he said some progress was made. he met with president zelenskyy. i ll look for the security element. selma, thank you. the u.s. and south korea have begun two days of joint naval exercises off the east coast of the korean peninsula. joint drills have been ongoing since last week in response to north korea s recent provocations. biden administration officials privately admit they don t know why north korea has suddenly stepped up the ballistic missile tests with six of them in the past two weeks. while they can t predict what leader kim jong-un will do next, they strongly expect he s about to escalate tensions further with yet another underground nuclear test. cnn s paula hancocks is following all of these developments with us from seoul. we don t get the intel from north korea so we re just trying to join the dots here.
threatened national security. now, that s is the bottom line. we don t have exactly what s in these documents. they don t list that ever on any of these documents. what we really don t know is the difference between the urgency of this moment and the first subpoena, why don t they go back and ask for another subpoena. do they know what they re going after or did they find out there s tssci material in one of these boxes? who is the informant? do we care about that? or is that the person that tells them to go to a certain place? i think that the chain of timeline is the biggest part of this story now. other than to remind people that there is a seriousness to it. that there is a security element to it. on the back side, on the flip side, there s a politics element to it that trump critics will
0 i m sandra smith. mike: i m mike martha: good afternoon, everybody. our continuing coverage of the breaking news story both on capitol hill and out of the mar-a-largo situation. the deadline has now arrived. it is 3:00 p.m. for the former president to contest the court in the release of the warrant that was involved in the raid of his florida home. fox news has just reviewed the warrant along with the property receipt. we re going through all of this. you ve heard some of it over the course of the last several minutes. there were 20 boxes of items that were removed. some of them were labelled top secret. binders, photos, handwritten notes also seized. we ll go through the list. the president s former chief of staff, mick mulvaney, bret baier, congressman jim banks and victor davis hanson are all on deck to weigh-in on what is going on right now with this investigation. a lot of questions. first, to david spunt joining us with the latest as he learns it from there. hi, david.
executive director of the women s basketball players association and wnba pa. very pleased that both of you ladies here and harriet will get two and a second and i want to start with you. now that she has been sentenced, what do you anticipate is next for her given your familiarity with these types of international relations as a relates to russia. i had to say seeing her keeper composure while she is spoken court, it broke my heart. about marcus i cannot imagine what she must be going through. i m happy you started there, it is a human element you know the way that shell-shocked and has been talking about. there s a security element right? so to your question, what is next? now that the verdict is, and she has been sentenced, now there can be a level of negotiation that could happen. up until now, russia had not committed to that potential swap with britney griner. and for mr. whelan but now that
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