we re building that wall. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. president trump becoming the fourth american president to face the prospect of impeachment. it feels as if, culturally, we re in a cold civil war. [theme music] [donald] when mexico sends its people, they re not sending their best. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they re rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. when trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he was not seen as a serious candidate. he, himself, confided to some of his advisors. essentially, what s the downside? this is a great marketing exercise. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. i was prepared to just watch it for a couple of mi
i m victor blackwell. and i m amara walker. thanks so much for spending part of your morning with us. we ll get right to it. a lot of news we re watching this morning. former president trump launched a series of attacks in the classified documents probe, the reaction coming in following the indictment, and what we expect to hear from the former president today. ukrainian officials say the situation is tense in eastern ukraine as we see a surge of fighting in the region. we ll take you to one ukrainian town within earshot of the fighting, how they re pinning their hopes on ukraine s counteroffensive. some of the nation s largest cancer centers saying they re seeing a shortage of certain chemo drugs and how doctors are working around it until they get what they need. plus, not leaving netflix despite the crackdown. netflix says people are still willing to pay up. we re starting with president trump s indictment against him over the classified documents. after the in
we re building that wall. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. president trump becoming the fourth american president to face the prospect of impeachment. it feels as if, culturally, we re in a cold civil war. [theme music] [donald] when mexico sends its people, they re not sending their best. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they re rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. when trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he was not seen as a serious candidate. he, himself, confided to some of his advisors. essentially, what s the downside? this is a great marketing exercise. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. i was prepared to just watch it for a couple of mi
state gop convention in columbus, georgia. he cast this week s indictment as election interference and a political hit job. kristin holmes is there in georgia. the former president speaking for about an hour and a half. clearly eager to start making his case. reporter: that s right. and most of the speech which was a political speech. he s speaking at the georgia gop convention. this was on his schedule before the indictment started. wasn t just the federal indictment. it was the indictment in manhattan. it was the department of justice. he was talking about the investigation here in fulton county, georgia and his attempts to overturn the election. clearly this was consuming to him and it continued after he left. he went to a waffle house nearby. he was asked about why he kept the documents. why he kept them for so long. take a listen to what em. we did absolutely nothing wrong. take a look at the presidential records act. we did it by the book, perfect. except we have th
and i m abby phillip here in washington. our special coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump continues. this case, the united states of america versus donald j. trump, along with walt nauta, hs bead man. a former president of the united states a defendant in a federal case. if convicted, he could go to prison. the indictment s 49 pages accuse him of breaking seven federal laws, including willful retention of national defense information, withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, false statements, and conspiracy to ob instruct justice. he is facing 37 separate charges including one for each classified document that he s accused of keeping illegally. documents allegedly stashed in a bathroom, a shower, a ballroom, bedroom. the former president allegedly showing some of them to people and also trying to conceal them from investigators. i want to begin with cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, who s been tracking all of th