united states and the public. whether trump broke the law by having classified documents at mar-a-lago, the heart of that investigation had the former president suggesting yet another new argument about presidential powers and declassifying documents. you re the president of of the united states. you can declassify by thinking about it. the doj ruling came hours after that other legal blow for trump. the 222-page lawsuit by the new york attorney general that charges him, don j, eric and ivanka with widespread fraud and ul legal practices that could threatenen the exist tense of the family business. i want to bring in devlin barrett from the washington post. he wrote about this story today. paul butler is a former prosecutor, professor at georgetown school of law. and olivia troy served as former koubt terrorism adviser to mike pence. so paul, the appellate court said the judge wasn t wrong on some of the points. they went point by point by point and said she was basical
even as the threat of a north korea missile test looms during this visit. all this is a balancing act as russia s war in ukraine hangs over the white house. today in another public show of support, the president met with leaders of finland and sweden as they pushed to join nato, a historic step as more countries unite against russia and condemn its invasion. the big question here is can turkey get on board? we are following all the headlines out of ukraine and the state of play there. first, let s start at the white house and we are joined now. arlette, tell us more about the president s message and his mind set as he s embarking on this. he s flying to asia for his first trip to the region as president. officials said he had hoped to get there earlier in his presidency, but was constrained due to covid-19 and other crises such as the war in ukraine. but the president will be traveling to both south korea and japan to meet with the leaders of each of the countries as well a
In washington saying this just today it was announced that north korea performed its fifth nuclear test, its fourth since Hillary Clinton became Secretary Of State. Its just one more massive failure from a failed Secretary Of State. Clinton after meeting with National Security officials says this i dont want to rehash everything my opponent has said in this campaign but no conversation about our National Security would be complete unless we acknowledge that the nominee on the other side promises to do things that will make us less safe. Meanwhile trump tells a crowd at his florida rally this tonight about Hillary Clinton. She is being so protected. She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldnt be prosecuted, okay . Thats whats happened. That is whats happened to our country. In from the man who once said he could shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and not lose a vote. Even for dona
close to his people compared to his russian counter part who is remote at the end of those long tables, deep inside the kremlin. now, zelenskyy also speaking to president biden over the weekend, president biden at camp david hugging with his national security officials. zelenskyy calling the call a positive and inspiring conversation. he thanked president biden for the patriot missile batteries, defending the skies from kyiv, and from russian missiles and drones. those contacts between washington and kyiv happening at all levels of government. defense secretary lloyd austin speaking to his counter part over the weekend, and general milley also speaking to his. we have seen a real contrast also between how president zelenskyy and president biden have been talking about what s going on inside russia. zelenskyy who is a native russian speaker who has been posting videos all weekend in russian speaking directly to both russian troops and the russian people saying your leadership are divide
the morning here in kyiv. it s the same time in moscow. this is a fast-moving and confusing situation. here s what we know. in the last few minutes, the white house national security council has confirmed president biden has been briefed on what s going on inside russia. which tells you just how high the stakes are here. as you said, the russian government is now accusing yevgeny prigozhin, the volatile head of the wagner mercenary group, of mounting a coup against the government of vladimir putin. prigozhin, for his part, having earlier said that the russian military fired on his mercenary troops, has now released an audio recording in just the last hour or so, saying his mercenaries have crossed over from ukraine, where they are supposed to be fighting side by side with russian regular forces, and that they are marching towards the southern russian city of rostov. chris, as you said, there are not a lot of reliable narrators here. prigozhin is a man with a