a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s reporting this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything, and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified
the ukrainians. so far the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility. in fact, one senior adviser to the volodymyr zelenskiy, hinted he believes tf an inside job within the russian security services but unclear who is behind it. we can see on our screens that massive explosion that took place in the early morning hours. the russian investigative committee, the russians say is on the scene and has been working. they say that an explosion occurred at a truck, that a truck blew up and that that explosion sort of caused the chain reaction because there was a train carrying fuel going past that area of the bridge at that point in time. several fuel tanks catching fire, blowing up as well. that s what that big fire that we see now with that thick black smoke going out there for a very long period of time before the russians were able to put that out. the status right now seems to be it s quite interesting because you mentioned this, fredricka, that the russians are saying that t
into doing something that neither of you want to see happen. i m campaign, which is that if you reelect him, you are signing up for four more years of chaos confrontation, and division. and trump as you noted in that first debate in 2020, seemed virtually unhinged and encapsulated in those couple hours that that argument from from the biden campaign. so i think that the what how they say, how they say, how they perform on thursday is going to be as important as what they say and the arguments they make against each other. these are very familiar figures. people have a lot of settled opinions about these two candidates is not like one is an unknown calendar as we usually get in the debates. and so that s why i think kind of like the judgments that people make about each of them individually may be more important than the arguments they make against the other and ron, i think what s also really interesting is how will the rules affect their performances? like no live
situation room. thanks very much for watching the news continues next on cnn hello and welcome to our viewers, joining us in the united states and around the world. i m in a car and left mom calm, just a hint donald trump makes his first return to capital hills since the attack on january 6, 2021? beijing with republican lawmakers as he seeks to retake the white house cannot divide us. and we ll be with ukraine until they prevail in this war. us president sends a firm message to russia, signing a major security pact with ukraine but will it turn the tide of this war? and a major ruling from the us supreme court on abortion medications we begin this hour with us republican lawmakers pledging their support to former us president donald trump as he seeks to be reelected, with trump return to the capital thursday for the first time since leaving office after the january 6, 2021 riots senate republicans, they re applauding at trump after their closed-door meeting. trump
Netanyahu who pushed the bills argues they no longer represent the will of people but opponents point out that the supreme court is the only check on netanyahu and his government. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem for us. so, it is 11:00 p.m. there and nearly midnight and these scenes are not letting up. what are you seeing around you? reporter: well you re absolutely right. certainly they are not letting up. there are still a lot of protests in the street here. the cops just came out here a couple of minutes ago before we went to air and were trying to clear the street. you could see there are still protests trying to open it to traffic. but this junction which is a major one here has been held by the protesters for better part of the day. and there were some ugly scenes. about an hour and a half ago when the police charged the protesters with water cannon trucks analysting people off the streets and carrying them away. protesters vowing to return and