis has widely been seen as former donald trump s leading challenger for the republican nomination. there are questions on what this launch will look like. the poll numbers have been slipping after shaky performances leading up to this launch. trump has been relentlessly attacking him for months now. and we re now learning that trump and his allies have been preparing for this moment with a coordinated plan to try to up end desantis campaign launch. there is a social media blitz and appearing in
general jack keane but breaking tonight, house republicans looking into what they call the weaponization of the federal government. they say federal employees, fbi employees specifically who have talked about it, have faced retaliation. it s another blow to the bureau that s already enduring greater scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel conclusion that it should not have opened an investigation into the trump-russia collusion case. the john durham report. democrats on that committee today called it a lot of hot air in one of the most heathed hearings on the hill in years. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, geographic to you. witnesses told congress stories of retaliation and intimidation because they questioned a prominent investigation. meanwhile, this letter obtained by fox news is from the fbi and explains that these men policy why their security clearances were revoked. the fbi suspended secu