it, everything that we ve heard late in the broadcast, but first we have some new cnn reporting to bring to you, let s get straight from cnn s evan perez on that. evan, good evening to you, mark meadows i hear responding to a subpoena from the doj, what are you hearing? what are you learning? yeah, don lopez has been one of the big mysteries during all of the recent uptick in activity from the justice department. what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded, he has complied with a subpoena from the justice department, part of the january six investigation, now this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation. in addition to him, we also know that ben williams in one of his aides, a very top aide, of mark meadows, has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push. we recently reported that more than 30 subpoenas went out in the trump orbit. now with mark meadows, w
just shows you they re working behind the scenes when most people don t know it. elliott, let s talk about these documents because these are the same documents i believe that meadows turned over to the january 6th select committee. what is the significance of them now being shared with the doj? what s the big picture? yeah, the big picture, don, number one, most people actually comply with subpoenas. so much focus has been on who hasn t been complying but at the end of the day there s a tremendous risk for those that don t. i don t know what his calculation was but the risk of prosecution was pretty great by not complying. big picture, think about all of the things that text messages to and from mark meadows could provide evidence of or help support. obviously there is the white house s response to violence on the day of january 6th. that s certainly the most obvious. then there s questions of how congress itself was obstructed as a governmental body or as congress itself
president himself played a critical role in getting the deal across the finish line. his message, emphasize the harm that families, businesses and communities would feel if a shutdown went ahead. the final hurdle to come, and that is a full union vote. also this, an immigration battle escalating near the vice president s doorstep. buses of migrants sent from texas dropped off just feet from her residence in washington overnight. this happening a day after officials on martha s vineyard were sent scrambling after dozens of migrants unexpectedly arrived there. the office of florida governor ron desantis says it was he who sent two planes to the massachusetts island with more than 50 migrants on board. you see a picture there. cnn s steve contorno live in washington. i saw a group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president s residence in d.c. this morning as well. what s happening? reporter: the governor of florida has been promising for months really that he i
president joe biden will finally hear directly from the families of brittney griner and paul whelan two families being unfairly detained in russia. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and start in our politics lead with stark moves by two republican governors. ron desantis and texas governor greg abbott sending planes and buses full of migrants to two specific places, selected, it seems to get a reaction. the liberal enclave of martha s vineyard in massachusetts and outside vice president kamala harris official residence in washington, d.c. volunteers say the migrants seem to be mostly from venezuela. you can see some standing outside the naval observatory in the nation s capital earlier today. the immigrants were dropped off by two buses by texas. no heads-up was given to leaders of washington, d.c. that they were coming. in addition, overnight florida governor ron desantis shipped two plane fulls of immigrants to martha s vineyard. it is a vacation destination for many
good evening and thanks t at-home for joining us in th special edition of alex wagner tonight. we are coming up on the tw year anniversary of the januar 6th attack, and i think all of us at this point have memories of that day seared into ou minds, where we were what we were doing even after all these times past i mean, almost all of us hav those memories as it turns out, a few peopl have no memory of that day a all, apparently. here is an excerpt of deposition of one of president donald trump s persona secretaries, who worked just outside the oval office, testifying to the january 6t committee, from their fina report quote, i don t remember where was that afternoon do you remember being at the white house that afternoon even if you don t remember where exactly you were at th white house? no, i do not do you remember being home wherever home is for you, on the afternoon of january six as opposed to being at the white house? no, i don t. so, you don t remember whether you ar