he joins me ahead with his personal story of living under china s covid lockdown. but we want to get right to cnn s john avlon, charlie dent. alice stewart is here as well. i m happy to have all of you on. good evening to you. john, let s start with the new stuff, the stuff that s breaking. hi, everyone. the fbi issuing investigators issuing, i should say, a subpoena to the national archives to access classified documents that trump took to mar-a-lago. are we going to find out what he took to mar-a-lago, and what does this mean for the former president, you think? well, we will find out what he took to mar-a-lago. we may find out the context in which he took it. was it trump cluelessness, or was there classified information that hadn t been declassified? there s also a statute having to do with these documents which might end up being material. there is a law on the books that says if you steal, spindle, mutilate official documents, that there are punishments that go
committee investigating the house insurrection. five congressmen are subpoenaed including kevin mccarthy. and new evidence of possible war crime in ukraine. an exclusive on the general who ordered some of those acts of brutality. announcer: live from cnn. russia is reacting to finland s announcement that it homes to join nato with threats of retaliation. former president dmitri medvedev warns that it would strengthen its western flank. they called it a radical change in policy and a treaty vial participation will bring consequences. philipish leaders say their finnish leaders say it is a drastic change in the security environment after ukraine. helsinki admits there are no direct military threats right now and its extremely long border with russia is secure. finland has been a member of the european union since 1995. for years we ve been a very close partner to nato. so in that sense, this will not be such a major one and maybe it is not as big as people might think.
affluent neighborhoods. i feel like it is the end of the world, honestly. i hope we can all get through this. reporter: hundreds of homes and a golf resort evacuated. firefighters dousing homes in the hope of saving them some of the water taken from the country club pond. two firefighters injured. we have a fresh group going out today. they ll be out there for 24 hours. this is no back country fire. this is near the beach and densely populated orange county south of l.a. damage assessment, already underway. in the ashes. basically, this is what happened. the winds whipped in from the pacific, across that golf course, and then pushed these flames through the candle-on, up the hill side, threatening the ocean view rich homes, including this, a $10 million home. winds are gusty, pushing the flame, but the winds aren t terrible or unusual. it is the acres of bone dry
out today. they re going to be out there for 24 hours. reporter: this is no back country fire. this is near the beach in densely populated orange county, just south of l.a. damage assessment already under way in the ashes. basically this is what happened. the winds whipped in from the pacific across that golf course and then pushed these flames through the canyon, up the hillside, threatening these ocean view ridgetop mansions right here, destroying some of them, including this, a $10 million home. winds are gusty, pushing the flames, but the winds aren t terrible or unusual. it s the acres of bone-dry brush that s the major problem. with the climate change, the fuel beds in this county, throughout southern california, throughout the west are so dry that fire like this is going to be more commonplace. reporter: the fast-moving fire seared through that dry brush, ballooned to roughly 200
county. cnn s nick watt has a look at how routine wildfires are turning disastrous in a matter of hours. reporter: multimillion dollar mansions eaten up by fast-moving flames. this is one of california s most affluent neighborhoods. i just hope we can all get through this. reporter: nearly 900 homes, as well as luxury golf resort evacuated. firefighters dousing homes in the hope of saving them, some using water pulled from the country club pond. one firefighter injured. we have a fresh group going out today. they re going to be out there for 24 hours. reporter: this is no back country fire. this is near the beach in densely populated orange county. just south of l.a. damage assessment, already underway in the ashes. winds are gusty, pushing the flames. but the winds aren t terrible. or unusual. it s the acres of bone-dry brush