questions. but we begin with one very compelling congressional event. gold star families demanding answers from the biden administration after and their loved ones were killed during the chaotic brawl in afgha afghanistan. the chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live with what happen. good evening. jonathan: good evening. the family of those who died, that terrible day in kabul, 711 days ago, have been searching for answers ever since. they want to know how did that happen? why did it happen. they feel the biden administration has failed to take responsibility for mistakes that allowed a suicide bomber to get close enough to marines and other service members regarding the airport. instead, they say, their loved ones have been forgotten by the administration. our leaders, including the secretary of defense and our commander-in-chief, called this evacuation a success, as if there should be celebration. it is like a knife in the heart for our families, our lives, given in
alabama republican party s annual summer dinner last night. the charges put forth in the indictment are an outrageous criminalization of political speech so this ridiculous indictment against us is not a legal case, it s an act of desperation by failed joe biden and radical left thugs. every time radical left democrats marxist communist and fascist indictment, i consider it a badge of honor because i m being indicted for you, thanks a lot. biden piles on trump, president is facing troubles of his own. the newly released transcript, the house oversight interview with hunter biden associate devon archer pulls back the curtain. on hunter biden s alleged sketchy business deals with his dad the daily mail points out the interview unveils shocking revelation including hunter biden s habit of putting his father on speakerphone during meetings with foreign business partners, pleadings the white house with hunter s business partners missing from the white house visitor logs. joe s
reporter: evening, trace. this is the second federal indictment for the former president out of jack smith s investigation. the 2024 gop candidate who leads the field by a wide margin has already pleaded not guilty to 37 counts related to his alleged retention of classified records from his presidency. only this time we re talking about four federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the u.s. conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. obstruction and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. and conspiracy against right. notably resist allege the president knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen which, they claim, stoked the fires of january 6th. quote, these claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false, but the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate creating an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administratio
white house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to ashley strohmier live in the new york city news room with the very latest on this. ashley, good evening. reporter: hi, trace. yeah, the biden white house has routinely denied involvement in suppressing negative information about covid-19 vaccines on social media. you might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then white house press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. take a listen. is there any concern the things you re trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. reporter: but internal communication between top white house officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly differen
president volodymyr zelenskyy. russia hitting back after new ukrainian drone strikes tarting moscow. i ll get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. donald trump s new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. this as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. the top prosecutor in the georgia election interference probe says she s ready to go. in haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. we ll have the latest on their fate as the u.s. orders all u.s. citizens to leave haiti immediately. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the wo world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the escalating attacks and counterattacks in russia s war against ukraine. kremlin forces attempting to hit president volodymyr zelenskyy close to home as ukraine ramps up strikes inside russian territory. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the ground in ukrain