that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
does best is leaking and lying and trying to clean it all up. the bureau told newsweek they had under covers inside mar-a-lago. the fbi had a mole at mar-a-lago. newsweek says, quote: the raid on mar-a-lago was based largely on information from an fbi confidential human source one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents. so the fbi had a mole and the trump campaign had moles in the trump administration and now they have a mole in mar-a-lago. the guy who is running the fbi field office in d.c. is the same guy who had moles in the gretchen whitmer fake kidnapping are not r. plot. and you wonder why the fbi can t stop a single mass shooting. can t protect supreme court justices. can t stop chinese supplies from sleeping with eric swalwell. can t sniff out chinese spies driving dianne feinstein around can t stop chinese from stealing our secrets and hacking our pipeline. can t stop eps
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r
cnn suggests otherwise. cnn s sam kiley joins us from zaporizhzhya, ukraine. sam, both sides waging a war of words over this, accusing the other of launching a false flag. what do the satellite photos tell us? reporter: they show us that since the last set of images on july 1th were taken, there s been no significant strikes, evidence of strikes. that is, sort of the mark of an explosive impact on the ground. indeed, they show very little activity in terms of damage done to the area around the nuclear power station. so that kind of undermines the russian claim there has been these counterattacks coming from the ukrainians. at the same time recently, in fact today, i ve spoken to a number of people who ses skaepd to the town next to the nuclear power system. they say whilst they re aware of russian missile systems being fired close to to the location, they say the internet is shut down, mobil phones shut down. about half an hour later there s incoming small mortars, other we
this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. at this hour president biden s trip to the middle east. the president vowing the united states is not going to, quote, wait forever for iran to rejoin nuclear talks. biden making those comments during a press conference alongside israel s prime minister, both leaders pledging their commitment to never letting iran develop nuclear weapons. the leaders did make clear there is still disagreement on the best approach. biden also reaffirming the importance of a jewish state and a two-state solution ahead of tomorrow s meeting with the palestinian president before heading to the most controversial portion of his mideast visit flying to saudi arabia. joining me right now for more on all of this cnn s wolf blitzers and kaitlan collins live in jerusalem. it s great you re there. the leaders today made very clear they are united in their goal that iran cannot get a nuclear weapon but also in