ukraine s counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. and now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trump s team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his first amendment rights now. and 40 million people are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the united states over night. i m omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. we have brand-new reporting this morning on ukraine s counteroffensive in russia. weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. the national security correspondent and the award-winning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u.s. and europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and t
indictment of donald trump. the federal judge overseeing trump s election fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith late last night. smith wants a protective order after trump posted this last night. it says, quote, if you go after me, i m coming after me. smith wants the judge to stop trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence and he s citing that social media post as one reason why. the judge has given trump until monday. smith called it an unnecessary delay when trump asked to push it back. a california democrat who served on the january 6th select committee, congressman, thank you for joining me. your sense of what has been taking place over the last 24 hours, the special counsel is asking the judge to issue this protective order to restrict trump and his lawyers from publicizing sensitivity evidence. they re noting this social media post that came from trump yesterday evening essentially leveling a threat. an u
painful legacy of emmett till. the commander in teeth, the first dog commander is accused in a new round of biting. sara and kate have the day off. i m john berman with rahel solomon. this is cnn news central. well, as soon as today, former president donald trump could face yet another indictment. the grand jury that would ultimately vote on that, and they are expected to meet today, and all of that is as we learn that jack smith has new documents to pour over, and they are new papers from rudy giuliani s team, and that is the same team that tried to find fraud after the election. it appears to include documents for widespread irregularities, and fraudulent activities. i want the bring in paula reid. and so it seems that jack smith has more documents to review, and what does it tell us perhaps about a potential indictment time line? well, they can certainly indict someone, and then continue with the investigation, and that is what they did with the mar-a-lago investig
live from washington, i m paul reed in for jim acosta. you are in the cnn newsroom. and the hunt is on, new york times is reporting biden administration is searching for malicious computer code that it believes china has seen inside key u.s. systems. reporting to the times the malware may targets power grids water systems and communications for military bases and u.s. and around the world that could disrupt or slow u.s. military operations. which could be devastating in military conflict, such as a potential chinese attack on taiwan. cnn david sanger helped break the story, he is a national security for responded for the new york times, and a cnn political and national security analyst. david, the sounds pretty terrifying, how concerned is the white house? they re pretty conserved paula. there have been a lot of meetings, taking place and situation rooms, about this. they haven t said very much about it, we actually got on from one of the rare moments, we got a glimpse of t
interfere in the 2020 election. the former president has already received a target letter that he says almost always mean an arrest or indictment is coming. marshall cohen joins with the latest details of the investigation. marshall? hey, jil. new reporting today that special counsel jack smith has contact georgia governor brian kemp as part of his investigation into the 2020 election aftermath. our colleague kaitlan collins confirmed that smith s team was in touch with governor kemp this week. now kemp s office is not saying much and the timing of a possible fbi interview or grand jury appearance is not clear right now. but governor kemp is a key figure in this investigation. that s because in 2020, donald trump privately and publicly pressured kemp to overturn the election in georgia. trump wanted kemp to interfere with the vote counting block certification of the results and convene a special session of the legislature to appoint fake electors. the special counsel is als