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welcome to all of you watching us in the united states, canada, and around the world. u.s. justice department releases the document that led to the fbi search of former president donald trump's home. revealing the classified files he was given there. plus, there are more questions about who is being for the white houses new student loan forgiveness plan. reconnected to ukraine's power grid. how ukraine may have avoided a
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disaster in a live report. >> this is cnn newsroom. in we are getting our clearest look into the classified documents kept at donald trump's mar-a-lago resort. details what federal investigators expected to find. that has been properly taking materials, evidence of obstruction. donald trump insists he did nothing wrong and calls for the release of the affidavit's of refuse from the fbi and justice department. meanwhile, president biden is mocking his claims of declassified documents. here he is.
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two i want to know if i can declassify everything in the world? [ inaudible question ] >> it depends on the document and how secure. >> jessica has more on what the affidavit reveals. >> reporter: president trump kept them at mar-a-lago for months. >> the top-secret stuff can get people killed. it is completely alarming. >> reporter: the doj is revealing the boxes that contained classified. 92 are mark sigrid 25 are mark
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top-secret park visitors. otherwise on properly identified. particularly alarming to intelligence experts for his two it means there is information and those boxes at mar-a-lago that pertain to or possibly came to human sources. they usually get imprisoned. if they are at places like russia, they are simply executed for that type of information is sensitive. >> reporter: the justice department rejected.
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threats to the physical safety. >> at the end of the day, this is probably a net plus for the government. >> reporter: jump attorney sent to the national archives in may, claiming that trump had the authority to keep the papers after he left office. presidential actions involving classified documents are not subject to criminal sanction. doj investigators weren't deterred for there was probable cause to believe additional documents that contain classified it mdi or national defense information, or presidential records subject to record retirements currently remain at mar-a-lago. there is evidence to believe that obstruction will be found.
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>> what is a good explanation why a former president would want this or have this stuff? >> reporter: just about half of the 38 page affidavit is rejected. the next question, will anyone ultimately be charged? if so, who? jessica snyder cnn. she says the affidavit tells us about donald trump. >> he is both petulant and dishonest. petulant, because he refused to turn over documents that the national archives repeatedly asked him to turn over. dishonestly, he told them in
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january when he delivered boxes to the archives, that was all he had heard that he turned over all of the classified documents that he took to mar-a- lago. we know that to be a complete falsehood. even though the affidavit was heavily redacted, there were key pieces that were not given to the public. there was evidence that he acted in a way that could eventually be -- >> that talks to the mention of unlawful concealment in the first line of this. how significant is that? >> reporter: incredibly significant. the whole case that the department of justice based this affidavit on, he had documents that he was unauthorized to have removed
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from the white house. he continued to retain those documents. he was in possession of documents that he was not authorized to have in his possession. documents that should have been nowhere near his private beachfront unsecured property. >> legal analyst. you can head over to cnn.com for a deeper dive to what the affidavit does and does not say. we have a page by page that breaks it down to understand the language. in stock markets ended the week in negative territory. after investors got a warning about inflation from the federal reserve chairman. dow jones closed down more than 1000 points, 3%. the nasa closed nearly 4% lower.
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all three were down about 4% for the week. friday speech clearly weighing heavy on investors. he said the fight will not be quick or easy. >> reporter: delivering a blunt no-nonsense message to the much anticipated policy sees. the chair warning the central bank is nowhere near the point where it can begin slowing the pace of severity of interest rate hikes as an attempt to get inflation under control. clearly trying to ramp down speculation, the central bank might be nearing the friendly market, less aggressive interest rate policy. he is saying, instead they will drop inflation before raising rate hikes. the central bank is confident the job is done. he's admitting that his policy
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could cause hardship for maybe many americans. >> labor market conditions will bring down inflation. they will also bring pain into households and businesses. these are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. failure to reduce the price would mean. >> reporter: what he means by the pain that could slow both consumer spending and business investment. that could lead to a less robust jobs market. it can bring so much pain that the economy could fall into a recession. we are not there yet, wall street clearly shows that investors are worried. his message putting pressure on wall street and main street. stomach ukraine's largest nuclear plant is back online after being disconnected from the power grid. you can president says it is still one step away from having the same problem again. we will ask lane.
