hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet and that they, quote, moved the boxes into the room before a search of a storage room that same day when evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump, who was in discussions with mr. brat of the fbi. he set up a meeting the next. day prosecutors have been trying to determine whether trump had documents moved around mar-a-lago or sought to conceal some of them after the subpoena. part of their interest is in trying to determine whether documents removed before corker
morning. it is april 15th. i m victor blackwell. merrill walker. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. um how s it going? move here . you know what i have in my mind right now is when we re getting that invite to your place once your bar is all built out, is being built out. the bottles have not yet arrived from storage. but it s coming. it s coming. haven t arrived yet. no invitation just come and look at the shelves. okay it s coming. sure i m sure the shelves are beautiful. here s what we re watching this morning. this is not just about taking home documents. a 21 year old air man charged in connection with the leak of classified documents appeared in front of a federal judge friday . what we re learning about him and the questions being raised about who should have access to classified information. president biden is weighing in on the supreme court s decision to temporarily extend access to an abortion drug while it considers the case the next steps in
situation. we re going to have a live report from ukraine. and we ll speak with former ukrainian president on how his country can defend itself. 28 days until the midterm elections and georgia senate candidate herschel walker is getting help from two key republican senators. we ll have a report from georgia. pressure is growing on several city council members to resign after the release of a recording revealing of making racist remarks. we ll talk with with one of the reporters who broke the story. and an attorney at the center of the investigation into former president trump s handling of classified information speaks to federal investigators. and we ll speak with an iranian journalist about the situation in her homeland. why she s calling it iran s berlin wall moment. we begin this hour in ukraine where overnight air raids rang across the country including in kyiv as russia launched another wave of missiles striking multiple cities for a second day in a row. the mayor s
subpoena standoff. january 6th committee versus donald trump. the final hearing before the midterms put trump on the spot, and all nine members voted to get his testimony. the next step, actually getting him to take the stand. adam kinzinger today, warning that it contempt referral is not out of the question. as we are wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. we want to speak to the president. look, he has made it clear that he has nothing to hide. that s what he says. he should come in on the day that we ask him to come in. if he pushes off beyond that, we will figure what to do next. the clock is ticking. the january six committee has just over two months to get trump to reply. republicans win back the house in the upcoming midterms, and the committee will not be allowed to continue in the new year. beyond that, kinzinger says the quote, the torch has been passed for the doj. attorney general merrick garland, growing facing card includin
biden s performance in a new poll, and the majority of democrats want the party to flat out dump him and pick someone else as their 2024 nominee. there s no circling back on this. remember that? former white house press secretary says democrats are doomed if the midterms are about biden. if the election is about who s the most extreme, as we saw kevin mccarthy touch on there with marjorie taylor greene, i ll say her name, sitting on his left side, if it s a referendum on the president, they will lose, and they know that. as democrats reel from all the bad news, there s more, a top pollter predicts that the gop midterm turnout will exceed all expectations. this year our fear people won t be polled that are trump supporters because of what biden has said, apparent attacks, people coming after them. there s a hesitancy to participate. everybody w will underexpect th. thank you for joining us. i bet you have a book, don t you? his name is robert trafalgar. he s talking ab