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release. as we have seen, just because trump says it doesn t mean it s true. he had the documents since monday. he could have released them at any point himself. he hasn t. so as of now his attorney says it doesn t appear that they would object to the release. attorney general merrick garland says he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago home. also developing overnight, potentially significant, very significant reporting by the washington post, this is what it says, quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president trump s flores dense on monday. that s according to people familiar with the investigation. now, this could elevate the concern over these documents in an enormous way. joining us now is washington post intelligence and national security report er shane harris part of the team that broke this story. explain more what you and your team found
assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnn s evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member of congress. of course he is running for governor in the state of new york. obviously the justice department looks at this in a different lens. they view this as part of, frankly, a lot of these types of incidents around the country attacking not only trying to threaten members of congress, members of the supreme court, other public officials. there is serious focus on this at the justice department. he is 43 years old. on top of the state charge for which he was immediately released
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after a conservative judge labeled him a clear and present danger to democracy, former president donald trump got up on stage and proved yet again he d rather spread lies than admit the truth about what happened on january 6th. these are government tapes where they re stuffing ballot boxes to put it crudely. they re stuffing ballot boxes on government tapes. and what did they say? that was debunked. that was debunked. okay. most people say, oh, it was i didn t know that. no, these are tapes. one, two, guys looking up at the camera, let s see, where s the camera. there it is. trump s own justice department, republican officials in numerous states did not find a single shred of evidence to corroborate any of the nonsense you just heard there. yesterday trump also sided with the capitol rioters again just like he did during the attack. if it were an insurrection that took place at the capitol, you
the january 6th committee presents new evidence as it tries to connect the capitol insurrection to trump s pressure campaign against his vice president. witnesses testifying trump knew the plan was illegal, but he went ahead with it anyway. there is so much to discuss with our senior political analyst, but first we want to get you to manu raju with the latest. mike pence has betrayed america! reporter: the pressure campaign was relentless. donald trump for months trying to get mike pence to do something no vice president has ever done, reject the will of the electorate and install him as president for a second term. right up to this heated phone call on the morning of january 6th, just before pence was presiding over a joint session of congress to certify joe biden s victory. he called him a wimp. it was a different tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what she said? her father called him. the p word. trump revised his janua