air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
the u.s. justice department warns the u.s. supreme court that classified documents seized from mar-a-lago are extraordinarily sensitive, urging the high court to stay out of the government legal battle with former president trump. and top republicans stand with herschel walker in georgia. closing ranks around their embattled u.s. senate nominee, walker lashing out at political opponents and speaking out tonight about the abortion controversy weighing on his campaign. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. this hour officials in ukraine are bracing for russia to strike again after two days of vladimir putin s new and widespread assault on cities across the nation. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the ground in the war zone. the second day of smoke over the capital in skies that had had been quieter for months. a power plant one of many hit today here by an iranian drone attack, officials said
democracy, will all be decided today. the candidates have made their final closing arguments to rally an american public that is at once anxious, angry, and exhausted. are you ready to win this election? i m sick of talking about american decline. i think it s time we started to do something about it. please send me to washington, d.c. we re winning this. we ain t talking about no runoff. we re winning this. i believe in democracy. i certainly believe in a free and fair election. this is a transformative election. it s going to send a loud message to washington. we ve always done democracy better than anywhere else. and we are not going to stop now. y all ready to close this thing out? today we stand united as one voice. and i feel thean a massive vict shocks the world. i m ready for it. are you? well, now it s up to the voters. with millions heading out to cast their ballots today, we re keeping an extraordinarily close eye on the voting process nationwid
raphael warnock and stacey abrams they declined our offer. we will visit with georgia voters in this hour to learn what issues are most important to them. and and we will hear from a special panel of local journalists covering these races. we are in ache worth georgia in the bell county of cobb northwest of downtown. plaintiff before we get into politics take a look at other headlines today. u.s. supreme court justice samuel alito says unveiling of roe v. wade puts his and mates in danger no. results have been made public from the investigation into that leak. a judge here in georgia is ordering former white house chief of staff mark meadows to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then president trump and his allies illegally tried influence the state s 2020 election. meadow s attorney says executive privilege and other rights shield his client from testifying. russian president vladimir putin s monitoring drills of the country s strategic nuclear forces
good evening. tonight the justice department s message to the supreme court, stay out of mar-a-lago documents case. ever since the fbi got a warrant and conducted a court-approved search, finding boxes of documents, including highly classified ones that did not belong to him, the former president has been trying to slow or stop the wheels of justice from turning. which is his right, each about if it means taking it all the way to the supreme court, which he has. today was the deadline for the department of justice to make its case to the supreme court. we ll have details on their filing in a moment. but first, the former president has now also been making new false statements about other former presidents keeping classified documents. he previously claimed former president obama kept millions of documents for himself. now it s obama and bill clinton and george h.w. bush. george h.w. bush took millions and millions of document. to form a bowling alley feesed together what wa