homework, why they should be able to enter the residence and conduct search warrants, and receive items of evidence they re searching for. 65% of the paragraphs in the affidavit were redacted in full or in part. it s a significant amount of the document. should we have gotten unredacted pieces three months ago, six months ago, nine months ago, now that the former president has been charged, indicted, a lot of the things that have been blacked out previously are either in this indictment or are still being redacted because as we know this is an ongoing investigation. that component of it surely we won t be able to see. so much of the investigation is classified, and that s certainly something that jack smith s team is going to have to deal with when they present this case to a jury and present the evidence to a jury. are we going to get any hints about what more could be in this trial in terms of evidence? we got some hints obviously from the indictment about what sort of do
by early january most of the fake elector votes had arrived in washington except those from michigan and wisconsin. undeterred the trump team arranged to fly them to washington and hand deliver them to congress for the vice president himself. quote, freaking trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate president, wisconsin republican party official mark jefferson wrote to the party chairman andrew hitt on january 4th. hitt responded, okay, i see a have a call and a text from someone else. the next day trump campaign director for election day operations g. michael brown sent a text message to other campaign staffs suggesting that he was the person who delivered the fake votes to congress. after sending the group a photo of his face with the capitol in the background, brown said, quote, this has got to be the cover of a book i write one day and i should probably buy mike roman a tie or something for sending me on this one. hasn t been done since 1876 a
evidence at court, that many of the statements denied that they were ever traffic for ready trial. none of them had ever been trafficked. during the investigation mr ramzan was arrested. he had never really met the defendant, had nothing to do with trafficking, had never been alone in a room with errors let alone in a room with errors let alone had sex with her. he described in court is utter consternation at being publicly arrested on the promenades and questioned by the police. i will set out more of the impact of this offending upon him and his family later in his remarks. the defendant set about seeking to back up allegations against mr ramzan and the fictitious traffickers. she did so in a number of ways. i will summarise here only some of them. she manipulated people with whom she was in contact via snapchat to contact her. she would rename these people in her phone with the names of supposed traffickers. she would induce sexual messages from them and take screenshots o
situation, a key event is happening this evening. what do you expect to hear from the candidates tonight? reporter: we have a few thousand iowa republican activists who are here to see their field of candidates with the exception of the front runner, donald trump. you mentioned his legal woes. that has become part of the campaign. at least for a night, this will be a trump-free evening in the sense that he will not be here. his rivals will be. when you talk to some republican voters here, some of his supporters are very much with him, of course. we know that his core base is strong. but several are saying that they are willing to turn the page, in fact, interested in turning the page. and the candidates are now trying to seize upon that. there is a sense of urgency among many of his rivals. particularly ron desantis. he s been trying to hit all 99 counties across iowa. he s up to 56 counties. he was campaigning in the western part of the state before coming here to des moin
a surge the last two years in 19 and 20 there was a surge, as well. this one might be worse. no, well, it could be. here is the deal. we re sending back people first of all, the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they re coming because i m a nice guy and i won t do you re saying this. yeah, here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come? yes, i can say quite clearly don t come and what we re in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. more now from cnn phil mattingly who joins us. phil, does it seem like president biden is or the white house, do they grasp the severity of the situation on the boarder? i think white house officials do and you heard the president try to compare it to 2019 or 2020 and i think the reality is from his own homeland security secretary today they are seeing a surge they haven t seen in nearly two decades. it a significant problem. i think