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first line. politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. so we'll focus on the filing ahead and the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how late in the process it is. we'll also examine how the various assertions of fact in the filing actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. late word that the justice department has issued a new subpoena for more january 6th-related documents. cnn's kaitlan collins starts us off. what is the former president and his legal team seeking in this filing? >> reporter: a few things. one is this third party attorney, which is known better as a special master, that can really go through these documents if they're appointed, see what has legal privilege, what doesn't. it takes up time though, so it's a little unusual they waited two weeks to file for this because there's a chance the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators looking at it, because they've had their hands on these documents for two weeks. the other thing they want is a pause on what the investigators are doing. the review of these documents until a special master has been named. the third thing is a more

detailed inventory list. we saw a generic one, i would say, where it talked about the note about roger stone's clemency that he got, information about the french president, the rest of it, nine sets i believe of classified docum documents. in addition to that, they want a more detailed list of really what they have. and they also would like for essentially anything that they say that is outside the scope of the search warrant to be returned to them. we know, for example, they had some of the passports of the former president's. they already returned those. we don't actually know if they have anything else that's outside the scope of that. but basically his legal team is arguing, if you do have anything else, we'd like you to give it back, which is pretty standard. >> what with the timeline of any legal action be? as you said, this would b basically just delay the entire thing? >> and they know that would work potentially to their advantage. it's not that unusual they asked for a special master. we've seen that in other situations where there's potentially attorney-client privileged material. what's unusual is they waited

two weeks to do so. it has been two weeks since the search was carried out and this is their first actual court filing. >> why did they wait so long? >> i think it's a sign there is disagreement behind the scenes of what the legal strategy should be, what it should look like. they have not really coalesced under a single strategy. there was some debate over the special master and actually filing this motion with some critics saying, you should have done this two weeks ago. people who are even allies of the president saying you kind of waited too late. i think that's a sign of the trouble and disagreement they've been having over which avenue to pursue. >> you're also learning more about this purported message from the former president to merrick garland. >> this is probably the most fascinating part of this filing. we knew the special master thing was likely coming based on our reporting. but they have confirmed for the first time that trump did try to get a message to biden's attorney general, merrick garland, and he tried to do it through his attorney and the lead justice department official on this. it says in the filing that basically the attorney relayed

this message to jay brad, who is the justice department official who was actually at mar-a-lago in june, and he said that trump has been hearing from people, one word to describe the reaction to the raid is angry. and trump instructed his counsel to say the heat is building up. the pressure is building up. whatever he can do to take it down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know. it's very unusual to have a former president, who we know is under investigation for how he handled this information, trying to send a message to merrick garland. it's not that unusual for trump, i guess, because remember, of course, when nancy pelosi was pursuing those impeachment charges against him, he tried to reach out to her. but it is notable that they confirmed that in this filing, that they did try to relay a message to the attorney general, who signed off on the search warrant. >> yeah. stay with us kaitlan. i also want to bring in maggie haberman, john dean, former federal judge nancy gertner as

well. judge gertner, let me start with you. how unusual is a request for a special master two weeks after an event like this? >> it would be very unusual to do it two weeks after because as was said, the odds are that the government has already been going through these documents. it's usually done in a situation where the search of a law firm, where the documents are presumptively privileged because they had been in a law firm, and you say you don't want the government to be going through attorney-client privileged documents. this is the reverse in a way. if the coverage is right, these are presumptively presidential records, not privileged. and so the notion that you need a special master to wend your way through what is presumptively belongs to the american people is a little odd. >> what sorts of things would a special master be likely to throw out or prevent the government from looking at,

judge? >> well, i mean, any kind of attorney-client privilege issue. but there's no indication, and they haven't mentioned that there's a privileged document there. you know, the president does have -- the former president has an opportunity to figure out, you know, things that are personal to him. but that's hardly something that you would say the government can't see, and the letter that started all of this, which is the letter from kim jong-un, is hardly personal to him. that classically belongs to the american public. so this is a stretch. now, the question is whether a magistrate judge would say this is a special case of. we should do special things in this case to make sure that the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. but it would be extraordinary here. and as i said, the presumption here is that everything in those boxes belong to the american people and not to trump. >> maggie, do you have a sense

