no announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news, a federal judge a few moments ago ordering the release of emails from john eastman. cnn senior justice correspondent is working this. walk us through what happened. this is a ruling from judge david carter in california, wolf. he is ordering the release of emails to the january 6th committee. john eastman, who worked as a lawyer for the former president in those weeks as he was trying to stay in office has argued they should be shielded under attorney client privilege. the judge is rejecting that saying that they may be evidence of a crime so therefore they fall under what s known as the crime fraud exception. i ll read you part of what the judge wrote in his order. he says the emails show that president trump knew the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tote those numbers both in court and to the public. the court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to
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bill says it s new structural racism. some schools think it s ok to discriminate against one group in favor of another. this has been six years in his garage, probably had a lot of people come over there, whether it s workers, whether it s staff, whether it s friends, like who knows. and they say they are being transparent but they are really not. why didn t they tell us about the ones in the garage when they knew it at the time. be transparent with the american people and treat everyone the same. that s all we are asking for. sandra: all right. lawmakers sounding off. begin america reports with a live look at the white house at this hour, a press briefing is scheduled this hour amid growing backlash for president biden as he struggles to explain how the classified documents ended up at his home and private office. hello, and welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. john, welcome back to you. john: sandra, good to be with you. what about the guy who was detailing the
this is perhaps the most anticipated debate of the election season. it s also the only chance for pennsylvanians to see the candidates side by side. they re debating just this one time. the senate is 50-50 and pennsylvania is crucial in the fight to either keep or gain control. cnn s jeff zeleny is in harrisburg where the debate is happening. jeff, what should people expect to see tonight? reporter: well, victor, i think people can expect to see fireworks as we ve seen in debates across the country. more interestingly this has a unique element to it and that is because of john fetterman. of course he s the lieutenant governor of pennsylvania but he s been recovering from a stroke for the last several months. so this debate tonight is going to be slightly different. it s going to have a closed captioning system. john fetterman is still having auditor processing issues. he can t always hear and see things in realtime so he ll be using closed captions as many americans do when
this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think that s my message to them is we re trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampa s international airport is set to suspend operations entirely tuesday evening. hospitals meantime are transferring patients and putting up these large barriers to protect them from the potential storm surge. now the nags wall weather center has a storm surge in effect for large swathes of florida. they re bracin g for the storm s. people need to heed the warning and get out now especially where the storm-filled waters surge and affect them. we re not going to have the ability to come out and get them. then there are these images from the gran