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anything she's going to get away with it. i would say to everybody who is watching -- this nobody's -- we don't know what's in it. republicans are jumping out there that this is all about joe biden. joe biden has nothing to do with this. it's a special prosecutor. this is not a porn star thing. is not robbing the piggy bank of your charity. this is a federal government talking about possible espionage, and a presidential candidate that has gamed this thing out to -- if that's what's happening here, we should take this very, very seriously. >> and i think people do -- it a lot of people in america. do but alison, myself, and others on the republican side, they are talking to -- and the ride or die trumpers, they -- don't trust any of this stuff, than. this is deep state coming after the president and so this is not going to matter, he's gonna have a big rally, a big rally on saturday -- georgia, north carolina. i promise when he shows up on tuesday it will look like a trump rally outside that
much shelling is still going on, even though there is one ukrainian official who came out today and says that he believes more than 8000 houses are still underwater just in the ukrainian-held area at the flood zone, alison? >> fred, thank you for reporting for the ground there. >> miguel, you have been following the story closely. who stands to win from place at the dam? >> certainly, the russians stand to gain more. this is an economic disaster, ecological disaster, humanitarian disaster, literally right in the middle of the battlefield. the dnipro separates the two sides. the russians on the inside, the corners on the west side. the land on the west side is a little bit higher, so the russian defensive position on the eastern bank have been flooded. our sam kiley spoke to one ukrainian who said that they could see russians running. they could see the trenches flooded. that were apparently land mines floating around. >> maybe ukraine was behind?
of course, the investigation into donald trump, and chris christie, former new jersey governor, announcing he is running for president, saying that he wants to stop his own power donald trump from becoming the nominee. paula and sarah are here with their reporting, but let's start with paula. paula, tell us what we know about mark meadows testimony. which investigation was he testifying for, do we know? >> it's unclear at this point, alison, which investigation he testified in, and it's also possible that he testified in both. this has been one of the biggest questions in the ongoing special counsel investigation, what is going on with mark meadows? and even the trump legal team has conceded that, yet, they have not been in communication with meadows attorneys, and it's unclear if he were cooperating. the former president tried quite a while back-to-back medals from testifying before the grand jury, arguing executive privilege. he lost that battle certainly at some point that meadows would be testifying. but it's been a complete black
russia's army denies blowing up the dam, instead blaming the ukrainians. >> aiming to prevent the offensive operations by the russian army on the section at the front line, they kyiv regime committed an act of sabotage or other a terrorist act, the defense minister set. while the floodwaters are affecting ever more areas around kherson, upstream, the levels are critically low. around the zaporizhzhia power plant, the biggest in all of europe, which relies on a pond connected to the river for cooling. the international atomic energy agency says so far, there is no danger, but that could change. >> it is therefore vital that this cooling pond remains intact. nothing must be done to potentially undermine its integrity. >> as you can see it there, alison, and extra major situation for this part of ukraine. two things really stood out for us today. on the one and, it was just how fast the water is still rising here in the area but also how
databases. >> no, because some at the databases are not going to allow themselves to be open to something like this, but the winter, we'll see what happens. >> what did the suspect's attorney says this? >> a couple of things. >> first of all, denying the allegations and really raising questions and fight in terms of how they were able to get the dna. that's interesting, alison, because there is a question about whether or not this hold up in court. it's hold up in court many times before because it is called and pandemic simple. let's take you through a cigarette, there it away, to some gum, joe. it's no longer see or so to speak. one man's trash is another man's evidence. >> basically, in other cases, that has been deemed constitutional -- but here are the ones who are that -- >> you got to do something.
he speaks in some bites. >> he's good at that. >> i am also a jersey girl. he's very jersey. >> i am a jersey girl to. >> a lot of jersey in the house. >> a lot of jersey, and it only makes things better. i think it will make the race more excitement with him. >> as long as he last. but also, alison, to your point, i think a lot of candidates are entering the race, and they had to test their message. to what extent can we be pro and anti trump? to what extent can we beat with that manchin traditional republican party and beholden to the far right? chris christie can come out on a basket and afraid. to your point, i don't think that will only be interesting for us this journalist to cover, but there might be a part of him to american people like to. i think you had the right on the. >> very interesting, thank you for all of that reporting. coming up, there's been a major dam collapse and ukraine
>> we have some new video to show you about a building be swept away after a critical ukrainian dam was destroyed. ukraine claims that russia is responsible for this. russia says it was ukraine. the dam supplies drinking water to large areas of ukraine and caused the reactors at the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. miguel's got to break some at this down for us first. we go to cnn's fred pleitgen on the ground in ukraine. >> hi dear, alison, this is a massive disasters that is affecting a lot of people in this part of ukraine. folks that we are speaking to is saying that all of this happened extremely quickly. they say in the morning, they were basically sitting, nothing going on, and then the water came into their homes and
migrants have landed in sacramento california with at least 20 people on board. the plane with 16 migrants, arrived in the city on friday. both flights, currently originated in texas but the passengers also cared documents, indicating they were in florida at some point. california officials condemned the flight as stunts by politicians from other states. okay, paula is covering this for us. so, who sent them there? who's behind the stunt, if that's what it is. >> alison, it seems like history is repeating itself. we called it late last, year with these flights to margaret's vineyard, the governor of florida, ron desantis, taking credit for. that and, right now, according to the attorney general in california, it seems that that is where the paper trail is leading. investigators with the department of justice there, in the state, our colleague isabelle is reporting all day that that is the working theory right now as they continue to speak to the migrants that were flown from el paso, eventually ended up at the capital of california, two flights in all.
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