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the damage of documents recovered from former president trump the property, sharing new details what its filter teams found in the materials. begin this hour with a major new development in russia s war on ukraine. senior u.s. officials tell cnn that ukrainian forces are now launching a significant counteroffensive. go right to cnn jim sciutto who broke the story. what s the latest from the plan from ukraine and how do we expect it to play out? reporter: the latest, the much anticipated counteroffensive, ukrainian officials hinted at some time. saying they have confidence they can carry it out, has now begun. u.s. officials began to see signs of shaping, as you mentioned, shaping means basically preparing the battlefield for a wider offensive. in this case, it means artillery, rocket, air strikes on things like weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition dumps, et cetera. to then allow a combination of ground and air forces to move in and attempt, at least, to r ....
contempt of congress charges were politically motivated. proceedings began after the judge denied a defense request for a delay. last week he rejected executive privilege leading one defense attorney to ask, what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses, to which the judge replied, agreed. this is the same steve bannon who promised as he made his first court appearance to make this the misdemeanor from hell. the same steve bannon who as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee expressed contempt for the members and tried to set conditions for his testimony. here is what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a bible that i can take the oath on. deliver that. we will see how good you are, raskin and cheney. serve it up. surprised he isn t speaking about himself in the third person. when people view themselves as important, they reach peak pomposity and do that. to get a subpoena means you appear. there s no ....
we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. the panel has not yet revealed who that potential witness is or what they may testify to but it does signal the panel is acutely aware of what donald trump and his allies might do to try to stifle their investigation, which has shown the lengths to that donald trump went to to stay in power. yesterday we learned of a late-meeting at the white house, four days after states certified their election results, which should have been the end of the line according to attorney general bill barr s testimony. inside the oval office was a group of outside advisers. liz cheney called them the, quote, crazies, including rudy giuliani, michael flynn and sydney powell and patrick burn. they were there to pitch donald trump on executive order to seize voting machines and appoint sydney special counsel. the group was alone for ten to 15 minutes before white house officials like pat cipollone intervenes. what follow ....
in the south of england. missing out on help to pay the bills. a bbc investigation finds three million households still haven t received their £150 energy rebate. i ll be looking at how you can get the cash you re owed. a night to remember for crawley town as the league two strugglers knock premier league fulham out of the carabao cup. good morning, a band of rain moving south and east, some of it quite heavy, eventually it will become confined to central parts of england and wales and on either side it will brighten up. all the details throughout the programme. it s wednesday the 24th or august. it s wednesday the 24th of august. our main story. police are continuing their hunt for the gunman who shot dead a nine year old girl in liverpool on monday night. olivia pratt korbel was killed as she stood behind her mother who was trying to stop the gunman from forcing his way into their house, in pursuit of another man. our reporter tomos morgan is at the scene. shocking d ....
nato application to be ratified, it is making preparations for the border with russia. i will talk to the foreign finish minister what he thinks putin s next move will be. but first, here is my take. ron desantis emailed me and hundreds of thousands of others i imagine. our country is currently facing a great threat he began. i assume that with inflation soaring, gas prices still sky high and the economy in danger of slowing down, he would hit hard on those themes. but these bread and butter issues were not mentioned anywhere in the email. a new enemy has emerged from the shadows that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to transform the state and country you and i would hardly recognize. as you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical enemy vigilante. some of this is a clever effort to tap into the base of the republican party and out flank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the reason ....