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that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear ....
at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing critici ....
reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where ....
Indication that the u.s. and ukraine and the west for that matter don t see this as a fight that s ending any time soon. boris and amara? oren, thank you so much. so this week the white house has been defending their response to the spread of monkeypox across the united states. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency on august 4th, after facing criticism for not moving faster to address the crisis. now, i spoke with white house deputy monkeypox response coordinator yesterday who defended the response saying that health officials have reacted to the virus s trajectory. we know what we ve got in terms of this outbreak. it is acting differently than any monkeypox outbreak we have known before. it s clear the epidemiology, it s clear what strategies need to be implemented to be able to control the outbreak. and it s also clear which populations we need to focus on. so i think really it s more about the right time as opposed to there being a delay. so h ....
Three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism that it wasn t moving fast enough to address the crisis. now, i spoke with white house deputy monkeypox response coordinator yesterday. he defended the response. we know what we ve got in terms of this outbreak. it is acting differently than any monkeypox outbreak we have known before. it s clear the epidemiology. it s clear what strategies need to be implemented to be able to control the outbreak. and it s also clear which populations we need to focus on. so i think really it s more about the right time as opposed to there being a delay. now, those comments came one day after the white house announced its new plan, which includes boosting vaccine supply with an additional 1.8 million vaccine doses, making anti-viral treatments more rapidly ....