You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call
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i fully suspect she ll do well enough to move on to the u.s. nationals, and then we ll have perhaps later in the fall the world championships gearing up for paris next year. yeah, and this is apparently video of her arriving. there was video of her practicing before. she does look pretty fresh so we re hoping for a big performance. also going to be watching the potential for another big comeback. the united states women s soccer team at the world cup right now. a draw last time they played but now they re going up against the team they have had trouble with in the past. absolutely, sweden, old nemesis sweden knocked the u.s. out of the olympics in 2016, boris. the only time the u.s. women at the olympics or the worlds have not been in the top three. amazing. going all the way back to the 90s. so sweden is with one that did that. will sweden be the one that does it here? this is the round of 16. there s no medals awarded if you lose here. i think the u.s. needs to play so much bett