falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same basic alleged crime in 2020 but he was pardoned by donald trump as trump was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations. cnn s kara scannell is here with the latest. this has a familiar ring to it, but steve bannon, these are serious charges. yeah, these are serious charges and a serious investigation by the manhattan district attorney s office. sources tell me that bannon will surrender, a expected to surrender tomorrow here in new york to face these new york state charges. the conduct he is being charged with is very similar to the conduct that he was charged by federal prosecutors in 2020 and that was for allegedly along with co-conspirators misleading donors who donated money in this fundraising effort to raise money to build a wall along the southern u.s. border, an entity called we build the ball.
of his cabinet, or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know the details of those special access programs. even more sensitive than we knew to this point, and, of course, kept in an unsecured facility. if confirmed, it means the documents containing another nation s nuclear secrets and some of the u.s. most highly guarded top secret operations were sitting in an unsecured country club for more than 18 months. after repeated requests to return those documents. and another major story we are following this morning, this one out of memphis, tennessee, the man now charged with the death of 34-year-old eliza fletcher is facing multiple murder charges in her kidnapping and death, expected in court, in the next hour. we re going to bring you updates live, more in a moment. first, we want to begin with our top story this hour, the washington post story reporting a document detailing a foreign government s military defenses including its nuc
for the first time in more than 100 years in more than a century an official in the united states has been barred from holding office and barred under the constitution s ban for insurrections. the founder of the cowboys for trump, roy griffin to be removed from his position as county commission, he s been convicted of participating in the january 6th riot. the court concluded that january 6th, 2021, mr. griffin became disqualified under section 3 of the 14th amendment from serving. accord together the department of justice, griffin was there on the capitol steps, well within the restricted area on january 6th when he made this video. the people have shown that they ve had enough. the people are ready for fair and legal elections, or this is what you re going to get. you re going to get more of it. this is what you re going to get and you re going to get more of it. this is, though, a history making decision by this judge. the last time a public official was removed ba
plus, living at the extreme. major flooding on the east coast, explosive wildfires out west, and fears of blackouts due to record heat and stress on the power grids. and companies call on employees to return to the office after labor day, but that s not what many workers want. might their push to work from home motivate your own conversation with your boss? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin this hour on democracy watch in our politics lead. monitoring the latest evidence of the pernicious and growing threat against the american experiment itself. former president trump continuing to endorse and help election liars win. republican primaries for offices that are relevant to your vote s integrity. trump s pick for the republican primary in massachusetts today is someone who falsely said that the 2020 election was, quote, rigged. and who will, trump says, quote, rule with an iron fist. trump is also talking about pardoning those who violently attacked the cap
i am erin burnett. russia running home, the pentagon saying that russian forces are going back to russia over the border completely after stunningly effective counteroffensive by the ukrainians. the press secretary said the russians were caught off guard and some are in full retreat. we have seen a number of russian forces, especially in the northeast, cross over the border into russia. full on, our exclusive video from a town just liberated clearly shows how desperate russian troops were to get out. we have a report from a recaptured city, they left crates of equipment. they left weapons. they left the ukrainian take. leaving so much equipment behind. crucial equipment that will be used by ukrainians against russians and it shows the desperate nature of russia. this is as evidenced of more defense dissent in russia, nearly 50 municipal deputies have signed a petition demanding the resignation of putin. when i mentioned this petition last night, we are at almost double