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ukraine appears to have dodged a bullet in the latest incident involving the nuclear plant. facilities back online and reconnected to ukraine's power grid. the plant lost connection on thursday after fires damaged a key powerline. nuclear plants need external power to cool the reactors to prevent them from melting down. president zelenskyy is warned the situation will be back to square one if the plant is
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disconnected again. >> i want to emphasize that the situation remains very risky and dangerous. that is, and a disconnection of the plant from the grid, any actions by russia that can trigger the shutdown of the reactors will again put the plant one step away from disaster. >> we are joined from london. if you develop. what is the latest? >> reporter: may be reconnected to raise electricity with the second unit. yesterday evening, there is still real concern over the safety and security of the powerpoint and the situation on the ground. he heard the armed forces government warning the russian armed forces putting the power plant at risk. putting ukraine and the entire
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continent under potential nuclear accident. there holding the power plant hostage. soaring military hardware at the power plant. it hasn't been verified. it is suggested this is the case knowing that the ukrainian armed forces would be a. they have fear of a potential nuclear accident. russia has in turn accused them of selling the nuclear power plant. it is increasingly difficult to verify the situation on the ground. the power plant itself on a frontline falling under russian occupied control. they have no been repeated calls for a un to gain access to assess what's going on on the ground.
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the grain exporter. what can you tell us? >> reporter: off to a rocky start. a month since it was put to the test, according to president zelenskyy, 1 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods have been exported from ukraine plexi ports through the corridor established. onto the global market. this is hugely welcome use after months of debate and discussions to alleviate the food insecurity crisis. for the nation's most dependable on the green experts. yesterday, another maritime corridor was established. it was opened by the joint ordination center. established in is simple.
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>> literally a life-saving development. thank you so much. ukraine's battle zones, people are needed to do top central book behind the front lines. delivering food after the russian strikes. her driving a bus where it is in separate some volunteers do that in odessa. as in the target of missile strikes. the head of the ukrainian volunteer service, thank you so much for being with us. before we talk about the volunteers, give us a sense of life in odessa right now? how close to normal are things at the moment? >> reporter: hi, sam. thank you for hosting. it's really weird to talk about, it's a bit safer than an different parts. on the other hand, we have our
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alarms. missile attacks every week. on one hand we do feel a bit safer. on the other hand, we feel a pressure. a need to always hide and look for shelter. when you hear the alarm in the morning or at night. >> it must be incredibly stressful. you are a volunteer. the army of volunteers who are helping both civilians and the military there in ukraine. your organization and your volunteers, they seem to do just about everything. explain how it works and some of the things they do? >> reporter: the idea of the volunteers is to unite people. different types of people. around the idea of helping. basically, during the first hours of the invasion, we have been able to mobilize more than
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100,000 people to help people in need. volunteers to a lot of things. they help people with food packages. medicine. drive those who are traveling around the country. who are traveling around the occupied territory to deliver medicine. how to get additional funding for those who do not have any money. all this type of stuff. basically, most of ukrainians are volunteering right now. doing something for people in their communities. our role is to coordinate the people. manage those in need. the people who are going to help them. >> sometimes these volunteers, they take incredible wrists to help others. how dangerous can it be?
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>> reporter: of course i do. that's something very important to ukraine. we have volunteers working on the frontline. working in the occupied territory. different parts of the country. it is dangerous. just to be a person that buys groceries and takes them to the people. unfortunately right now, we have some volunteers who are being kidnapped russians. we have volunteers who we do not have any contact with. still people understand there are risks. people say, okay, we do know that we can get kidnapped, we can get tortured. we cannot let those people die from hunger. we need to be there. we need to help.
