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coming up on "cnn newsroom" -- this horrendous abuse of power is the latest in the longest of a series of witch hunts. >> trump lashes out as the u.s. attorney general looks to oversee investigations into the former president. what this means for his campaign. plus, a powerful snowstorm crippling parts of new york. we're live at the scene in weather center on where the storm is headed next. and a live update on the investigation into the deadly missile strike in poland. ♪ donald trump and other republicans are lashing out against the latest move to oversee the criminal investigations he faces. the u.s. justice department has

appointed a special council to take over two of the most sensitive probes involving the former president. on friday, u.s. attorney general merrick garland named federal prosecutor jack smith to take over the mar-a-lago documents investigation. while mr. smith has held numerous posts at the justice department and has served as chief prosecutor at a special court in the hague where he investigated war crimes. for more on friday's announcement from the justice department, here is cnn's paula reid in washington. >> in certain extraordinary cases it is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution. >> reporter: attorney general merrick garland naming jack smith to independently head up two major criminal investigations focused on former president donald trump, the move

coming just days after trump announced his third run for president. underscoring the legal jeopardy the former president faces as cnn has learned prosecutors have recently sent out a fresh round of subpoenas in both probes. >> based on recent developments including the former president's announcement that he's candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president's stated plans to be a sitting president as well, it is in the public interest that i have appointed a public counsel. >> reporter: jack smith has served in multiple roles and since 2018 he's been the chief prosecutor of the special court of the hague, investigating war crimes in kosovo. he will now oversee the criminal investigation into whether trump mishandled documents after the fbi seized documents in august including some marked classified taken from the white house.

>> they should give me everything they took from me because it's mine. >> reporter: the special council will look into an investigation on the january 6th incident at the capitol. justice officials had hoped that appointing a special counsel would help insulate the justice department from political criticism with the ongoing investigations, but it's not clear anything could achieve that goal. in fact, the former president has already described this incident as a political stunt. mr. trump has given every indication he intends to ignore the special council calling them a, quote, super radical left, and even though the investigation has been going on for months, the former president trump is surprised they're still very active. here's what he told a crowd on friday night at his florida

resort. >> weaponized department of justice, would you like me to talk about that? larry, would you like me to talk about that? this horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts that started a long time ago. i thought the investigation with the document hoax was dying or dead or over and the investigation into january 6th and my very peaceful and patriotic speech, remember? peaceful and patriotic was dead especially after the record-setting 40-point loss of liz cheney in the great state of wyoming. i thought that put the final nail in the coffin only to find out that the corrupt and highly political justice department just appointed a super radical left special council better referred to as a special prosecutor to start the process all over again. we thought it was just about dead. >> jessica levinson is a

professor of law at loyola loll school. she joins us from los angeles. and she's the host of a podcast. good to see you. how is this going to impact trump running for president. >> we heard him say all of this is illegitimate, any sort of indictment he'll say is just a political witch hunt. so the decision to appoint a special council, i think it's important for the department of justice, it's important for people who believe in the rule of law and the independence of the department of justice, but for the former president and his campaign, he's just going to keep feeding people the same diet of disinformation and say there's no there there. >> but why bring in a special council right now? why not allow the doj to move forward with its investigations? >> i think because two things have happened.

one, the midterms are now over, and, two, the former president said i am a candidate for the presidency again. and so what we see here is potentially another matchup between president biden and former president trump and we have an attorney general who is appointed by one of those two men obviously who is appointed by president biden. so while the department of justice is independent, what i think merrick garland recognized today is that he doesn't want it to look like a political appointee of one of the candidates president biden is just trying to take down the other candidate, former president trump. the other thing is this actually insulates attorney general merrick garland a little bit because now that house republicans will be in control, they're going to have a lot of hearings about these investigations, and if he has a special council, he can say, you know what, i'm not involved in these investigations anymore, i can't answer your questions. so i think there are a number of

reasons why this is the timing he chose. >> talk to us a little bit about who is the council. who is the council, and what can you tell us about mr. jack smith? >> he is a former federal prosecutor. that means he worked in the department of justice, and it would be very surprising not to have somebody without that baseline of experience. but we also know he has experience in the public integrity unit, ding with public corruption crimes. i think that's really significant. he's also been abroad working the international criminal court dealing with war crimes, corruption, and investigations and charges against former government officials of foreign states. that's about as close to the experience of investigating a former president as you can possibly get. so i think for those reasons, this particular decision makes a lot of sense. >> and what investigations is this special council going to be

