B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
fiona pick cnn is on the ground in puerto rico to show you the path of destruction. live, from cnn center, this is a cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. we are following new developments out of moscow. vladimir putin is ordering a partial mobilization in russia to support his invasion of ukraine. the russian president says it begins today, and people in reserves, and those who have previously served in the armed forces, will be subject to conscription. let s bring in cnn s clare sebastian picture joins us live from london. what exactly will this order from putin for a partial mobilization mean for ukraine, and of course, for russia? rosemarie, this is a significant moment for russia, it is a partial mobilization, not full-scale conscription but we know that russian forces have had trouble replenishing their ranks on the battlefield, they have been using prisoners to do that, freeing them and taking them to ukraine. as well as mercenaries. have
governors flying asylum seekers to the northeast. a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump s lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 docum
can t have your cake and eat it, too. so there may be a rude awakening now that the special master is on the job. you might have heard me say this if you follow our coverage. there was a procedural step that the trump folks got that did slow things down, and they wanted that. the procedure is not how you win. it s not how you get out of the clear. it just is a step, a process, and now that they have to deal with this actually judge and deal with a special master and deal with what is a fact based court system, now they re having trouble. in florida, you have a chaotic start. bloomberg reported many people who dialed in did not mute their phones. bloomberg calling it a descent into chaos. people screaming at people to mute, and then someone saying, god bless america. today s hearing comes on the heal of trump s attorneys pushing back on the special master they sought and demanded, which is, if you declassify stuff, and that could be a valid defense if true, well, which things
my blood pressure is borderline. garlique healthy blood pressure formula helps maintain healthy blood pressure with a custom blend of ingredients. i m taking charge, with garlique. the january six committee heard a powerful presentation heard it to rally his supporters, to send descend on january. the committee saying the evidence confirms that trump s call to march on the capitol was not a spontaneous call to action. more now from cnn s ryan. the january 6th select committee is their seventh public hearing to build the case at all trump had a plan. to call his supporters to washington to march on the capitol and stand in the way of certifying the 2020 election. one witness, stephen ayres, who has since pleaded guilty, answer trump s call. we didn t actually plan to go down there. you know, we went basically, to stop the steal rally. and that s it. why did you decide to march in the capital? basically, the president got everyone riled up. told everyone to head on