they need to take such an historic move to bring transparency to this. eric holcomb is the latest u.s. official to pay a visit to taiwan. we ll seek to continue to build strategic partnerships with you. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 22, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 9:00 a.m. in london and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where new details are emerging after the death of dugin, daughter of a prominent supporter of vladimir putin. a murder investigation was launched after she was killed in a car bomb on saturday. the russian investigative committee believe someone ordered and planned the blast. a foreign ministry official has implied ukraine may be responsible, but ukraine is strongly denying that claim. cnn s fred pleitgen is following all the developments from the russian capital. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fireball on a highway outside moscow. police say the vehicle exploded and crashed, the driver dead on the scene. that
spending bills with tax hikes that they say only will hit rich, but an independent study may make a lot of you flinch. welcome, even, this is cavuto live. we begin with lucas tomlinson in d.c. on what we know and don t know about what the fbi sized i. reporter: the fbi to be over two dozen dockses from for. the invenn our unsealed yesterday, the justice department says there were 11 sets of classified files including 4 sets of top secret documents, 3 sents of secret documents and 3 sets of confidential documents and 1 set of classify top secret, sensitive, compartmentalized information, that s, of course, highest category of intelligence. the warrant says this about the items taken, quote: physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband or other items illegally possessed in violation of three potential crime. the list of seized items does not describe them in details, it just lists them. the fbi agents that raided president trump s home were looking for d
correspondent mark meredith is here with all the details of this big case. good evening, mark. bret, it was a big case. good evening to you. johnny depp was not in the courtroom when today s verdict was announced. tonight both he and his legal team are celebrating after a jury in virginia ruled depp s ex-wife actress amber heard owes him $15 million for defamation. he claimed an op-ed written by heard in 2018 and published in the the washington post significantly set back his career. in the piece, heard wrote she was, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse. the jury ruled these claims were intentionally meant to hurt depp. the ache door wrote published already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond had seismic impact on my life and career. six months later the jury gave me my life back. i m truly humbled. we also heard from his legal team. we are also most pleased that the trial has resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and
volunteers who provided medical and legal help along with trance p transportation. governor abbott has sent thousands to cities like washington, d.c. and new york. and in a fight with the biden administration over immigration policies. republicans have defended abbott s tactics. we re talking about the new york and d.c. plussing, we re talking about a few thousand immigrants and that is what we deal with on a daily basis in texas. i think what he is doing is highly necessary. someone has to solve this problem. it is an infringement on our rule of law and it is unfair and immoral to millions upon millions of good law abiding immigrants or asylum seekers around the world that have no chance of getting into our system because of the backlog that people are creating because they are geographically close to the united states and they can just walk across. it is not fair. u.s. officials report nearly 2 million encounters on the southwest border this year.
the national average of a gallon of gas jumped by 5 cents overnight to notch a new all-time high, according to aaa. that new national average price is now $4.67. and analysts expect that the price will continue to climb as demand grows during the summer travel season. and crude oil prices surpass $115 a barrel amid concerns of global supply constraints caused by european union ban on russian oil. but, the wall street journal is reporting that opec is considering suspending russia from its oil production deal which would clear other oil plussing nations like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to pump more crude oil. some analysts say it would bring u.s. gas prices down but not for several months from now. excluding russia from opec plus is good for consumers for the u.s. and market believes you