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forecast models are putting florida in the bull eye s for a hurricane in days. this is what we re watching at this hour. thanks so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. putin s war on ukraine is where we do need to start at this hour. russia is staging referendums in four occupied areas of eastern ukraine beginning today. residents being forced to vote on whether the regions should become part of russia. the referendums are widely considered a complete sham of course but this is drawing global condemnation. ukraine s president zelenskyy is calling on russians now to revolt as putin is facing a growing decent from his people over his orders to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers. hundreds have been rounded up in anti war protests as we ve seen and more and more russians are trying to escape the draft and leave the country. cnn ben wedeman starts us off live from kharkiv on this referendum votes. what are you learning about how this will go? reporter: well, it s going, i th ....
Trump s lawyers to actually say it. this is a hard document where they ll have to make clear if they believe the fbi planted evidence. this affidavit will also address if the receipt that inventory list that the fbi handed them and they signed at the end of the search was correct or if the fbi missed listing anything they took on that document. of course, this isn t going to touch about 100 documents at the heart of the case marked as class ifi classified, kate. those are set aside and the justice department is working with them and the intelligence community. thank you so much. joining me for more on this is cnn legal and national security analyst and cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. good to see you guys. i ll play for all of us, what the special master is talking about here. here is donald trump. listen. the problem that you have is they go into a room and did they drop anything into the piles or do it later? there is no chain of custody ....
Is trying to litigate the actual conduct of the search itself at a stage that normally see in an other case whether national security or a standard criminal case. normally, a different who has to be charged with something, so they have to actually be a defendant, be charged with something and then when evidence from the search is used against them, they try to actually challenge on constitutional or statutory or behavioral grounds accusing an agency of some kind of misconduct. this is all happening too early. and it s not going to stop any time soon. it s good to see you both. thank you. new york is about to open emergency shelters to deal with the surge of migrants arriving from texas. c c cnnp cnn s polo sandoval is ....
Having a watchful eye. he believed in as you heard him there taking a knee with black lives matter protesters because he, too, is against police brutality. he describes it as common sense. so because he is such a believer, i think it inspired his police force to have buy-in because of his enthusiasm for these things. it seems that way. a really great highlight. thanks for bringing that. good to see you. join us tomorrow night for a one-hour special champions for change where we introduce you to all of our champions at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you all so much for being here today. i m kate bolduan. inside politics starts after the break. rill. think miss allen is texting for backup? no she s totally in charge. of her portfolio and daniel g. she s building a greener future and he s. runnnning a pretend restaurant. and phil? phil has questions, ....
And 17 to vote as well. the ukrainian government is warning that anybody who is participating in the management of these referendum could face a jail sentence of up to 15 years. nice, as i said, the outcome is almost a given at this point, kate? ben, thank you for being there appreciate it. thank you for reporting, as always. as we were talking about, anger is growing inside russia. over the russian president s order to call up 300,000 additional troops to send to the war. public protests are spreading across the country and a growing number of russians are trying to leave the country to avoid a draft. cnn matthew chance has a closer lo look. reporter: suddenly, an exi tt ....