tonight on the prosecutor in america who may scare donald trump the most. new unseen footage from special counsel jack smith. that s coming up. meanwhile, mccarthy tapped santos for a committee that, well, you wouldn t believe it. we begin now with the serious reports of actual domestic terrorism in our nation. a new mexico republican arrested for allegedly targeting the other party, democrats, accused of shooting into at least four homes of democratic officials. there s new video of fed taking this suspect, solomon pena into custody in new mexico. he calls himself the maga king. he s basically a failed candidate for local office. he lost that november election by wide margin. he ll be in court tomorrow facing conspiracy charges. police say he s the mastermind of a string of shootings, political violence from the right, in this case targeting democrats that goes all the way back to last month, december. police say he might have been motivated by the anger he felt from his los
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
economic advances for underserved communities, expanded voting rights and a robust defense of democracy, but how much can he really get done? then finally, we ll look how the massive infrastructure legislation passed last year may help restore one historic black and brown neighborhood in new orleans to its former glory. not by adding anything but taking something away. that story later in the hour. but we start with the ethical dilemma staring republicans and democrats in the face. and the growing frustration with both parties over what some see as self-inflicted wound. for democrats, yet another call for information on the biden documents controversy. this one, from the republican head of the house oversight committee. he wants the visitors log from biden s home in wilmington after biden s attorney said five more pages of classified documents were found there earlier in the week. a spokesman for the secret service said, those logs don t exist. but republicans insist that
what is the latest? well, certainly a significant, significant development here, something that the families have been wanting. and this is the most important thing really in this story. this community, the parents here, they have suspended, the school district now, moments ago in a press release, announcing they are sus ppending their schl police department. several officers at this police department. of course they have faced an enormous amount of scrutiny in their response for taking no action at all. they were there, had knowledge of the school, stood around and did nothing. so now comes word that this is something the families have wanted. also significant because of our reporting, we discovered they are announcing they are placing the lieutenant, miguel hernandez, the lieutenant he was the commander of this police department after they fired the former chief pete arredondo. what s important about miguel hernandez, he was responsible for vetting officer alejandro. he
justice department. his message was unambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, it was time for me to take one for the home team. he came into my office and closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i just had with o callaghan, before sharing the details. the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against a private attorney who had once been president barack obama s white house counsel and they wanted me to bring those charges before election day. i said, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev