Good evening, three big stories tonight.

Nuclear Saber rattling in a military escalation from Vladimir Putin.

A quarter billion dollar civil lawsuit against the former president, three of his grown children

and his company.

And just before airtime, a major cord victory in the Justice Department's criminal probe

of classified documents from Mar-Lago.

So that's where we begin with CNES Jessica Schneider.

So this just happened.

What working it tells us about this ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals?

Anderson, this is exactly what the Justice Department has been fighting for for weeks.

They tried to get this result in the district court from Judge Eileen Cannon.

They didn't get it.

Now they've had a victory at the 11th Circuit.

Notably, this is from a unanimous panel of three judges.

Two of them, Trump appointees, one Obama appointee.

And what the 11th Circuit is saying tonight is that the Justice Department can go back to

using the classified documents that they had been restricted from using in their ongoing

criminal probe into these classified documents that were seized from Mar-Lago last month.

And the appeals court is saying here, they're really agreeing with the Justice Department,

saying that yes, in fact, national security could be harmed if the Justice Department can't

continue its probe here.

They said that the DOJ has argued that its criminal investigation and the national security assessment

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