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>> unbelievable to hear how far people are going to go to help their fellow ukrainians. you have spent time in the u.s. i know you got a very sense of how volunteers operate here. what did you take away from your experience here? >> reporter: for me, volunteering in the united states, it was my first volunteer job in my life. i barely spoke english. it seemed like a way to integrate in the community. to exchange all of the ideas that had about living in ukraine and to share with my friends in california. right now, a lot of the things we are doing in ukraine, i get from what i learned in america. the sense of being there for the person that you don't know. it's really important. right now in ukraine, our
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movement is really great. we see how brave the 16th or 20- year-olds are that are volunteering. we also have older ones that are supporting the people. on the other hand, we do feel that we have so much to share. >> well, let's hope for the safety and security of all of the volunteers that you are working with. it's amazing work that you are doing. it is very brave for all of the people participating that are taking the risk to help their fellow ukrainians. i have to leave it there. thank you. i really appreciate you joining us. french president says the burden is on iran to get the nuclear deal going again. a visit to algeria, reporters were told that he recently held
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important discussions about the nuclear deal and the commitment by the national atomic agency. >> so all of it that falls under the jurisdiction is not falling into depression. >> we were told that the agency has no plans to drop its investigation to unexplained traces of uranium. despite iran's motivations. marsha blackburn is running up her recent trip to taiwan which is been met from criticism by china. while there she met with the president. condemnation from beijing.
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responding saying, quote, the visit to the taiwan region violates the one china principle and divisions of the joint communications. it goes against the u.s. commitment of maintaining only nonofficial ties with the region. china deplores us. they reject us. they do not represent the biden preposition. we will take a quick break. i have more news and just.
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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states and canada. this is cnn newsroom. more on our top start. the affidavit that led to the search of trumps mar-a-lago home. it shows that the fbi requested the search after funny 184 classified documents in boxes recovered from in january. the affidavit goes on to say that the fbi believed highly
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sensitive defense materials hadn't been turned over yet. the investigators also expected to find evidence of instruction. a few hours ago his legal team filed paperwork requesting a master to oversee the paperwork that was taken from mar-a-lago. it raises more questions than answers. it comes as sources tell cnn the president has been struggling for a high profiled florida lawyer. they take a look at the lawyers that defended him in the past. remember when you want to do something shady, and you get your shady friends to help you. that is the host of the one america news network talking about the search from mar-a- lago. she worked for trump in homeland security. she now is the face of the legal team in the aftermath. >> why would they do such a
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drastic thing? it's disrespecting and dishonoring. it's a political tool. >> reporter: throughout his presidency and after, trump has used the ever-changing characters to operate as his personal pr machine. the outlandish claims have known no bonds. the sunda lawyer, sidney powell, for years has pushed the false narrative of massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election. >> is been organized and conducted with the help of silicon valley people. the big tech companies, social media companies and the media companies. i am going to release the crack. >> reporter: she was part of the elite strike first. a team of lawyers rooting out election frustrate the falsely accused dominion voting system of helping orchestrate the alleged fraud by using the
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algorithm and their machines to flip votes from trump to joe biden. she was pressed to provide preuss proof. select what you have in your case was a bunch of dodgy affidavits that do not add up. you have a group of people with dubious credentials. >> that is your characterizations. that is yours. >> so far you have provided no evidence for his two you might as well be working for dominion. >> reporter: she is now suing. giuliani made so many false claims about florida, georgia, and pennsylvania verse two dead people voted. over 300,000 ballots were counted in mexico. we met in new york court suspended his law license. >> if we are wrong, we will be made fools of. if we are right, a lot of them will go to jail.