of what the former president's overall strategy is right now because his lawyers included, you know, this purported back-channel message to merrick garland. >> right. anderson, this court filing -- and i'm not a lawyer, but this court filing seems to have a lot of public relations elements to it, less a defense strategy or any kind of a court strategy and more about trying to sway public opinion. it is notable that he referenced that conversation that an intermediary had with garland that is, as kaitlan said, a classic donald trump move where he starts trying to have a negotiation with a prosecutor. but there is also an implicit threat, it seems, in what he is saying, which is, well, people are angry, and who knows what will happen. you know, for all of the reasons that were said here, anderson, his argument, not only is it coming very late, but he's making an argument about privilege that it's hard to see where it applies here. i think that everything they are doing right now is about

basically a time by, which is another classic donald trump strategy. >> maggie, why buy time? >> because he doesn't tend to think in long-term strategy. he tends to think in terms of minute to minute, and i think that his folks were -- i know his folks were caught very off guard by this search warrant. they were very surprised by it. there were a lot of discussions going on, one that included a subpoena, so they should not have been surprised that the government was trying to get these documents back. that was pretty clear from the subpoena. but regardless, they were clearly surprised. they didn't realize that the case was going where it was going, and now they are sort of playing catchup. and donald trump, i would note, it's interesting about how late this court filing has come. however questionable it might be the privilege, because it's not a lawyer. it's not a law firm. when michael cohen's home and office and hotel room were searched a couple of years ago in 2018, trump moved very quickly to file a request for a special master, and that was one of his lawyers. so it does suggest they

recognize this is not a clear standing issue. >> kaitlan, based on your reporting, you believe that they think giving them time helps their cause. >> it doesn't hurt i think is really the argument that we've heard, and it does raise questions of why they didn't do it two weeks ago because it still would have bought them time. 11 boxes of documents to go through is a lot of documents to go through. i think it is a sign of the legal strategy and what maggie was saying there, they struggled to figure out exactly how they were going to respond to this, and they were very caught off guard by it. we should note the justice department is responding tonight. they say they're aware of this filing by trump. they're maintaining, as they have been, that there was a federal judge -- a federal court signing off on probable cause being behind this search warrant. they're very critical of it. as maggie was saying, it is very p.r. related. they're very critical of the judge doing that, and the doj says they will respond. >> john, when you read this, is this a substantive legal document, or is it -- i mean as maggie and kaitlan are saying, a

lot of public relations? >> i think it's a lot of public relations. in fact, it is so weak that the law they rely on -- first, they don't even cite it properly in their brief. but it's u.s. versus nixon, they claim gives a presumptive privilege to all presidential documents. well, that's nonsense. if they'd read the case, that's citing a court of appeals agreement, and then the court -- the supreme court immediately marches away from that and says there is no such privilege presumption. in fact, it is subject to the rule of law, which embraces grand jury information of this nature. so it is a p.r. document. that's all it is. >> judge, have you ever seen a filing like this? i mean is it -- you know, as these filings go, how does it relate to others you've seen? >> i don't even know where to begin. have i ever seen anything like this? first of all, there is a search warrant affidavit in which an

fbi agent has sworn to facts on which the probable cause -- on which the search was based. there are pages and pages in this document in which they're just saying stuff, not sworn to. they're just making statements, you know, that on their face, someone needs to swear to. and i imagine there was some concern about swearing to any of this. and, you know, as john dean was saying, there's no presumption of privilege here. it's really just the opposite. the documents that were in those boxes, first of all, presumably match the scope of the warrant, which was then based on probable cause, and are covered by the presidential records act or classified documents. so, i mean, i think this is a p.r. move and nothing more. >> maggie, do you have a sense of what the team -- i mean, who

is around the former president? who is involved in these sorts of -- i mean, how do things get decided in trump world right now? who are his attorneys? what's the process? >> look, at the end of the day, donald trump is always first and foremost his own adviser on everything, and that includes legal issues. he is obviously not a lawyer, so people can do with that what they will. he likes to find lawyers who will do what he wants. but he has been the person, as i understand it, who was slow on wanting to do anything. he has a handful of lawyers around him in various cases, anderson. remember, this is not the only legal front he is fighting on. one is evan corcoran who was present on june 3rd, when counterintelligence officials came from the justice department and retrieved additional classified material that was still there. he has a lawyer named jim trusty. he has a few others. but, you know, there are a lot of lawyers who have told him or told his team they don't want to represent him. he is notorious for not paying

