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youre live in the cnn "newsroom." hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. right now in the state of florida a state of emergency is in effect statewide, and the governor is calling up the national guard as tropical storm ian gains strength and moves closer to floridas west coast. ian is expected to intensify into a cat gather 4 had and making landfall as early as wednesday night. governor desantis is urging people to prepare now. >> expect heavy rains...

and they want any work paused before the potential third party review is done. so we want to bring in dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good early morning to you. i want to start here, is there any legitimacy to this request for a special master from the trump team or is this just another one of his delay tactics that weve seen play out in cases throughout his long legal history? >> good morning, omar. it is a delay tactic because he is too late to ask for t...

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Blackmail. he targeted and occupied our power plant and continued his blackmail related to us exporting electricity through europe. these are the first steps of his nuclear blackmail. i dont think hes bluffing. i think the world is deterring it and containing this threat. >> david sanger is with us now, a cnn political analyst and correspondent for "the new york times" and, theres more, the author of the book "the perfect weapon." david, good to see you. to zelenskyys point, that provokes the qu...

Correspondent david sanger, also correspondent for the "new york times" and author of the book "the perfect weapon." nice to see you this morning. the renewed fears of russian attacks in ukraine, president zelenskyy warns that they could be particularly vicious in the wake of darya duginas death. do you think there is a real risk here? >> reporter: i think that there is and i think that it has got sort of three different elements to it. the first is that while we have seen a good number of polit...

Other parts of the former soviet union. its making legitimate aggression in other parts of the world. >> lets talk more about what president biden and other leaders have on tap while on this trip. david sanger is a cnn national security analyst and white house and national security correspondent at "the new york times." hes also the author of "the perfect weapon". david, good to see you. so president bidens message of weve got to stick together, the same time hearing the uks johnson, he kind of ...

Temporary mission. >> isabelle, thank you. lets continue this conversation with david sanger. david is a correspondent for "the new york times" and author of the book "the perfect weapon." hi, david. so lets talk about todays "new york times" article where you wrote, the biden administration has told lawmakers that a large-scale russian invasion could cause as many as 50,000 civilian casualties. if you would, walk us through your reporting. s >> sure. so the administration did a briefing for c...

But they were public, and now you have the kremlin responding to them as well. so that is part of the confusion here, right. you have so many voices speaking. by the way, as you and i have discussed, brianna and john before, you have a ukrainian view of u.s. intelligence in public not as worried as the americans are. we have been through this for eight years. were not certain that a russian invasion is coming. not everyone is on the same page as russia makes the preparations. >> its well-known. ...

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