all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. this is early start. we begin with ukrainian forces struggling to hold on in the eastern city of bakhmut, as russian troops close in from three sides. ukrainian officials say the situation in bakhmut has grown much tougher. they say their forces may need to retreat to avoid being trapped by encircling russians. cnn s scott mclean is tracking this story for us from london. and, scott, what are the chances the ukrainians will be able to turn this around? and if they can t, does that mean russia is back on the offensive. so, christine, good morning. it really depends on who you ask. because last week there were plenty of indications that the ukrainians may in fact be forced to withdraw from that area. a drone reconnaissance university has been ordered to retreat from the area. you also had a key bridge by the russians kiting off the ukrainians final supply routes in and out. a
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of a man, cpac s road to irrelevant s, the four elitist conference has become and a list sideshow for trump, and only trump, then republican refusal of the new gop efforts to block regulation that could prevent real disasters. and the worst of the week pits to state republican parties against each other, will florida or georgia come out this week? i m ayman, let s get started! all right, new tonight. donald trump wrapping up his speech at the conservative political action conference just what i m ago. just a short time ago. we re gonna do you a favor. we are not going to show you any soundbites from his speech, because it was justice disassociated from the real world as all of his recent speeches. but we can report that the cpac crowd loved it and he won the conferences straw poll and that s only notable because trump was about the only person at the conference this week who enjoyed such a warm reception. hardly anyone showed up to nikki haley s address, you can see it on you
lawyer, it hence the same way. it really is wild to watch it happen over and over again. and so it goes, the will keeps turning, thank you chris as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. imagine somebody write you a check. you take did the bank, you cash, it deposit, whatever. and then the czech bounces. you didn t write this check, you had no idea that it was not good. up until today, banks across the country could charge you for that transaction. you would get charged a fee for being a victim of a fraud. that s just one of the laundry list of what president biden is calling junk fees, that he announced his administration is going to cut down on. have you ever shown up to the airport and had your flight canceled, and then the airline tries to charge you a fee to rebook you on a new flight? to our place the flight that they canceled? this thing happens. biden today is directing the department of transportation to make rules so that airlines can no lon
show you too. thanks to at home for being here. we are breaking news tonight into the investigation of trump s handling into top secret government records that went up at his florida beach club. the trump appointed job judge has denied partial state of her special master ruling. last week, judge aileen cannon will to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retreat from trump s home nearly 40 days ago. and in response, the justice department begrudgingly said, okay, go ahead and appoint that special master. but please exclude those roughly 100 classified documents you seized from mar-a-lago. because we need to continue the criminal investigation into these classified documents due to potential national security concerns. also, a second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused by having those top secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that that assessment could not contin