his bills. he is notorious for not following advice. so it didn't matter so much, anderson. a, he had a different group of lawyers when he was in the white house, number one. but number two, when he had the power of the presidency behind him and essentially the state, for lack of a better way of looking at it, was investigating him, he still was the state. and so it was just a different position. he is not in that position right now, and we don't know where this is leading. we don't know if there will be charges. we know at the moment it appears to be about the documents. but he is in a very different position than we've seen him in, i think, ever. >> john dean, i mean, we've seen defenders of the former president kind of put out every kind of reason for why he would have classified documents sitting in a storage unit at mar-a-lago. i just want to play something that kash patel, the former chief of staff to the acting defense secretary christopher miller in the waning days of the trump administration said. >> in october of 2020, president trump put out for the world to see a sweeping declassification order, and he did it via social

media. and then in december and january on the way out, i witnessed him declassify whole sets of documents. so it is not incumbent upon president trump and his lawyers and him as a target of this investigation to show that he, in fact, declassify them. it's up to the government, who has the burtden of proof, who are trying to deprive a man of his liberty, to show that no such order was in fact given. >> john, does any of that make sense to you? do you see any kind of coherent legal strategy in all of this? >> it's a public relations strategy again. it's not a legal strategy. he really -- it's questionable if he did anything that would have declassified the documents that are relevant here. >> there would be a paper trial. >> there would be a paper trail, and the documents would have been marked as declassified, and the rest of the world would have been told they were declassified because they're not isolated documents. there are typically multiple copies. they're logged. that's how they knew they were

missing because these documents are logged everywhere, and their whereabouts is known. >> yeah. >> so i think what mr. patel is doing is getting himself a front-row seat at the grand jury, where he'll be testifying very soon under oath, and we'll hear what his story is later. >> i just want to bring one more person into the conversation because our panel boxes are not big enough. cnn's chief political commentator and former obama senior adviser david axelrod. what does the former president potentially gain or lose by requesting a special master and prolonging the process? >> well, as has been said by others squeezed into these boxes, i do think it is a lot about politics and public relations. i think that it implies that there is something untoward about the materials that were taken, that they may be being used in ways that are inappropriate, you know. i don't want to use the word "spying," but that's what

conspiracy theorists think, you know, that the fbi went in and seized the president's documents. as the judge pointed out, these aren't his documents. these documents belong to the american people. i remember how rigorous the presidential records process was when i was in the white house, and, you know, so the whole thing is absurd. by the way, patel in that same interview was asked, you know, about the process of declassifying. he says, well, the president just says it, and then they're declassified. and they say, says it to who? and he said, well, you know, a witness. i mean, the whole thing was absurd. so i don't know that -- i think the advantage is political in his mind, anderson. >> david, there's also this new nbc poll where it asks, do you consider yourself to be more of a supporter of donald trump or more a supporter of the republican party? the former president's numbers have gone up since may whereas general support for the republican party has gone down.

do you think these investigations are helping the former president? >> well, they may be helping him within his base within the republican party. i think it's riled them up. it's not helping him overall. his numbers are not improving overall, and 57% of the american people in that poll said they think these investigations should continue. and i think the fact that republicans are begging him not to announce his candidacy for president until after november because they think it will hurt their candidates tells you everything. he is an albatross around the republican party now, even as he's strong within the republican party. >> to all my friends in tiny boxes, thank you very much. appreciate it. coming up next, the white house now weighing in on the car bombing outside moscow that killed a pro-kremlin tv commentator, the daughter of a prominent supporter of vladimir putin. we'll get a live report from the russian capital and explore russia's claims that ukraine was

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sides of the story. cnn's sam kiley in kyiv and fred pleitgen in moscow. we again with fred pleitgen's report. >> reporter: shortly after the explosion that caused daria dugina to crash on a moscow highway, her car engulfed in flames. daria dugina was dead at the scene, police say. her father, alexander dugin, looking on in dismay. tonight, vladimir putin with an angry response. quote, a vile, cruel crime cut shore the live of darya dugina. after only a short investigation, the russians now blaming ukraine for the murder. the intelligence service releasing this video which cnn cannot independently verify, claiming to show a ukrainian special services operative who allegedly entered russia together with her young

daughter, shadowed dugina, carried out the car bombing, and then fled to neighboring estonia. alexander dugin, who some believe may have been the actual target of the plot, lashing out against ukraine. >> translator: our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution. it's too small, not the russian way. we only need our victory. my daughter laid her maiden life on her altar, so win, please, dugin wrote in a statement. he has long advocated russian expansionism, and some believe laid the ideological groundwork for vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine. the ukrainians deny they had anything to do with his daughter's killing. russian propaganda lives in a fictional world, an adviser to ukraine's presidential administration said, and hinted the ukrainians believe it may have been an inside job, adding, quote, vipers in russian special services started an intraspecies