overseeing? >> great question. the special council is going to be looking at the two investigations involving the former president on the federal level, and so the first investigation involves the activities around january 6th, 2021, and specifically whether or not the former president could be guilty of something like defrauding the united states by trying to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and stopping congress from doing its duty that day, which was certifying electoral college votes. the other thing they're looking at is the mar-a-lago investigation relating to the former president apparently illegally retaining documents that were classified and highly sensitive. those are very different investigations, but the special council will be overseeing both of them. >> and tell us a little bit about the time frame. what's the time line for this? >> so we don't know a specific time line, and that's entirely normal. we would never know a time line

until there are filings in court, and that leaves us some bread crumbs into figuring out how much closer they are to a federal indictment. one thing we know is in terms of the time line to zoom out a little bit t fact that a special council was appointed at all for both investigations accounts they are very much live and ongoing and could potentially lead to indictments. if both of these investigations were winding down, in their end stages, there really is no point in taking this historic step in appointing a special council. but i think it indicates not only exactly where we are in the time line, but that these are real investigations, that there's a there there, maybe not an indictment, but something they're looking at in both of these cases. >> i'm sure we'll be talking again soon. jessica levinson, thank you so much. >> thank you. some republicans want the justice department to appoint a

special council in another investigation. its probe into the former business dealings of president biden ice son hunter biden. senator tom cornyn tweeted that the doj admitted there with us a conflict of interest and he said the department must also admit there's also a conflict in the hunter biden probe and that special council should oversee it. a potentially historic winter storm is pounding parts of the great lakes region. two people in new york's erie county died after suffering card yacht-related events related to clearing storm. the snow has canceled flights, halted traffic on major roadways, and knocked out power. 5 1/2 feet has dropped in the region and they're facer for more. they're prepared for what comes. >> we do have the resources that

we need to fight this storm, which has been pretty unpredictable with the snow band hovering over the south, getting ready to move back north. >> cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us live from the weather center. a wall of snow. >> literally. that's what you're looking at here, a wall of snow. 5 1/2 feet of snow, that would be up to about my eyes. can you imagine trying to trudge through that? just impossible, right? this is classic lake-effect snow band as it moves into buffalo. this is friday midday. just incredible. the band is so narrow, only about 10 miles wide. depending on where it's located, that's the area that gets the heaviest snow. what you're looking at is a midday shot as it drifted over the downtown region. it moved south to arias known as

south town, orchard park. that's where the 5 1/2 feet was recorded. 66 inches. that is a tremendous amount of snow. and now it's time to do a bit of math. we've already done it for you, but you can double-check my math, follow me on twitter, and call me out if i'm wrong. if you take the average square foot of a house, 2,000 square feet, the depth in a lot of locations and you start to multiply out the density of the water and the ratio, that's snowfall, you're talking nearly 50,000 pounds of weight on top of a house or building, that could cause a structure collapse or failure. that's what's dangerous, not to mention what's happening on the roadways. it's impossible to travel long the highway. so just incredible amounts of snow, incredible amounts of weight, and lots of dangers out there. we still have 6 million

americans under alert. here's buffalo. heavy snow bands centered right over that particular location within the past three hours. so they have another few hours of that intense snowfall. but just going over the past 24 hours, look at the snow band coming off of lake erie oscillating. i'm calling it the fire hose of snow, right? dependsing on that wind direction, that's where it points the fire hose and where it gets the heaviest of snowfall. we had a northwesterly wind. now it's shifting north. we still have an additional two feet possible inn and around watertown, north of syracuse. buffalo, another foot, foot and a half of snow to come. we'll be covering this all

weekend. >> thank you so much, derek van dam at the scene and weather center. we appreciate you. more of ukraine's power grid is coming back online following a recent round of russian attacks, but there's new warnings. plus one slice of life before the war makes a come back to the city of kherson. the first train since the russian pullout from the city. c? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommemend it! zifans love zicam's uniqueue zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam. zincnc that cold! 'twas a wintry day, and at ihop quite soon hot cinnamon apples would be coaxed with a spoon on the fluffiest french toast with red currants on top we wish you a happy holiday, only at ihop. new gingersnap apple french toast, rt of our new holiday menu. try all three flavors.