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let's have trial by combat. >> reporter: another attorney, also assigned to the elite strike force. low-pressure dance around there was no evidence of the fraud. >> that depends on your definition. if there was any instance of fraud, it doesn't have to be millions and millions of ballast. it only has to be enough to tip the scales. >> reporter: there was not enough to tip the scales. not even close. it is no surprise the competency of trumps legal team has come into question. along with the advice they had given him over the years. for example, the advice of the lawyer alina. she suggested the former president wants the doj to release the names of witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for mar-a-lago. that raises all kinds of serious security concerns for his two i would advise him to
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ask them to uncover everything so that we can see what is going on. i understand the witness protection issue. >> reporter: legal advice is seemingly for an audience of one. randy kay, cnn. new york times and washington correspondent and political analyst maggie has reported extensively on donald trump. she spoke with wolf blitzer. he asked her if she was surprised to learn that these records were mixed in with documents taken to mar-a-lago and not identified. >> what you saw was the trump people saying they have been cooperating. the justice department laid out that it is not their experience. it was a year and a half of trying to get information of the trump team asking for delays and the fbi reviewing
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material. so, it's as if you are dealing with two different universes. the trump folks are saying one thing and you have the doj saying, absolutely none of what they are saying is accurate. a lot of what is now made public about witnesses is really important. trump has a history of talking about people who are witnesses in investigations and the doj is concerned about that. >> that was maggie's begin to wolf blitzer. president biden made a big step to fulfill a companion promise. borrowers will get between 10,000 and $20,000 in relief. the unanswered questions is, when will they start to see the relief and how will the u.s. pay for? cnn mj has the latest. in the white house is starting to offer more details on how
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much the student loan forgiveness program is going to cost? according to the early estimate, that comes out to around $24 billion a year. which is less than some other estimates that we have seen, including an updated and wharton estimate which said that it could cost upwards of $1 trillion over 10 years. when we asked the white house about the discrepancy about the two estimates, they said they are certain this is not in the ballpark of how much their plan is going to cost. that is in part because their model is based on 75% of eligible borrowers taking advantage of their new program. the white house also said that they are obviously wanting as medical as possible to take advantage of this program, but the president himself sang, even if a fraction of people who are eligible to have the loans forgiven as a part of this program, he would be happy with the outcome.
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mississippi. that's where flooding exists over the pearl river. goes over the center of town. this is occurring even though it's not raining at this moment, because there are still high levels of the rivers and territories. many of those are funneling into the river basin. the next 48 to 72 hours predicted to the flood warnings that basically follow along the pearl river. here is a look at the river case. this is pearl river at jackson. downtown jacksonville you can see how the observed value. 35 feet. the forecast with the water rushing into this particular river from the local streams could press at 36 feet. monday and into tuesday. the downtown neighborhood through the local businesses there, this will bring water to their steps of their homes and potentially to the businesses. that is why voluntary evacuations could potentially be issued over the next 24 to
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48 hours but we still have our slight risk of flash flooding across that area. there is no rain right now. that is the good news. we will wait to see what happens this afternoon. >> we will keep on top of that throughout the weekend. thank you. so in the u.s. is once again going on a mission to the moon or having a life look at the artemis rocket on the launchpad at the kennedy space center. weather permitting, it will blast off on monday. the moon comes as exploration is increasingly privatized. we are taking inside the mission. >> reporter: has been such a long time since nasa has had one of its own rockets designed to carry astronauts into space. it's been 11 years since the last spatial launch. 50 years since the launch of the apollo program. the apollo's mythological twin sister is sitting at the space
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can the center days away from making its first flight. part of the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon, because this time around they want to leave a lot more than just flex and weapons. here is flag administrator, bill nelson. >> 50 years ago we went to the moon for a day, a few hours. three days max. now we are going back to the moon to stay. to live. to learn. to build. >> reporter: when he says bill, he is referring to building bases on the moon. part of the reason that nasa and united states wants to do that, china has plans to do that, too. first the rocket has to pass the critical test flight. it will launch monday morning. if all goes to plan, the rocket was separate from the capsule. the counselor will head to the moon on its own.
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it will orbit the moon for about 2 1/2 weeks, at times getting within 60 miles from the service. then it will return to earth. test out the all-important heatshield before splashing down in the specific pacific ocean. the reason is so important, is designed to protect astronauts who will be inside that capsule. if all goes well, the first astronauts will be on artemis two. that will be in 2024. it will orbit the moon and the big one, artemis three, that's when nasa intends to return the astronauts to the moon. this time they want to live the first woman in the first person of color. cnn washington. two princess diana's personal automobile is going up for sale this weekend. the black escort that she drove between 19 85 in 1988 is been auctioned this weekend. auctioneer say, it may be the only car of its kind. they normally come in white,
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but the police asters to be painted black. they expected to cost about $120,000. in march 25 years since the princess of wales died. >> two days from the start of the u.s. open, how this could be a last hurrah for a tennis legend. how her rivals are looming in to the serena williams. stay with us. for better sleep, like never before.
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