fight. the incident comes as russia's invasion of ukraine nears the half-year mark, and moscow is keen to keep public opinion in favor of the operation. with a massive show of patriotism on russia's national flag day and a series of events around the country. in these trying times, as russia's military is fighting in ukraine and the country is under heavy sanctions, it's become increasingly important to display patriotism. at this event, the organizers have brought together hundreds of people to create a giant russian flag. flags in public spaces and on moscow's streets. at this massive nighttime convoy, many of the drivers flashed the "z" symbol of russian's invasion fighters fighting in ukraine. "our commander in chief and the army are doing everything right," this man says, as the

pro-putin convoy circled moscow in a display of power, trying to show that russia won't be deterred from its current course. >> fred, has there been any signal from the kremlin about what could come next after this attack? >> reporter: well, it's very clear that all of this is extremely important to the kremlin. in fact, an hour and a half ago, anderson, we got an email from the kremlin press service that daria dugina had been awarded the order of courage from the russian federation. you also heard vladimir putin in that condolence telegram that he sent. but it's also the case and very clear that there are a lot of prominent people in russia, who has brutal as things are in ukraine right now, want russia to hit ukraine even harder than it already is and take even more ukrainian territory. and one of those people is actually alexander dugin, who has been advocating that for a very long time. but those voices have now become even louder. you hear that from the top echelons of russian kremlin-controlled media, for ifn stance, where there have been people who have calling for strikes on kyiv in response to

this and also hitting kyiv's decision-making centers as they say. whether or not the russians have the capacity to do that is, of course, a whole other thing. but there certainly are a lot of prominent people here in moscow calling for an escalation in what's going on in ukraine, anderson. >> i want to turn next to cnn's sam kiley. he's in ukraine. also bob baer. sam, you heard fred's reporting. what is ukraine saying in response? >> reporter: well, the ukrainians are rejecting out of hand any suggestion that they would go after a civilian target anywhere, they would say, have said, let alone inside russian territory, rejecting absolutely both from the military and the office of the presidency, all saying that they are not responsible. we heard that from fred's also suggestions that this may have been part in the ukrainian view, the counterpart that is part of

an interknee sign. that's similar to the sort of stuff coming out of the kremlin so frequently. as far as the ukrainians are saying officially and privately, this is not a ukrainian operation. but that doesn't answer the question as to whodunit, anderson. >> bob, what stands out to you about the method that was used in this killing? >> well, anderson, it looks very professional to me. it was done on a road, no cars nearby. it was undoubtedly remote-controlled. it takes some skill. it took some casing of the parking lot to following the car. someone had to watch it. it was very well organized. you know, if it had been a car bomb alongside the road, it could have been chechens, it could have been anybody. but clearly to my view -- and this is speculation again -- it was a professional job. >> and, i mean, does ukraine

have the capabilities, bob, to operate near moscow? >> we haven't seen it so far. not to this sophistication. you know, there could have been some small attacks that would have been echoed, but i don't think they would. another thing is why would they pick this target? the ukrainians have a lot of military and intelligence targets in moscow, which are vulnerable, which they could have gone after, and they didn't. so, you know, this is so mysterious, this attack, and she wasn't particularly a valuable target politically, nor was even the father because there's a lot of russians who have been urging the invasion of ukraine for years, for decades. so why her? is it mafia-related? it's always possible. >> sam, is there a concern in ukraine that putin will -- i mean, i don't know if he needs a pretext -- but use this car bomb attack as a pretext for a general mobilization, further escalation of the war?

>> reporter: well, it's very hard to read, you know, who's telling who to say what because as fred was reporting there, there are a lot of high-level people calling particularly in the media for an even more violent response. but very difficult to see how the russians could get more violent unless, as you suggest, they go for sort of a general mobilization. but a general mobilization would be an indication that the russians are even further on the back foot than they already would appear to be. there is a danger as this war faces the six-month anniversary in a couple of days, or a day and a half, that it all looks like a stalemate. but at the same time, there are profound fears because of the anniversary of the war that there could be some kind of spectacular attacks or big gestures, big military gestures already in the planning. and this would certainly add to the energy behind that. it would appear to be some kind

