$1 billion! sorry, i ll do the dr. evil for you. that s what i did. wouldn t that be great, though? if all of you won instead of me and everyone else here, we would be so happy for you. this is what would happen on friday or monday if i won. this is what would happen. [ laughter ] tim said, my fiance said, if we win, do you promise to quit and travel the world? i said one of those. i would not quit, but i would travel the world. i would be the should i say this on tv? i would be the don matto of cnn. i would be here maybe on a friday or a monday. not every single night. i tell you what, for all ofi wedding date just got moved up. we re going to win, guys. don t forget me if you win. have a good one. so we ve got to get to the news now. enough fun and games. it s serious. the lotto is like over a billion dollars. $1.1 billion here in the northeast, and it is crazy. everybody is playing. so there you go. and there s always hope. this is don lemon tonight. we
more missing text messages, the washington post reporting tonight that text from trump s acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and his deputy can cuccinelli are missing. they tell the post that the textbook from a key period leading up to january 6th. we have a new cnn exclusive reporting tonight that prosecutors are getting ready for a court battle to force former trump white house officials to testify about conversations they had with the former president. joining me now to discuss all of this, senior crime and justice reporter caitlin pollens, and john wood, former senior investigator for the january six committee. also with us evening, mr. marc mackinnon, the executive producer of the emmy nominated the circus and former adviser to george w. bush. good evening one and all. have to admire the hat. you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one a
they were privy to, is potentially formidable. it includes former secretary of state, mike, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house committee, perhaps soon as this week. also former treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, we have learned today that he has already been interviewed by the committee. sources also tell us that because uses are underway for the former national intelligence director, john ratcliffe, for a sit down with him. then there is former acting boss chief of staff, mick mulvaney, we spoke with earlier on the program. he was spotted on the way out after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the capitol was attacked and quit in the aftermath. steve mnuchin at the time was reported to have been involved about discussions to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. there is reporting from jonathan carl, who you will hear from shortly, is that one o
well, that s it for us, don lemon tonight starts right now. hey don lemon. hey, don lemon you know it s going to sign with but you sound like my sister, this actually. they say hey don lemon, how are you and my friends from college and high school. but we re all. prince so it kind of. both well, since we re all friends, can we pull a lottery ticket together. i get all the money if we win? family would do that. family would do that. i don t like sharing that way. so, i did pool, just so everyone knows, all the guys in the studio, did we buy tickets? do you hear that? [applause] are we going to win? everyone shouted in the room. we all got tickets. everyone got in. these are all the guys. and we are going to win! so, we all got. tickets everybody got. in here, these are all the guys here. and, we are going to win. one billion dollars! i will do doctor evil. that s what i did. i missed it. wouldn t that be great? it would just be great? if all of you one instead
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import