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activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? >> reporter: what we're hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we're seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need...

The january 6th committee. this does seem to be something different, though. >> that's right. look, pence had expressed some willingness to consider a formal invitation from the house january 6th committee in the summer i'm not sure if that happened but he made clear in the last week and a half he's not interested in doing so. he is said to see this differently a criminal investigation led by the justice department than a select committee led by, you know, house officials. and so, that is said to be governing how he is looking at this. but there's so many unanswered questions still. will there...

Financial expertise. you want someone who has a mastery of the subject matter area. >> reporter: but a legal analyst says in the mar-a-lago investigation, finding the right special master will be especially difficult. >> there are classified materials involved here and some of the most high us classified materials, those sci materials, you probably will need a special master who has the clearance to look at the documents. >> reporter: and so it will be determined whether trump and his lawyers can exert executive privilege. trump and his lawyers say even a former president can excerpt executive...

Washington, and we begin with the executive privilege tug of war over a batch of sealed documents related to the insurrection. former president trump doesn't want them to see the light of day, and he's sure to air his grievances when he speaks at a rally in iowa tonight. but it's not his thing anymore and president joe biden is refusing to excerpt executive privilege to keep the documents under wraps. this sooems to lead to a show down. the investigation is zeroing in on four close trump associates, dan ska sereno has been served with a subpoena, the former presidential aid to donald trump had...

Could not get bill barr to do the bidding to say that the election was corrupt, and he could not get rosen to do it. now, clark has not spoken out publicly, and he has not said anything about it, and the committee has not been able to get it yet, and there is a question if he is going to testify before the committee, because the committee has limited powers to compel people to testify. it takes a bipartisan vote to issue the subpoena, and the chairman said over the weekend, richard durbin, that it may not be possible. >> could the former president exert executive privilege? >> there is a wides...