of ultra violent response to this killing would be seen within russia as a positive and patriotic movement. whether the russians actually have that capability, though, remains an open question, anderson. >> bob, in just a little over a day, russia's security services announced they'd solve the bomb attack that killed dugina. they had a name for the alleged attacker, video, and the route that she supposedly took when she left russia. does the speed of that say anything to you? >> it's absolutely impossible to piece back together an attack like this within 24, 38 hours or whatever. it's impossible. you know, putting cctv camera together, you know, the pieces of the bomb, figure out how it was exploded, it's just impossible to come to a conclusion like that. the fact that they claim this woman lived in the same apartment building makes no sense at all, and the fact she was traveling with a child and hurt a cat, it makes no sense at

all. and the fsb, russian intelligence, has never released the forensics of an attack like this. but what i'd like to say, anderson, is when a bomb goes off in a suburb like this of moscow, a high-end suburb, putin is in some sort of trouble, and i don't think we're going to know what kind until it actually happens. >> sam, ukraine's president said today that russia may be planning, quote, something particularly nasty, something particularly cruel ahead of independence day, which as you point out, is on wednesday. has there been any indication of what he or they are anticipating? >> reporter: well, it's very interesting. there had been an anticipation of quite widespread celebration on independence day, a very important day for this young country in terms of its independence from russia, which, of course, ultimately has provoked in the view of the russians this russian invasion. but even though they have, for

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three arkansas police officers are now under investigation after a bystander video showed at least two of them repeatedly beating a man outside a store during an arrest. we're also learning more today about the suspectthy were arresting. cnn national correspondent nadia romero has the latest. >> this is bad. we've got to get out of here. >> reporter: three arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty after this disturbing video was posted online, showing them beating a man outside a convenience store. arkansas state police have now opened an investigation into use of force by all three officers

and the fbi is also investigating. the crawford county sheriff's office has identified them as deputy zack king, deputy levi white, and mulberry officer thell riddle. cnn has reached out to all three, but so far hasn't heard back. >> they will be punished for what they did if they are found to be in violation of any rights, laws, or anything like that. >> reporter: the incident happened sunday in mulberry, arkansas, about 140 miles northwest of little rock. on the video, you can see at least two officers punching and hitting the man and kneeing him repeatedly as they try to arrest him. that's when a bystander off camera yells at the officers. arkansas governor asa hutchinson said the officers' response was not consistent with the training they received. >> that is reprehensible conduct

in which a suspect is beat in that fashion. we saw a glimpse of that. it is under investigation. >> reporter: police say the man in the video is 27-year-old randall war chester of goose creek, south carolina. an attorney says war chester was wanted for allegedly threatening a gas station clerk in a nearby town. when officers located him he was cooperative at first, then got violent and tried to attack the officers. >> we've all seen the video. i don't believe the excessive amount of force that was used would be justified if my client did, in fact, spit on someone. i believe it was above and beyond what the officers were trained to do and what they should have done in that situation. >> reporter: police say warchester refused medical treatment but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. he's facing numerous charges including assault, battery, and resisting arrest. warchester is now out of jail on $15,000 bond. >> there were multiple abrasions to his face, scratches.

he did complain of pain to his head. i believe he was only able to sleech on one side of his head because the injuries to the other side. >> nadia joins me from arkansas. what more are you learning from the attorneys representing this man? does other video exist of what happened? >> reporter: yeah, anderson. the sheriff says that the officers involved were not wearing body cameras, but there is dash cam video from at least one of the patrol cars, and that hasn't been released to the public but is part of this ongoing fbi and state of arkansas investigation. now, i did speak with the attorneys representing the suspect, and attorney carrie jernigan said she made an excessive force complaint last month against one of those now suspended deputies. she says deputy levi white used excessive force against one of her other clients back in an incident in july. she believes there's a pattern there. anderson, i asked the sheriff, when was the last time your deputies had use of force training? he says that he didn't really know, but he said likely back

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a new nonprofit led by a prominent conservative lawyer received the largest single donor contribution to a politically focused group that's ever been made public. $1.6 billion. that's how much was donated to the utah-based marble of freedom trust last year according to a tax form just obtained by cnn. the massive donation has taken the group with almost no public profile to one of the most well funded in the united states. cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin tonight has details. >> reporter: this document obtained by cnn is evidence of the largest anonymous dark money political donation ever reported, $1.6 billion. it is, according to experts, a staggering amount. >> i am just stunned. we are talking about income that is many multiples larger than the largest dark money groups ever found. >> reporter: and it's going to a

