catch the new episode of eva longoria searching for mexico tomorrow night at nine p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against the 21 year old air national guardsman he s accused of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source. of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us live from washington right now, alice , what more are you learning about how to share? and uh, you know, learning about him and then how he was able to print off these documents there, fredricka? well, the qu
good evening. we begin tonight with a single frame of video from the war in ukraine. the stunning reality and brutality of this war. this is the image. what you are looking at is the precise split second before a russian missile explodes next to a team of aid workers, including an american tending to a wounded civilian earlier this month. it may be hard to see, but we ve circled it. the missile is circled as flying parallel to the ground. it s an antitank missile, which means that someone had eyes on the target, which is the vehicle driven by the aid workers to the left of where the missile s about to go. the vehicle they are standing right next to. one of the men killed is pete reed, a marine corps veteran. in january, he went to work in ukraine with the aid organization global average. global outreach doctors, it s called. and on the second this month, he was killed. tonight, we also have stunning information about a systematic program run by the russian government to take
president biden says he believes that s because of how terribly russia is doing on the battlefield. he used the word underperforming, how he believes the setbacks, humiliating and the draft that putin put in place is all factoring into this. it seems to be causing a real sense of concern for president biden tonight who said he believes the world is the closest it has been to the potential nuclear catastrophe since the 1960s. since the cuban missile crisis, of course, we are coming up on the anniversary of that quite soon. president biden said tonight we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. he is talking about putin. a guy we know fairly well, he is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, as you might say, significantly underperforming. he made clear, don, washington is trying to figure out what putin s end game is going to be, what h
is. welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a major victory for donald trump for now. a judge has now granted his request for a special master, allowing a third party attorney to come in and review the documents seized from mar-a-lago last month. the judge cited senchlg reasons for her decision, including the potential stigma that donald trump faces after the search plus what she calls, quote, swirling allegations of bias and media leaks. trump s lawyers argued he needed a special master because they couldn t trust the justice department, and in today s ruling, the judge said federal investigators can not continue reviewing the materials they took until the special master has finished their work. let s get straight to cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez. evan, i know this filing is 24 pages long. it came out on this holiday, but what are the main takeaways from it? kaitlan, the j
30 minutes ago, flanked by his attorney from new york, bob costello, and as he exited the vehicle, i was able to ask him a couple of questions, including if he lied to georgia lawmakers when he appeared before them three times in the wake of the 2020 election. listen to his answers. mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? we will not talk about this until it is over. it is a grand jury and grand juries as i recall are secret. do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. what do you think their ultimate goal is here? what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions and we ll see. will you be cooperative? your attorney in new york says he can t promise how responsive you ll be? good-bye. reporter: a bit of an awkward moment for giuliani, he got here just before those doors opened in the fulton county courthouse, so he