acknowledging he had sensitive secret documents that were not declassified. we re breaking down the recordings and what they mean for the special counsel s criminal case against him. also tonight, cnn is live in ukraine where the death toll has been rising from a new russian missile strike in a crowded city center. president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling the attack a manifestation of terror. this comes as vladimir putin is on damage control after the mutiny by wagner mercenaries. all ask former u.s. defense secretary mark esper about the rebellion and how it s influencing putin s war strategy. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with powerful evidence against donald trump in the special counsel s case against him. cnn exclusively obtaining recordings of the former president talking about highly classified material in his possession. this comes as trump is speaking out
Oh, wow. Oh, what, what . What . I love. Tonight, events in The Middle East spiraling out midd. Trol i an airstrike at a hospital in gaza has left hundreds dead. But its not what it seems. Hamas claims israel struck the hospital. Israel denies struc it. Fault they say a Faulty Hamaset Rocket fired from gaza hit their own hospital. Number one, israe numl does r target places like hospitals. Theyre not a target for us. S ouldnt and we wouldnt have deliberately hit a hospital. Number two, we know that at the time of the of this tragedyt that hamas was firing a barrage of rockets at tel aviv and thevr center of the country. The idf has just released Surveillance Footage showinghed a rocket launch towards israel, igniting midflight and thendire propelling directly down into gazactly. There that is right there, the surveillance Camera Timestamp also directlyo th corresponds to the moment the hospital was struc thek. The idf also reportedly have recorded a Conversatio N among jihadists that l
Mistake, i m withdrawing all of russia s troops, and we ll talk about next steps. he s the only person that could end this war. putin made that decision, doesn t look like he s making that decision, but that would end the war, let s get out of ukraine, let that country do what it wants to do. the cnn audio of trump talking about highly confidential, t top-secret information with his group at mar-a-lago or country club in new jersey these were all very, very highly confidential, top-secret documents, talking specifically about the possibility of a war option against iran, for whatever reason. does that audio you ve heard the audio now. what s your reaction to that? because it s really disturbing that a former president would be sharing this kind of top-secret information with people who don t have security clearances. it does not surprise me. it shocks me. if true. if all the allegations are true, it s very irresponsible and
Zelenskyy and ukraine s top military leadership and they were discussing as you can imagine the situation in the east of this country where russia launched this grinding new offensive along hundreds of miles of front line. i asked the speaker whether ukrainian forces would be able to hold the line. take a listen to a little bit of what he told me. do you feel confident can withstand this new russian offensive with all these hundreds of thousands of newly mobilized russian troops? translator: it seems to me the ukrainians have already proved to the whole world that the statement about russia being the second army in the world is a myth. it is very important for us to understand that the only war option that we can offer for ukraine to win is a technological war. you cannot compete with russians in the war of attrition as the army is bigger compared to ukraine s. reporter: you heard him say ukraine cannot compete against russia in sheer numbers.