Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
breaking news. cnn confirming legendary singer david crosby has died. he was 81 years old. plus, a secret meeting between the director of cia and ukraine s president. we hear from a russian official bravely speaking out against putin. and desantis s statement. we are following some breaking news this hour. the legendary singer and songwriter david crosby has died. the grammy winner, two-time rock and roll hall-of-famer was the founder of the birds, crosby, stills and nash. crosby was 81 years old and we re going to have much more ahead in just a few minutes on his life and legacy. there s a song that they have that speaks to us all. we ll be speaking to our own bill leer who interviewed him to mark the 50th anniversary of woodstock which was actually crosby, stills and nash s second gig. so all of that coming up here as we confirm that sad news that will bring so many memories to everyone. i want to gbegin though with th secret meeting with the cia chief bill burns and vo
deputy foreign minister. the chancellor has brought forward by three weeks a fiscal statement he was to deliver in november, in a bid to reassure the financial markets. tonight with the context, the former labour mp and cabinet minister caroline flint and the republican strategist rina shah. welcome to the programme. the french president, emmanuel macron who has tried to maintain an open channel with moscow said today s strikes on ukraine signalled a profound change in the conduct of the war. in a televised address, vladimir putin said he personally had ordered the strikes as revenge for the weekend s attack on the kerch bridge. the targets, he said, were ukraine s energy, command and communication, structures. but as so often is the case, the missiles landed on busy intersections, in parks and tourist areas of kyiv, with an intensity not seen since the early days of the war. there were strikes across the country from the east to the west. ukraine s major cities were
for the 11th time this year. energy bosses warn the government s plan to cap the price of electricity produced by older renewable facilities is risky. at least nine people are now confirmed to have died, after a huge explosion at a petrol station in county donegal in ireland. a search operation is continuing as some people are still thought to be missing. eight people were also taken to hospital. the explosion happened at an applegreen service station in the village of creeslough yesterday afternoon. from there, our ireland correspondent chris page reports. a rescue effort has now become a recovery operation. a sad sign that the emergency services don t expect to find anyone else alive. blown out walls, a crumpled roof and rubble showed this was a lethal explosion. it triggered a wave of devastation. people hurried to what was left of the petrol station, who see who may have been caught up in the incident. there were several flats above the garage shop, which largely collapse
burn. it was prominently featured in a russian rom-com. they announced new stamps with figures with leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet but instead they are standing on the bridge. some said it is a birthday present for vladimir putin who turns 70. marilyn monroe singing happy birthday to john f. kennedy in 1962. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday to you wow. talking about sending a message. fred pleitgen has more from the capital of kyiv. how are the russians and ukrainians reacting? i think we have some sense of it, but tell us more. reporter: yeah. they are essentially blaming each other. the senior advise orto the ukrainian president zelenskyy indicating this could be possibly infighting by russian security services. not much evidence to back all that up. certainly the russians doing things in the other direction, pointing the finger of blame squarely at the ukrainians. there was a senior official fro