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the lights are switching back on across ukraine after a barrage of russian strikes on its electrical system. the attacks knocked out almost half of the nation's energy system earlier this week, leaving 10 million people in the dark. ukraine energy research center says power has been restored to almost all consumers. but president zelenskyy is striking a different tone saying power is out across the country, however, he says, they'll be fixed. survives have new battles ahead to survive the winter and

to rebuild. senior correspondent nic robertson went to eastern ukraine. russian troops were pushed out and he found out residents are determined to get through whatever lies ahead. >> reporter: the road is a bray lewd for the destruction to come. russian troops turned the church into a military base as ukrainians forced them from the eastern village six weeks ago. mikkola, a former firefighter, stayed, survived the russrussia. surviving the coming winter is the next challenge. winter here can be brutal. he's proud. he's been working hard. >> all the wood's stacked up at the back here. there's a generator here as well because there's no electricity in the village. we'll survive. we survived the germans, he

tells us, in relation to world war 2. i need to bury my brother. he need as proper service. he shows me his destroyed house, tells me he'll rebuild. mostly self-sufficient, he has his own well, although, he says the water must be boiled. his 91-year-old mother who also refuses to leave plans to survive the winter as she lived through the fighting in their bunker. >> it's drastic. >> reporter: when she comes out, she tells us she worries about the cold too. how much can you suffer, she says? the matches are wet, the candles are bad. this is a torment. across town, juri is back for the first time since he left in may. his house and everything in it, 55 years of memories, destroyed.

we had plans. we'll rebuild, he says, getting emotional and turning away. as de-miners clear his house of explosives, he sees his long lost cat. he's scared but comes back for food. he shows them a grenade they found, gently tell him his beehives are all smashed. juri wants to show us where he used to fish, a place of happy childhood memories. takes us onto the blown bridge. up rush, the pumping station he used to work at. can it restart, we ask? in principle, yes. so what are the problems going to be? the high voltage cables across

the river and the transformers powering it, it can be done. no water, no electricity, no shops. it's it's a weight in every town and village. dozens around here, likely hundreds around the country, battered by each wash ove of th war. and as long as the war goes on, there will be more and more towns and villages like this. restoring them this winter, so unlikely. it's not even clear if they can be rebuilt, reconnected to the power grid for people dom back to them and have semi-normal lives even by next year. it's not just the electricity, the gas, the communications that are getting downgraded through this winter. it is the country itself.

it is going to take so much to rebuild and restore ukraine. nic robertson, cnn, kyiv, ukraine. there's no letup in russian efforts to gain ground in eastern ukraine. kyiv says russian troops launched new attacks across the region's front lines on friday, and that includes in bakhmut. but despite that, ukrainian defense lines are holding. >> translator: military action of extreme violence is still ongoing in the donetsk region. in the past 24 hours, about 100 russian assaults have been aborted in the donetsk region. >> meanwhile ukraine says this is the sign of ordinary life coming back to the newly liberated city of kherson. the first train bound for that city left the capital of kyiv on friday just a week after the

russian pullout from kherson. the ukrainian officials are taking part in the investigation into a deadly missile blast in poland. ukraine's foreign minister says they've joined the u.s. and polish investigators at the site of the explosion. ukraine has been pushing to join after the missile hit a polish border village on tuesday, killing two people. poland and nato says it was likely an accident caused by a stray missile, but western officials also said russia is ultimately to blame because it started the war in ukraine. for more we're joined now by scott mclean from london. scott, we understand there there's been no letup from the fighting in the donetsk region. >> reporter: yeah, it's hard to tell where the lines lie. but we know fighting has really intense fight in the eastern part of the country, and some of the heaviest fighting is around

the village of balk khmut. it's taken an absolute pounding in the past few months. it's been front and center as the russians have been trying to take it for a long time now. miraculously it still remains in ukraine's hands. the newly liberated city of kherson is right across. the russians are also digging in that area to try to defend their positions across the river. but according to a british analysis of the situation, the russians are most likely to take a lot of the troops that had withdrawn from kherson city and actually redeploy them to the eastern part of the country to try to take bakhmut and others in the region. so while the momentum broadly speaking seems to be the with ukrainians, the russians are not going to might easy for them any time soon. >> and, scott, what's the latest on the investigation into the missile that landed in poland

and killed two people? >> as you mentioned, ukrainian officials are on the site. there have been sightings of ukrainian officials baring diplomatic plates that we believe are the experts who have shown up at the site of that missile strike four miles inside the ukrainian border on polish territory. this is something ukrainians have been calling for since the strike took place on tuesday. earlier this place it was actually a polish official who said the ukrainian experts would be able to observe the investigation, but giving them access to all of the information, to all of the documents was perhaps legally a bit more tricky. the foreign minister said he was grateful for the poles allowing the ukrainian experts onto the site, saying tla continue to collaborate constructively and openly. as you mentioned, the strike happened on tuesday, and initially the poles said that this was most likely fired by ukrainians amidst a russian

barrage of missiles on ukrainian territory. of course, mission aisle defense systems were trying to stroock the missiles down and the initial assessment was this was a ukrainian missile that misfired and landed on nato soil. the attorney general said their investigation found largely the same thing, but what's interesting is president zelenskyy had initially ruled out the possibility that this was a ukrainian official, although, he seems to be softening his stance slightly, saying he needs to have all of the data to figure out precisely what happened. laila? >> scott mclean reporting. thank you so very much. one longtime kremlin watcher says there's more than one reason why they're attacking the power grid. stay tuned for that in the next hour. ahead on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. house is poised for a new

leadership. kevin mccarthy faces hurdles on the path while democrats will look to seek a replacement for nancy pelosi. plus how world leaders are reacting to the latest provocation from north korea ahead.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm laila harrak and you're watching "cnn newsroom." an angry donald trump says the appointment of a special council to take over the investigation of the former

president is nothing more than dirty politics. attorney general merrick garland said he made the appointment based on recent development including mr. trump's announcement that he'll run for the white house again. prosecutor jack smith will oversee the investigation into government documents that were taken to mr. trump's florida home after his presidency. he will also handle key aspect os of the january 6th probe including efforts to obstruct the transfer of power. mr. trump is calling it a, quote, horrendous abuse of power, and the latest in a series of witch hunts. more democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have announced they will run for top leadership spots. hakeem jeffries has launched his bid for house minority leader while catherine clark will seek the house minority whip position and pete aguilar will run for democratic caucus chairman. if jeffries is elected, he would

be the first ever black party leader in congress. we have more on the obstacles house republicans are facing. >> reporter: now, kevin mccarthy wants to be the next speak over the house, but he still does not have the votes to get there. he did get the support from the house republican conference earlier in the week when 188 of his members nominated to make him the speaker f that doesn't make you the speaker. in order to get the gavel, you need to be elected by the majority of the full house. that means 218 votes you'll need in january to get there. right now he's working behind the scenes to lock down the vote. but he has a problem, a math problem that he's trying to resolve. because there are some members of hard right faction known as the freedom caucus that are withholding their support. in fact, there are two members considered hard-nosed right now, matt gaetz of florida, andy biggs of arizona. both say they cannot support the speaker. there are others who are

threatening to vote against mccarthy as well for speakership. matt rosendale of montana being one of them and bob goode, a virginia republican telling me mccarthy doesn't not have the votes to get there. but they have not completely shut the door to ultimately supporting him. the reason why there's an issue for mccarthy is he's expected to have a narrow house majority rmt we don't know the number yet, which means it could be in the 222, 22 4 range. he let's moving to lock down support to get there. that is what's happening on the republican side. on the democratic side, things are actually a bit smoother in the aftermath of nancy pelosi's decision to step aside after 20 years dominating and running her caucus. now there's this leadership transition underway. hakeem jeffries, the new york democrat, is poised to become the first black lead never party in congress. now his party is get behind him for the top job as the

democratic leader in the minority in the new congress. we expect the number two to be katherine clark from massachusetts, and number three to be pete aguilar, all members of a different generation than the current trio -- leadership trio, which included pelosi, steny hoyer of maryland, and jim clyburn of south carolina. clyburn, himself, wants to be the number four leader in the new congress. those issues will play out on november 30th when they elect their new team. on the senate side, things are a bit settled after there was int internal feuding with mitch mcconnell. all of this is playing out in the final days of this congress before the new congress comes in in january. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. u.s. vice president kamala harris is expected to meet next hour with thailand's prime minister. she been in bangkok representing the u.s. at the asia-pacific

