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The courtroom’s showdown over Donald Trump’s request for a special master has just concluded without a decision from the judge. Trump attorneys are making their case, comparing his retention of classified documents to an overdue library book. Then, President Biden is heading to Philadelphia for a primetime address on threats to American democracy.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Jackson, Mississippi, a third straight day of misery amid a water supply crisis. Emergency distribution measures struggle to reach the city’s 150,000 residents. Then, the FDA has authorized the first updated booster vaccine targeting the Omicron variant. Americans could get the new shots as soon as Friday.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new deadline for the Justice Department approaches as prosecutors are about to submit a lengthy response to former President Trump’s request for a special master in the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Also, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow at the age of 91. We look back at his life and place in history. Then, Mississippi’s largest city is in crisis amid a catastrophic failure of its water supply.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department says a limited set of materials seized from Mar-a-Lago could be covered by attorney-client privilege. Former President Trump is pushing for a special master to review the materials as the intelligence community assesses the potential national security fallout. Also, engine trouble has caused NASA to postpone a critical first step toward returning Americans to the moon.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The newly unsealed Mar-a-Lago search affidavit reveals the level of Top Secret intelligence that was taken to former President Trump’s home, stored in an unauthorized location, and at a risk of falling into the wrong hands. The affidavit also shows the FBI believed its search might uncover evidence of obstruction.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Mar-a-Lago search affidavit will be released with the Justice Department’s redactions. A federal judge just ordered the information to be unsealed by noon tomorrow. Also, the Biden White House is struggling to answer questions about the president’s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting from both the left and the right.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The death toll is rising from an attack at a train station in Ukraine as the country marks six devastating months since Russia launched its invasion. CNN is live in Kyiv and in Moscow at this critical and dangerous moment in the war. Also, new court deadlines are fast approaching in connection with the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The Justice Department has only a day left to propose how much of the search affidavit should stay secret or go public.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A just released letter reveals new information about classified material retrieved from Mar-a-Lago months before the FBI search. The letter shows the National Archives was pushing back in May to share hundreds of documents with the intelligence community, including some of the most sensitive government secrets. Also, Ukraine is on heightened alert for new Russian attacks as the United States urges Americans to leave the country now.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump's legal team just asked a federal judge to appoint a third party attorney known as a special master to go through evidence that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. We will break down the significance of the move. Also, a car bombing threatens to escalate Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Kremlin is now accusing Ukrainians of killing the daughter of a prominent Putin ally.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senator Lindsey Graham just lost a new bid to avoid facing a Georgia grand jury next week. The investigation into the efforts to try to overturn the state’s presidential election results is heating up and a prosecutor said Graham is a crucial witness. Also, urgent new warnings emerge that a Ukrainian nuclear plant may be on the brink of a disaster.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices