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few moments ago ordering the release of emails from john eastman. cnn senior justice correspondent is working this. walk us through what happened. >> this is a ruling from judge david carter in california, wolf. he is ordering the release of emails to the january 6th committee. john eastman, who worked as a lawyer for the former president in those weeks as he was trying to stay in office has argued they should be shielded under attorney client privilege. the judge is rejecting that saying that they may be evidence of a crime so therefore they fall under what's known as the crime fraud exception. i'll read you part of what the judge wrote in his order. he says the emails show that president trump knew the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tote those numbers both in court and to the public. the court finds that these emails are sufficiently related

to and in further in conspiracy to defraud the united states. to back this up a little bit. this goes to a filing that eastman and the trump lawyers were trying to prepare to file. according to the judge, there is this email that show that they wanted to cite these tens of thousands of what they said were fraudulent votes in the state of georgia. they knew that these were wrong numbers, trump even resisted signing a decoloration, about it but then eventually filed the papers with the correct numbers. i'll read you another part. he says president trump filed certain lawsuits not to obtain legal relief but disrupt ordeal lay the january 6th congressional proceedings through the courts. the court finds that these four documents are sufficiently related to further obstruction crime. bottom line, wolf, this judge says that the former president and his legal team knew that

these numbers were bogus and yet, they filed these documents in court trying to delay the certification of joe biden's victory in the 2020 election. >> the judge writes in this document that there potentially is a conspiracy to defraud the united states. that's a crime. so what happens next? >> for one, the committee, the january 6th cop mmittee is goin to be able to obtain the records for the on going investigation and wolf, the more important thing here is the justice department. they already have all of this material. they are investigating the actions of john eastman. we expect that some of those investigations obviously are in the quiet period because of the midterm elections but come right after the elections, we expect a lot of activity to pick up both on this part of the investigation as well as jeffrey clark who was also involved in this effort to keep former president trump in power despite the fact that he lost the election. >> this is a major development. stand by. i want to bring you in and bring

in cnn legal analyst former new york city prosecutor paul calen and jessica schneider. paul, how big of a deal do you think this is? >> oh, i think this is a very big deal, wolf, because it demonstrates that there is at least in the opinion of this federal judge a makeable federal criminal case against the former president. this obstruction charge by the way is a very serious charge. it's a conspiracy to obstruct governmental administration to obstruct administration of the united states electoral process. it could be punishable by ten years in prison and an indictment would look like this, you would say the overall objective out conspiracy was to disrupt and prevent the election from going forward. the people participating, mr. trump knowing that these cases were one, frivolous and two had fraudulent documentation,

fraudulent static istics was co co-con co-conspirator. this is the first indication of obstruction out u.s. government charge. >> potentially serious charge indeed. evan, does this give the attorney general of the united states merrick garland one more significant reason to consider charging, charging the former president of the united states with a crime? >> i think it does, wolf. look, i mean, a lot of attention has been taken away from the january 6th investigation because of all of the activity related to the documents that were seized by the fbi at mar-a-lago but this if you talk to people around the former president, they believe this is one of the more serious things that he faces because we already know the justice department is looking at some of the, you know, co-constpirators involved in the fake elector kescheme. the former president is at the top of the conspiracy allegedly

according to what the investigators are looking at. >> jessica, you covered the justice department for us. this is one of many legal challenges swirling around the former president right now. where do you think this ranks in terms of it seriousness? >> the significance of this court filing, wolf and the evidence that the judge is putting forth here in the emails from eastman is this really goes to all of the legal challenges that the president is now looking at whether it's the on going investigation from the district attorney down in georgia looking into the attempts to interfere with the el electoral process there or the broader justice department. these emails show that president trump, then president trump knew that these numbers were false and yet, he signed a verification and submitted those false numbers to the court. he knew it. so that -- this just adds more evidence and more foughter for these investigations. >> paul, button this up for us. >> yes, it's a conspiracy to

defraud the united states because the president acting in concert with other individuals submitted false evidence to a federal court and obstructed voting alleged to have occurred in january of the united states so what it is given an umbrella charge, serious charge. serious charge to defraud the united states and then the attorney general could plug in all of these smaller aspects of the conspiracy that pushed the conspiracy forward and this is a pile of very important documents by one of the attorneys who is involved. >> very significant development indeed. guys, thank you very much. coming up, a cnn exclusive report from the front lines of russia's ruthless artillery assault going and we're following vladimir putin's decoloration, of martial law in illegally annexed territory.

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continues, fred pleitgen is joining us from ukraine. i understand you got a harrowing look at the front lines of this war. tell us what you saw. >> reporter: yeah, we certainly did, wolf. we've been hearing so much over the past week and a half really if you will of those long distance strikes that the russians are conducting of critical infrastructure in the country but out here in the east, in the town, the russians have some of the most brutal forces and artillery and really pounding the town, which they want to take from the ukrainians, however, the ukrainians are holding on. here is what we found. when entering, the need is for speed. we're driving straight into one of the most dangerous places in war torn ukraine with a military combat medic who goes by the call sign katr usa. it's under constant russian

assault. our car hasn't even come to a full spot when the first shell hits nearby. the medic stops. we need to take cover as best we can. >> we're waiting for the shooting to stop. >> reporter: so we're taking cover because we had incoming artillery fire. we'll wait and hope there aren't hits close to us. [explosion] >> reporter: we're to the receiving end of a full russian artillery barrage. [explosions] >> reporter: photo journalists

richard harlow tracks several projectiles whizzing over our heads. [explosions] >> reporter: ukrainian troops face this kind of shelling several times a day. >> translator: the artillery attacks fly every day so it's never quiet here. other parts of the city take hits many time as day. there are times when several mortars hit within a minute. >> reporter: her own husband was killed more than a half ago, ground and using seasoned fighters from the private military company. still, even pinned down with artillery flying overhead, she says her confidence isn't shaken. >> translator: absolutely we

will win but price of victory will be huge. unfortunately, every day civilians are dying and there are a lot of ldead and injured soldiers. >> reporter: the fighting destroyed much of the town and left the few people that remain traumatized. sergei doesn't take cover anymore as artillery strikes nearby. i ask him if he's afraid. >> translator: afraid of what? everything will be fine, mate. everything will be fine. >> reporter: a pause in the shelling gives us a chance to get out as ukrainian tanks roll in the other direction trying to defend this key city from vladimir putin's forces. i tell you one thing, wolf, that ukrainian combat medic didn't even flinch as the artillery shells were coming and she says the reason why is they face this every day. ukrainians say right now for them the situation they're in which is strategically important

is very difficult but they vow not to give up a single inch to both russian forces. wolf. >> so courageous. stay safe. fred in the war zone for us. appreciate it. for more on the war in ukraine, let's bring in a top advisor to president zelenskyy. igor. thank you for joining us. first of all, what is putin's decoloration, of martin law mean for ukrainian civilians in these illegally ok ccupied areas, particularly in the southern kherson region where ukraine made advances? >> you know, this is yet another act of despair from putin. i mean, again, absolutely success on the battle ground he's trying to make it another instrument of, you know, claiming these territories of his own territories. the ukrainian citizens still live in the occupied territories

is not a good sign because this martial law, this so-called martial law means that it might be another sign of breaking the human rights of those people. it might be another preparation for another deportation, which they already made in the temporary occupied crimea in 2014, which already made in the capture mariupol and already making or going to make in the occupied kherson more than 200,000 ukrainians are leaving there and 1500 or 1500 of them is already been occupied. so i don't know. this is definitely not a good sign but for us, for ukraine, it means absolutely nothing. the citizens are moving and definitely ukraine will continue to occupy the southern regions as well as other regions of ukraine. >> a top ukrainian intelligence official says he hopes ukraine

recap ptured that key city of kherson by the end of the year. do you believe, sir, that's possible? >> i will certainly not command about any deadlines since the war to settle deadlines of the war. definitely, the activities of our armed forces are aimed at very swift occupying of not only kherson but other southern regions because, you know, we manage to get in a very good momentum in the kharkiv region. definitely, the situation in kherson is difficult. the reign is difficult. there are no mountains or forests or whatever. the lack of artillery and armored vehicles is also showing that's absolutely right unfortunately so we again and again time and again built international community police provide us with empty air

defense system which is important because of the recent missile attacks but also with artillery and armored vehicles and battle tanks to start counter offenses in the regions you mentioned. >> president zelenskyy has said that ukraine only has what he calls a small fraction of the air defense systems it really needs. but israel still won't budge on ukraine's request for it s so-called iron dome system and says it will help ukraine develop a warning system instead. is that too little, too late? >> it's too little to late. unfortunately. this is a position of current government of israel and unfortunately, doesn't change any of those statements, which several officials has made just recently absolutely unsatisfactory, it could provide something because currently they're doing nothing.

again, just to remind you, israel isn't the only country producing the air defense system. we have several countries in the world producing air defense systems such as the u.s., such as germany and germany has delivered already some other european union countries so come on this unanimous support to protect the sky of ukraine. we need not only small range air defense but also ranglong range middle range to protect all the territory, all the sky of ukraine. >> and keep ukrainen civilians alive. >> absolutely. >> good luck to you. stay safe over there. appreciate it very much. >> thank you, wolf, as usual. thank you. up next, breaking news, three people just arrested on weapons charges right near the united states supreme court here in washington d.c. we'll have a live report from the scene. that's coming up. plus, president biden takes new steps to try to tamp down

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a bit of a look. now, what is going on here at this time is authorities are taking a look at a vehicle. there is a concern about a potential for explosives in that vehicle. they have already arrested three people we're told from colleagues at cnn on weapons charges. those three people apparently from georgia and now the wait continues to determine whether there is anything dangerous or to be concerned about inside the vehicle. what this has done is caused a huge traffic jam in and around capitol hill as authorities have had to block off the streets to keep traffic out of the area. so that's what we know right now, wolf and i'll get back to you if we have any other information. >> we'll of course, check back with you, joe, thank you very, very much. at the same time president biden is responding to growing voter anxiety with a new effort to tamp down gas prices here in the united states. our senior white house c correspondent phil mattingly has more on the president's

announcement. >> they're not falling fast enough. >> reporter: tonight, president biden taking more action to drive down gas prices. >> with my announcement today, we'll continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility. >> reporter: a direct effort to counter dual prong geopolitical challenges but also with a clear eye toward midterm elections just 20 days away. >> gas prices come down and they continue to come down again. they're now down more than 27 cents a gallon in wisconsin this week, 27 cents in oregon, 16 cents in ohio, 25 cents in nevada in the last ten days and that's progress. >> reporter: with biden's advisors keenly aware of the close correlation between gas prices and the president's approval and democratic prospects in november. >> gas prices hit almost every family in this country and they squeezed their family budgets. when the price of gas goes up,

other expenses get cut. >> reporter: biden rejecting the were case of any political motivation. >> it's not politically motivated at all. >> reporter: senior white housed a vadvisors say it's intense focus and a critical driver of 15 million barrels from the petroleum reserve. with the national average 20 cents higher than a month prior as prices started to decline in recent days. the move marking the capstone of an unprecedented seven-month effort to freeze and drive down soaring gas prices. >> look, this is a moment of pa world. >> reporter: showing no sign of backing off on the war, a shock decision by saudi arabia led opec plus to cut production. >> the choices made by other countries are affecting the price of gas here at home.

>> reporter: the white house pressing further and sending a clear message about the future to markets. >> i've told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further, look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. >> reporter: and to oil and gas executives who have battled with the white house for months. >> my message to the american energy company is this. you should not use profits to buy back stock or for dividends, not now. not while a war is raging. >> reporter: and wolf, the president's actions on oil come a few weeks after major actions on another crucial issue with midterm election elements to it and that was the president's decision to cancel student loan debt up to $10,000 for certain segment of borrowers. that has come under some legal st scrutiny and challenges and one of the challenges is directed towards the supreme court. a wisconsin tax group asking for an emergency hold on the president's proposal as their appeal plays out.

a district court has thrown out their case. they have appealed that and now the supreme court has been asked to get involved. the president made clear his lawyers believe they have legal standing, already more than 10 million individuals have moved through the application process that just went live a few days ago. the president himself will be speaking about the issue on friday in delaware, wolf. >>matt mattingly, thank you. the midterm elections are less than three weeks away and we're following a dramatic turn in the wisconsin senate race where ron johnson has taken the lead after aearly showing. manu raju is in wisconsin tonight. >> reporter: it wasn't too long ago democrats could hardly believe their luck. despite being saddled with controversy in unpopular battle ground wisconsin, ron johnson decided to run for a third senate term making him the most

endangered gop inckcome -- incu incumbent. how is it so hard to beat him? >> people are hitting their heads against the wall. how did we let this happen? >> reporter: johnson benefitted from a perfect storm winning in the 2010 tea party wave and in donald trump's 2016 stunner and now void by voter anger over inflation. >> what has happened in the last two months that's changed this race? >> well, i think inflation. i mean, everybody is feeling it in their pocketbook. >> reporter: after he won the party nomination in august, a poll showed him up by seven points and the same pollster shows johnson ahead of barns by six with likely voters. in the two months since the primary, johnson and big gop groups have out spent democrats by millions on tv. attacking barns on crime and immigration. >> mandela barns doesn't have the judgment to keep our community safe. >> mandela barns stands with

defund the police. >> mandela barns is a radical leftist. >> reporter: putting him on the defensive. >> look, we knew the other side would make up lies about me to scare you. >> reporter: ron johnson caught lying. >> mandela, he's the real deal. mandela doesn't want to defund the police. >> reporter: barns' supporters fear that is hardly enough. >> well, his campaign seems to be faltering. >> reporter: are you concerned those attacks may be working? >> they seem to be working, yes. i'm very concerned. >> reporter: one of barns' primary fauxes and supporter blames democrats for an in ineffective add strategy. >> have the national party come in and screw things up in the first month of the general election in my book is unforgiverble. the national party failed us so it will come down to wisconsin democrats. >> reporter: campaigning in small towns of northern wisconsin, barns told cnn he was not caught flat footed. >> were you prepared for this on slot of attacks? >> we always expected ron

johnson to destroy the truth and hide from his record. >> reporter: barns' ads steered clear of controversies like his down playing of the january 6th capitol attack or sowewing doub on the covid-19 vaccine instead in enriching himself in office. >> he wouldn't just ban abortions. doctors could go to jail for it. >> reporter: barns would be the state's first black senator slated to appear next week in milwaukee with the nation's first black president barack obama. but no plans yet with the current president who is unpopularity remains a liability. do you think biden should run for reelection? >> we'll cross that bring when -- bridge when we get there. we got to get through november 8th, 2022. >> reporter: johnson has been behind closed doors with his campaign refusing to tell cnn what he's doing and where he's campaigning. he did appear a couple times on fox news where he asked for donations.

on the democratic side, they're confident they can emerge victorious at the end of the day. they look at the poll that showed barns down six among likely voters and tested registered voters, too, a larger set and in that test it's a dead even race if they're victorious, they need to get voters out to the polls. wolf? >> manu, thank you very much. in milwaukee for us, excellent report. just ahead a top advisor to president biden joins me here "the situation room." we'll discuss his strategy and the agenda as the midterm elections close in. when you can't sleep... try zzzquil pure zzzs gummies.

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november and it doesn't cover a fuel day of use. doesn't that amount potentially to a gimmick? >> no, you do everything you can do. you have in your power to do today and that's what he did and he'll continue to do that and call on the oil and gas companies to do their job, as well and he did that again today and he'll keep doing it until the price comes down. >> gas prices have dropped from the summer peak but they're keeping up once again right now and are expected to rise even more after that saudi led decision to cut oil production by the opec led nations. is the president running out of options to address this issue? >> the president says he has a lot of options on the table. he'll continue to consider that and he's going to do it the way he's been doing it in the past and keep doing it until the prices continue to go down. >> the president will make a visit to pennsylvania tomorrow to tote his infrastructure legislation. i know you're going with him to pittsburgh. >> i am. >> he's poked fun at republicans, as you know, for taking credit for various

infrastructure projects they didn't vote for. what does it say that even many democrats in key races right now don't necessarily seem to want president biden alongside them out there on the campaign trail? >> of course, that's the charge. as the president said, he'll keep his head down and continue to do the work. tomorrow we're going back to pittsburgh. the country remembers well last january 28th, i think the day was this bridge absolutely collapsed. there were non-vehicles on it. four people hurt. it was a devastating sight and the president said we'll build that bridge within a year. we have 2500 bridges under constriction now as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law and the president is going back tomorrow to stand with the governor and elected officials to talk how infrastructure can create jobs and set up americans to win the 21st century. >> i want to turn to your home state of louisiana as a lot of viewers now, you're the former mayor of new orleans. the record low levels of the mississippi now is clearly threatening the drinking water supply. is this the new infrastructure

challenge to get worse as we feel the impact of climate change? >> well, wolf, we can see this all over america in the west. i was at the hoover dam the other day and the water levels in the west are really challenging. we're now seeing this in a place like louisiana where we have the abundance of water. for people that understand, if the water goes so low, the salt water starts moving up river and really gives us a challenge. the core of engineers is watching this. we have eyes on it and it will be a continued challenge to make sure we use water the correct way and manage it and live with it rather than trying to live against it. >> such a critically important issue indeed. >> big time. >> on friday, the president will give remarks on his student loan forgiveness program. this is very significant and affects millions and millions of people out there. but the first legal challenge to that plan has now reached the u.s. supreme court. how serious a threat are these lawsuits to president biden's program? >> well, you know, litigation is always part of what it is that

