a to do list including sop of the most precedent setting decisions as they prepare to present closing arguments. add to that list what to do with the mountain of evidence they have accumulated specifically about donald trump s role, hands-on role as the driving force behind the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. one that would ultimately endanger his own vice president and members of congress. here s what committee chairman bennie thompson said about this when speaking to reporters on tuesday. i think now that the department of justice is being proactive, i think it s time for the committee to determine whether or not the information can be beneficial to that investigation. so thompson added in that press avail that the committee will issue an interim report in october followed by a final report by the committee at the end of the year. all the vital work by the the select committee happens as the existential threat to democracy posed by trump and his big lie, a threa
silver bowls. so where are they now? let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. erin burnett outfront. russia s epic meltdown in a stunning and rapid turn of events. ukraine now has putin on the run. you can see over on the top right of this map highlighted in solid yellow, you can see the land that ukraine has recaptured in a week. that is now land that russia captured in five months. in one week, more land taken from putin than he was able to gain in more than five months. ukraine has now taken back more than 2,300 square miles total according to president zelenskyy. the onslaught was so swift and so unexpected that russian troops fled any way they could, disguised as locals literally taking bikes and stealing them and trying to bike away. this was far from an organized planned retreat. it was chaotic. these are some of the images we are now seeing of ukrainian forces. this is just one village. look at the utter destruction there. just completely destroyed. repor
zawahiri in afghanistan. happened over the weekend. the news is breaking, confirm now. i can tell you what you may know, the president will be addressing the nation if about 90 minutes. the white house saying president biden will speak out on this. it is a fast moving late-breaking story, and for that reason we go directly to some of our experts on this. kristen welker and retired four-star army general barry mccaffery. wristen, what are we learning from the white house about something that apparently already occurred but is breaking news tonight? it certainly is. first we learned that president biden was going to speak at 7:30 eastern time to announce an operation against a senior al qaeda leader, and based on conversations with two sources familiar with the matter, my colleague and i have been able to confirm that that leader was ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, took over after osama bin laden was killed. this is significant. this is a raid that was conducted ov
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate