documents seized from mar-a-lago. stand by. we have details. also tonight, former president trump lashes out at the january 6th select committee but doesn t reveal if he ll comply with the new subpoena from the committee. this as cnn obtains exclusive extended footage of congressional leaders trying to work around trump as they scrambled to secure the u.s. capitol during the riot. even after a week of deadly russian attacks, ukrainian forces are making major gains in the occupied kherson region, prompting russian officials to announce an evacuation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on the battle between the u.s. justice department and the trump team over that mar-a-lago special master. cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez, is working the developments for us. he s got the latest information. what ar
Premptive strike by the United States. The president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire Robert Mueller as his russia investigation heats up. Fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of Paul Manafort. And pouring more feud on the Top Republican in the senate. He called Mitch Mcconnells failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. This after he posted multiple tweets slamming the Majority Leader and urging him to get back to work. This hour, ill talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. We will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. You look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. I think what noo can do more and i think they will. His secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. Offering reainsurances to the American People. I think the preside
From retired major general cnn military analyst dana pattard, hunting the caliphate. grateful for your time today. let s start with what barbara star was talking about in terms of the battlefield right now. this is what russia wants. russia wants donetsk, luhansk, the entire don bass region. it has troops coming in this way, troops here, the russian border is here n. terms of the military aid, you heard barbara starr talk about, general, how is there any other way is there any other way than bringing it all the way across the country like that? should the united states and nato allies be looking for other but they would be provocative delivery options. good afternoon, john. yes. i mean, logistics is always tough and the best way is what you just drew from poland through the middle of western ukraine, but to ensure that is protected, as we ve talked about before, the u.s. and nato need
Austin could do to encourage the slovakians to give it up now before the patriots arrive, that s great. and kimberly dozier, the whole notion of the russians putting a general who is known as the butcher of syria into direct russian troops there, our colleague my colleague barbara star asked about that. and although mr. kirby didn t want to talk about the specifics of this general, he was very, very clear, very in a very grim way talking about the fact that we are in for potentially a very bloody next phase of this conflict. and talked about the it s going to be another page in the book of russian brutality. yes, sadly more of the same in terms of this general s past track record and what we have seen and heard from ukrainians on the ground across ukraine as
And that stuff isn t sitting around, barbara. it gets to these shipment sites. they are put on to trucks and they are moved into ukraine very, very quickly. in some cases, stuff comes from the united states, takes no more than four to six days from the time the president authorizes draw down authority until it gets into the hands of the ukrainians. that s an incredible rate of speed. and we aren t slowing down. regardless of the russian refocus on the donbas, we re not slowing down. that stuff continues to move. it s going to continue to move. we have sent as much as we can as fast as we can and we minute it. the russians on the east hasn t had an impact of our ability to coordinate. that flow still continues. courtney. you ve been listening to john kirby, the pentagon spokesperson with a lot of very interesting information and insight. i want to bring in kimberly