is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before the grand jury. according to a source familiar with the matter. prosecutors alleged in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of trump s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime. the special counsel is reportedly asking a judge to invoke the crime fraud exception. and force an attorney to testify under oath about conversations between him and his client which in this case, would be evan corcoran and one donald trump. the new york times which was first to report the news at the special counsel is zeroing in on this quote, whether trump or his associates obstructed justice in failing to comply with demands to return a trove of government material he took with him from the white house upon leaving office, including hundreds of documents with classified markings. one potentially very important piece of evidence determining whether the ex-president or his attorneys obstructe
the fda has just authorized the first updated booster vaccine targeting the omicron variant. americans could get the new shots as soon as friday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the latest developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the trump legal team under deadline to respond to last night s explosive new filing from prosecutors. i m told by a source familiar that they are expected to meet that deadline. i want to bring in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. he has been on the story around the clock, shall we say. evan, trump s attorneys have until 8:00 p.m. to file their response. the justice department is accusing the trump team of trying to obstruct an investigation and they re using a photo to help make their case. that s right, pamela. that photo certainly was a bombshell. what it does is it shows the number of docume
still quite dangerous. rescue crews are looking for survivors now five days later and the death toll is climbing. officials have confirmed 76 people have died. most in lee county where ian stormed ashore as a category 4. it is feared there had be more victims. now the power is slowly being restored in florida. more than 6,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning and it could be months before many are back on the grid. many don t have clean tap water, that makes the overwhelming task of rebuilding that much harder. and now officials in lee county are facing questions about why the first mandatory evacuations weren t ordered until a day before landfall despite a plan that said evacuations should have happened earlier. governor ron desantis defending their actions. they informed people, and most people didn t want to do it. are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to? i don t think that s the appropriate use of government. florida res
being charged. no charges and no more comment. so we re not going to hear and we shouldn t be hearing about how he might have been 50% guilty. the doj doesn t charge him, and they shut up. dave, what does it mean that one of the participants in the trip across state lines, which i think is what made it fall into the federal jurisdiction in the first place was convicted with the same crime with the same person and they had the goods, how do you avoid the perception that i think fritz is alluding to that doj flinched when it was a more powerful person? well, you know, it s a good point, nicolle. it s not good for optics. joel greenberg confessed, he admitted it. that s why they re able to get a conviction against him. he went down for 11 years. remember, he could have gotten life if prison. child sex trafficking was the big whammy. greenberg cooperated so much and ratted out so many people that