Our colleague out of washington, d. C. Gillian good to be here. Five degrees cooler than d. C. Im glad to be here. Im gillian turner. Lawyers from Brian Kohberger are seeking a trial delay slated to start in october. He is charged with four counts of first degree murder as well as felony burglary. Defense is claiming he was out driving alone when those four students were murdered. Prosecutors say they want details including specific places he claims to have been at the time of the murders and witnesses to back up his alibi. Bill nancy grace joins us for a deeper dive into the hearing and the evidence and what she expects but first to the story and news and dan springer outside the courthouse in moscow, idaho. Brian kohberger has been at the other Pretrial Motion hearings and expect him to be in court today six weeks before the start of his murder trial. A lot of loose ends in the case to tie up before this thing can go to trial. His Defense Lawyers are going to ask the judge for a stay
shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
pm in history. with one of our closest allies facing a new level of political chaos on top of the worst economic disaster in a generation, what s at stake for a new prime minister? and what about britain s impact on the global economy or its support for ukraine? we ll go live to london and check on reaction here in just a minute. plus a federal judge reveals donald trump may have provided a paper trail leading to crimes of obstruction and conspiracy. coming up, the lies trump swore were true, even when his attorney, john eastman, told him that wasn t the case. and whether that could prove once and for all that the big lie was a crime. and finally, if you stopped worrying about covid, this winter could come as a rude awakening. we ll tell you about the new variants out there and whether so-called covid immunity can stop them. but we start overseas, where liz truss came into office just 44 days ago, promising to help turn the british economy around and provide relief for
candidate who doesn t want to commit. the lead starts rile now. with just over three weeks to go to the midterms, early voting begins in a key state that entire country is watching. herschel walker with a new admission today and the republican who wants to be arizona s next governor indicates she might not be interested in the actual results. plus, kamikaze terror, kyiv comes under attack from drones that russia is getting from iran. a pregnant woman killed. could this change how the u.s. gives support to ukraine. and stopped on a mission to kill. a serial killer suspect in california arrested, what ware learning today about his past and how the police finally got him. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper and we begin with our politics lead. the latest poll of polls shows democrats and republicans in a dead heat for control of the house of representatives. early voting kicked off today in the critical swing state of georgia. democratic s
truly chilling firsthand look at the destruction caused by russia s increasing use of kamikaze drones against civilian targets in ukraine. cnn s chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, is joining us from kyiv. tell us about what you ve actually seen on the streets of the capital city there. reporter: well, scenes of absolute destruction, devastation, people fearful. people dying and tonight, another impassioned plea from the president here, volodymyr zelenskyy saying in a 12-hour span, wolf, more than 30 of these iranian made 136 so-called kamikaze drones were intercepted as well as several cruise missiles. essentially, zelenskyy begging the international community to give ukraine more sophisticated and more substantial anti aircraft weaponry to protect itself. take a look. a policeman takes aim at the kamikaze drone as it bears down on kyiv. nick nicknamed mopeds in ukraine because of their whine, 28 were launched toward the city on monday. the majority are succe