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new york city has a temporary facility to house migrants. athena jones is live in new york city where the sprawling facility is opened. set the scene for us. what's the situation there? >> reporter: hi, wolf, it is a sprawling facility. we're talking about nearly 85,000 square feet. you can see one of the buildings behind me has been erected in the last couple weeks. this is a response and relief center that opened today and initially meant to house 500 men. the officials say it can be expanded to house up to 1,000. i can tell you today, wolf, a lot of journalists expecting to see vans and buses of migrants constantly arriving. we've seen a few vans trickling in that look to be staffers, people working in the facility.

the city has not released the numbers for how my m many migra it is expected to house 500 men, medical services, food services, recreation, television, free wi-fi, telephones for internion and of course, 24/7 security and there will be an intake process where people seeking asylum arrive and are greeted with food and water and given a covid-19 test. if they are positive they're isolate in trailers behind me. if they're negative, they're given the opportunity to meet with resettlement staff to talk about their next destination and figure out where to go next and to communicate with the folks coming in from south of the border. but the point here is that this is the first big facility built to house this huge influx of migrants and it's really put a strain on new york city. >> as you know, this is not just

about the housing. it's also about politics to a certain degree. the texas governor says he actually sent 3400 migrants to new york city. there was an allegation the white house pressured el paso's democratic mayor not to declare a state of emergency there. the mayor says that report is not true and in fact, praised the federal government. what are you hearing? >> reporter: right, well it is certainly about politics. the mayor here in new york, he's already declared a state of emergency and he's spent a lot of time talking about red state governors like abbott sending buses full of migrants to new york without any coordination. but it isn't just red state governors. also the mayor of el paso, democrat, has been sending migrants here. so there's a lot of back and forth and discussion between the two states but here is what the mayor said. >> five days ago, we were having about 2200 a day. now today this morning, we had

right at about 1,000. so the new federal program has really made a big difference. >> and the federal program the mayor was talking about just now is a new plan that's similar to the approach the biden administration took to ukraine earlier this year who were seeking asylum. venez venezuelans will have to apply and have a sponsor in the u.s. have a screening, vetting and be fully vaccinated then they'll come into the u.s. at an airport. some will be sent back and it could change the number of people we see here. >> thank you very, very much. also tonight, putin is doubling down right now on his illegal annexation of four ukrainian regions, declaring martial law in those areas even as his troops suffer a string of losses on the battlefield. brian todd has a closer look for us. so what else can you tell us about this announcement from putin?

>> it's ominous for many people. it's going to be tough now for the ukrainians inside those regions of ukraine that putin claims to have annexed. especially ukrainians there who don't side with russia. putin's declaration of martial law in four regions of ukraine could have a crushing effect on ukrainians in the region who don't side with russia. >> you can expect curfews and property being seized and the mobilization of civilians for service, which is again a war crime. >> it could also mean tighter censorship, restrictions on public gatherings, more law enforcement power for russian officials in those areas of ukraine. the declaration of martial law al allowed for the so-called evacuation of people under the pretext of getting them to safety. tens of thousands in the kherson region has been relocated as ukrainian forces made gains there. sarah mend elson says that may

not rise to the level of ethnic cleansing but -- >> they may be forced to camps, we know that there are upwards of a million ukrainians who have been taken into russia. we don't know where they are. we expect that will be more of the same. >> russia doesn't control all of those regions putin claims to have annexed. >> when faced with choices about whether to back down or to double down, putin has consistently demonstrated over the course of the last month in particular that he is prepared to double down putting at risk basically everything else. >> in the united states, martial law hasn't been imposed in decades. it's been imposed after natural disasters like the 1906 san francisco earthquake and chicago fire of 1971. also during the battle of new orleans during the civil war. now, putin's declaring high levels of security in russia.

areas not only near ukraine, but also around moscow. >> designed to ensure the safety of people, the security and anti-terrorist protection at critical facilities and the maintenance of public order. >> those measures inside russia analysts say might not rise to the level of martial law technically, but it's a tightening of the screws on his own people by the former kgb colonel. >> there are going to be fewer opportunities to escape the reach of state. the opportunities eventually for travel both within the country and outside of it are likely to be limited. >> the analyst we spoke to said we should watch for the possibility that some governors of regions inside russia, not the ukrainian regions that putin wants to annex, but regions inside russia, those governors could start to impose more crushing restrictions on their citizens than have been talked about. that would be in an effort by those governors to please putin. so watch for that. >> thank you very much. brian todd reporting.

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