new organization called mar boat freedom trust. while you've probably never heard of it or the man in charge of it, the whole country is familiar with his work. his name is leonard leo, a devout catholic known as donald trump's supreme court whisperer. >> there are lots of really smart people who can serve on the u.s. supreme court, dozens and dozens. but you need people who have courage. >> reporter: leo helped usher in the most conservative supreme court in decades along with helping block merrick garland from the court, he and his colleagues at the federalist society are given credit for the confirmations of neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. >> it was leo who was in the driver's seat of those nominations. leo is the person who can raise the money and has the background to put in place judges who will build a conservative judicial infrastructure around the country. >> reporter: leonard leo now has an unpriecedented amount of cas to spend on whatever political

projects he likes. and while the donation was meant to be kept secret, name and address withheld on the irs form, cnn has confirmed the source is 90-year-old businessman and philanthropist barry side, who donated the stock of his entire company, the trip light company of chicago, to marboro freedom trust, which turned around and sold it for $1.6 billion. cnn has attempted to reach mr. side without response. his donation will leave behind a dark money political legacy that could last decades. already marble freedom trust has give more than $200 million to other causes, including $40 million to donors trust, which has doled out millions to conservative causes. in a statement to cnn, leonard leo said it's high time for the conservative movement to be among the ranks of george soros and other left-wing philanthropists going toe to toe in the fight to defend our constitution and its ideals. >> drew griffin joins us now. so if reports didn't dig into

the $1.6 billion gift, would anybody know about it? >> reporter: this happened last year, anderson. but for an irs form that one of our investigators, casey dolan, got a hold of and followed the bread crumbs back through the sec filings, we wouldn't know a thing. it's just dark money at its darkest. >> and this is tax-free? >> reporter: that's unbelievable. a $1.6 billion electrical devices company on the south side of chicago trades hands twice, right? ends up in the ownership of an irish company, and nobody in the whole deal pays any capital gains on any of it. leonard leo has $1.6 billion in his political pocket to play with. >> drew griffin, appreciate it. coming up, the latest on the massive flooding in texas that's now claimed at least one life. cnn's ed lavandera joins us next from dallas. (silence) ♪ (upbeat music) ♪

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massive flooding. rlier today dallas county declared a state of disaster. some city sewers are overflowing. ed lavandera has more. >> reporter: a one in a 100-year rainfall event in dallas fort worth, drenching some areas with more than 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. the storm left major roadways flooded, vehicles submerged, and some residents waking up to kitchens, living rooms, and hallways submerged in water. emergency officials in dallas and fort worth say they've responded to hundreds of high water incidents and traffic accidents. >> i think everybody wasn't anticipating this much rain this fast. >> reporter: the sudden and drastic change in weather has stunned the dallas fort worth area after months of extreme drought. since january there has been a

rainfall deficit of more than 10 inches. that deficit has been erased after a summer's worth of rain soaked the area in less than a day. these storms have been moving over the same path since the overnight hours, dumping relentless amount of water along the way. >> the ground is very dry, but it can only absorb so much so fast. >> i'm freaking out. my apartment is literally flooding. i just woke and i don't -- should i call 911? what do i do? >> reporter: brittney taylor says she moved into this dallas apartment just two days ago. she woke up at 3:00 a.m. to what she described as, quote, torrential rain and two feet of water on the first floor of her home. now, she's wading through the aftermath to see what, if anything, remains undamaged. >> oh, good, you guys, look. mac books can float. yeah, there's all my childhood

keepsakes. >> and those images just incredible. is there a possibility of more rain for those areas in the coming hours or days? >> reporter: you know, the flood warnings have been pushed back hour after hour. they're still technically under a flood warning throughout the area for a little bit longer here. but more rain is expected. and that's why people and emergency officials are urging people to be very careful, be very aware. what we heard repeatedly today from emergency officials and first responders, anderson, is that so many people were shocked and surprised by just how quickly the waters rose up. >> ed lavandera, thank you. a new portrait of jupiter from the web space telescope and the remarkable images. we'll show you them and what they reveal next.

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you can see faint outlines of jupiter's rings and two of its moons. nasa says the fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely other entire galaxies. that's for us here on earth. the news continues. let's hand it over to laura let's hand it over to laura coates and "cnn tonight". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> i want to know about that other galaxy back there. that's a whole new show, a new series. thank you so much. everyone, i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." it's been two weeks since the mar-a-lago search, two weeks. and now donald trump's legal team has gone on the offense finally. i should clarify, i mean the offense inside of a courtroom, not the court of public opinion. now, they filed its first lawsuit since the fbi searched and seized items from the ex-president's home exactly two weeks ago today. and there's a whole lot to unpack. first, let's begin with exactly what trump is now asking for in this filing beca