meanwhile, ukraine has denied responsibility. this was vladimir putin in the last little while. translation: as a response, as you know, the kyiv regime l chose a different path, frightening citizens of russia and hitting residential buildings. this is a clear sign of terrorist activity. the air defence system of moscow worked normally, satisfactorily, although there are things to work on. we ll talk to our correspondent on those comments in a moment but let s first focus on those drones attacking moscow. here s our russia editor steve rosenberg who sent this report from moscow. explosion. russian tv says this is the moment that moscow came under attack. from early morning, people in and around the russian capital reported hearing explosions. idid, too. at home, my window shook from the force of the blast. russia s defence ministry says that ukraine had targeted moscow with drones. the russian military claimed it had brought them all down. look at that, a man says in this
let s get right to the just released report by the special counsel john durham in its conclusions about the trump/russia investigation. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been going over the roughly 300-page report. evan, give us the top lines. reporter: well, wolf, this report contains a lot of harsh criticism for the fbi, especially former fbi leadership that oversaw the trump/russia investigation. in the end john durham spent four years in this investigation. this is a 300-page report. he concludes that while the fbi had reason to launch, perhaps, an assessment or a preliminary investigation, much lower-level investigations, he believes that there was a lot of exculpatory evidence that the fbi was ignoring and that they should not have launched, essentially, a full-blown investigation. i ll read you just a part of what he concludes as part of this report. he says that the fbi discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the nar
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
People are on the move getting away from israels northern border in lebanon. Expanded evacuations, citizens leaving overnight in droves with hezbollah terrorists on the north side, that border of israel trying to open up a new war front against israel. President biden still pressing the idf to delay going into gaza on the ground after the october 7 attack. The goal is to try and free the more than 200 hostages that we know of. Of course hamas says 300. Yeah, were going to need receipts on that. They tend to lie. Americans are among however many number there are. We know that for sure. Im harris faulkner, youre in the faulkner focus. I hamas turned over two elderly israeli women. I went through hell and i never knew wed go through this. They stormed our kibbutz and kid mapped me and laid me on the motorbike. They walked for a few kilometers on the wet ground and there are huge network of Tunnels Underneath and looks like a spider web. Harris axios is reporting israel is willing to delay
to be continued. cnn this morning continues right now. well, good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow. it s 8:00 a.m. here in new york, 2:00 p.m. in gaza, where right now israel is ramping up its ground assault with tanks and infantry pushing deeper into the gaza strip. overnight, israeli forces are pushing deeper into gaza. heavier air strikes pound gaza as the fighting rages on the ground. iran is accusing israel of crossing red lines and the white house is warning there is a real risk of this war spreading into a wider conflict. and we, of course, are taking every measure necessary to protect our forces, to increase our vigilance, and to work with other countries in the region to try to keep this conflict that is currently in israel and gaza from spinning out into a regional conflict. the risk is real, and therefore our vigilance is high and the steps we are taking to deter that and prevent that are serious, systemic, and ongoing. meanwhile