economic cooperation summit, which just concluded. chinese president xi jinping is also there, and on saturday the two spoke briefly. afterward the vice president tweeted during their exchange she reiterated the importance of open communications to manage competition between the two countries. harris also condemned the missile launch of friday, they claim it's an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew threw for 100 hours before landing in the sea. kim jong-un watched the launch with his daughter, the first time she was seen in public. paula hancocks reports. >> reporter: he's holding the hand of his daughter while watching the most controversial ballistic missile. his wife and child at his sief,

kim is quoted as saying he will react to nukes with nuclear weapons, and total confrontation with all out confrontation, pointing firmly at the united states and, quote, other hostile forces. japan's defense minister says this icbm could travel more than 15,000 kilometers or 9,300 miles, meaning it could hit mainland united states. >> i don't think this represents a game-changer. we know they've had this capability for more than five years now. so the basic picture between the united states and north korea remains the same. >> reporter: forces were ordered to shelter in place shortly after the launch. >> this is a brazen violation of multiple u.n. security resolutions. it destabilizes security in the region and unnecessarily raises tensions. >> reporter: vice president

harris met with allied leaders on the sideline of the summit in thailand. all vowed to work closely together. japan dispatchedary craft, an f 15, filming this, what they believe to be trails from the missile. the launch follows strong words from north korea's foreign minister who warned the u.s. of a fiercer military counteraction and condemned president biden's discussions about kim jong-un's missile program at the g20 summit earlier this week. >> i'm confident china is not looking for north korea to engage in further escalatory means. >> reporter: but north korea continues to break its own record for firing missiles with 34 days of launches this year. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul.

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the massive landfills are a big part of the problem. we report on how they're endangering the lives of people living near them. >> reporter: 72-year-old shopkeeper suffers from chronic as asthma. he said he almost died this year when the landfill behind him the size of a house almost caught fire. >> translator: it was a massive blaze. it was difficult to survive. my face and nose were swelling. e was gasping for breath. i could barely eat or drink. >> reporter: he said if it has not been for his friend who rushed him to hospital, he would not be here today. it was because of methane on garbage and record-high temperatures that sparked massive fires not only at the landfill but also here, at one of the biggest dumpsites. this landfill is almost 15 stories tall and the size of 17

s soccer fields. one company found in a single day in march as trash decomposed, more than two metric tons of me than gas leaked every hour from the landfill. >> when we took all the measurements that we took over the year, we found the total emissions were the equivalent of approximately 350,000 u.s. passenger vehicles per year. >> reporter: and methane emissions aren't the only hazard. dangerous toxins from the landfill seep into the ground pa luting the waiter supply for thousands of residents living nearby. that's the color of the water, a pure dirty yellow and we're barely a mile away from the foothill of the landfill. they tested the groundwater. the result? it's contaminated. according to the labs, it's

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for the very first time. the u.s. has been pressing qatar on human rights ahead of the tournament. the host nation has come under international scrutiny, namely for abuses committed against migrant workers and discrimination against the lgbtq plus community and women. antony blinken is set to appear in the coming days and attend the match. there within aaddressing of the human rights issues as he spoke to human rights reporters today. in an opening statement he expressed support for the lgbtq community and for migrant workers in the gulf nation. he also said some of the criticism of qatar was profoundly unjust and hypocritical. >> i feel as well very much for all the fifa staff, for all the

supreme commentatorster, for all the 2022 stuff. all the others. they're all here because they want to deliver to you and to the world an incredible football event. they're all proud to be here. i'm proud to have this fifa sign on my jacket. it's not easy every day and every day to read all the c critics for decisions taken 12 years ago when none of us was there, and now everyone knows that we have to make the best out of it, and we have to make the best world cup ever, a and

qatar is ready. the magical football, as soon as the ball rolls, people will concentrate on that, because that's what people want. >> well, the world cup matches are going to be dry events. the host station says no beer containing alcohol will be allowed at the stadiums. this affects all eight stadiums hosting world cup matches. alcohol sales and usage are tightly regulated in qatar. of about, this is a major problem for a world cup sponsor budweiser. the company initially put out a tweet that said, well, this is awkward, but the parent company issued a formal statement saying in part that changes are due to circumstances beyond their control. and before we go, for hours we've been telling you about the huge snowfall in parts of the u.s. it's still months before the start of wintering but check out the lighting and fireworks in chicago as the windy city starts the holiday season. and in washington t capital

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