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continue to slaughter more innocent ukrainians. we don t want to see that. again, we ll see what these leaders come out with and what they say at the end of these discussions. we ll watch this very, very closely. again, we have communicated privately to the chinese. we certainly have communicated it publicly that that would not be an outcome that s to the better, not only of china and their interest, but certainly to the ukrainian people and to the whole idea of peace. what does it say to you that after the international criminal court issued that arrest warrant for putin, that, a, xi did still show up in russia, but you saw putin over the weekend in mariupol, in all of these other cities. i think to your first question, you ve got to keep this relationship in some sort of context here. these are two nations who chafe and bristle at the idea of u.s. leadership or u.s. influence around the world. they don t like playing by the r rules, that the world order has in place and
as a potential subject of this criminal probe. this is one of the documents right here. and there is specific language in here about willful retention of documents. in other words, they say, he knew he had them and knew what they were. this is all part of the argument over whether it will release the affidavit justifying the search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because they say evidence may be destroyed. but the judge did set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit, a process that could get into gear next week. and ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from several former trump officials who are scoffing at the former president and his allies arguments that he had a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 officials and all of them told us they never heard any such thing. we ll have more on that in a moment. first, let s bring in katelyn polantz with more on
in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday, august 4th and i m brianna keilar with john avalon in for john berman. good morning. good morning. we begin with a surreal intersection of the defamation case against conspiracy theorist alex jones and the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. jones is on trial in texas for the lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre and in a jaw-dropping moment in court a lawyer for the sandy hook parents revealed this did you know that 12 days ago 12 days ago your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cellphone with every text message you ve sent for the past two years and when informed did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way, and as of two days ago it fell free and clear into my possession and that is how i know you lied to me? cellphone records appear to show jones had, in fact, texted about the sandy hook shooting even thou
so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan but to