what is going on? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will merrick garland indict donald trump? tonight, a major clue into what investigators are focusing on, that is the fake electors, those fake electors from contested states. bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th committee, saying his committee is providing the doj with witness transcripts to put up the fraj la fraudulentelectors. they ve included testimony from the chairwoman of the republican national committee, describing a call that she received from the former president and his attorney, john eastman. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result did you receive a call from andy y biggs of arizona on the morning of january 6th? i did. he asked if i would sign on both to a letter that
tha thanks. right below you. right below you! that s a great shot! there s a shark. i think they like my feet. they like it. it s exactly what he went for. they re staying deep and they re coming up and hitting. just keep pulling them out, you know. i ve already had two bumps now that have been pretty deliberate. they look like they re getting a little bit more fired up what was that ? jimi, hello. thank you so much for joining me this afternoon for a chat. it s lovely to have you. it s a pleasure! it s a pleasure! this is the perfect time to do things like that, now that we re all at home. what makes you love working with sharks and going back year over year? the sharks, really. it s also a lifestyle, which i m slightly addicted to it, perhaps. nothing wrong with that, jimi. next question, have you ever been attacked or bitten by a shark? no, i don t think i have? well, definitely nothing serious. nothing serious. it s early. all right. ready? so in th
a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we don t know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, substantial grand jury information and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-seen documents today including the motion where prosecutors argue that they needed to keep their search warrant secret because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. there are some more really intriguing clues in one of those documents. more on that in just a moment. but you ve got to wonder just how much the former president actually wants the full affidavit to be released. because his lawyer sitting right there in court today didn t sa
norm, i want to look at these terms. this is what we learned today from the mar-a-lago national defense information removal of government record and obstruction of a federal investigation. does this tell you anything about where the investigation is focused on right now? it does. it gives us some additional information, and of course these are the very basic additional documents that were released today. even that gives us more information about where things are headed. that s why i think no matter how redacted, the release of this affidavit is going to be so explosive. take the first thing on there. the espionage act. we all were wondering, i wrote a long piece. would angle are they taking? they ve just stated their theory of the case. one that they might or might not argue to the jury. he retained government documents. well, don, if i go to the white house and help myself to a property that is in the oval office and i take it with me, i m retaining government proper
do those specific words create specific legal jeopardy for donald trump? i m john berman with brianna keilar, and judge bruce reinhart released several procedural court documents used to justify the search of mar-a-lago, providing new details and maybe a sharper focus on the president himself as a potential subject of a criminal probe. this is the document that was released and there is specific information in here about willful retention. in other words, they say he knew he had documents and he knew what they were. so this is all part of the argument over whether to release the affidavit justifying the search of mar-a-lago, prosecutors made the case for secrecy because they say evidence might be destroyed, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit and that process will kick into gear as soon as next week. and ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words and phrases coming from some former trump senior officials who are scoffing